Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka ( 1972 )

Track listing

All songs written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Big Swifty"	17:22

Side two
No.	Title	Length
2.	"Your Mouth"	3:12
3.	"It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal"	4:16
4.	"Waka/Jawaka"	11:18

Personnel

Musicians on the album

• Frank Zappa – guitar (all tracks, including acoustic guitar on track 3), percussion (1), electric bed springs (3), uncredited vocals (3)
• Sal Marquez – trumpets (all tracks), vocals (2, 3, 4), chimes (1, 4), flugelhorn (4)
• Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – electric bass (all tracks), vocals (3), fuzz bass (4)
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums (all tracks), washboard (3), tambourine (3)
• Tony Duran – slide guitar (1, 2, 3), vocals (3)
• George Duke – ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano (1), tack piano (2)
• Mike Altschul – baritone saxophone (2, 4), piccolo (2, 4), bass flute (4), bass clarinet (4), tenor sax (4)
• Kris Peterson – vocals (2, 4) 
• Joel Peskin – tenor sax (2)
• Jeff Simmons – Hawaiian guitar (3), vocals (3)
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow – pedal steel guitar solo (3)
• Janet Ferguson – vocals (3)
• Don Preston – piano (4), Minimoog (4)
• Billy Byers – trombone (4), baritone horn (4)
• Ken Shroyer – trombone (4), baritone horn (4)

Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge ( 1970 )

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Zappa.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Transylvania Boogie"	5:01
2.	"Road Ladies"	4:10
3.	"Twenty Small Cigars"	2:17
4.	"The Nancy & Mary Music"	9:27

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Tell Me You Love Me"	2:33
6.	"Would You Go All the Way?"	2:29
7.	"Chunga's Revenge"	6:15
8.	"The Clap"	1:23
9.	"Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink"	2:44
10.	"Sharleena"	4:04

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar (except 8), vocals (2, 6, 9, 10), harpsichord (3), Condor (5), drums and percussions (8)
• Ian Underwood – organ (1), rhythm guitar (2, 5), piano (3), electric piano (4, 6, 9), alto saxophone (4), pipe organ (5), electric alto saxophone with wah-wah pedal (7), tenor saxophone (10), grand piano (10)
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums (except 3, 8), tambourine (9)
• John Guerin – drums (3)
• Max Bennett – bass (1, 3, 7)
• Jeff Simmons – bass (2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10), vocals (2, 4, 9, 10)
• George Duke – organ (2, 10), electric piano (4, 5), vocal sound effects (4), trombone (6, 9)
• Howard Kaylan – vocals (2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10)
• Mark Volman – vocals (2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10), rhythm guitar (9)
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – organ (7)

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels ( 1971 )

Tracklist

Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
Mystery Roach
Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue)
Tuna Fish Promenade
Dance Of The Just Plain Folks
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise)
The Sealed Tuna Bolero
Lonesome Cowboy Burt
Touring Can Make You Crazy
Would You Like A Snack?
Redneck Eats
Centerville
She Painted Up Her Face
Janet's Big Dance Number
Half A Dozen Provocative Squats
Mysterioso
Shove It Right In
Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude
I'm Stealing The Towels
Dental Hygeine Dilemma
Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Penis Dimension
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning
A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes
Magic Fingers
Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
Dew On The Newts We Got
The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts
The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth
The Girl's Dream
Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce
Strictly Genteel (The Finale)

Cast

• Frank Zappa as himself
• The Mothers of Invention as themselves
• Theodore Bikel as Rance Muhammitz, the narrator/Master of Ceremonies
• Ringo Starr as Larry the Dwarf, dressed as Frank Zappa
• Keith Moon as the hot nun
• Howard Kaylan as himself
• Mark Volman as himself
• Ian Underwood as himself
• Ruth Underwood as herself
• Don Preston as himself
• Jimmy Carl Black as Lonesome Cowboy Burt
• Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood as himself (uncredited)
• Aynsley Dunbar as himself
• George Duke as himself
• Jim Pons as himself (uncredited)
• Pamela Des Barres as the interviewer
• Martin Lickert as "Jeff"
• Janet Neville-Ferguson as Groupie #1
• Lucy Offerall as Groupie #2
• Dick Barber as Chunga - The Vacuum Cleaner
• Judy Gridley as the chorus leader
• London Philharmonic Orchestra as the bewildered orchestra

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats ( 1969 )

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Zappa.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Peaches en Regalia"	3:38
2.	"Willie the Pimp"	9:21
3.	"Son of Mr. Green Genes"	8:58

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Little Umbrellas"	3:06
5.	"The Gumbo Variations"	12:53
6.	"It Must Be a Camel"	5:15
Total length:		43:11

Personnel

Credits are adapted from Hot Rats liner notes.

• Frank Zappa – guitar, octave bass, percussion
• Ian Underwood – piano, organus maximus, flute, all clarinets, all saxes

Also featuring

• Captain Beefheart – vocals on "Willie the Pimp"
• Max Bennett – bass on all tracks except "Peaches en Regalia"
• Shuggie Otis – bass on "Peaches en Regalia"
• John Guerin – drums on "Willie the Pimp", "Little Umbrellas" and "It Must Be a Camel"
• Paul Humphrey – drums on "Son of Mr. Green Genes" and "The Gumbo Variations"
• Ron Selico – drums on "Peaches en Regalia"
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "Willie the Pimp" and "The Gumbo Variations"
• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin on "It Must Be a Camel"
• Lowell George – rhythm guitar (uncredited)

Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy ( 1967 )

• Track listing

  All tracks written by Frank Zappa.

  1967 version
  No.	Title	Length
  1.	"Sink Trap"	2:45
  2.	"Gum Joy"	3:44
  3.	"Up and Down"	1:52
  4.	"Local Butcher"	2:36
  5.	"Gypsy Airs"	1:41
  6.	"Hunchy Punchy"	2:06
  7.	"Foamy Soaky"	2:34
  8.	"Let's Eat Out"	1:49
  9.	"Teenage Grand Finale"	3:30
  Total length:		22:37

Personnel

Musicians - Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra

Arnold Belnick – strings Harold Bemko – strings Chuck Berghofer – bass Jimmy Carl Black – chorus Jimmy Bond – bass Monica Boscia – chorus Dennis Budimir – guitar Frank Capp – drums Donald Christlieb – woodwind Gene Cipriano – woodwind Vincent DeRosa – french horn Joseph DiFiore – strings Jesse Ehrlich – strings Alan Estes – percussion, drums Gene Estes – percussion Louis "Louie the Turkey" Cuneo – chorus Roy Estrada – bass, chorus Larry Fanoga (Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood) – vocals, chorus Victor Feldman – percussion, drums Lincoln Mayorga – piano, celeste, harpsichord Ted Nash – woodwind Richard Parissi – French horn Glenn Phillips - vocals Jerome Reisler – strings Emil Richards – percussion Tony Rizzi – guitar John Rotella – percussion, woodwind Joseph Saxon – strings Ralph Schaeffer – strings Leonard Selic – strings Kenny Shroyer – trombone Paul Smith – piano, celeste, harpsichord Tommy Tedesco – guitar Al Viola – guitar Bob West – bass Tibor Zelig – strings Jimmy Zito – trumpet

Bunk Gardner – woodwind James Getzoff – strings Philip Goldberg – strings John Guerin – drums Bruce Hampton – chorus Jimmy "Senyah" Haynes – guitar Harry Hyams – strings Jules Jacob – woodwind Pete Jolly – piano, celeste, harpsichord Harold Kelling - vocals Ray Kelly – strings Jerome Kessler – strings Alexander Koltun – strings Bernard Kundell – strings William Kurasch – strings Michael Lang – piano, celeste, harpsichord Arthur Maebe – French horn Leonard Malarsky – strings Shelly Manne – drums