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A1	Smoke (La Vie En Fumér) Written-By – Spooner*, Cotten*, Welnick*	4:50
A2	Hit Parade Written-By – Spooner*, Welnick*	3:35
A3	Strung Out On Strings Written-By – Spooner*, Evans*, Steen*	4:10
A4	Golden Boy Harmonica [Uncredited] – Harry DuncanWritten-By – Spooner*, Evans*	4:00
A5	My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains Written-By – Van Vliet*	4:30
B1	God-Bird-Change Written-By – Lewis*	3:18
B2	I'm Just A Mess Written-By – Spooner*, Steen*	3:10
B3	Cathy's Clone Soprano Saxophone [Uncredited] – Don Van VlietWritten-By – Dornacker*	3:30
B4	This Town Written-By – Hazlewood*	3:15
B5	Pound Of Flesh Written-By – Nagle*, Matthews*	3:00
B6	You're No Fun Written-By – Cotten*, The Tubes, Welnick*	4:51

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co.
• Recorded At – His Masters Wheels
• Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
• Recorded At – Record Plant, Sausalito
• Recorded At – Funky Features
• Mixed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
• Mastered At – A&M Studios
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
• Published By – Pseudo Songs
• Published By – Almo Music Corp.
• Published By – Bern Doubt Music
• Published By – Kama Sutra Music, Inc.
• Published By – Warner Bros. Music, Inc.
• Published By – Lucky Pork Publ.

Credits

• Art Direction – Roland Young
• Bass – Rick Anderson
• Design – M. Cotten*, P. Prince*
• Design [Design Tech] – Chuck Beeson
• Drums – Prairie Prince
• Engineer [Assistant] – David Raeder, Jim Sintetos, John Henning, Mike Beiriger, W. S. Richardson
• Engineer, Co-producer [Production Assistance] – Don Wood
• Illustration [Front Cover] – P. Prince*
• Keyboards – Vince Welnick
• Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roger Steen
• Lead Guitar, Vocals, Supervised By [Le Gran Fromage] – Bill "The Swami" Spooner*
• Lead Vocals – Fee Waybill
• Management – Bag O' Bucks*, Gary Peterson , Mort Moriarty
• Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
• Mixed By – W.E. Spooner*, Don Wood, John Anthony
• Music By – The Tubes
• Percussion – Mingo Lewis
• Photography By [Back Cover] – Gerald Kudo, Peter Ogilvie
• Photography By [Liner Photos] – Alvin Meyerowitz, Mort Moriarty
• Producer – John Anthony
• Synthesizer – Michael Cotten
• Vocals – Re Styles

Notes

Vinyl contained in top-opening (black & white half-tone) varnish-printed liner, with band photos & credits on both sides.

Recorded at His Masters Wheels, San Francisco, The Record Plant, Los Angeles, The Record Plant, Sausalito, and Funky Features, San Francisco.
Mixed at The Record Plant, Los Angeles.

"Special thanks to: Captain Beefheart, Bernie Krause, Rick Bright and his Sounds Of Delight Orchestra, Rob Lawrence and Harry Duncan".

℗ 1977 A&M Records, Inc.
All selections published by Psuedo Songs, Admin. by Almo Music Corp. (ASCAP) except:
A3, A4 published by Psuedo Songs, Admin. by Almo Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Bern Doubt Music (BMI)
A5 published by Kama Sutra Music Inc. (BMI)
B4 published by Warner Bros. Inc.
B5 published by Lucky Pot Pub. (ASCAP)

This is the White/Red back cover version.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): (SP-5001)
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): SP-5002)
• Matrix / Runout (Side A [etched]): A&M SP5001 (RE-1)-M1 △ 22210
• Matrix / Runout (Side B [etched] MR (stamped)): A&M SP5002 (RE-1)-M1 MR(in a circle) △ 22210-X