Freaks on Freak Out! [UPDATE]
Rob Sweet
Here is the list of people in the liner notes of "Freak Out!",
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's first album, which was
released in 1966. I have added one line descriptions to the people
that I know about. Please e-mail any additions or changes to:
sw...@skat.usc.edu.
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"These people have contributed materially in many ways to make
our music what it is. Please do not hold it against them."
Pamela Zarubica - aka "Suzy Creamcheese", groupie, family friend
Art Laboe
Hal Zeiger
Jim Guercio - manager of Chicago, record producer, movie producer
Henry Vestine - pre-Freak Out band member (joined Canned Heat)
Alice Stewart - pre-Freak Out band member
Lillian Rudolph
Mark Cheka - "pop artist", co-manager, introduced Herb Cohen to FZ
Herb Cohen - Frank's "bizniz" manager
Tom Wilson - produced "Freak Out!"
Fyllis
Lucille
Jack Tillar
Don Cerveris - Frank's English teacher at AV High School, screenwriter
Vic Mortensen
Terry Kirkman
Frankie Lee Simms
Sonny Boy Williamson - blues musician
Buddy Guy - blues musician
Albert Collins - blues musician
Little Walter - blues musician?
Maurice Ravel - 20th century composer, wrote "Bolero"
Joe Polly
Don & Dewey - blues duo, Don is Don "Sugarcane" Harris
Lee Zagon
Steve Mann
Skip Diamond
Silvestre Revueltas
Arnold Schoenberg - 20th century "12-tone" composer
Joe Perrino
Jerry Ullberg
Donna #1
Donna #2
Loeb & Leopold - attended the Garrick shows "relentlessly"
Sacco & Vanzetti - anarchists executed in 1927, names cleared by Gov. Dukkakis
Gene & Eunice
Robert Craft - conductor and friend & biographer of Igor Stravinsky.
Carl Greenhouse
Dave Aerni
Bob Keene
Nick Venet - another management type, later managed Linda Ronstadt
Jim Eronomides
Alois Gaba
Leo Ornstein
Elvis Presley - rock 'n roll musician
Barry McGuire - folk singer, wrote "Eve of Destruction"
Don Julian
Tiny Tim - nee' Herbert Khouri, wierdo singer
Cordwainer Smith - SF author
Theodore Sturgeon - SF author
Robert Sheckley - SF author
Randy De Wees
Dick Barber - Mothers road manager, "snork master"
Eberhard Kronhausen - chronicler of sexual mores, wrote "Erotic Fantasies"
Yves Tanguy - surrealist painter
Lenny Bruce - controversial humorist
Ravi Shankar - sitarist extra-ordinaire
Chatur Lal
N. C. Mullick
Jules Feiffer - cartoonist, playwright
The Bokelmans
Floyd
Ernie Tosi - one of Frank's High School teachers from Antelope Valley.
Shirley Eiler
Mr. Ballard - music instructor at AV High School
Brian Epstein - manager of The Beatles
David Crosby - member of The Byrds, later member of Crosby, Stills, Nash
Herman Rudin
Joe De Santis
Bruce Gordon
Frank De Cova - studio musician ?
Roland Kirk - jazz saxophonist
Wolfman Jack - deejay
Snuff Garrett - LA based music producer, in 70s did Cher's big hits
Molly Bee - country singer
Ernie Freeman
Lew Irwin
Fred C. Dobbs - satirist/humourist ("The GOLDEN AGE OF B.S.)
John Tasker Howard - American Music historian
Cecil Forsythe
Charles Brown - blues pianist/vocalist
James Joyce - novelist
George Di Carl
Diane Baker
Melvin Belli - attorney
Bulent Aurel
Mauricio Kagel - 20th century composer
Leonard Allen
Dr. Brossman
Jerry Murname
Uncle Ed
The Hypnotist
Animal Huxley
Salvador Dali - surrealistic artist
Vincent Persichetti - American composer/harpsichord
Carol
Sabicas - flamenco guitarist
Charles Middleton
Lance Reardon
Sabu - Indian movie star
J. Arthur Rank - head of RANK studios (movies opened with a gong)
Luigi Nono - Italian avant-garde composer
Sylvia Brigham
Steffie
Avedis Zildjian - cymbal maker
Little Arthur Mathews
Bob Dylan - songwriter
Joan Baez - songwriter
Bill Stulla
Rosemarie De Camp - 50's TV suburban housewife actress e.g., "Love That Bob"
Bobby Jamieson
B. Mitchell Reed - deejay
Cordie
Ruthie
Joyce
Jesse Kaye - MGM Records accounting representative, loaned FZ ten bucks
Phil Spector - producer, famous for "Wall of Sound"
Evy
Lyn Johnson
Pete
Leonard Gorrzyra
Don Vliet - aka "Captain Beefheart", musician, high school friend of Frank's
Pepper
Lauren
Charles Mingus - jazz musician
Pierre Boulez - conductor, composer, (pronounced `Boo-lez', ask him)
Anton Webern - 12-tone composer
Igor Stravinsky - 20th century composer
Willie Dixon - blues musician
Guitar Slim - blues musician
Edgar Varese - avant-garde composer
Muddy Waters - blues musician
Howlin' Wolf - blues musician
Elmer Valentine - owner of "Whiskey a-go-go" nightclub
Phil Tanzini
John Beck
Mario
Bob Reiner
Eric Dolphy - jazz musician
Bram Stoker - author of Dracula
Cecil Taylor - "free-jazz" musician
Bill Evans - jazz pianist
Johnny Otis - rhythm & blues musician, does live radio on Pacifica network
Preston Love
Slim Harpo - blues musician
Karl Kohn
Bob Narciso
Johnny Guitar Watson - blues musician, later played on "OSFA", "Them or US"
Tim Sullivan
Sonny Tufts - B-movie actor, mentioned in "The Radio is Broken"
John Wayne - actor
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - blues musician
Junior Madeo - bandleader of "The Ramblers", a San Diego R&B band with FZ
Jeff Harris
Bobby Atler
Daddy-O-Curtis Crump
Karlheinz Stockhausen - avant-garde composer
Joe Huston - R&B saxophonist
Chuck Higgins - R&B saxophonist
Big Jay McNeely - R&B saxophonist
Jim Sherwood - aka "Motorhead", later became member of Mothers
Sandy Schwanekamp
Nadine Reyes
Kaye Sherman
Donald Woods - doo-wop musician, wrote "This Paradise"
Richard Berry - songwriter, wrote "Louie Louie"
Huggy Boy
Vernon Greene
Hunter Hancock
Willie Mae Thornton - blues musician
Lightnin' Slim - blues musician
Roger Huntington Sessions - 20th century composer
Charles Ives - 20th century composer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - beat poet
Terry Wimberly
Johnny Franklin - member of "The Blackouts", mentioned in "Village of the Sun"
Teddy Bunn
Jeepers - old "Creature Feature" movie host on tv.
Paul Buff - engineer who sold Frank Studio Z in Cucamonga
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The following people have contributed answers, leads or ideas
for this document. Please DO hold it against them :
TO...@ums1.lan.mcgill.ca (Tony Pfarrer)
dzif...@honey.webo.dg.com (Doron Zifrony)
bi...@ERA.COM (Bill Flynn)
j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
chu...@rahul.net (Chuck Fry)
U00...@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL (Jan van Kemenade)
ro...@tecrus.enet.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
re...@watson.ibm.com (Diane Reese)
David....@launchpad.unc.edu (david eugene vinson)
ki...@indirect.com (Lee Kirk Hawley)
mcgl...@bcvms.bc.edu (Joe McGlinchey)
bi...@uofrlaw.urich.edu (Paul M. Birch )
Michael_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Michael Gushulak)
to...@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
lsch...@UCSD.EDU (Lukas Schulze)
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MADIGAN KEVIN M
Little Walter was definitely a blues musician (quite good).
Markus Ringner
active in the 20's and the 30's.