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Artist: The Mothers
Title: Mothermania (The Best Of The Mothers)
Format: 12"
Label: Verve Records / Bizarre Records
Cat No: V6-5068X / V6-5068X
Released: 1969
Country:
Genres: ExperimentalAvantgarde
Status Have
Added To List 11th April 2026
Disc 1 | 12"
MGM Pressing 
A Matrix:
MGS 1840  
B Matrix:
MGS 1841  

Additional Information

Comments Verve blue label variant
- Side A & B tracks in larger font on right side of Verve logo beginning parallel with album title.
- "Prod. by" text on two lines, below artist and title on the left side of the spindle.
- Stereo, catalog, matrix and side below "Produced by" text.
- Rim text: MGM Records - A division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. - Made in U.S.A.

®© Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc./Printed in U.S.A.

All selections published by Frank Zappa Music, BMI;
A subsidiary of Third Story Music, BMI.

Mothermania:
Some tracks are a bit different to the original versions; all FREAK OUT! tracks are alternate stereo mixes; all WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY tracks are alternate mono mixes; and all ABSOLUTELY FREE tracks are the original Absolutely Free mixes (but "Call Any Vegetable" has been shortened).
A2; Mother People [new mono mix]
A4; Call Any Vegetable [edit]
A5; The Idiot Bastard Son [new mono mix & edit]
B1; It Can't Happen Here [new stereo mix & edit]
B2; You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here [new stereo mix]
B3; Who Are the Brain Police? [new stereo mix]
B5; Hungry Freaks, Daddy [new stereo mix]

Released in a gatefold cover.
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