"King Kong" is an instrumental composition by Frank Zappa, originally released in 1968 on the album Uncle Meat by Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention.
In 1971, it was covered by the group who would later be known as The Residents with Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman on guitar for their notorious demo tape B.S..
Residents, Uninc. version[]
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
The 1971 recording of "King Kong" has long been one of the more widely available recordings from The Residents prior to their official incorporation in 1974, as the group included the track on a number of compilations, beginning with The Residents Radio Special in 1977.
Where it is first heard on the group's 1971 demo tape B.S., the track features in a three-minute edit; in the Radio Special it features in a shortened, two-minute edit. The full, four-minute recording was first officially released in 1991 on the UWEB compilation album Daydream B-Liver, but later featured on other compilations such as Documentation - Tunes In Danger Of Becoming Lost in 2009.
King Kong, is also the name of the intro piece The Residents used for stage shows between 1997 and 2003
The original B.S. edit was officially released with the rest of the demo tape for the first time on Record Store Day in 2019, and was included on the pREServed compilation A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big.
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- B.S. (recorded 1971, released 2019) [version 1]
- The Residents Radio Special (1977) [version 1]
- Daydream B-Liver (1991) [version 2]
- Land Of Mystery (1999) [version 2]
- Documentation - Tunes In Danger Of Becoming Lost (2009) [version 2]
- ERA B474 (2012) [version 2]
- The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss (2013) [version 2]
- The Residents Present The Delta Nudes (2016) [version 2]
- A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (2019) [version 1]
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B.S. (recorded 1971, released 2019) Side A |
