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Santa Dog is the first release by American Art Collective The Residents, credited as Residents, Uninc. Each track is credited to a different alias of The Residents. The EP is notorious amongst Residents fans for being incredibly hard to find, of the 500 copies pressed, only 400 copies were deemed usable, 300 were sent to 'Close friends', and 100 were sent to record stores. Richard Nixon and Frank Zappa were two who were sent some of the 300 copies. Zappa's copy was returned to The Residents with the note "No Longer At Address, Nixon's copy was also refused, inspiring the title of their 1999 compilation album Refused. The Residents had decided to make it tradition to re-record the title track "Fire" every 6 years. They did this once, for Santa Dog '78, But when beginning production on Santa Dog '84, they realised their sound hadn't changed enough since 1978, and so they chose to re-record Santa Dog whenever they felt their music had changed. In 2014 the EP was re-pressed for the first time.