Sheik Yerbouti

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	Sheik Yerbouti

chronology
Sheik Yerbouti
Live album by Frank Zappa
Publication ; (s)	March 3, 1979
Label (s)	Zappa Records ; CBS ; EMI ; Rykodisc
Format (s)	LP vinyl , CD
Genre (s)	Rock , progressive rock , pop
Title (number)	18th
running time	70:22
occupation	Frank Zappa - lead guitar , vocals ; Adrian Belew - rhythm guitar , vocals; Tommy Mars - keyboard , vocals; Peter Wolf - keyboard , bat ( butter ); Patrick O'Hearn - bass , vocals; Terry Bozzio - drums , vocals; Ed Mann - percussion , vocals; David Ocker - clarinets on Wild Love ; Napoleon Murphy Brock - Background ; André Lewis - Background; Randy Thornton - Background; Davey Moire - Background;
production	Frank Zappa
Studio (s)	TTG , Los Angeles ; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles ; Whitney Studios, Glendale

Sheik Yerbouti (Sheikh Yerbouti, corruption of Shake Your Booty ( Shake your ass )) is an album by Frank Zappa . It was released on March 3, 1979 and reachednumber 21on the Billboard 200 charts. Individual pieces on the album also reached positions in the singles charts, andin 1995 Bobby Brown made the top ten charts again in Scandinavia. With over two million sales, this album is Zappa's most successful.

The album is based on pieces recorded live that have been reworked in the studio and provided with additional or alternative overdubs . In the piece Rubber Shirt , music journalist Barry Miles sees Zappa's first attempt to consciously use a technique that he later referred to as xenochrony : he played two audio tracks together that were recorded completely independently of one another.

Track list

No.	title	Duration CD
01.	0I have been in you	003:34
02.	0Flakes	006:41
03.	0Broken Hearts Are for Assholes	003:42
04th	0I'm so cute	003:09
05.	0Jones Crusher	002:49
06th	0What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World0	000:33
07th	0Council Tomago	005:17
08th.	0Wait a minute	000:31
09.	0Bobby Brown (Goes Down)	002:49
10.	0Rubber Shirt 0(FZ / Bozzio / O'Hearn)	000:43
11.	0The Sheik Yerbouti Tango	003:58
12.	0Baby snakes	001:50
13.	0Tryin 'to Grow a Chin	003:32
14th	0City of Tiny Lites	005:31
15th	0Dancin 'fool	003:43
16.	0Jewish Princess	003:16
17th	0Wild love	004:09
18th	0Yo 'mom	012:35

reception

Sheik Yerbouti reached number 21 on the Billboard charts and is one of Zappa's best-selling albums. David Fricke in Rolling Stone Magazine rated the instrumentation as "refreshingly straightforward" and attributed this to the fact that Zappa was reluctant to borrow from doo-wop or musique concrète .

literature

David Fricke: Album Reviews. Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti . In: Rolling Stone magazine . May 3, 1979 ( rollingstone.com [accessed June 13, 2011]).
Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 5, Section Sheik Yerbouti , p. 140-147 .
Wolfgang Ludwig: Investigations into the musical work of Frank Zappa - a music-sociological and analytical study to determine a musical style (= European university publications, series XXXVI, musicology . Volume 88 ). Verlag Peter Lang, 1991, ISBN 3-631-45128-8 .
Neill Slaven: Electric Don Quixote . Bothworth Music, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86543-042-2 , pp. 295-300 .
Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books, London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , Chapter 8, pp. 349-363 .
Frank Wonneberg : Grand Zappa - International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4 , 26 Sheik Yerbouti, p. 108-111 .

Web links

Sheik Yerbouti in the official discography on zappa.com. Retrieved June 13, 2011 .
Frank Zappa. Texts and background information on Sheik Yerbouti on globalia.net. Retrieved June 13, 2011 .
Sheik Yerbouti at Allmusic (English)
Reviews of Sheik Yerbouti on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

↑ The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. Sheik Yerbouti . Retrieved June 13, 2011 .
↑ Sheik Yerbouti in the official discography on zappa.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved June 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 315-321 .
↑ Charts US
^ David Fricke: Album Reviews. Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti . In: Rolling Stone magazine . May 3, 1979 ( rollingstone.com [accessed June 13, 2011]).

[lukpac-sy-1] The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. Sheik Yerbouti . Retrieved June 13, 2011 .

[zappa-sy-2] Sheik Yerbouti in the official discography on zappa.com. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved June 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[miles-2005-315-3] Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 315-321 .

[4] Charts US

[fricke-1979-5] David Fricke: Album Reviews. Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti . In: Rolling Stone magazine . May 3, 1979 ( rollingstone.com [accessed June 13, 2011]).