tracks

Are You Hung Up?
Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Concentration Moon
Mom & Dad
Bow Tie Daddy
Harry, You're A Beast
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
Absolutely Free
Flower Punk
Hot Poop
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
The Idiot Bastard Son
Lonely Little Girl
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise)
Mother People
The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

notes

This whole monstrosity was conceived & executed by Frank Zappa as a result of some unpleasant premonitions, August through October 1967.
Basic sessions at Mayfair Studios. Recorded & re-mixed at Apostolic Studios.

© 1968 p mmxvi Zappa Records. Mastered 2016
© 1968 ℗ mmxvi Zappa Family Trust
Made in the EU.
Source: 1993 1630 Digital Master
This is Official Release #4

Issued in a gatefold cover with the "Sgt. Pepper" parody on the outside, as originally intended, and an insert

There's also a US release with the same catalog number In a text balloon inside Frank Zappa Says : "Is This Phase One Of Lumpy Gravy?" making a reference to the album Lumpy Gravy.
This gatefold album's artwork parodies the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper LP.

credits

Artwork [Plaster Figures & All Other Artwork] – Cal Schenkel
Conductor [Orchestral Segments] – Sid Sharpe,
Design [Fashions] – Tiger Morse
Design Concept [Packaging] – Nifty, Tough & Bitchen Youth Market Consultants
Drums, Trumpet, Vocals, Other [Indian Of The Group] – Jimmy Carl Black
Drums, Vocals, Other [Yak & Black Lace Underwear] – Billy Mundi
Electric Bass, Vocals, Other [Asthma] – Roy Estrada
Engineer [For Two Months Of Basic Sessions], Performer [Creepy Whispering] – Gary Kellgren
Engineer [Record & Re-mix For The Final Month Of Recording] – Dick Kunc
Executive-Producer – Tom Wilson (2)
Guitar, Piano, Lead Vocals, Other [Weirdness], Edited By [Editing] – Frank Zappa
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Performer [Has Graciously Concented To Speak To You In Several Critical Areas] – Eric Clapton
Performer [Is The One Who Wants You To Turn Your Radio Around] – Spider,
Performer [Retired] – Don Preston
Performer [Snorks] – Dick Barber
Performer [Telephone] – Suzy Creamcheese
Photography By – Jerrold Schatzberg,
Piano, Woodwind, Other [Wholesome] – Ian Underwood
Producer, Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor – Frank Zappa
Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Other [Visible On Back Cover, Road Manager, All Purpose Weirdness & Teen Appeal] – Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood,
Supervised By [Orchestral Segments] – Frank Zappa
Woodwind [All Woodwinds], Other [Mumbled Weirdness] – Bunk Gardner
Arranged By, Composed By, Conductor – Frank Zappa
Artwork [Plaster Figures And All Other Artwork] – Cal Schenkel
Bass, Vocals, Other [Asthma] – Roy Estrada
Drums, Trumpet, Vocals, Other [Indian Of The Group] – Jimmy Carl Black
Drums, Vocals, Other [Yak & Black Lace Underwear] – Billy Mundi
Executive-Producer – Tom Wilson (2)
Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Edited By, Other [Weirdness] – Frank Zappa
Other [Retired] – Don Preston
Photography By – Jerrold Schatzberg,
Piano, Woodwind, Other [Wholesome] – Ian Underwood
Producer – Frank Zappa
Saxophone, Other [Weirdness & Teen Appeal] – Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood,
Sounds [Snorks] – Dick Barber
Voice [Cheerful Interruptions] – Dick Kunc
Voice [Creepy Whispering] – Gary Kellgren
Voice [Has Graciously Consented To Speak To You In Several Critical Area] – Eric Clapton
Voice [Telephone] – Suzy Creamcheese
Voice [Wants You To Turn Your Radio Around] – Spider,
Woodwind, Voice [Mumbled Weirdness] – Bunk Gardner

companies

Record Company – UMG Recordings, Inc.
Record Company – Universal International Music B.V.
Licensed To – Universal Music Enterprises
Manufactured By – Pallas USA
Produced For – Bizarre Productions
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Zappa Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Zappa Family Trust
Copyright (c) – Zappa Records
Copyright (c) – Zappa Family Trust
Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 39700
Recorded At – Apostolic Studios
Engineered At – Mayfair Recording Studios
Mixed At – Apostolic Studios
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Pressed By – Pallas – 39700
Manufactured By – Pallas USA

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