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Robbert Heederik

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Aug 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/2/96

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| Maintained by Johan Wikberg (johan_...@ssco.se) |
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This document is a very incomplete listing of bootleg recordings of Frank
Zappa on vinyl and CD. Adding to it is very difficult because many Zappa
fans don't like bootlegs; instead they trade tapes. Even I do not own any
Zappa bootlegs, and my tape collection is, by tradition, "scant at best".
If you see something interesting, try posting a request on the Usenet
newsgroup alt.fan.frank-zappa, and perhaps some kind soul will volunteer a
trade or a gift. It's been known to happen. A fellow list of circulating
tapes (FZSHOWS.TXT) is maintained by my fellow Swede Jon Naurin
<nau...@mbox300.swipnet.se> (future versions of this FAQ will include a
pointer to a Zappa tape-swapping web page).

It should be noted that bootleggers who made a profit from illicit Frank
Zappa recordings were probably among Zappa's least favorite people. This
led to the issuing of the "Beat the Boots" and "Beat the Boots II" sets
and series (Rhino records) which were bootleg recordings re-issued on a
legitimate label, with profits going to Zappa and Rhino. See the Zappa
discography for more info.

If you still would like to contribute to this document, please send e-mail
to me at the address listed at the top. I will be delighted. Include AS
MUCH AS YOU CAN of the following data:

- Title
- Medium (CD, vinyl, type of vinyl &c)
- Date of performance
- Length of recording
- Track list
- Track lengths
- Musicians
- Sound quality (very subjective; included mostly for fun)
- Label and number
- Gory details (artwork, liner notes &c &c)
- Any folk-loric anecdotes associated with performance or recording

I've recently taken over this FAQ and I'm working on it. It's been a mess,
but now it's a little better, but I'm not satisfied yet and maybe it will
get even better. Some of the sources at my disposal can not possibly have
been created by humans. I have done my best to extract information from
all sources, and to check and double-check, but half of it may be wrong
anyway. Corrections are only welcome. (Rule of thumb: If I sound like
there MIGHT be an error, then I KNOW there is; if I don't, I THINK there
is.)

The live boots are in chronological order, followed by live compilations,
orchestral bootlegs, studio oddity boots, huge boxes, counterfeit issues
of official products, Laether and finally some bootleg 45s. Now I'm off to
the bookstore to scan some books on the 70s bootleg industry and stock
some gory details. Enjoy!

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**************************************************************************

This is the start of a new section: the Concert Bootlegs section. These
are bootlegs where most of the material is from one or two concerts, or
from the same tour. The bootlegs in the Live Compilations section have
material from more than two concerts and from different bands. Use of
"bonus" and "filler" tracks makes it hard to draw the line, though.

**************************************************************************
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- TITLE: 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- TITLE: Oldies but Goldies
- TITLE: Thigh (2 LP)
- TITLE: Petrouska
- TITLE: King Kong Ripped My Flesh
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- Konserthuset, Stockholm, 9/13/30-Sep-1967 (probably 30th)

Re-issued as Oldies but Goldies (with "Uncle Meat" medley from the Royal
Festival Hall, London, 1968 as bonus track)
Re-issued with an unknown Hollywood 1971 record (?) as Thigh (2 LP)
Re-issued as Petrouska (with "Pygmy Twylyte" bonus track from the Long
Beach Arena, 31-Dec-1974)
Re-issued as "King Kong Ripped My Flesh"
Legally re-issued as part of the Beat the Boots set

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Soundboard B

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Don
Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy Mundi

1. You Didn't Try To Call Me
2. Petroushka [Stravinsky]
3. Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann]
4. Baby Love [Supremes]
5. ???
6. Big Leg Emma
7. No Matter What You Do (interpolating Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony)
8. Blue Suede Shoes [Perkins]
9. Hound Dog [Leiber/Stoller]
10. Gee [?]

11. King Kong
12. It Can't Happen Here

Track listings may vary slightly between re-issues. Track 5 was removed
from the legal re-issue, probably for copyright reasons. Track 2 was
removed from the legal CD re-issue but not the LP box (something at work).

This show was televised or broadcast on radio, so Zappa tried to play even
though he was very ill. He soon left the stage, however, and the band
carried on without him. What remains is not a very good performance at
all.

The color cover shows a caricature of Zappa with a huge right foot,
spraying a sweaty sock with deodorant, thinking "Warum tut es weh, wenn
ich pinkle?" (German for "Why does it hurt when I pee?"). Back cover has a
short story called 'Tis the Season to be Jelly by science fiction writer
Richard Matheson, beginning "Pa's nose fell off at breakfast, it fell
right into Ma's coffee and displaced it" (a line which later became the
title of another bootleg). Artwork for re-issues completely unkown.

See also: Petrouska
See also: Pa's nose fell off at breakfast, it fell right into Ma's coffee
and displaced it

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- TITLE: Petrouska
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- Konserthuset, Stockholm, 9/13/30-Sep-1967 (probably 30th)
- Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

Re-issue of 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly with a 1974 bonus track
Re-issued as record 8 (bright yellow label) of The History & Collected
Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Sonund quality: Soundboard B (Stockholm)
Label: ZX 3658
Cross-reference: Zappalog #207

Tracks 1-8 live in Stockholm 9/13/30-Sep-1967
Track 9 live at the Long Beach Arena 31-Dec-1974

Stockholm musicians: Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Bunk
Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Ray Collins and Billy
Mundi

Long Beach musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock,
Tom Fowler, Chester Thompson and George Duke

1. You Didn't Try To Call Me
2. Petrouska [Stravinsky]
3. Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann]
4. Baby Love [Supremes]
5. Big Leg Emma
6. King Kong
7. It Can't Happen Here
8. You Don't Care How You Treat Me [?]
9. Pygmy Twylyte [possibly listed as "Pygmie Twylyte"]

Robbert Heederik

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- TITLE: Zurkon Music
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- TITLE: Donna U Wanna (CD)

- TITLE: Tiny Nightmares (2 LP)

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- Felt Forum, New York, 31-Oct-1977

Re-issued on CD as Donna U Wanna
Re-issued with Ultra-Modern Stringbeans as Tiny Nightmares (2 LP)
Also issued as record 9 (cream label) of The History & Collected

Improvisations of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

Length: ~45 min
Sound quality: Soundboard A-
Label: Imp 1.13 [Impossible Recordworks?]
Cross-reference: Zappalog #231 [?]

Musicians: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Patrick O'Hearn, Tommy Mars, Peter
Wolf, Ed Mann and Terry Bozzio

1. San Ber'dino
2. Tryin' to Grow a Chin [Stage #6 version]
3. City of Tiny Lites
4. The Squirm [guitar solo]
5. Big Leg Emma

6. The Dance Contest Invocations
7. The Black Page #2
8. Jones Crusher
9. Camarillo Brillo
10. Black Napkins

The History & Collected Improvisations lists an "Intro" before "San
Ber'dino", "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" as "I Wanna Be Dead", "City of Tiny
Lites" as just "Tiny Lites", does not list "The Squirm", lists "The Dance
Contest Invocations" as "Audience Participation Time", does not list
"Jones Crusher", and possibly spells "Camarillo Brillo" as "Camerillo".

This is the concert in the Baby Snakes movie and on the Baby Snakes
record. This version of "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" is the one released on
Stage #6. "The Black Page #2" and "Jones Crusher" could be the Baby Snakes
versions.

Charles Ulrich

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Aug 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/2/96

In article <zappa-faq-bootl...@wins.uva.nl>,
cmf...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cory Ferber) wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly

> 4. Baby Love [Supremes]

> 5. ???
> 6. Big Leg Emma
> 7. No Matter What You Do (interpolating Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony)

So who wrote "No Matter What You Do"?

> 10. Gee [?]

Written by William Davis & Viola Watkins. Originally recorded by The Crows
in 1953.

> 11. King Kong
> 12. It Can't Happen Here
>
> Track listings may vary slightly between re-issues. Track 5 was removed
> from the legal re-issue, probably for copyright reasons.

My copy of the vinyl bootleg ('Tis the Season To Be Jelly, Bizarre [yeah,
right] FVZ 967) has nothing between "Baby Love" and "Big Leg Emma". If
there was ever anything between them, it's a very good edit.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Electric Aunt Jemima
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 13. Wipe Out [?]

Written (and originally recorded) by the Surfaris.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Our Man in Nirvana
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 1. Feet Light Up [?]

Just a spoken intro by FZ.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Trick or Treat (LP/CD)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Bremen 1968
> - 1960s London Live
>
> Length: ~45 min
> Label: Livil LLR 027 (CD)
>
> 1. Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?
> 2. Big Leg Emma
> 3. Lonely Little Girl
> 4. Dog Breath
> 5. Tears Began to Fall
> 6. Junior Mintz Boogie
> 7. The Orange County Lumber Truck
> 8. Uncle Meat
> 9. Gas Mask

LP (Bizarre [ha ha] Poop 1348) has bonus tracks apparently not on CD!

Side 1: 1. Why Don't You Do Me Right

2. Big Leg Emma
3. Lonely Little Girl
4. Dog Breath

5. My Guitar
6. Tears Began to Fall
7. Junier Mintz Boogie

Side 2: 1. Uncle Meat (One Note at a Time)
2. Son of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
3. In the Sky [composer?]
4. The Big Medley [LMTWTB/HYAB/Oh No/OCLT/King Kong]

Side one is from legitimately released singles. Side two is from Royal
Festival Hall, London, 1968.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Frank Zappa & Hot Rats at the Olympics
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Musicians (Hot Rats line-up): Frank Zappa, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar,

> Don "Sugar Cane" Harris and Max Benett

^^^^^^
Bennett

> 3. Directly From My Heart to You [?] (5:50)

Written and originally recorded by R. W. Penniman, better known as Little
Richard.

> Twinkle Tits is listed as the world premiere of "Little House I Used to
> Live in". This has upset many people who don't agree at all. But
> apparently Zappa announced it that way, and the pieces do share a few
> traits.

I think Biffyshrew settled this. It's the world premiere of "Twinkle
Tits", which shares some of the sections of "Little House I Used to Live
In", which had been performed previously.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: 200 Motels Live with Zubin Mehta & the LA Philharmonic
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Jeff Simmons, Aynsley Dunbar, Billy

> Mundi, Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Motorhead Sherwood, Zubin Mehta and the
> Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (and maybe the Top Score Singers?)

Ray Collins is only briefly audible. There sure ain't no Top Score Singers.

> The exact track listing is unknown. It includes:
>
> - A Pound for a Brown
> - Holiday in Berlin
> - The Duke of Prunes
> - Who Needs the Peace Corps
> - The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
> - Oh No
> - Bits and pieces of the "200 Motels" score

The exact track listing is:

1. 200 Motels

The above-mentioned songs are all incorporated into a single long work.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Freaks & Motherfu*#@%!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 2. Wino Man - with Dr. John Routine ["Wonderful Wino"] (07:44)

[Zappa/Simmons]

> 4. Pallidan Routine (01:14)

Correct spelling is Paladin.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Tengo 'na Minchia Tanta (LP/CD)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Fillmore East 5/6-Jun-1971

Wrong. It features George Duke and Jeff Simmons and not Jim Pons. Plus
half of it is the same as Freaks & Motherfu*#@%! Both albums are
reportedly from 11/14/70.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Poot-Face Boogie
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Zappa in Europe
> - TITLE: Live in Amsterdam
> - TITLE: Zappa (acetate LP) [?]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - The Ahoy, Rotterdam, 27-Nov-1971

> Live musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jim Pons, George

> Duke, Aynsley Dunbar, Don Preston and Ian Underwood (some sources do not
> credit Preston; some sources also credit Jeff Simmons instead of Pons)

Jim Pons is definitely singing on "Sofa", which jibes with the 1971 date.
George Duke and Jeff Simmons were not in the band at that time; Don
Preston was.

> (In his book The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, Ben Watson calls
> Poot-Face Boogie "an illegal issue of such antiquity (1974) that its cover
> consisted of inserts in the shrink wrap. It was bought under the
> impression that it was official." :)

Yes, back then the covers of official FZ releases consisted of inserts in
the shrink wrap.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> - TITLE: Swiss Cheese (LP/CD)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Fire!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - The Casino, Montreaux, 4-Dec-1971

> 8. Magdalena

[Kaylan/Zappa]

> 12. Wonderful Wino

[Zappa/Simmons]

--Charles

Charles Ulrich

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

In article <zappa-faq-bootl...@wins.uva.nl>, someone other

than cmf...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cory Ferber) wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Grand Wazoo Comic Book Extravaganza (2 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Felt Forum, New York, 23-Sep-1972

> The first 5 tracks are sometimes

> listed simply as "Introducion", "Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo)" and
> "Approximate". The same sources say this is not the Petit Wazoo but the
> Grand Wazoo band.

"Think It Over" is the vocal version of "The Grand Wazoo". "The Grand
Wazoo" is the same tune without the lyrics. The words to "Think It Over"
can be found in Them Or Us (The Book).

The Grand Wazoo played the Felt Forum concert. The Petit Wazoo played from
October through December.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Zut Alors
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Arlington, Texas, 11-Mar-1973
> - Various

> 'Black Napkins' features the Mike Douglas band." This version of "Black

> Napkins is also on Apocrypha. Whether or not it features Zappa is not
> known.

It features Frank Zappa.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: The Rondo Hatton Band
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - The Pasaic, New Jersey, 18-Nov-1974
> - Horden Pavillion, Sydney, 8-Jul-1973
> - Unknown live
> - Studio

> 10. MAR-JUH-RENE

> Track 10 must be Zappa improvising around the letters
> M-A-R-J-U-H-R-E-N-E.

See pp.223-224 of Watson's The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play for a
transcription of M-A-R-J-U-H-R-E-N-E from a performance two weeks earlier
at the same venue.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Piquantique
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Konserthuset, Stockholm, 21-Aug-1973

The liner says "Skansen", but I'll trust you, Johan, to get this straight.

"with the exception of T'Mershi Duween, which was tweezed out in Sydney,
only 32 days before". The math is undoubtedly wrong. If they played Sydney
on June 24-26 and July 7-8, could they really have played there again on
July 20? How hard-core were the fans in Sydney, anyway?

> Good performance. Not too many bootlegs have "Kung Fu" and "Farther
> Oblivion" (a complicated concert piece bearing some resemblance to "The
> Be-Bop Tango", and often confused with the completely different "Father
> O'Blivion".).

"Farther O'Blivion" contains parts of "Be-Bop Tango", "Cucamonga", and
"Greggery Peccary".

--Charles

Charles Ulrich

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

In article <zappa-faq-bootl...@wins.uva.nl>,

cmf...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cory Ferber) didn't write:

> 5. Stinky Finger [?]
> 6. Fancy Stinky [part 1] [?]
>
> 7. Fancy Stinky [part 2] [?]

I haven't heard this bootleg, but it sounds like "Wild Love".

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: At the Circus
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 7. Wonderful Wino [listed as "Wino Man"]

[Zappa/Simmons]

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Any Way the Wind Blows (2 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 17. Another Cheap Aroma (02:38)

Sounds like "For the Young Sophisticate".

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Easy Meat
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 10. Dear Heart [?]

Sounds like "For the Young Sophisticate" again.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Fred Zappelin (2 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 11. You're a Dork [?]

Sounds like "Luigi & the Wise Guys", but who knows?

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard (CD)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Things Wayne Newton Never Told You

> But who was Wayne Newton?

Wayne Newton is a middle-of-the-road pop singer hugely popular in Las
Vegas. His signature song is "Danke Schoen".

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Heavenly Bank Account (2 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 2. No No Cherry

[L. Ceasar & J. Gray]

> 3. The Man from Utopia

[Donald and Doris Woods]

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Toxic Shock Trilogy (3 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 20. This is my Story

Can anyone provide info on who wrote this and who did the original recording?

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Volare
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 1. Volare

How about this one?

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Zapped Again! (2 LP)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 17. The Closer You Are / Johnny Darling / No No Cherry

[Earl Lewis & Morgan Robinson/Louis Statton & Johnny Statton/L. Ceasar &
J. Gray]

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Show & Tell
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 2. Cucamonga [?!]

> As Jeepers said: "Cucamonga"? This is highly dubious since 1) "Cucamonga"
> was maybe never played live, 2) "Cucamonga" was CERTAINLY not played live
> in Stockholm 1973, and 3) Cucamonga was written for Bongo Fury.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong.

The words to "Cucamonga" may have been written for Bongo Fury, but the
tune was part of "Farther O'Blivion", which was played in Stockholm in
1973 (available on Piquantique). Of course, it still may or may not be on
this particular boot.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Frankie Boy
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 5. Stranded in the Jungle

Who wrote and recorded this? I've read and forgotten.

> 7. Nite Owl

I've forgotten who did this one too.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Lectures
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 5. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou

[Donald and Doris Woods/Obie Jesse]

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - TITLE: Chalk Pie
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> 4. The Purle Lagoon
^^^^^
Purple.

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TITLE: Serious Music (LP/CD)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Track 1, the ballet "Sinister Footwear" was recorded at the "A Zappa

> Affair" concert at the Zellerbach Auditorium at the UCLA. It was played by
> the Berkely Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano. This is the only
> time Sinister Footwear has been performed in its entirety (large part are
> in-CRED-i-bly difficult) and Zappa was most unhappy with the results. The
> ballet consisted of marionettes since Zappa's coreographical demands were

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
choreographic

> equally outrageous (with the difference that orchestral players, as
> opposed to ballet dancers, don't injure themselves and/or their collegues
> when they make mistakes). (The second movement has been played by rock
> bands and other ensembles, and a theme from the third movement has been
> released, but it may be listed here as in 21 parts. Contradiction yet not
> resolved.)

Serious Music does in fact list 21 parts (I can provide them if you want).
I believe these were printed in the program for the concert itself. It
comes out to seven parts per movement, on the average. The LP isn't
banded, so I can't tell you the exact correlation between parts and
movements.

--Charles

Peter de B. Harrington

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

Charles Ulrich wrote:
>
> In article <zappa-faq-bootl...@wins.uva.nl>,
> cmf...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cory Ferber) didn't write:
>
> > 5. Stinky Finger [?]
> > 6. Fancy Stinky [part 1] [?]
> >
> > 7. Fancy Stinky [part 2] [?]
>
> I haven't heard this bootleg, but it sounds like "Wild Love".
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: At the Circus
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 7. Wonderful Wino [listed as "Wino Man"]
>
> [Zappa/Simmons]
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Any Way the Wind Blows (2 LP)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 17. Another Cheap Aroma (02:38)
>
> Sounds like "For the Young Sophisticate".

It is

>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Easy Meat
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 10. Dear Heart [?]
>
> Sounds like "For the Young Sophisticate" again.

Yep, confirmed

>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Fred Zappelin (2 LP)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 11. You're a Dork [?]
>
> Sounds like "Luigi & the Wise Guys", but who knows?

Same here, Luigi

>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Songs Einstein Jr. Never Heard (CD)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Things Wayne Newton Never Told You
>
> > But who was Wayne Newton?
>
> Wayne Newton is a middle-of-the-road pop singer hugely popular in Las
> Vegas. His signature song is "Danke Schoen".
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Heavenly Bank Account (2 LP)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 2. No No Cherry
>
> [L. Ceasar & J. Gray]
>
> > 3. The Man from Utopia
>
> [Donald and Doris Woods]
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Toxic Shock Trilogy (3 LP)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 20. This is my Story
>
> Can anyone provide info on who wrote this and who did the original recording?

Gene and Eunice on the Addladin Label. At least that is what Zappa sez:

>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Volare
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 1. Volare
>

> How about this one?The Volare Guy.

>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - TITLE: Zapped Again! (2 LP)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > 17. The Closer You Are / Johnny Darling / No No Cherry
>
> [Earl Lewis & Morgan Robinson/Louis Statton & Johnny Statton/L. Ceasar &
> J. Gray]

snip

> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > TITLE: Serious Music (LP/CD)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Track 1, the ballet "Sinister Footwear" was recorded at the "A Zappa
> > Affair" concert at the Zellerbach Auditorium at the UCLA. It was played by
> > the Berkely Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano. This is the only
> > time Sinister Footwear has been performed in its entirety (large part are
> > in-CRED-i-bly difficult) and Zappa was most unhappy with the results. The
> > ballet consisted of marionettes since Zappa's coreographical demands were
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> choreographic
>
> > equally outrageous (with the difference that orchestral players, as
> > opposed to ballet dancers, don't injure themselves and/or their collegues
> > when they make mistakes). (The second movement has been played by rock
> > bands and other ensembles, and a theme from the third movement has been
> > released, but it may be listed here as in 21 parts. Contradiction yet not
> > resolved.)
>
> Serious Music does in fact list 21 parts (I can provide them if you want).
> I believe these were printed in the program for the concert itself. It
> comes out to seven parts per movement, on the average. The LP isn't
> banded, so I can't tell you the exact correlation between parts and
> movements.
>
> --Charles

In the radio broadcast, the DJs give fairly detailed descriptions of
the music, which MIGHT include the relationship between the
parts and movements. Can't remember fer sure, but if anyone is interested
in knowing which parts goes to which movements, I can look into it.

Pete

Peter de B. Harrington

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

Peter de B. Harrington wrote:

snip

> >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > - TITLE: Volare
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > 1. Volare
> >
> > How about this one?The Volare Guy.

> Pete

Found this at the URL below after screening out Plymouth Volare and Volare for Windoze.

http://italia.hum.utah.edu/gruppo/mau/canzoniere/canz2b.cho

I think subtitle refers to the author, but Mama Mia I don't speak Italiano!

Pete

{title: Volare}
{subtitle: Domenico Modugno}
{pack_song}

[Do]Penso che un sogno co[Midim]s“ non ritorni mai [Rem7]piť,[Sol7]
[Rem7]mi dipingevo le [Sol7]mani e la faccia di [Do6]blu.
[Fa#dim]Poi d'improvviso venivo dal [Ladim]vento ra[Rem7]pito,
[Re7]e incominciavo a vo[Lam7]lare nel [Re7]cielo infi[Rem7]nito.[Sol7]

{soc}
\[Midim]Vo[Rem]lare, [La7] oh [Rem] oh,
[Sol]can[Do]tare, [Mim7]oh oh oh [Lam]oh.[Do7]
Nel [Fa]blu di[Sol7]pinto di [Do]blu,[Lam]
fe[Fa]lice di [Sol7]stare las[Do]sť.
{eoc}

E vo[Lam]lavo volavo felice
piť in alto del [Mim]sole ed ancora piť su
mentre il [Mi7]mondo pian piano spariva
lontano lag[Lam]giť.
Una [Fam]musica dolce suonava sol[Sib]tanto per [Mib]me.[Sol7]

{soc}
Volare, oh oh
cantare, oh oh oh oh.
Nel blu dipinto di blu
felice di stare lassť.
{eoc}

Ma tutti i sogni nell'alba svaniscon perchŽ
quando tramonta la luna li porta con sŽ.
Ma io continuo a sognare negli occhi tuoi belli
che sono blu come un cielo trapunto di stelle...

{soc}
Volare, oh oh
cantare, oh oh oh oh.
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
felice di stare quaggiť.
{eoc}

E continuo a volare felice
piť in alto del sole ed ancora piť su
mentre il mondo pian piano scompare
negli occhi tuoi blu
La tua voce Ź una musica dolce che suona per me...

{soc}
Volare, oh oh
cantare, oh oh oh oh.
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
felice di stare quaggiť.
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
felice di stare quaggiť.
{eoc}

Paul Hinrichs

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

"Peter de B. Harrington" <har...@helios.phy.ohiou.edu> spoke thusly:

>Peter de B. Harrington wrote:

>snip

>> >

>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > - TITLE: Volare
>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > > 1. Volare
>> >
>> > How about this one?The Volare Guy.

>> Pete

>Found this at the URL below after screening out Plymouth Volare and Volare for Windoze.

>http://italia.hum.utah.edu/gruppo/mau/canzoniere/canz2b.cho

>I think subtitle refers to the author, but Mama Mia I don't speak Italiano!

>Pete

>{title: Volare}
>{subtitle: Domenico Modugno}
>{pack_song}

<volare, oh oh, snippare, hey joe>

I believe he is the guy who wrote and recorded the original. There was
also an English version sung by Bobby Rydell later on in the 50s that
made the top 20.

Jon Naurin

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96

Charles Ulrich writes:

>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> - TITLE: Piquantique
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> - Konserthuset, Stockholm, 21-Aug-1973

>The liner says "Skansen", but I'll trust you, Johan, to get this straight.

No, Skansen (an amusement park in Stockholm) is the right venue.

- Jon

Fred Boak

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Aug 5, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/5/96

Peter de B. Harrington (har...@helios.phy.ohiou.edu) wrote:

: Charles Ulrich wrote:
: >
: > In article <zappa-faq-bootl...@wins.uva.nl>,
: > cmf...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Cory Ferber) didn't write:
: >
: > > 5. Stinky Finger [?]
: > > 6. Fancy Stinky [part 1] [?]
: > >
: > > 7. Fancy Stinky [part 2] [?]
: >
: > I haven't heard this bootleg, but it sounds like "Wild Love".

Yup ... "Fancy Stinky" is the cool middle/end solo section

[snip]
: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------

: > > - TITLE: Fred Zappelin (2 LP)
: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: >
: > > 11. You're a Dork [?]
: >
: > Sounds like "Luigi & the Wise Guys", but who knows?

: Same here, Luigi

It's a meltdown version of "luigi & the wise guys" ... well ...
i don't remember if he says "luigi", but the rest of the words
(you are a dork ... you are a double dork ... butt rash!)
are there.

: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------

: > > - TITLE: Toxic Shock Trilogy (3 LP)
: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: >
: > > 20. This is my Story
: >
: > Can anyone provide info on who wrote this and who did the original recording?

: Gene and Eunice on the Addladin Label. At least that is what Zappa sez:

Yup ... to be found on the 2-CD set Aladdin: The Aladdin Records Story,
1994, EMI Records, E2-30882.

- Fred.

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