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tracks 1-1 to 1-6, 1-8 to 1-22, 2-1 to 2-9 composed by Frank Zappa
design [cd repackage] Ferenc Dobronyi
design [original package design & design consultant] Cal Schenkel
drums [on some pieces before he quit to join rhinoceros] Billy Mundi
drums, other [droll humor, poverty] Jimmy Carl Black
drums, timpani, vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, bells, percussion [small chimes, wood blocks], other [cheerful outlook & specific enquiries] Art Tripp
electric bass, other [cheesburgers], voice [pachuco falsetto] Roy Estrada
electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celesta [celeste], flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, other [special assistance, industrial relations, teen appeal], copyist Ian Underwood
electric piano, other [tarot cards, brown rice] Don Preston
engineer Dick Kunc
engineer [percussion effects] Jerry Hansen
guitar, vocals [low grade], percussion, producer Frank Zappa
marimba, vibraphone [on many of the tracks] Ruth Komanoff
piccolo flute, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, bassoon [all of these electric and/or non-electric depending] Bunk Gardner
tracks 1-5, 1-11 soprano vocals Nelcy Walker
tenor saxophone [tenor sax stylings], tambourine, other [pop star, choreography, obstinance, equipment setter-upper] Motorhead Sherwood
vocals [swell] Ray Collins
tracks 1-2, 1-10 voice [uncredited] Pamela Zarubica
Pressed By WEA Mfg. Olyphant
Pressed By WEA Mfg. Olyphant
Published By Zappa Family Trust
Published By Frank Zappa Music
Published By Longitude Music Co.
Phonographic Copyright (p) Rykodisc
Copyright (c) Zappa Family Trust
Thick jewel case with two trays (some cases green-tinted or transparent), black divider, 16-panel fold-out poster/booklet and 12 page booklet.

Subtitled: Most of the music from The Mother's movie of the same name which we haven't got enough money to finish yet.

All compositions controlled worldwide by The Zappa Family Trust d/b/a Frank Zappa Music (BMI) except Louie Louie published by Longitude Music Co. (BMI).

© 1968, 1995 all lyrics, music and arrangements of this material copyrighted for the world by The Zappa Family Trust d/b/a Frank Zappa Music.

℗ 1987 Rykodisc. © 1969, 1995 The Zappa Family Trust.
The green-tinted jewel box is a registered trademark of Rykodisc.
Printed in USA. Manufactured in Canada.

Digitally remastered, 1986.
Digitally remixed, 1987.
FZ approved master, 1993.

From the liner notes:
The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track through a procedure known as over-dubbing. The weird middle section of DOG BREATH (after the line Ready to attack) has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by Maestro with a setting labeled Oboe D'Amore and sped up a minor third with a V.S.O. (variable speed oscillator). Other peculiar sounds were made on a Kalamazoo electric organ. The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of Pultec Filters, two Lan Equalizers, and three Melchor Compressors built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship. The material was recorded on a prototype Scully 12 track machine at 30 ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc or Dynamite Dick, as he is known to the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend Mike in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us.

The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except the members of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material. They are all very serious & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities. (Basically this is an instrumental album.)

Barcode: 0 14431 05062 6 (Text)
Barcode: 014431050626 (Scanned)
Matrix / Runout: WEA mfg. Olyphant Y11982 A4 P2 310506-2.1 02 M1S2 (CD1, Variants 1, 5)
Matrix / Runout: WEA mfg. Olyphant Y11982 A4 P2 310506-2.1 02 M1S3 (CD1, Variant 2)
Mastering SID Code: ifpi L903 (CD1, Variants 1, 2, 5)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U3W (CD1, Variant 1)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U4C (CD1, Variant 2)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U3Q (CD1, variant 5)
Matrix / Runout: WEA mfg. Olyphant X12068 A4 P2 310506-2.2 01 M1S1 (CD2, Variants 1, 5)
Matrix / Runout: WEA mfg. Olyphant X12068 A4 P2 310506-2.2 01 M2S1 (CD2, Variant 2)
Mastering SID Code: ifpi L902 (CD2, Variants 1, 2, 5)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U7A (CD2, Variant 1)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U4C (CD2, Variant 2)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U3Q (CD2, Variant 5)