Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish Label: EMI Records Catalog#: EX 24 0294 3 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Box Set
Country: EEC Released: Dec 1984 Genre: Jazz, Non-Music, Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Dialogue, Avantgarde, Art Rock, Jazz-Rock, Parody

Tracklist

A1   Prologue 2:56 A2   The Mammy Nuns 3:50 A3   Harry & Rhonda 3:36 A4   Galoot Up-Date 5:29     Keyboards, Trumpet [Uncredited] - Bob Harris B1   The 'Torchum' Never Stops 10:32 B2   That Evil Prince 1:17 B3   You Are What You Is 4:31 C1   Mudd Club 3:17     Saxophone [Tenor] [Uncredited] - Motorhead Sherwood C2   The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 3:14     Guitar [Slide] [Uncredited] - Denny Walley C3   Clowns On Velvet 1:38     Keyboards, Saxophone [Uncredited] - Bobby Martin (2) C4   Harry-As-A-Boy 2:51 C5   He's So Gay 2:48 D1   The Massive Improve'lence 5:07 D2   Artificial Rhonda 3:30     Backing Vocals [Uncredited] - Roy Estrada 
  Harmonica [Uncredited] - Don Van Vliet 
  Synthesizer [Uncredited] - Ruth Underwood D3   The Crab-Grass Baby 3:48 D4   The White Boy Troubles 3:35 E1   No Not Now 5:50     Backing Vocals [Uncredited] - Bob Harris , Roy Estrada E2   Briefcase Boogie 4:10 E3   Brown Moses 3:02 F1   Wistful Wit A Fist-Full 3:53 F2   Drop Dead 7:56 F3   Won Ton On 4:20     Backing Vocals [Uncredited] - Bob Harris , Roy Estrada

Credits

Artwork By [Costumier] - Robert Fletcher 
Artwork By [Prosthetics For Thing Fish & Sister Ob'dewlla 'x'] - Jene Omens 
Bass Guitar - Arthur Barrow , Scott Thunes 
Double Bass - Jay Anderson 
Drums - Chad Wackerman 
Electric Guitar - Ray White , Steve Vai 
Electric Guitar, Synthesizer [Synclavier] - Frank Zappa 
Engineer - Bob Stone , Mark Pinske 
Keyboards - Tommy Mars 
Percussion - Ed Mann 
Photography [Cover & Liner Insets] - Ladi Von Jansky 
Piano [Broadway] - Chuck Wild 
Producer [Album Production, Direction Of Characterizations & Book], Music By, Arranged By, Lyrics By - Frank Zappa 
Technician [Synclavier Programming] - David Ocker , Steve De Furia* 
Vocals - Johnny Guitar Watson 
Voice Actor [Brown Moses] - Johnny Guitar Watson 
Voice Actor [Evil Prince] - Napoleon Murphy Brock* 
Voice Actor [Harry- As- A- Boy] - Bob Harris 
Voice Actor [Harry] - Terry Bozzio 
Voice Actor [Owl- Gonkwin- Jane Cowhoon] - Ray White 
Voice Actor [Rhonda] - Dale Bozzio 
Voice Actor [Thing Fish] - Ike Willis

Notes

Box Spine: 
FRANK ZAPPA: THING-FISH (Original Cast Recording) (3 Record Set & Libretto) 
Box Back: 
Marketed, Manufactured and Distributed by EMI [logo] Printed in Holland by EMI Services Benelux B.V., Uden. 
Contains: 
20-page 12"x12" 'linen effect' matt paper lyric book, outlining scenes/acts, including 10 black & white photos. 
3xVinyls in black & white half-tone print paper liner wallets, imprinted on back with 'Barking Pumpkin Records' logo & on fronts with large Zappa 'join-the-dots' logo & 'Warning/Guarantee' stamp. Each wallet is numbered. 
Labels: 
EMI [logo] BIEM/STEMRA ((LC)0542) 

Since the release of this recording uncredited artists have emerged and have been listed accordingly on track titles. 

This album was preceeded by the Thing-Fish project coming to visual fruition via a 'Hustler' magazine pictorial spread, April 1984, financed by Larry Flynt. It featured 'Ample Annie', who had an act 'Slutty Suzy' & 'Sluts Are Us' and was selected for the promotional feature by Zappa. 

Livret complet. VG.

Disque et pochette: VG/VG.

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