Residents Records (mixtape)

"Residents Records" (also referred to as "Residents Novelty Hits") is a private mixtape compiled in mid-to-late 1973 by Hardy Fox from The Residents' collection of novelty records, as a gift for friend Bill Reinhardt.
The existence and track listing of the reel were revealed by Reinhardt on the unofficial Residents Facebook group in May 2019. Shortly thereafter, a YouTube video playlist was created by a fan in an incomplete approximation of the tape's contents.
== History ==
The reel, labelled "Residents Records" on the spine of the tape box, and featuring an early Ralph Records "King Kong" Vileness Fats promotional image on the front, was compiled by Hardy Fox some time shortly after July 1973. 
It was sent to Portland, Oregon radio station KBOO-FM as a gift for program director and disc jockey Bill Reinhardt, who had recently visited and befriended the group (then known as Residents, Uninc.) after they sent a copy of their Santa Dog EP to the station.
The reel consists of selections from The Residents' collection of (sometimes rare) novelty recordings, which were kept in a jukebox in their Sycamore Street studio.
== Track listing ==
Side A
* Napoleon XIV - "They're Coming To Take Me Away (Ha Ha)"
* Don Charles' Singing Dogs - "Jingle Bells"
* Herb Dodson - "A Disc Jockey's Christmas Eve"
* New Society Band - "Strangers In The Night"
* Columbia School of Broadcasting
* Rosko You Are What You Eat - "Teenage Fair"
* Bruce Haack (The Way-Out Album) - "School For Robots"
* Bantu Tribespeople, Africa
* Jan Peerce - "The Bluebird of Happiness"
* Columbia School of Broadcasting
* Captain Beefheart Interview
* The Bulldogs - "John Paul George & Ringo"
* Ed Rudy - The American Tour
* American Marriage Guidance Counselors Agency
* Steve Greenberg - "Big Bruce"
* Marshall Efron - "Devil Fish"
* Jimmie Haskell - "California 99"
* The Dannybells - "God Is Not Dead"
* Bruce Haack (Way-Out Record) - "Motorcycle"
* Harvey Matusow's Jews Harp Band - "War Between Fats and Thins"
Side B
* Stan Freberg - "The Old Payola Roll Blues"
* Herb Dodson - "What Is A Disc Jockey"
* Robin Seymour - "Cruisin' 56"
* Dragonfly - "Darlin'"
* Steve Marcus - "The Lord's Prayer"
* Annette Peacock - "I'm The One"
* The Red Krayola - "Listen To This"
* East of Eden - "Habbi Baby" etc.
* Shel Silverstein - "26 Second Song"
* Columbia School of Broadcasting
* Clark-Hutchinson - "A=MH2"
* Ernst Jandl - "Sprechgedichte"
* Tom Dissevelt / Kid Baltan - "Song of the Second Moon"
* Earl Nightingale - "The Strangest Secret"
* John Wayne - "Pledge of Allegiance"
* Marshall Efron - "Sign Off"
* Oaxaquena - "Quelaguetza"
== See also ==
* Hardy Fox
* William Reinhardt
* KBOO-FM
* 20 Sycamore Street, San Francisco
== External links and references ==
* The Residents unofficial Facebook group
* "Hardy Fox Tape Comp" playlist on YouTube
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