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Label: Virgin – V 2149 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 Genre: Rock Style: Blues Rock, Avantgarde A1 The Floppy Boot Stomp 3:51 A2 Tropical Hot Dog Night 4:48 A3 Ice Rose 3:27 A4 Harry Irene 3:42 A5 You Know You're A Man 3:13 A6 Bat Chain Puller 5:26 B1 When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy 5:03 B2 Owed T'Alex Lyrics By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann 4:04 B3 Candle Mambo 3:23 B4 Love Lies 5:00 B5 Suction Prints 4:20 B6 Apes-Ma 0:38 Recorded At – The Automatt Mixed At – Wally Heider Studios Record Company – Virgin Records Ltd. Produced For – Shiny Beast Productions Published By – Singing Ink Music Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd. Lacquer Cut At – Utopia Studios Arranged By – Don Van Vliet Art Direction – John Cabalka Composed By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann (tracks: B2) Design – Brad Kanawyer Drums, Percussion – Robert Arthur Williams Engineer – Glen Kolotkin Engineer [Assistant] – Jeffrey Norman Guitar, Slide Guitar [Bottleneck], Accordion, Fretless Bass – Richard Redus Guitar, Slide Guitar [Spell Guitar] – Jeff Moris Tepper Management – Regular Moon Management Management [In Association With] – Rupert Surcouf, Jr. Management, Coordinator [Project Coordination] – Harry Duncan Marimba, Percussion [Additional] – Art Tripp III Mastered By [Mastering] – Phil Brown Music By, Words By – Don Van Vliet Other [Logistics] – Thomas William Brown III Painting, Illustration [Drawings] – Don Van Vliet Photography By – Alec Duncan, Richard McCaffree Producer – Don Van Vliet, Pete Johnson (2) Synthesizer, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Grand Piano, Bass – Eric Drew Feldman Trombone, Bass [Air Bass] – Bruce Lambourne Fowler Vocals, Whistling, Harmonica, Soprano Saxophone – C.B:*, Don Van Vliet Virgin Records LTD

Produced for Shiny Beast Productions

All Selections Published by Singing Ink Music (BMI)

Recorded at the Automatt, San Francisco Mixed at Wally Heider Recording, San Francisco

Album dedicated to all conservation and wildlife preservation organizations everywhere

℗ 1980 Virgin Records, LTD