Cucamonga [Bonus Tracks] by Frank Zappa (CD, Sep-2004, Del-Fi Records, Inc.)

Album Features
UPC:	081227649821
Artist:	Frank Zappa
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2004
Record Label:	Del-Fi Records, Inc.
Genre:	Experimental Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Dear Jeepers - (featuring Bob Guy)
2. Memories of El Monte
3. How's Your Bird? - (featuring Baby Ray & The Ferns)
4. World's Greatest Sinner - (featuring Baby Ray & The Ferns)
5. Every Time I See You - (featuring The Heartbreakers)
6. Cradle Rock - (featuring The Heartbreakers)
7. Slow Bird - (featuring Paul Buff)
8. Blind Man's Buff - (featuring Paul Buff)
9. Tijuana Surf
10. Grunion Run
11. Mr. Clean - (featuring Mr. Clean)
12. Jessie Lee - (featuring Mr. Clean)
13. Cathy My Angel - (featuring The Pauls)
14. 'Til September - (featuring The Pauls)
15. Heavies - (featuring The Rotations)
16. Cruncher, The - (featuring The Rotations)
17. Letter from Jeepers - (featuring Bob Guy)

Details
Contributing Artists:	z-z-z-z, Heartbreakers, The Heartbreakers, Paul Buff, Baby Ray & The Ferns, Bob Guy, Mr. Clean, The Pauls, The Rotations
Distributor:	WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
CUCAMONGA is a collection of Frank Zappa recordings from the pre-Mothers Of Invention days of the early '60s.Personnel includes: Frank Zappa (various instruments); Ray Collins, Bob Guy (vocals); The Heartbreakers, Paul Buff, Baby Ray & The Ferns, The Pauls, The Rotations, Mr. Clean.Producers: Frank Zappa, Paul Buff.Reissue producer: Gary Tanenbaum.Includes liner notes by Bryan Thomas.Personnel: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar); Cleveland Duncan, Ray Collins, Bob Guy (vocals); Paul Buff (guitar); Mike Dineri (saxophone).Illustrator: Dennis Loren.Equally enamored of Hubert Sumlin and Edgard Varese, Frank Zappa's musical experimentation in the early '60s was a springboard for his more ambitious latter work. Collaborating with fellow technical iconoclast Paul Buff, Zappa produced and played much of this material at Buff's Pal Recording Studio. At the time, Zappa signed to Bob Keane's Del-Fi Records for a series of singles released under different pseudonyms and with different musicians.Zappa's writing ranged from straightforward doo-wop (The Heartbreakers' "Everytime I See You" and "Cradle Rock") to novelty songs (the Bobby "Boris" Pickett-flavored shenanigans of Bob Guy's "Dear Jeepers" and "Letter From Jeepers"). Despite the straightforward nature of many of these compositions, Zappa still injected left-field nuances; mixing crashing waves into the Rotations' surf instrumental "Heavies" and inserting a croaking frog and a disembodied whiny voice into the greasy R&B of Baby Ray & the Ferns' "How's Your Bird" (named for an expression used by talk show host/comedian Steve Allen, on whose show a young Zappa appeared playing a bicycle).

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [G]ritty R&B, doo wop, drag race anthems and novelty songs...
Mojo