1. 00:00 - 13:12 Toads of the Short Forest / I'm Not Satisfied / Wedding Dress Song [traditional] / Handsome Cabin Boy [traditional] / Jam / Funicula Funicula [traditional] 2. 13:12 - 11:46 Have Gun, Will Travel [?] / Call Any Vegetable 3. 24:58 - 04:45 Guitar Event 4. 29:43 - 13:00 Be-Bop & Tango Dance Contest / Tango Variations 5. 42:43 - 11:24 Penguin in Bondage / Dog Breath Variations 6. 54:07 - 18:40 Pygmy Twylyte [instrumental] / Dupree's Paradise [listed as "The Tango / Dupree's Paradise Lounge"] Various live 1966, 1970 and 1973 (from the so-called "Un-Concert") 1966 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Elliot Ingber, Roy Estrada and Jimmy Carl Black 1970 musicians: Frank Zappa, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Jeff Simmons, Ansley Dunbar, Ian Underwood and George Duke 1973 musicians: Frank Zappa, Ruth Underwood, George Duke, Bruce Fowler, Tom Fowler, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson Napoleon Murphy Brock and special guest Irma Coffee -Track 1 is live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 24/25-Jun-1966. -Track 2 is live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, 06-Nov-1970. -Track 3 is live in Boston, 08-May-1973. -Track 4 (maybe not all of it) is live in Waterloo, Canada, 18-Nov-1973. -Track 5 is live in Los Angeles, or at the Roxy (of Roxy & Elsewhere fame) in December 1973 it's the same arrangement (but not the same version) as that on Stage #2. "Pygmy Twylyte" is live at the William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, Nov. 1973 "Dupree's Paradise" is live in New York 22-Nov-1973. -Track 2 also appears on Incognito. Tracks 3-6 also appear on the Around the World boot. -Track 4 also appears on Canada 1973. -Track 1 is mono. Zappa sings lead, Ray Collins sings back-up. It's a nice unprocessed recording of Zappa's original (pre-larynx injury) voice. (Maybe this could be the June 1966 Fillmore tape, also circulated as "May 1966", with "Toads of the Short Forest", "I'm Not Satisfied" and "The Handsome Cabin Boy".) -"Have Gun, Will Travel" is a "comedy" routine featuring "Paldin and Hayboy, a Chinese manservant". ("Have Gun, Will Travel" was a real western show on American TV.) "Call Any Vegetable" has a long guitar solo. It's a stereo recording, probably soundboard. -Track 4 has been described as "Board mono of a great 'Be-Bop Tango' dance contest, with intro solo by Bruce Fowler on Trombone, and delicate little solos by Ian Underwood on clarinet and Jeal-Luc Ponty on violin in the background, and Ruth Underwood on percussion". -Track 6 is listed as "The Tango / Dupree's Paradise Lounge", but it's an instrumental "Pygmy Twylyte", a long drug-pusher routine with Napoleon Murphy Brock and a woman, whom he starts out addressing as "Ruth" but turns out to be Irma Coffee. Zappa also tells a story about 'Dupree's Paradise Lounge on Avalon Boulevard in Watts'." From Patrick Neve: I can confirm that the first track of this boot does include "Toads of the Short Forest", which would corroborate your theory that it was from the '66 tape you list. I have not heard the tape in question so I cannot confirm that 100%, but it looks more than likely. It also includes bits of BOTH "Weeding Dress Song" and "Handsome Cabin Boy", with some nice harmonica playing the melody. I have no idea who plays the harmonica. After that, and I'm still talking about track one here, is a a tune that I am positive is Disney in origin. I did some web searching and I came up empty handed. I'm thinking it might be from Pinocchio, but I just can't recall. I only remember bits of the lyrics ... Blah blah blah blah SWEET POTATO PIE PANCAKES PILED UP TILL THEY REACH THE SKY Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah WE'LL EAT AND EAT AND EAT AND EAT AND EAT UNTIL WE DIE The song is "Beanero" by Oliver Wallace, from the MICKEY & THE BEANSTOCK / MICKEY & THE BEANSTALK movie - an oldie from 1947. (Donald Duck and Goofy are singing about what they're going to eat when Mickey Mouse comes back with money after selling their cow. (Mickey, of course, comes back with "magic beans" instead.)) The song is based on a traditional Italian folk song: Although "Beanero" is most definitely based on "Funiculi Funicula", I'm not convinced 100% that Frank's guitar solo was based on either of those. Being of Sicilian descent and all, I would like to think that he was quoting a traditional Italian folk song rather than Mickey Mouse, but on the other hand, it's only a few notes in common, so it may have been coincidence. The inside cover has a picture of Zappa and the GTO girls. Disney informants: M Yasko, A Bredlau, an Olson family, and Craig Wingerson at the Walt Disney World Song Archive. "Funiculi Funicula" informants: Charles Ulrich & Patrick Neve

• published: 19 Dec 2013
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