Description

• The Mothers Of Invention* – Uncle Meat
• Label: Bizarre Records – 2MS 2024, Bizarre Records – 2024, Reprise Records – 2MS 2024
• Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, CTH, 400, Autocoupled
• Country: US
• Released: 1969
• Genre: Jazz, Rock
• Style: Musique Concrète, Avantgarde, Fusion, Doo Wop, Experimental, Parody
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• 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 Ramifications) 7:22
• Published By – Frank Zappa Music
• Distributed By – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records
• Recorded At – Apostolic Studios
• Overdubbed At – Sunset Sound Recorders
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
• Design [Package Designed By] – Cal Schenkel
• Drums [Cheerful Outlook & Specific Enquiries], Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small] – Artie (With The Green Mustache) Tripp*
• Drums [Droll Humor, Poverty] – Jimmy Carl Black
• Drums [Some Tracks] – Billy (The Oozer) Mundi*
• Effects [Percussion Effects] – Jerry Hansen
• Electric Bass – Roy Estrada
• Electric Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Copyist [Special Assistance, Industrial Relations, Teen Appeal] – Ian Underwood
• Electric Piano [Tarot Cards, Brown Rice] – Don (Dom DeWild) Preston*
• Engineer – Richard Kunc*, Jerry Hansen
• Guitar, Vocals [Low Grade], Percussion – Frank Zappa
• Marimba, Vibraphone [Many Tracks] – Ruth Komanoff
• 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)
• Soprano Vocals [Pachuco Falsetto, Cheeseburgers] – Roy* (tracks: A5, B3)
• Soprano Vocals [Swell Vocals] – Ray* (tracks: A5, B3)
• Tenor Saxophone [Frenetic Stylings], Tambourine, Choreography [Pop Star, Obstinance], Technician [Equipment Setter-upper - When He's Not Hustling Local Groupies] – Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood*
• Vocals – Ray Collins
• Written-By – Frank Zappa
• Written-By [Uncredited] – Irving Berlin (tracks: B6), Richard Berry (tracks: A7)
• Original Bizarre/Reprise Records release.
• Issued with gatefold sleeve and 12-page color booklet (drawings, photos, paintings). Discs with Bizarre labels and liners.
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• First cat# on labels and spine, second on front cover and inside the gatefold.
• Reprise W7Arts roundel logo on labels, re 3rd cat#.
• (The 'Bizarre' label used Reprise cat system, whilst 'Straight' used its own through Reprise)
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• Recorded at Apostolic Studios, NYC
• October 1967-February 1968
• Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound, LA
• March-April, 1968 [Note: Sunset Sound Recorders in 1968]
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• A3 (later titled "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution")
• as "400 Days Of The Year" on label
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• Drummer Billy Mundi is credited as "...on some pieces before he quit to join Rhinoceros"
• Special thanks to:
• Ruth Komanoff who plays marimba and vibes with Artie on many of the tracks, and
• Nelcy Walker the soprano voice with Ray & Roy on Dog Breath & The Uncle Meat Variations.
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): 30871 MS2024A -1A    T1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, variant 1): 30874 MS2024D -1A    T1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): 30872 MS2024B -1A    T1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, variant 1): 30873 MS2024C -1A    T1

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