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Notes From Ralph
Whoopy Snorp is part of the album entitled Blorp Esette, a production by The Los Angeles Free Music Society. The usage of this song was donated by The Cryptic Corporation to LAFMS for that purpose.
- Jay Clem, Radio Special, July 1977
An album of various artists compiled by the Los Angeles Free Music Society, a small group of 'avant gardists' who provide occasional recordings of dubious quality, the album sports only one cut by The Residents, a musical montage with a spoken poem, which was recorded especially for this project and was donated to L.A.F.M.S. A limited edition of 500 copies. Cover and label art by Don Van Villet (Captain Beefheart)
-The Official WEIRD Book of The Residents, 1979
BLORP ESETTE is the first appearance of The Residents on a label other than Ralph Records. It is an album by various artists, compiled by the Los Angeles Free Music Society, a small group of avantgardists, who produce occasional albums and singles of varying quality. There are 18 songs on this release, many by interesting "lunatic fringe" groups; only one Residents cut is included, Whoopy Snorp. (misspelled as Whoopy Snort. on BLORP ESETTE) which is a musical montage with a spoken poem. It was recorded especially for this project, and was donated to LAFMS. Whoopy Snorp was also released on THE RESIDENTS RADIO SPECIAL cassette and on the RESIDUE album.
The front album cover and labels were designed by Captain Beefheart.
500 copies of BLORP ESETTE were produced, which were not numbered. They were sold mostly by mail, and through a few record stores in the Los Angeles area. LAFMS also released a single, The Residents (LAFMS SR002), about The Residents, by the L.A. group Slimy Adenoid and the Pablums.
Approximately 200 copies were produced.
- The Cryptic Guide to The Residents, 1986
Somewhere in the immediate aftermath of the February 1977 release of Fingerprince The Residents were invited to contribute to a compilation album put together by the Los Angeles Free Music Society.
Packaged in a sleeve designed by Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart - a Residential circle nicely squared, for sure) the Blorp Esette Volume One record brought together the cream of the West Coast underground at a time when punk rock was a rumour on the breeze in the US. As such it captured the state of play before that tsunami engulfed everything, including The Residents' Whoopy Snorp. One of the band's lesser known pieces from that place and time, the song nevertheless demonstrates just how quickly the group had moved on once again. Certainly, there are elements of Fingerprince here, but the synthesisers and drum machine engine of the track is all Duck Stab.
One suspects Whoopy Snorp might have had its origins among the material that comprises the 'MOP' tapes - an interested sub-archive within The Residents' archive.
- Fingerprince pREServed liner notes, 2018
Originally recorded during the 'Fingerprince' sessions, 'Whoopy Snorp' first appeared on a 1977 compilation entitled 'Blorp Esette.' [...] Originally titled 'Woopy Squelch.' The tape track sheets show an August 1975 recording date, with later additions in December of 1976.
-Leftovers Again?! liner notes, 2021
Cosmichobo1 (Admin) (talk) 15:53, February 18 2023