Record Details

Artist:	Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention
Title:	We're Only In It For The Money
Format:	12"Gatefold
Label:	Verve Records / Verve Records
Cat No:	V6-5045X / V6-5045
Released:	4 Mar 1968
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Genres:	ExperimentalPsych RockAvantgardeSatire
Condition	Very Good+
Status	Have
Added To List	1st April 2016

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3rd studio album. Gatefold w/lyrics and Beatles' Sgt. Pepper artwork parodies. Paper sleeve. 1st pressing. Uncensored version. Blue/silver labels with ''T'' logo. COVER: #V6-5045X LABEL: #V6-5045 Note: Original US V&V6505x DO have hand-written matrices. Text-balloon on cover - Frank Zappa Says "Is This Phase One Of Lumpy Gravy?" On label...Track B1 "Nasal Retentive Caliope Music" is mis-spelled. On cover...spelled correctly as 'Calliope'. Ranked #297 on RS list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. [MISSING - an ''only money cut-outs'' insert.] PESONNEL: Frank Zappa – guitar, piano, lead vocals, weirdness & editing Jimmy Carl Black – Indian of the group, drums, trumpet, vocals Roy Estrada – electric bass, vocals, asthma Billy Mundi – drums, vocals, yak & black lace underwear Don Preston – retired Bunk Gardner – woodwinds, mumbled weirdness Ian Underwood – piano, woodwinds, wholesome Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood – road manager, baritone sax, soprano sax, all purpose weirdness & teen appeal. additional: Suzy Creamcheese (Pamela Zarubica) – telephone voice Pamela Zarubica – vocals Dick Barber – Snorks Eric Clapton – Male speaking part in "Are You Hung Up?" and "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music." Gary Kellgren – "the one doing all the creepy whispering" (i.e., interstitial spoken segments) Spider Barbour – vocals Dick Kunc – "cheerful interruptions" vocal Vicki Kellgren – added telephone vocals Ronnie Williams – backwards voice Sid Sharp – conductor (under Frank Zappa's supervision) of the "Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus" on "Absolutely Free", "Mother People" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" (ebay)

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