Sweets Ballroom ~ Jitterbugging in the 40's
The Crickets ~ That'll Be The Day @ 60
May 31, 2017
May 30, 2017
Gregg Allman ~ December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017
Gregg Allman died a couple of days ago. He and his borther, Duane Allman, formed the Southern Rock band, the Allman Brothers Band., as well as the The Hour Glass (link Below). The Allman Brothers played Southern rock with long jams.
Net links:
The Hour Glass & The Power of Love
Gregg Allman ~ official website
Duane Allman discography
Allman Brothers Band on YouTube:
Starwood Amphitheatre Concert - 07/12/86
At Fillmore East March 1971 - full album
with the Hour Glass on YouTube:
The Beatles ~ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club technical details
Fifty years ago this month, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the the Beatles was released in England.
The Beatles, three months after the release of Sgt. Pepper's, filming a musical segment for their next project, the Magical Mystery Tour film:
The Beatles, three months after the release of Sgt. Pepper's, filming a musical segment for their next project, the Magical Mystery Tour film:
the Beatles - 1967
Sgt. Pepper was recorded using four-track
equipment. Although eight-track tape recorders were available in the
US, the first units were not operational in commercial studios in London
until late 1967. As with previous Beatles albums, the Sgt. Pepper recordings made extensive use of the technique known as reduction mixing, in which one to four tracks from one recorder are mixed and dubbed down onto a master four-track machine, enabling the Abbey Road engineers to give the group a virtual multitrack studio. EMI's Studer
J37 four-track machines were well suited to reduction mixing, as the
high quality of the recordings that they produced minimised the
increased noise associated with the process.
Preferring to overdub his bass part last, McCartney tended to play
other instruments when recording a song's backing track. This approach
afforded him the extra time required to write and record melodic
basslines that complemented the song's final arrangement. When recording the orchestra for A Day in the Life,
Martin synchronised a four-track recorder playing the Beatles' backing
track to another one taping the orchestral overdub. The engineer Ken Townsend devised a method for accomplishing this by using a 50 Hz control signal between the two machines.
A key feature of Sgt. Pepper is Martin and Emerick's liberal use of signal processing to shape the sound of the recording, which included the application of dynamic range compression, reverberation and signal limiting. Relatively new modular effects units were used, such as running voices and instruments through a Leslie speaker. Several innovative production techniques feature prominently on the recordings, including direct injection, pitch control and ambiophonics. Another is automatic double tracking
(ADT), a system that uses tape recorders to create a simultaneous
doubling of a sound. Although it had long been recognised that using
multitrack tape to record doubled lead vocals produced an enhanced
sound, before ADT it had been necessary to record such vocal tracks
twice, a task that was both tedious and exacting. ADT was invented by
Townsend during the Revolver sessions in 1966 especially for the
Beatles, who disliked tracking sessions and regularly expressed a desire
for a technical solution to the problem. The process soon became a
common recording practice in popular music.
Martin playfully explained to Lennon that his voice had been "treated
with a double vibrocated sploshing flange ... It doubles your voice,
John." Lennon realised that Martin was joking, but from that point on he referred to the effect as flanging, a label that was universally adopted by the music industry. Another important effect was varispeeding. Martin cites Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as having the most variations of tape speed on Sgt. Pepper.
During the recording of Lennon's vocals, the tape speed was reduced
from 50 cycles per second to 45, which produced a higher and
thinner-sounding track when played back at the normal speed.
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, May 30, 2017
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The Beatles ~ A Day in the Life lyrics
Fifty years ago this month, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the the Beatles was released in England. My favorite song on the album is A Day in the Life.
According to John Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses of A Day in the Life was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on the 18th of December, 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earl's Court. Browne had been a friend of Lennon and Paul McCartney, and had, earlier in 1966, instigated McCartney's first experience with LSD. Lennon adapted the song's verse lyrics from a news article in the January 17th, 1967, edition of the Daily Mail, which reported the ruling on a custody action over Browne's two young children.
According to John Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses of A Day in the Life was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on the 18th of December, 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earl's Court. Browne had been a friend of Lennon and Paul McCartney, and had, earlier in 1966, instigated McCartney's first experience with LSD. Lennon adapted the song's verse lyrics from a news article in the January 17th, 1967, edition of the Daily Mail, which reported the ruling on a custody action over Browne's two young children.
Lennon wrote the song's final verse inspired by a Far & Near news brief, in the same January 17th edition of the Daily Mail
that had inspired the first two verses. Under the headline, "The holes
in our roads", the brief stated: "There are 4,000 holes in the road in
Blackburn, Lancashire, England, or one twenty-sixth of a hole per person,
according to a council survey. If Blackburn is typical, there are two
million holes in Britain's roads and 300,000 in London.
The story had been sold to the Daily Mail in Manchester by Ron Kennedy of the Star News agency in Blackburn. Kennedy had noticed a Lancashire Evening Telegraph
story about road excavations and in a telephone call to the Borough
Engineer's department had checked the annual number of holes in the
road.
Lennon had a problem with the words of the final verse, however, not
being able to think of how to connect "Now they know how many holes it
takes to" and "the Albert Hall". His friend Terry Doran suggested that the holes would "fill" the Albert Hall. The Royal Albert Hall, a symbol of Victorian-era London and a concert venue is usually associated with classical music performances.
Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London, England
On 27 August 1992 Lennon's handwritten lyrics were sold by the estate of Mal Evans in an auction at Sotheby's London for $100,000 (£56,600). The lyrics were put up for sale again in March 2006 by Bonhams in New York. Sealed bids were opened on 7 March 2006 and offers started at about $2 million. The lyric sheet was auctioned again by Sotheby's in June 2010. It was purchased by an anonymous American buyer who paid $1,200,000 (£810,000).
It is the final track of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written mainly by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney
contributing the song's middle section. The lyrics were inspired by
contemporary newspaper articles.
The song includes two orchestral glissandos that were partly improvised in the avant-garde style. As with the sustained piano chord that closes the song, the orchestral passages were added after the Beatles had recorded the main rhythm track. A grand piano in EMI Studio Two, where the closing piano chord was recorded on 22 February 1967:
The song includes two orchestral glissandos that were partly improvised in the avant-garde style. As with the sustained piano chord that closes the song, the orchestral passages were added after the Beatles had recorded the main rhythm track. A grand piano in EMI Studio Two, where the closing piano chord was recorded on 22 February 1967:
On 27 August 1992 Lennon's handwritten lyrics were sold by the estate of Mal Evans in an auction at Sotheby's London for $100,000 (£56,600). The lyrics were put up for sale again in March 2006 by Bonhams in New York. Sealed bids were opened on 7 March 2006 and offers started at about $2 million. The lyric sheet was auctioned again by Sotheby's in June 2010. It was purchased by an anonymous American buyer who paid $1,200,000 (£810,000).
The lyrics:
"A Day In The Life"
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car;
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today, oh boy;
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ah I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car;
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today, oh boy;
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
Ah I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
Styrous® ~ Tuesday, May 30, 2017
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May 27, 2017
The RCA Victor 45-EY-2 45 RPM record player
45 RPM record player
ca. 1950
RCA introduced the new 45 RPM format records and record players in 1949. This 1950 RCA Victor 45-EY-2 Phonograph was designed to stack and play up to seven 45 RPM records at a time.
The smaller diameter record produced higher fidelity and the raised edges and center prevented the groves on the records from touching each other when stacked. Lighter tone arms and tracking forces increased the life of the new "45s." By the early 1950s most record players produced would accommodate a stack of 45s on the changer with the use of a large diameter adapter that fit over the center spindle which was meant to accommodate only the smaller pencil sized hole of 78s and the newer 33 1/3 LPs.
The 45 became very popular in spite of its ability to hold only one or two songs per side. This was mostly due to its smaller size and lower cost. The new smaller vinyl records released by RCA were color-coded at first. Children's records were yellow, County and Western green, Classical red or dark blue, Rhythm & Blues orange, and Popular songs were pressed on black vinyl. The popularity of the 7-in. 45 record soured and record players that played 45's exclusively were manufactured in large numbers throughout the 1950s. Early RCA 45-rpm record players like the one pictured above are still quite common at auctions and sell for $20 to $100+ depending on model and condition.
The smaller diameter record produced higher fidelity and the raised edges and center prevented the groves on the records from touching each other when stacked. Lighter tone arms and tracking forces increased the life of the new "45s." By the early 1950s most record players produced would accommodate a stack of 45s on the changer with the use of a large diameter adapter that fit over the center spindle which was meant to accommodate only the smaller pencil sized hole of 78s and the newer 33 1/3 LPs.
The 45 became very popular in spite of its ability to hold only one or two songs per side. This was mostly due to its smaller size and lower cost. The new smaller vinyl records released by RCA were color-coded at first. Children's records were yellow, County and Western green, Classical red or dark blue, Rhythm & Blues orange, and Popular songs were pressed on black vinyl. The popularity of the 7-in. 45 record soured and record players that played 45's exclusively were manufactured in large numbers throughout the 1950s. Early RCA 45-rpm record players like the one pictured above are still quite common at auctions and sell for $20 to $100+ depending on model and condition.
Styrous® ~ Saturday, May 27, 2017
45 RPMs 13: The Crickets ~ That'll Be The Day @ 60
photo by Styrous®
60 years ago today, May 27, 1957, The Crickets and leader Buddy Holly released the smash hit, That'll Be the Day. I remember the first time I heard it. I was in high school and at a friend's party. She slapped her 45 of the song on her RCA 45 record player and it was one of the "What in the World is this?" events I've had in my life.
About that time we were dancing the Madison by Al Brown's Tunetoppers (a line dance that features a regular back-and-forth pattern interspersed with called steps), the Stroll with C. C. Rider by Chuck Willis (also a line dance) (link below), the Hand Jive with Willie and the Hand Jive by Johnny Otis (link below), and the Richmond. I couldn't find any reference to the Richmond on the Net, so it might have been a local thing. It was a dance with moves similar to the Lambada (link below) but very, VERY much slower, not nearly as erotic and without the Latin beat. I know, what is left? But at the time, during school dances I remember the teachers would break up couples who tried to do it. We only danced it at private parties.
We did hit the floor with the Latin dances: the Rumba, the Mambo (Pérez Prado, Mambo No. 5), the Cuban Cha-Cha and the Merengue. There's a great site on Teen Dances of the 1950's by Richard Powers (link below).
The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record, That'll Be the Day, released in 1957, was a number-one hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 23. The sleeve of their first album, The "Chirping" Crickets, shows the band lineup at the time: Holly on lead vocals and lead guitar, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe Mauldin on bass. The Crickets helped set the template for subsequent rock bands, such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums lineup and the talent to write most of their own material. After Holly's death in a plane creah in 1959 the band continued to tour and record with other band members into the 21st century.
About that time we were dancing the Madison by Al Brown's Tunetoppers (a line dance that features a regular back-and-forth pattern interspersed with called steps), the Stroll with C. C. Rider by Chuck Willis (also a line dance) (link below), the Hand Jive with Willie and the Hand Jive by Johnny Otis (link below), and the Richmond. I couldn't find any reference to the Richmond on the Net, so it might have been a local thing. It was a dance with moves similar to the Lambada (link below) but very, VERY much slower, not nearly as erotic and without the Latin beat. I know, what is left? But at the time, during school dances I remember the teachers would break up couples who tried to do it. We only danced it at private parties.
We did hit the floor with the Latin dances: the Rumba, the Mambo (Pérez Prado, Mambo No. 5), the Cuban Cha-Cha and the Merengue. There's a great site on Teen Dances of the 1950's by Richard Powers (link below).
The Crickets were an American rock and roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer-songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record, That'll Be the Day, released in 1957, was a number-one hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 23. The sleeve of their first album, The "Chirping" Crickets, shows the band lineup at the time: Holly on lead vocals and lead guitar, Niki Sullivan on rhythm guitar, Jerry Allison on drums, and Joe Mauldin on bass. The Crickets helped set the template for subsequent rock bands, such as the Beatles, with their guitar-bass-drums lineup and the talent to write most of their own material. After Holly's death in a plane creah in 1959 the band continued to tour and record with other band members into the 21st century.
from left, Niki Sullivan, Jerry Allison,
"That'll Be The Day" lyrics
Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry
You say you gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die
Well, you give me all your lovin' and your turtle dovin'
All your hugs and kisses and your money, too
Well, you know you love me, baby
Still you tell me, maybe
That some day, well, I'll be blue
Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry
You say you gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die
Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry
You say you gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die
Well, when Cupid shot his dart
He shot it at your heart
So if we ever part and I leave you
You say you told me, an' you told me boldly
That someday, well, I'll be blue
Well, that'll be the day when you say goodbye
Yes, that'll be the day when you make me cry
You say you gonna leave, you know it's a lie
'Cause that'll be the day when I die
Well that'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day, ooh hoo
That'll be the day
Writers: Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, and Norman Petty
photo by Styrous®
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A - That'll Be The Day, written by Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, and Norman Petty
Side 2:
B - I’m Lookin' For Someone To Love, written by Buddy Holly, and Norman Petty
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Decca Records Pressing Plant, Gloversville
Manufactured By – Brunswick Radio Corporation
Notes
Label variation: Gloversville pressing with comma used in both matrix numbers on disc labels
Etched D in circle on both sides in runout
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): (102,022)
Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): (102,021)✤
Matrix / Runout (Stamped in runout side A): M45 102022 6 Ⓓ2 C
Matrix / Runout (Stamped in runout side B): M45 102021 6 Ⓓ3 B
Net links:
Basic step of cha-cha-chá
YouTube links:
The Crickets ~ That’ll Be The Day
Al Brown's Tunetoppers ~ The Madison
Chuck Willis ~ C. C. Rider (The Stroll)
Johnny Otis ~ Willie and the Hand Jive
Kaoma - The Lambada
Pérez Prado ~ Mambo No. 5
The Crickets ~ That’ll Be The Day
Al Brown's Tunetoppers ~ The Madison
Chuck Willis ~ C. C. Rider (The Stroll)
Johnny Otis ~ Willie and the Hand Jive
Kaoma - The Lambada
Pérez Prado ~ Mambo No. 5
May 26, 2017
20,000 Vinyl LPs 89: The Mothers Of Invention ~ Absolutely Free
Fifty years ago today, on May 26, 1967, Frank Zappa and his group, The Mothers of Invention, released their second studio album, Absolutely Free.
Absolutely Free
vinyl LP gatefold album
front cover photo by Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
vinyl LP gatefold album
front cover photo by Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
photo of album by Styrous®
The front cover photograph was taken by actress, director, writer, jeweler and photographer Alice Elizabeth Skinner Ochs, the wife of folk singer Phil Ochs from 1962 to 1976. She died on November 27, 2010.
Absolutely Free
vinyl LP front cover
front cover photo by Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
vinyl LP front cover
front cover photo by Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
photo of cover by Styrous®
Absolutely Free is a mix of complex musical composition with political and social satire. Each side of the two vinyl LP album is a mini-suite. It contains musical references to The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, classical composers Gustav Holst and Igor Stravinsky, as well as Zappa himself.
Absolutely Free
vinyl LP back cover
back cover photos by
Jerry Deiter & Marshal Harmon
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
vinyl LP back cover
back cover photos by
Jerry Deiter & Marshal Harmon
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
photo of cover by Styrous®
My favorite work on the album is the almost 7 minute long, instrumental, Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin. The intro references Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from the seven-movement orchestral suite, The Planets, by Gustav Holst. It is a marvelous tour de force that races along at breakneck speed with a staccato, dissonant sax, played by Bunk Gardner, riding over the storm of music.
Absolutely Free
vinyl LP gatefold album interior
photos by
Jerry Deiter & Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
vinyl LP gatefold album interior
photos by
Jerry Deiter & Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
photo of album by Styrous®
The most famous song on the album is Brown Shoes Don't Make It, a track which has been described as a "condensed two-hour musical" and by AllMusic
as "Zappa's first real masterpiece". The song features 2 violins, 1
viola, 1 cello, 1 trumpet and 1 contra-bass clarinet. How's that for a
mix?
The music makes several stylistic shifts, covering hard rock, classical, psychedelic rock, music hall and jazz. The song lasts 7:30 and is the twelfth track on Absolutely Free. According to Zappa, the beginning background music was inspired by the song Have Your Way by Lightnin' Slim (link below).
The title for Brown Shoes was inspired by an event covered by Time magazine reporter Hugh Sidey in 1966. The reporter correctly guessed that something was amiss when the fastidiously dressed President Lyndon B. Johnson made the sartorial faux pas of wearing brown shoes with a gray suit.
The lyrics start off as a general attack on suburban American society: TV, greed and conformity are all mocked openly in the song. It then shifts in tone, dealing with a city hall official fantasizing about having sex with a thirteen-year-old girl. 
Absolutely Free
vinyl LP gatefold album interior
photos by
Jerry Deiter & Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
vinyl LP gatefold album interior
photos by
Jerry Deiter & Alice Ochs
cover design by
Ferenc Dobronyi & Cal Schenkel
photo of album by Styrous®
The band had been augmented since Freak Out! by the addition of woodwinds player Bunk Gardner, keyboardist Don Preston, rhythm guitarist Jim Fielder and drummer Billy Mundi. Fielder quit the group before the album was released and his name was removed from the album credits.
Frank Vincent Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 21, 1940. He was an American musician,
activist and filmmaker. His work was characterized by nonconformity,
free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and
satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention
and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and
music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the
most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his
generation.
Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed
"Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters
reappearing across his albums.[2] His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic
views of established social and political processes, structures and
movements, often humorously so. He was a strident critic of mainstream
education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education,
political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many
other rock musicians of his era, he personally disapproved of and seldom
used drugs, but supported their decriminalization and regulation.
While performing at Casino de Montreux
in Switzerland, the Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set
off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino. The event was immortalized in the Deep Purple song, Smoke on the Water.
His honors include an induction into the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Zappa died on December 4, 1993 at his home with his wife and children by
his side. At a private ceremony the following day, his body was buried
in a grave at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, in Los Angeles, California. The grave is unmarked.
On December 6, his family publicly announced that "Composer Frank Zappa
left for his final tour just before 6:00 pm on Saturday".
Tracklist:
Side one: "Absolutely Free" (#1 in a Series of Underground Oratorios)
A1 Plastic People 3:40
A2 The Duke Of Prunes 2:12
A3 Amnesia Vivace 1:01
A4 The Duke Regains His Chops 1:45
A5 Call Any Vegetable 2:19
A6 Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin 6:57
A7 Soft-Sell Conclusion & Ending Of Side #1 1:40
Side two: "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (#2 in a Series of Underground Oratorios)
B1 America Drinks 1:52
B2 Status Back Baby 2:52
B3 Uncle Bernie's Farm 2:09
B4 Son Of Suzy Creamcheese 1:33
B5 Brown Shoes Don't Make It 7:26
B6 America Drinks & Goes Home 2:43
Personnel:
The Mothers of Invention- Frank Zappa – guitar, conductor, vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black – drums, vocals
- Ray Collins – vocals, tambourine, PRUNE
- Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
- Billy Mundi – drums, percussion
- Don Preston – keyboards
- Jim Fielder – guitar, piano
- Bunk Gardner – woodwinds
- Suzy Creamcheese (Lisa Cohen) – vocals on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- John Balkin – bass on "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin" and "America Drinks"
- Jim Getzoff – violin on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- Marshall Sosson – violin on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- Alvin Dinkin – viola on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- Armand Kaproff – cello on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- Don Ellis – trumpet on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- John Rotella – contrabass clarinet on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"
- Herb Cohen – cash register machine sounds on "America Drinks & Goes Home"
- Terry Gilliam, girlfriend and others – voices in "America Drinks & Goes Home"
Credits:
Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Performer – Frank Zappa
Producer - Tom Wilson
Mastering - Doug Sax
Engineer [Director Of Engineering] – Val Valentin
Engineer [Remix] – David Greene
Engineer, Recorded By – Ami Hadani
Layout, Artwork By [Cover Art, Collages], Liner Notes – Zappa*
Performers – Billy Mundi, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim Black*, Jim Sherwood*, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada
Performer [Uncredited] – Jim Fielder
Photography By [Front] – Alice Ochs
Photography By [Other] – Jerry Deiter, Marshal Harmon
Notes:
Gatefold sleeve, top-opening on back, sealed with a small flap. Titles on spine.
Both sides with tracks normally banded.
Cat.no. on label is V6/5013, on front cover it is V/V6-5013.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Run-out info [hand-etched] side A): V6-5013 SIDE 1 M𝒢S672
Matrix / Runout (Run-out info [hand-etched] side B): V6-5013 SIDE 2 M𝒢S673
Matrix / Runout ((Variant) Run-out info [hand-etched] side A): V6-5013 SIDE 1 M𝒢S-672
Matrix / Runout ((Variant) Run-out info [hand-etched] side B): V6-5013 SIDE 2 M𝒢S-673
The Mothers Of Invention* – Absolutely Free
Label: Verve Records – V6/5013, Verve Records – V/V6-5013
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
Country: US
Released: 26 May 1967
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde
Net links:
Songs on YouTube:
Absolutely Free (Full Stereo Album)
Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Lightnin' Slim ~ Have Your Way
Styrous® ~ Friday, May 26, 2017
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