One of the best love songs from the best to doo-wop album of all time. Written and sung by Ray Collins of Baby Ray and the Ferns, produced by Frank Zappa. The whole albums great!
Zappa grew up in the 50's . This entire album is dedicated to 50's Do-Wop music. Zappa couldn't be bought. His musical convictions meant more to him than money. Zero airplay and he still died rich. No one like him. Greatest absolutely the greatest.
Love this Mothers song ! I have had this on mixed tape , burned CD , Ipod playlist memory Stick and now on Spotify Valentine playlist Probably my 2nd favorite love song
Lucille of course is a breakup/cheating song - not typical Valentine fare - and very much a Zappa/Simmons co-write (incorporating a riff which Frank had been playing around with in 1969 Mothers gigs e.g Ravinia/Birmingham)
There's a liner note inside the album that says: This is an album of greasy love songs and cretin simplicity. We made it because we really like this kind of music ( just a bunch of old men with rock and roll clothes on sitting around the studio mumbling about the good old days ). Ten years from now you'll be sitting with your friends someplace doing the same thing if there's anything left to sit on. Ruben Sano
Great track from a great album! Ray Collins had just the right voice for these love songs. This mix is the 1984 remix with Arthur Barrow on bass and Chad Wackerman on drums (Roy Estrada was the original bass player and Jimmy Carl Black was the drummer.) Zappa had a few of the early Mothers Of Invention albums released with new bass and drum parts in the '80s.
Frank got upset with Pauline Butcher because she said this was the best song on the album. It happens to be the only song on the album that Frank didn't write. Ray Collins, the singer, wrote the music and lyrics. After that, Frank very rarely collaborated with others on songwriting. Uncle Remus, music written by George Duke for a solo project that fell through, was a collaboration where Frank wrote the lyrics and produced it. Tommy Mars co-wrote Yo Cats with Frank. I'm sure there a few others, and folks will chime in. This is a really sweet song.
This came out in 1968 at a time when the music of the 50s was considered totally unhip. Some Zappa fans thought he was wasting his time making an album like this.
Good reaction. This may be the 1st song that you've done from this album. It came out in 1968. It was his tribute to a music genre that he loved: do wop: a (mostly) black vocal-centric style of R & B in the late 1940's and 50's. It confused Zappa fans (like me) considering what he put out before it. But that 's what 's great about Zappa: he pretty much did what he wanted.
He always loved doo-wop as a musical style. Throughout his discography every other album had these kind of songs, some more satirized than other ones. I don't think he liked the lyrics though. This whole album is a tribute to these love songs, and a bit of satire as well. Sadly before he passed on, he decided to change bass and drums on this album which soiunded awful. Fortunately, the original masters were rescued and released on a new album named "Greasy Love Songs" - which I bought, and I'm very glad I did.
WOW!! ZAPPA GOT SOME VIBRATO!! BEAUTIFUL!! HAPPY VALENTINES RORY♥️ ITS AMAZING!! SOUNDS LIKE MOTOWNEST!! I LOVE THE BASS, I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN RORY, ZAPPA IS A GENIUS. AWESOME REACTION RORY💙 THANK YOU CALVIN FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL REQUEST!! 😊🩷🤘✌️
Stuff Up The Cracks has that really nasty guitar solo. It's the only song on the album that uses more up-to-date (1968) music style as compared to the rest that really sticks closer to mid-late 50s doo-wop style.
One of the best love songs from the best to doo-wop album of all time. Written and sung by Ray Collins of Baby Ray and the Ferns, produced by Frank Zappa. The whole albums great!
Wonderful Zappa , fantastic music , amazing thank you Rory 👍👏🏻🎺
Zappa grew up in the 50's . This entire album is dedicated to 50's Do-Wop music. Zappa couldn't be bought. His musical convictions meant more to him than money. Zero airplay and he still died rich. No one like him. Greatest absolutely the greatest.
The vocal harmonies have a Zappa quality to them.
Love this Mothers song !
I have had this on mixed tape , burned CD , Ipod playlist memory Stick and now on Spotify Valentine playlist
Probably my 2nd favorite love song
BEST ZAPPA VALENTINES SONG: "Lucille" from Joe's Garage Act 1. The best tune on the whole album.
Did Frank write Lucille or did Jeff Simmons ?
@@jessem470Zappa Produced Jeff Simmons' album( Lucille ...)and wrote the song( Lucille ...)under the pseudonym La Marr Bruister
Lucille of course is a breakup/cheating song - not typical Valentine fare - and very much a Zappa/Simmons co-write (incorporating a riff which Frank had been playing around with in 1969 Mothers gigs e.g Ravinia/Birmingham)
Sharleena is as close to love song as youll get
There's a liner note inside the album that says:
This is an album of greasy love songs and cretin simplicity. We made it because we really like this kind of music ( just a bunch of old men with rock and roll clothes on sitting around the studio mumbling about the good old days ). Ten years from now you'll be sitting with your friends someplace doing the same thing if there's anything left to sit on.
Ruben Sano
Great track from a great album! Ray Collins had just the right voice for these love songs. This mix is the 1984 remix with Arthur Barrow on bass and Chad Wackerman on drums (Roy Estrada was the original bass player and Jimmy Carl Black was the drummer.) Zappa had a few of the early Mothers Of Invention albums released with new bass and drum parts in the '80s.
Frank got upset with Pauline Butcher because she said this was the best song on the album.
It happens to be the only song on the album that Frank didn't write.
Ray Collins, the singer, wrote the music and lyrics.
After that, Frank very rarely collaborated with others on songwriting.
Uncle Remus, music written by George Duke for a solo project that fell through, was a collaboration where Frank wrote the lyrics and produced it.
Tommy Mars co-wrote Yo Cats with Frank.
I'm sure there a few others, and folks will chime in.
This is a really sweet song.
Before that, Frank very rarely collaborated with others on songwriting.
Frank didn't write Deseri either - that's a Buff/Collins number.
This came out in 1968 at a time when the music of the 50s was considered totally unhip. Some Zappa fans thought he was wasting his time making an album like this.
Good reaction. This may be the 1st song that you've done from this album. It came out in 1968. It was his tribute to a music genre that he loved: do wop: a (mostly) black vocal-centric style of R & B in the late 1940's and 50's. It confused Zappa fans (like me) considering what he put out before it. But that 's what 's great about Zappa: he pretty much did what he wanted.
Yep,not a Frank Zappa song...
But a nice sweet greasy love song!!
Arf arf, Little Bird
Arf,arf!!! :-)@@Royale_with_Cheeze
He always loved doo-wop as a musical style. Throughout his discography every other album had these kind of songs, some more satirized than other ones. I don't think he liked the lyrics though. This whole album is a tribute to these love songs, and a bit of satire as well. Sadly before he passed on, he decided to change bass and drums on this album which soiunded awful. Fortunately, the original masters were rescued and released on a new album named "Greasy Love Songs" - which I bought, and I'm very glad I did.
WOW!! ZAPPA GOT SOME VIBRATO!! BEAUTIFUL!! HAPPY VALENTINES RORY♥️ ITS AMAZING!! SOUNDS LIKE MOTOWNEST!! I LOVE THE BASS, I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN RORY, ZAPPA IS A GENIUS. AWESOME REACTION RORY💙 THANK YOU CALVIN FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL REQUEST!! 😊🩷🤘✌️
Hi Laura! Frank doesn't sing on this song, the singer and songwriter is Ray Collins ;)
@@lepetitoiseau OH OKAY, I JUST ASSUMED IT WAS ZAPPA. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENT. 😊🩷🤘✌️BEAUTIFUL VOCALS RAY COLLINS!!
Check out stuff up the cracks
Stuff Up The Cracks has that really nasty guitar solo.
It's the only song on the album that uses more up-to-date (1968) music style as compared to the rest that really sticks closer to mid-late 50s doo-wop style.
This is reminisant of the 50s what we call do op
doo-wop. do op?
Snat !
someone else mentioned it...Frank didn't write this one...Ray Collins did...still a great song.
About as greasy as it gets right there.
I love Zappa, but I absolutely dislike doo-wop music. This album is one of my least favorites by Zappa.