Burnt Weeny Sandwich
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Publication |
1970 |
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Bizarre Records Barking Pumpkin Records (CD) Rykodisc (CD) VideoArts Music (CD) |
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LP vinyl , CD |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
41:07 |
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Studio (s) |
various / life recordings |
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Burnt Weeny Sandwich is a music album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention . It was published in 1970 after the first Mothers formation was disbanded and consists of recorded material from the years 1967 to 1969. Framed between two doo-wop pieces is a group of instrumental pieces whose styles range from classical orchestral music with allusions to Stravinsky to jazz to blues and rock.
occupation
Cast of the group after Kelly Fisher Lowe
- Frank Zappa : guitar, vocals, organ solo solo on Little House I Used To Live In
- Lowell George : guitar, vocals
- Roy Estrada : bass, vocals
- Don Preston : Keyboard, Minimoog
- Ian Underwood : keyboard, clarinet, piano
- Buzz Gardner : Trumpet
- Bunk Gardner : woodwind instruments
- Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood : saxophone, vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black : drums, trumpet, vocals
- Art Tripp : drums, percussion instruments
- Sugar Cane Harris: Violin Solo on Little House I Used To Live In
- Gabby Furggy ( Janet Ferguson ) sings "Dit-Dit-Doo-Way-Doo" on WPLJ
production
- Producer: Frank Zappa
- Musical director: Frank Zappa
- Cover design: Cal Schenkel
- Album design: John Williams
content
Track list
All compositions except No. 1 and 9 are by Frank Zappa.
- WPLJ (Dobard / McDaniels, Four Deuces ) - 2:52
- Igor's Boogie, Phase One - 0:37
- Overture to a Holiday in Berlin - 1:27
- Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich - 4:32
- Igor's Boogie, Phase Two - 0:37
- Holiday in Berlin, full blown - 6:23
- Aybe Sea - 2:46
- The Little House I Used to Live In - 18:42
- Valarie (Lewis / Robinson, Jackie and the Starlights ) - 3:14
reception
Music critic Mike Fish saw Burnt Weeny Sandwich as a more successful album than Uncle Meat , as the Mothers acted as a band here. The Little House I Used to Live in is prototypical jazz rock that is not boring because of the “gentle energy” of Don Preston, Don Harris and Frank Zappa. The doo-wop piece Valarie is Zappa's farewell to the rock 'n' roll era. The Anglist Kelly Fisher Lowe describes the album together with Weasel's Ripped My Flesh as “placeholder albums ”, which, as collections of Mothers materials, represented a musical step backwards from the experimental music that Zappa had created up to then.
Publications
The digitally revised album was first released on CD in 1991 on the labels: Barkin Pumpkin (US market), Zappa Records (Europe) and Barkin Pumpkin / MSI (Japan / Asia). A new system with an improved remix and a revised cover appeared in 1995 on Rykodisc and VACK.
successes
The album reached number 94 on the Billboard charts in 1970 .
Web links
- Zappa.com - Burnt Weeny Sandwich on the Zappa Family Trust homepage
- Information and texts
- Album versions
- Burnt Weeny Sandwich at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts US
- ↑ a b Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. With a new introduction by the author , University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , pages 77-83
- ^ Román García Albertos: Burnt Weeny Sandwich on globalia.net. Retrieved February 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Mike Fish and Ben Watson: Frank Zappa on Disk, reprint of the article from The Wire , Vol. 91, September 1991. In: Richard Kostelanetz and John Rocco (eds.): The Frank Zappa companion: four decades of commentary . Schirmer Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-02-864628-2 , page 132.
- ↑ Burnt Weeny Sandwich, The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide, the zappa patio . Retrieved February 12, 2010 .