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Song Name: Mongoloid ( "Single Version" AKA "Booji Boy [record label] Version" )

Artist: DEVO

Appears On: "Mongoloid b/w Jocko Homo"

Run Time: 3:30

Year Written: 1976[1]

Year Recorded: 1976

Year Released: 1977

Writing Credits: Gerald V. Casale

Sung By: Gerald V. Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh (Co-Lead)

Personnel:

Jerry – bass
Mark – synths
Bob 1 – guitar
Bob 2 – additional guitar
Alan – drums[2]

Alternate Versions:

◦ Hardcore Version (3:32) [3]
  Stiff re-issue of Booji Boy Version (3:30)  
◦ E-Z Listening Version (5:05)  
◦ TechnoDEVO Version (3:57)[4]

Onstage Behavior: See -- "Mongoloid"

Lyrics: See -- "Mongoloid"

Links:

Mongoloid / Jocko Homo (Feb 1977 7") -- Discogs
Mongoloid b/w Jocko Homo (Feb 1977 7") -- 45cat
Mongoloid (Booji Boy Records Feb 1977 7") -- MusicBrainz


"Mongoloid (song) - Discography" -- Wikipedia article
"Jocko Homo" -- Wikipedia article
Mongoloid/Jocko Homo (first pressing) 7" Main List -- Devo-Obsesso.com


Aneuploidy
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24060-aneuploidy
Mongoloid lyrics reprinted in “Smash Hits” magazine Vol. 2 No. 4, pg 29, (1980, February 21 - March 5)
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1980/Smash-Hits-1980-02-21.pdf [PDF pg 26 of 33]
“Beginning at the End”. The Movies. Wilson Quarterly. (1986, Summer) p 75
http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL10_SU_1986_Article_01.pdf [PDF pg 34 of 36]
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  1. ↑
    “...‘Mongoloid,’ I created that in an hour and a half beginning to end in one afternoon in 1976 sitting on a couch in Akron, Ohio with my bass.”
    - Jerry (2023)
    ◦ https://blog.musoscribe.com/index.php/2023/01/24/a-conversation-with-devos-gerald-casale-part-1-of-3/
    (https://archive.is/gT9ia)
  2. ↑
    Credits in Hardcore [Collector's Edition] (2013) [ SV026]
  3. ↑
    Mongoloid (Gerald V. Casale)
    Recorded in 1977
    Vocals by Gerald V. Casale,
    Bob Mothersbaugh
    Credits in Hardcore (2013) [ SV026]
    https://www.discogs.com/release/4570051-Devo-Hardcore/image/SW1hZ2U6MTU4NTYyMjk=
  4. ↑
    "DEVO Urge + Mongoloid special versions !" uploaded to YouTube in 2010 by Alain From France
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