Captain Beefheart – The Spotlight Kid

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Label:	Reprise Records – K 44162
Format:	Vinyl , LP, Album
Country:	UK
Released:	Jan 1972
Genre:	Blues
Style:	Avantgarde

Tracklist

A1	I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby	4:34
A2	White Jam	2:57
A3	Blabber 'N Smoke	2:48
A4	When It Blows Its Stacks	3:41
A5	Alice In Blunderland	3:55
B1	The Spotlight Kid	3:21
B2	Click Clack	3:31
B3	Grow Fins	3:31
B4	There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage	3:13
B5	Glider	4:37

Companies, etc.

Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Produced At – God's Golfball Productions
Published By – Green Bump Music, Inc
Printed By – Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
Distributed By – Kinney Record Group Ltd.

Credits

Art Direction, Photography By – Ed Thrasher
Bass Guitar [Bassus Ophelius] – Rockette Morton
Drums – Ted Cactus
Engineer, Co-producer – Phil Schier
Guitar – Winged Eel Fingerling (tracks: A5)
Illustration [Liner], Sleeve Notes – Don Van Vliet
Lyrics By – Jan Van Vliet (tracks: A3)
Marimba, Piano, Harpsichord, Drums – Ed Marimba
Producer, Arranged By, Written-By – Don Van Vliet
Slide Guitar [Glass Finger], Slide Guitar [Steel Appendage] – Zoot Horn Rollo
Vocals, Harmonica, Bells [Jingle Bells] – Captain Beefheart

Notes

Although not stated on release, album was recorded at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, USA, during May-September 1971, and released prior to the band's 1972 Spring Tour.

Labels:
Produced and Arranged by Don Van Vliet for God's Golf Ball Productions
Co-produced and engineered by Phil Schier
A Warner Bros. Records USA Recording
℗1971

Rear sleeve:
Produced and Arranged by Don Van Vliet
Co-produced and engineered by Phil Schier
For God's Golf Ball Productions

Lyrics/Beefheart image in black on single-sided white card insert.

Back cover color illustrations of Morton, Fingerling, Rollo and Marimba.
(Art Tripp is mischievously credited as the fourth non-existent drummer Ted Cactus).

Credits sign-off:
"The stars are matter
We're matter
But it doesn't matter"
- Don Van Vliet

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 1): K 44162 A1
Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 1): K 44162 B1
Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 2): K 44162 A1 A 20
Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 2): K 44162 B1 B 01
Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 3): K 44162 A1 V
Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 3): K 44162 B1 V
Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 4): K 44162 A1 V 20
Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 4): K 44162 B1 B 01
Matrix / Runout (A-side run-out, stamped, variant 5): K 44162 A1 V 10
Matrix / Runout (B-side run-out, stamped, variant 5): K 44162 B1 V

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo)	Reprise Records	MS 2050	US	1972
Recently Edited	The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo)	Reprise Records	REP 44 162		1972
Recently Edited	The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo)	Reprise Records	44162, N° 44 162		1972
Recently Edited	The Spotlight Kid (Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, Album)	Reprise Records	RST 2050-B	US	1972
Recently Edited	The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album)	Reprise Records	MS 2050	Australia	1972