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The Mothers of Invention : Uncle Meat
 
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Uncle Meat by The Mothers of Invention

 33-1/3 RPM LP    
Record Label Bizarre Records / Reprise Records [USA]
Catalog No. / Audio 2MS 2024 (blue and purple label) [stereo]
Release Date 21 April 1969
Side 1   unknown
1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme (1:56) [Frank Zappa]
2. The Voice of Cheese (0:26) [Frank Zappa]
3. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution (6:00) [Frank Zappa]
4. Zolar Czakl (0:54) [Frank Zappa]
5. Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague (3:59) [Frank Zappa]
6. The Legend of the Golden Arches (3:28) [Frank Zappa]
7. Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (2:19) [Richard Berry]
8. The Dog Breath Variations (1:48) [Frank Zappa]
Side 2   unknown
1. Sleeping in a Jar (0:50) [Frank Zappa]
2. Our Bizarre Relationship (1:05) [Frank Zappa]
3. The Uncle Meat Variations (4:46) [Frank Zappa]
4. Electric Aunt Jemima (1:46) [Frank Zappa]
5. Prelude to King Kong (3:38) [Frank Zappa]
6. God Bless America (1:10) [Irving Berlin]
7. A Pound for a Brown on a Bus (1:29) [Frank Zappa]
8. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (5:05) [Frank Zappa]
Side 3   unknown
1. Mr Green Genes (3:14) [Frank Zappa]
2. We Can Shoot You (2:03) [Frank Zappa]
3. If We'd All Been Living in California . . . (1:14) [Frank Zappa]
4. The Air (2:57) [Frank Zappa]
5. Project X (4:48) [Frank Zappa]
6. Cruisin’ for Burgers (2:18) [Frank Zappa]
Side 4   unknown
1. King Kong Itself (As Played by the Mothers in a Studio) (0:49) [Frank Zappa]
2. King Kong II (Its Magnificence as Interpreted by Dom DeWild) (1:21) [Frank Zappa]
3. King Kong III (As Motorhead Explains It) (1:44) [Frank Zappa]
4. King Kong IV (The Gardner Varieties) (6:17) [Frank Zappa]
5. King Kong V (As Played by 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks) (0:34) [Frank Zappa]
6. King Kong VI (Live on a Flat Bed Diesel in the Middle of a Race Track at a Miami Pop Festival . . . the Underwood Ramifications) (7:24) [Frank Zappa]

Frank Zappa: guitar, percussion, vocals; Jimmy Carl Black: percussion, drums, poverty; Ray Collins: vocals; Aynsley Dunbar: drums; Roy Estrada: bass guitar, vocals; Bunk Gardner: clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone; Ruth Komanoff: marimba, vibes; Billy Mundi: drums; Don Preston: electric piano; Euclid James ‘Motorhead’ Sherwood: tenor saxophone, tambourine, voices, choreography; Art Tripp: percussion, chimes, drums, marimba, xylophone, bells, tympani, vibraphone, wood block; Ian Underwood: clarinet, flute, piano, celeste, harpsichord, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, wind, electronic organ; Nelcy Walker: soprano vocals; Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese.

Produced by Frank Zappa. Engineered by Jesper Hansen. Euclid James Sherwood: equipment technician and choreographer. Art Tripp: advisor. Cal Schenkel: package design. Roy Estrada: prop design. Ian Underwood: copyist, public relations, special assistance.

“Louie Louie” written by Richard Berry; “God Bless America” written by Irving Berlin.

The CD editions add: 1. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1 (37:34); 2. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (3:46) and 3. "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2 (3:50) to the beginning of disc two (before the King Kong suite).
 
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