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Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

2x12"

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Record Details

Artist: Frank Zappa
Title: Sheik Yerbouti
Format: 2x12"
Label: CBS
Cat No: 88339
Released: Mar 1979
Country:
Genres: Art RockAvantgardeParodyProg Rock
Status Have
Added To List 24th February 2025
Disc 1 | 12"
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Gatefold 
A Matrix:
S-CBS-88339-A-3 83551-A-3 RL MASTERDISK  
B Matrix:
S-CBS-88339-B1- 83551-B-1 RL MASTERDISK  
Disc 2 | 12"
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Gatefold 
A Matrix:
S-CBS-88339-C-2 83559-A-2 RL MASTERDISK  
B Matrix:
S-CBS-88339- D2-83559-B-2 RL MASTERDISK  

Additional Information

Comments Gatefold release

Records are numbered sequentially: Side 1 & 2 (S CBS 83551) and 3 & 4 (S CBS 83559). Contained in semi-matt printed red liner wallets with lyrics & credits.
"Made in England"

Back cover, bottom right, has CBS Ganton St., London address and Shorepak England imprint, (see images).

Management at:
"824 No. Robertson Blvd., LA 90069;
or: "Wartoke, 250 W. 57th St., NYC 10019".

Remote recording facilities: The Basing Street Truck, The Manor Truck, The RCA Truck, The Ol' Four Track.
A1, A2, A3: Recorded live at the Odeon Hammersmith, London.
A4: Recorded at sound check Odeon Hammersmith, London.
B3: Live instrumental recorded at the Deutschland Halle, Berlin.
B7: Basic track recorded live at the Deutschland Halle, Berlin.
C1, C2, C3, C4, D1: Basic track recorded live at the Odeon Hammersmith, London.
C5: Basic track recorded live at the Palladium, NYC.
D2: Basic track for vocal section and middle of guitar solo recorded live at the Odeon Hammersmith, London.
"Guitar solo is from a four track recording made in some little town outside of Nurnberg that I can't remember the name of".
(All have overdubs, with the exception of B7)
B6 has extensive mixing and "experimental re-synchronization" work by Zappa. Also guitar work on D2.

B4: Titled "We've Gotta Get Into Something Real" on label and "We've Got To..." on liner.
(Re-titled "Wait A Minute" in 1995 when B5 was re-titled "Bobby Brown Goes Down")

CBS European issues also exist with the same catalog # 88339

Interpak II by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England

CBS Records are exclusive licensees for the UK

© ℗ 1979 Zappa Records

Runouts are etched except for MASTERDISK stamp
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