Captain Beefheart – The Spotlight Kid
Label: |
Reprise Records – K 44162 |
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Format: |
Vinyl
, LP, Album
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Country: |
UK |
Released: |
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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
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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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo) | Reprise Records | MS 2050 | US | 1972 | ||
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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo) | Reprise Records | REP 44 162 | 1972 | |||
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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo) | Reprise Records | 44162, N° 44 162 | 1972 | |||
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The Spotlight Kid (Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, Album) | Reprise Records | RST 2050-B | US | 1972 | ||
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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album) | Reprise Records | MS 2050 | Australia | 1972 |
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