Bongo Fury

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Bongo Fury
Studio album by Frank Zappa , Mothers , Captain Beefheart

Publication
(s)

2nd October 1975

Label (s) DiscReet Records

Format (s)

LP vinyl , CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

9

running time

38:55

production

Frank Zappa

Studio (s)

live

chronology
One Size Fits All
(1975) 		Bongo Fury Zoot Allures
(1976)

Bongo Fury is a music album with mostly live pieces by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart , which was released in 1975. The live performances were recorded on May 20 and 21, 1975 at Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas . The studio tracks were recorded in January 1975 during the sessions for the Zappa albums One Size Fits All and Studio Tan .

Bongo Fury was the last album that Zappa recorded with the musicians of his early 1970s band lineup, who also performed on Apostrophe (') and Roxy & Elsewhere . The vocals on Advance Romance and Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy are by Napoleon Murphy Brock . Captain Beefheart , on what is probably the only tour with Zappa's band, provides the vocals for various songs and speaks two short prose texts, Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top and Man With the Woman Head. Terry Bozzio , who was Zappa's regular drummer between 1975 and 1978, also played on Bongo Fury .

Track List (LP)

All pieces are composed by Frank Zappa, except for pieces 3 and 8. These were composed by Captain Beefheart.

Side one

  1. Debra Kadabra (live) - 3:54
  2. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (live) - 5:59
  3. Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top (live) - 2:51
  4. Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (live) - 3:03
  5. 200 Years Old - 4:32

Side two

  2. Cucamonga - 2:24
  3. Advance Romance (live) - 11:17 am
  4. Man with the Woman Head (live) - 1:28
  5. Muffin Man (live) - 5:34

Contributing musicians

Chart placements

Album - Billboard (North America)

year Chart position
1975 Pop albums 66

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charts and Awards for Bongo Fury . Allmusic . Retrieved August 22, 2008.

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