Singer: The Mothers Of Invention
Title: Uncle Meat
Label: Bizarre Records ‎– 2MS 2024, Bizarre Records ‎– 2024, Reprise Records ‎– 2MS 2024, Reprise Records ‎– 2024
Type: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Auto-coupled
Country: US
Date of released:
Category: Jazz, Rock
Style: Musique Concrète, Avantgarde, Fusion, Doo Wop, Experimental, Parody
Size MP3 zip: 1643 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1299 mb
Rating: 4.9✭
Format: MP3 MPC MIDI AAC APE AHX AC3 VOC FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme	1:54
A2	The Voice Of Cheese Voice [Uncredited] – Pamela Zarubica	0:27
A3	9 Types Of Industrial Pollution	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 Voice [Uncredited] – Pamela Zarubica	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

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
• Distributed By – Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
• Published By – Frank Zappa Music
• Recorded At – Apostolic Studios
• Overdubbed At – Sunset Sound Recorders

Credits

• 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*
• Electric Bass – Roy Estrada
• 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
• Organ [Electric], Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Copyist [Special Assistance, 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)
• 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)

Notes

Alternate Bizarre/Reprise release with A3 listed on cover and label as "9 Types Of Industrial Pollution"

Gatefold sleeve.

First Category on labels and spine, second on front cover and inside the gatefold.
Reprise W7Arts roundel logo on labels

Recorded at Apostolic Studios, NYC
October 1967-February 1968
Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound, LA
March-April, 1968 [Note: Sunset Sound Recorders in 1968]

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.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side I Runout Etched): 30871 MS2024A-1B 1
• Matrix / Runout (Side II Runout Etched): MS-2024 30872 X
• Matrix / Runout (Side III Runout Etched): 2MS 2024 30873
• Matrix / Runout (Side IV Runout Etched): 30874 MS2024D -1C
• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout (Side A, variant 1, etched): 30871 MS2024A-1F
• Matrix / Runout (Side B, variant 1, etched): 30872 MS2024B-1F
• Matrix / Runout (Side C, variant 1, etched): 30783 2MS 2024
• Matrix / Runout (Side D, variant 1, etched): 30874 MS2024D-1B

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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