No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
The T-Bones
1966
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About The T-Bones
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
The American T-Bones began as an instrumental studio project using Los Angeles session musicians. Producers Dave Pell and Joe Saraceno developed the recorded catalog before a performing band was assembled. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) adapted an advertising melody by Sascha Burland into a pop instrumental with an arrangement by Perry Botkin.
Artist background sources
The T-Bones - AllMusic biography
Read American studio-project identity, Pell/Saraceno production, later performing incarnation and advertising-derived hit. The British Gary Farr/Keith Emerson group is excluded; speculative financial motives and uncertain session-player attribution are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) by The T-Bones appears at number 59 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1966. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1966 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
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Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
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Billboard year-end 1966 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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