Captain BeefheartThe Spotlight Kid

Label:

Reprise Records – K 44162

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album

Country:

UK

Released:

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 AtRecord Plant, Los Angeles
  • Produced AtGod's Golfball Productions
  • Published ByGreen Bump Music, Inc
  • Printed ByShorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
  • Distributed ByKinney Record Group Ltd.

Credits

  • Art Direction, Photography ByEd Thrasher
  • Bass Guitar [Bassus Ophelius]Rockette Morton
  • DrumsTed Cactus
  • Engineer, Co-producerPhil Schier
  • GuitarWinged Eel Fingerling (tracks: A5)
  • Illustration [Liner], Sleeve NotesDon Van Vliet
  • Lyrics ByJan Van Vliet (tracks: A3)
  • Marimba, Piano, Harpsichord, DrumsEd Marimba
  • Producer, Arranged By, Written-ByDon 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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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album, Stereo) Reprise Records MS 2050 US 1972
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The Spotlight Kid (LP, Album) Reprise Records MS 2050 Australia 1972

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