Whoopy Snorp

"Whoopy Snorp" (alternatively "Whoopy Snort" and "Woopy Snorp") is a song by The Residents, recorded in August 1975 and December 1976. 
It was first released on the Los Angeles Free Music Society compilation Blorp Esette in 1977, and then featured on the promotional Residents Radio Special later that year. It was then featured on the outtakes compilation Residue of The Residents in 1983.
== History ==
The Residents recorded "Whoopy Snorp" in two sessions, the first in August 1975 (shortly before the completion of The Third Reich 'n Roll one month later), and the second during the Fingerprince sessions in December 1976;Leftovers Again?! liner notes, 2021 although the liner notes of the 1990 CD reissue of the Diskomo EP claim it was recorded in 1972.
The lyrics feature a line from a speech by the character Saint Steve (Jay Clem) from The Residents' unfinished film Vileness Fats: "To show or to be shown is a question never known, not even by many to exist." This line is also heard in "Never Known Questions", from the group's (then unreleased) second album Not Available. 
"Whoopy Snorp" was first released on the Los Angeles Free Music Society compilation album Blorp Esette in August 1977, having been donated to the LAFMS by The Cryptic Corporation for that purpose."'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, The Residents Radio Special, 1977 On the album's track listing, the title is incorrectly spelled "Whoopy Snort".
The song has since appeared on a number of outtakes and rarities compilations, including Residue of The Residents in 1983, Documentation - Tunes in Danger of Becoming Lost in 2009, and (in a new remaster by engineer Scott Colburn) on the second disc of the Fingerprince pREServed edition in 2018. 
A "RDX" mix taken from the original master tape was heard on the 2021 compilation Leftovers Again?!; the compilation's track listing spells the title "Woopy Snorp".
== Lyrics ==
 The condemned mind snickers and
 flows and no one gives it a rosebud
 for the end of its moral apathy;
 To show or to be shown's a question
 never known not even by many to exist;
 For what’s not known is just what’s there
 and knowing that’s at least an edge,
 but an edge is only an edge -
 even the Empire State Building has one;
 And what is truth? I say forsooth;
 Why, truth is like a Baby Ruth;
 And what could be ever sweeter?
 Well, maybe to have a yeller aunt-eater;
 Old Yeller ate my cat today
 and whoopy snorped and
 whoopy snorped away.Ima Buddy, Ima Buddy's Totally Impartial Companion to Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to BIG MAMAS, 1992
== List of releases ==
* Blorp Esette (1977) - incorrectly listed as "Whoopy Snort" Grove Street studio recording, December 1976
* The Residents Radio Special (1977) 
* Residue of The Residents (1983) 
* Diskomo EP (1990) 
* In Memoriam Torso (1994) 
*Residue Deux (1998) 
* Documentation - Tunes In Danger Of Becoming Lost (2009) 
* Fingerprince pREServed edition (2018) 
*Leftovers Again?! (2021) - listed as "Woopy Snorp RDX" pREServed "RDX" mix, ca. 2020-2021
=== List of versions ===
== See also ==
* Blorp Esette
* Fingerprince
*"Never Known Questions"
*Not Available
*Vileness Fats
* Residue of The Residents
== Buy Or Die! ==
=== Listen online ===
* "Whoopy Snorp" 2019 pREServed edition on Spotify
* "Whoopy Snorp" 2019 pREServed edition on Apple Music
== External links and references ==
* "Whoopy Snorp" at Genius
Category:Fingerprince
Category:Residue of The Residents
Category:Songs
Category:Documentation - Tunes In Danger Of Becoming Lost
Category:Vileness Fats
Category:Leftovers Again?!
Category:Non-album tracks