The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat

Tracklist

A1	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme	1:54
A2	The Voice Of Cheese	0:27
A3	400 Days Of The Year	5:56
A4	Zolar Czakl	0:57
A5	Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague	5:51
A6	The Legend Of The Golden Arches	1:24
A7	The Mothers Play Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London	2:28
A8	The Dog Breath Variations	1:36
B1	Sleeping In A Jar	0:49
B2	Our Bizarre Relationship	1:05
B3	The Uncle Meat Variations	4:40
B4	Electric Aunt Jemima	1:53
B5	Prelude To King Kong	3:24
B6	God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go)	1:22
B7	A Pound For A Brown On The Bus	1:29
B8	Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)	5:08
C1	Mr. Green Genes	3:10
C2	We Can Shoot You	1:48
C3	"If We'd All Been Living In California . . . "	1:29
C4	The Air	2:57
C5	Project X	4:47
C6	Cruising For Burgers	2:19
D1	King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)	0:53
D2	King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)	1:15
D3	King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)	1:44
D4	King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)	6:17
D5	King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)	0:29
D6	King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Zappa Ramifications)	7:25

Credits

• Design [Package Designed By] – Cal Schenkel
• Drums [Droll Humor, Poverty] – Jimmy Carl Black
• Drums [Some Pieces Before He Quit To Join Rhinoceros] – Billy (The Oozer) Mundi*
• Drums, Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small Chimes, Cheerful Outlook & Specific Enquiries] – Artie (With The Green Mustache) Tripp*
• Electric Bass [& Cheeseburgers] – Roy Estrada
• Electric Piano [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice] – Don Preston
• Engineer – Richard Kunc*, Jerry Hansen
• Guitar, Vocals [Low Grade], Percussion – Frank Zappa
• Marimba, Vibraphone [Many Tracks] – Ruth Komanoff
• Organ [Electric], Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone [Special Assistance, Copyist, Industrial Relations & Teen Appeal] – Ian Underwood
• Percussion [Effects] – Jerry Hansen
• Piccolo Flute, Clarinet, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon – Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner*
• Producer – Frank Zappa
• Soprano Vocals – Nelcy Walker (tracks: A5, B3), Ray* (tracks: A5, B3), Roy* (tracks: A5, B3)
• Tenor Saxophone, Tambourine [Pop Star, Obstinance & Equipment Setter-upper When He's Not Hustling Local Groupies] – Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood*
• Vocals [Swell Vocals] – Ray Collins
• Voice [Uncredited, Of Suzy Creamcheese] – Pamela Zarubica
• Written-By – Frank Zappa
• Written-By [Uncredited] – Irving Berlin (tracks: B6), Richard Berry (tracks: A7)

Notes

Original Bizarre/Reprise Records release.
Issued with gatefold jacket, 12 page color booklet (drawings, photos, paintings), and Bizarre label inner sleeve's.

First cat.nr. on labels and spine, second on front cover and inside the gatefold.

Recorded at Apostolic Studios, NYC
October 1967-February 1968
Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound, LA
March-April, 1968

Special thanks to: Ruth Komanoff & Nelcy Walker

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
2MS 2024, 2024	The Mothers Of Invention*	Uncle Meat ‎(2xLP, Album, Aut)	Bizarre Records, Bizarre Records, Reprise Records	2MS 2024, 2024	US	1969
CDD ZAP3, CDDZAP 3	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM)	Zappa Records, Zappa Records	CDD ZAP3, CDDZAP 3	Europe	1987
RCD 10506/07	Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention*	Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention* - Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM, RP)	Rykodisc	RCD 10506/07	US	Unknown
JPCD 2000141/42	Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention*	Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention* - Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, Unofficial)	Not On Label (Frank Zappa)	JPCD 2000141/42	Russia	2000
RCD 10064/65	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat ‎(2xCD, Album, RE, RM)	Rykodisc	RCD 10064/65	US	1987

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