Sitting with my Ar Force buddies in Keflavik, Iceland, smoking hash, laughing so hard tears are flowing and my face hurts. This was over 40 years ago but listening to this brings those memories back.
This really is as good as it gets, right? It has the most perfect balance between, music, theater, humor and bonkers originality that you only get with Zappa on top form
dad would play this song for us kids back in the early 80's and we'd jump and dance on the couch, definitely a favorite and fond memories, missing dad listening to this
In recent stories, Howard Kaylan claimed that he did puff with him and Mark Volman. It's reported that he liked to drink while dating. There's footage with him on acid with Pink Floyd. He liked to down play drugs and fired musicians if they played too high. Music is top notch and Frank was a badass no doubt. He just liked to downplay drugs.
I don't suppose you think the people who animated Gumby were high when they made it even though it's good for stoners? Who am I kidding of course they were high
I wasn't born till 74 but my dad who was fairly young taught me how to sing and dance to this song when I was 5. His friends thought it was hilarious. One of my favorite songs of all time! Fond memories with my dad!
@@dirtballmcnasty3582 I did the road trip thing with my daughter. I was driving five of her friends to spring break in Panama City Beach and I had told her at some point during the drive to ask me “ Dad do we have any songs about Eskimos “ ? Of course I replied yes , I believe we do and I played the Nanook Suite. Her friends went crazy , several of them were musicians and were actually very impressed with the music. It’s a fun memory
@@sdean4816 .... We did the Phonky Alphonzo Gonzo Garbanzo dance in the backseat... Four kids all consecutively aged from five to nine. I miss my dad, and every time I hear Zappa I choke up. My dad was the fuggin shit.
Frank Zappa is an acquired taste. Once acquired though you have music for life. It’s been 45 years since I started. I listen now still amazed by the greatness of it.
I'd have nicked a tenner out of her purse to buy it too, how bloody cruel, buying you an album for Christmas then busting it. Christmas 1974 I had an album by Suzi Quatro called "Quatro", still got it, starts with an almost orchestral version of "The Wild One".
That's not exactly true. He had an eye for seeing potential. He helped a lot of them see that potential, and even convinced a few of them to achieve that potential without him. He was like Miles Davis in the sense that he had an eye and ear for talent. Most of his underlings didn't reach the top of their game until after parting ways. Case in point, all those great little feat records with George Lowell, and those fantastic records Adrian did with King Crimson (to name a couple.)
Dont matter whether your green yellow white black purple or orange,you enjoy the music-YOU ENJOY THE MUSIC,fair play to you and sending much love from a zappa fan in england
My dad loved him. In his drunken stupers he'd play this music I would be 7-8 year old and thought wow what Is this music... my farther died 3 months ago and here I am now 39yrs old listening to it at 8:30am .... R.i.p ALAN LASKEY ... ( THE BEAR )
this is the one that made me as a kid love zappa. & 57 years later l still love this song. the whole thing st. alfonzo would be proud of me. a classic.
Im 64 now and as a teenager I dug this back then and still diggin' right now 11/28/22 at 1:35 in da A.M. Saw this Man, twice in me lifetime. dayummm what musicianship Zappa and da Band. wow. Keep the GOOD music Playing.
Dreamed I was an eskimo Frozen wind began to blow Under my boots and around my toes The frost that bit the ground below It was a hundred degrees below zero... And my mama cried And my mama cried Nanook, a-no-no Nanook, a-no-no Don't be a naughty eskimo Save your money, don't go to the show Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh Well I turned around and I said ho, ho And the northern lights commenced to glow And she said, with a tear in her eye Watch out where the huskies go, And don't you eat that yellow snow Watch out where the huskies go, And don't you eat that yellow snow
Well, right about that time people A fur-trapper who was strictly from commercial Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo peekaboo And he started into whippin' on my favorite baby seal With a lead-filled snowshoe I said, with a Lead-Filled With a lead filled snowshoe He said, peekaboo I said, with a Lead-Filled With a lead filled snowshoe He said, peekaboo He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal He went whap with a lead-filled snowshoe, and He hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go! Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it! (Here fido) And then In a fit of anger I pounced And I pounced again Great googly moogly! I jumped up and down on the chest of the him I injured The fur trapper Well he was very upset, as you can understand And rightly so, because the Deadly yellow snow crystals had Deprived him of his Sight And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said I can't see I can't see Oh, woe is me I can't see Well.....you know I can't see Nothin' He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye And the husky wee-wee I mean the doggie wee-wee Has blinded me And I can't see Temporarily Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the Frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about His deflicted eyes. and it was at that precise moment that he remembered And ancient eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that They write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes As the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named Nanook, The only way you can get it fixed up is to go Trudging across the tundra Mile after mile Trudging across the tundra Right down to the parish of Saint Alphonzo
(Yes indeed, here we are!) At St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast - where I stole the margarine! And widdled on the bingo cards in lieu of the latrine! I saw a handsome parish lady make her entrance like a queen. While she was totally chenille and her old man was a marine. As she abused the sausage patty and said “Why don’t ya treat me mean?” (Hurt me! Hurt me! Hurt me!) At St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast (Wow! Good God! Get off the bus!) - where I stole the margarine! (St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! Ooh, ahh!)
Father Vyvian O'Blivion Resplendent in his frock Was whipping up the batter For the pancakes of his flock He was looking rather bleary He forgot to watch the clock But the night before Behind the door A leprechaun had stroked it But the night before Behind the door A leprechaun had slowly stroked it He slowly stroked it But the night before Behind the door A leprechaun had stroked his spot He stroked his spot It set him off in such a frenzy He sang "Lock Around the Crock!" And he topped it off with a And he topped it off with a And he topped it off with a As he stumbled on his He was delighted as it stiffened And ripped right through his sock "Oh St. Alfonzo would be proud of me" He shouted down the block Domine vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo Don't you eat my sleazy pancakes Just for Saintly Alphonzo They're so light and fluffy white We'll raise a fortune by tonight They're so light and fluffy white We'll raise a fortune by tonight They're so light and fluffy brown They're the finest in the town They're so light and fluffy brown They're the finest in the town Good morning your highness Oo oo ooo Good gosh, you're sumptuous Oo oo ooo Good morning your highness Oo oo ooo Good gosh, you're sumptuous Oo oo ooo
One of the coolest tracks ever, so tight, musicianship 10/10 even if you dont like the song it is at a level of creative genius. Alphonsos pancake breakfast breakout to rad for words. What a fuckin journey of a song. Respect
I think was around 6 or 7 and my Dad introduced me to this. He was a single dad, recently divorced, and he had full custody, and thank God for it. This is a gem of my childhood. I'll never forget it. I'm 35 now, and I'll never forget us listening to this on a cassette tape in his brand new (fuck you ex-wife) truck. He also had a single CD player velcro'ed to the hump in the middle of the cab, that had cables hooked up to the cig lighter input. Oh the times!
This album is insane. Gawd, I've never danced, head-banged, and laughed so much in my days. Goofy, hilarious, much humor, savant-genius, prog, orchestral, bluesy, bipolar rock. I think Frank's brain was too big for his body.
Saw Frank and the MOI twice and it was a completely different experience than other concerts I had attended. I guess you had to be there. But we loved him.
Me too 74, they were giving everyone whoopie cushions at th door!! What a fantastic show... yes he gave us the PERFECT time to use them, and it was halirous, only FRANK ZAPPA 👍
@@destroyernoah December 21st, 1940. So, on that day every year, I recommend saying goodbye to one another with a heartfelt "Watch out where the Huskies go!" in his honor. It is our civic duty, peeples!
Thanks to this song "Great Googlymoogly!" and "Right upside the head of my favorite baby seal" and "destined to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology " enttered the lexicon of slang for my friends and I back in middle school in the late 70s. It wasn't just the lyrics though. Lyrics without a good tune are just bad poetry.
I'm convinced a big majority of his songs are based on stories he made up for his kids. My son will love this when I introduce it to him in a year or so. What a great storyteller..it's perfect.
This was my introduction to FZ.. friend’s house , into big brother’scollection in 1975 . Literally rolling on the floor laughing joyously and sitting quite still, listening in absolute amazement. . Excentrifugal forz. Is the best rap tune ever btw .. it’s my desert island FZ album .
Story, True or not was the song was made or developed during a Zappa concert in the most Northern part of Michigan called the U.P or Upper peninsula.. Not only was he in the Upper Peninsula but the most northern part called the Keweenaw Peninsula. It was WINTER... and if you ever been there ... it's just like Alaska. The concert was at ... MTU Michigan Tech U... The 'Huskies' ... St Alphonso's was a Church that had a pancake breakfast during the show time across the bridge in Hancock. Supposedly thats where it all started. Frank never forgot that trip it appears... This place is 200 straight North of Green Bay, so you can imagine the winter's.
Frank zappa was extremely Anti Drug and anti pot, even firing a guitarist for smoking pot before a show. Yet they created some of the best, trippiest music to listen too while tripping. 😀
If I say, "I might be moving to Montana soon..." and someone replies with any lyric from the song, it is at that moment that I know we will be friends. 😃
Scariest fact of all: he wasn't on drugs; his weirdness was 100% ALL-NATURAL! That's why it's so nutritious and so good for you and I, campers! So, watch out where the Huskies go... !
This is the first music I listened to when I was stationed in AK out of basic training. A bull moose named Bullwinkle was looking in the barracks window also!
First time listening to Frank Zappa it was in the middle of the winter on Christmas break in Wisconsin. Out with friends smoking and somebody put this on. It's almost 40 years later and still remember listening to Zappa that first time. Incredibly different awesome lyrical journey only Frank can take you on. Circular motion now,"RUB IT!" Great guggaleemuggalee.
new and a friend where walking back too my place after picking up a bag of smoke. it was around 1984 we were around 14. we found a cassette with apostrophe on it. We never heard of Frank Zappa before that. We locked ourselves in my room smoked up and listened to it. We laughed so hard my mom was beating on the door asking what was going on in there. Good times and a great album.
Used to listen to this tune with my best friend Hamid in Morocco in the early 80's... then spent over 30 years years in the Far East... Hamid left many years ago... I miss him heaps even today. Sitting in Athens tonight, listening to the tune... brings a smile to my face. Thanks Frank!
From the early years when he was on the Steve Allen Show playing the bicycle... even mentioned in Deep purple's Smoke on the Water... classic brilliant music with an unmatched sense of humor and intellect that will always stand the test of time... I miss Frank Zappa and wonder what he would have come up with in 2020 with all the shit that's going down now...
1974, just 14 years old and don't remember right how this album came to my hands and soon after the Overnight Sensation would go the same way, life and my perception of many things changed on a subtle way, his music and his persona walked with me until now...... Proud and grateful to be part of that generation growing up with such a talent people
And this song loved being listened to by Prince, at least we can say that we lived and loved in the world when these beautiful people were here with us for a short time.
I have been with my husband for over 30yrs( he introduced me to Zappa) 4 kids and 3 grandkidsi I appreciate Zappa and realize that he was a music genius.
The 70's was the only decade progressive enough to embrace the genius that was Mr Frank Zappa. Listened on vinyl in the 70's and now on UA-cam in 2021. Crazy how things have changed🤯 LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL..... LONG LIVE OLD ROCKERS 🎸 R.I.P. Frank
I seen Frank Zappa over the years about 7 times and every time he was totally professional and his band was extremely tight you sure know how to pick on frank 👊😎
For the past 40 or so years, when asked a stupid question, I often answer with an out of context quote from Zappa. Example: How's it going?- "the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe". Or "St' Alphonso would be proud of me". Most people are awestruck by "my" wisdom and clarity and think me something I am not, philosophical. It has been fun for me anyhow.
Enzo Hernandez Just looked this guy up... you listen to this crap? Idk how this is comparable to Zappa in your mind but you should probably get yourself checked out. Don’t get me wrong, definitely 10 times better than the pop of today but it still falls on so many of the same tropes and retains a modern pop sound to it that makes it garbage to my ears if I’m being honest. But seriously, this guy couldn’t write like Zappa even if he sat on 1 song for 10 years, never mind 3 or 4 albums per year like Zappa.
Wow I'm from the future here it is the year 2525 already, Alaska is now floating around amok in the south Pacific with a great big majestic mountain smack dab in the middle rising up to the universe with killer bud sprouting up everywhere you dare tread, I picked a purple bud twisted it up and was immediately on a tour bus on Mars (the buses are always on time on Lars uh uh Mars)💫💫🍻✌️💨oh this song was on the hole time made the hole Trip a astronomical experience 🌞too be cherished forever and ever ☀️🤘🎉👩🚀❄️
This song was a favorite in 1975 when we got our first `snow dog', a Siberian Husky.' Living in the tunda of N.W. Iowa at that time, we laughed and started singing "watch out where the huskies go...".
I once got drunk with this man, 1974 Ocean View Va. he walked in the club where me and three other sailors in uniform were getting drunk, him and 4 guys with him sat down with us, next thing I remember the shore patrol were taking us back to our ship the USS Columbus CG 12 .
My favorite holiday memory, baking snowball cookies with my daughter when she asks, "Can we add yellow food coloring?" When asked why, she broke into the chorus, "Watch out where the huskies, and don't you eat that yellow snow!" .. That's my girl! 😁👍
If you too are from Alaska or other parts of North American, then you can surely relate to that infamous deadly yellow snow. It looks just like a lemon snow cone.
I once had this tune come through the speakers in my crash helmet while I was standing at the top of the ridge of Arapahoe Basin ski area, preparing to ski down the back side, Montezuma Basin. The opening sound effects mixed with the sound of the wind, and at first I didn't even know a tune had started. Magic. Great run.
No other has combined humour, complexity, superb orchestration and beauty like Zappa has done. We miss you Frank.
UNLEASH HIS MASTERY BY CRANKING IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spike Jones
@@nicolafiorillo4048lol
also Karlheinz Stockhausen in some of his theatre pieces
Les Claypool did, my Zappa of Bass
There’s only one Frank Zappa. Nobody can duplicate the madness and the genius.
Ben detto amico
This stuff was so far ahead of it’s time it’s still ahead of its time.
Hoorah for Frank's timeless genius-ness ! Your message made me smile Tony ..
he sucked then and sucks now
@@roberleedodson then why you here?
@@nutasquirrel6190 GOT EM
Absolutely f***king right.
To this day I still use 'GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLEY!!' when I need to express my surprise
Same here, been a big Zappa fan since I first heard him back in the Day!!
😂🤣😅
And I say Wowie Zowie...
and unmitigated audacity.
Same!
Sitting with my Ar Force buddies in Keflavik, Iceland, smoking hash, laughing so hard tears are flowing and my face hurts. This was over 40 years ago but listening to this brings those memories back.
Tires on the face! That is indeed painful. Jk Frank is the man
A source who shall remain anonymous says that just about the only thing that has changed since then is the sand.
Similar story from my first year of college 1978.
Had the same experience, except...in the Navy.
This really is as good as it gets, right? It has the most perfect balance between, music, theater, humor and bonkers originality that you only get with Zappa on top form
PRIMO!
Well said if you do say so myself!!!
Slick
He was a musical polymath. My hero.
Every time I make pancakes, I listen to this.
dad would play this song for us kids back in the early 80's and we'd jump and dance on the couch, definitely a favorite and fond memories, missing dad listening to this
Never drink a sip, never took a puff, never used a needle. And yet this is the most stoned music I've ever heard.
In recent stories, Howard Kaylan claimed that he did puff with him and Mark Volman. It's reported that he liked to drink while dating. There's footage with him on acid with Pink Floyd. He liked to down play drugs and fired musicians if they played too high. Music is top notch and Frank was a badass no doubt. He just liked to downplay drugs.
This makes the most sense to me. @@MrMadjack42
I don't suppose you think the people who animated Gumby were high when they made it even though it's good for stoners? Who am I kidding of course they were high
Never drink a sip
I can see this scenario. Frank never liked to jump on any particular bandwagon. @@MrMadjack42
I wasn't born till 74 but my dad who was fairly young taught me how to sing and dance to this song when I was 5. His friends thought it was hilarious. One of my favorite songs of all time! Fond memories with my dad!
I was born in 78. My dad did the same thing. We listened to this music in the car on long road trips. Another favorite was The Point with Ringo Starr.
Did you get on your feet and do the “ Funky Alphonso “ ?
@@dirtballmcnasty3582 I did the road trip thing with my daughter. I was driving five of her friends to spring break in Panama City Beach and I had told her at some point during the drive to ask me “ Dad do we have any songs about Eskimos “ ? Of course I replied yes , I believe we do and I played the Nanook Suite. Her friends went crazy , several
of them were musicians and were actually very impressed with the music. It’s a fun memory
@@sdean4816 .... We did the Phonky Alphonzo Gonzo Garbanzo dance in the backseat... Four kids all consecutively aged from five to nine. I miss my dad, and every time I hear Zappa I choke up. My dad was the fuggin shit.
Was born in 90 and my dad introduced me to this at around middle school age. This of course was one of my favorite songs on the album.
Frank Zappa is an acquired taste. Once acquired though you have music for life. It’s been 45 years since I started. I listen now still amazed by the greatness of it.
I guess. I was an instant fan when somebody brought the CD in to my dorm in 1997. I did have to inquire in a taste for some of his more esoteric stuff
I am a Zappafan since 1970, there is no other like him
My mother bought me this album for Christmas. She broke it in two once she heard me playing it. No biggie I went and bought a new one!!!
I'd have nicked a tenner out of her purse to buy it too, how bloody cruel, buying you an album for Christmas then busting it. Christmas 1974 I had an album by Suzi Quatro called "Quatro", still got it, starts with an almost orchestral version of "The Wild One".
Should have nailed the remnants to her skull
Imagine how she would have responded to Joe's Garage.
Was that back then she broke it or just recently?
Lol. Zappa's music was unfortunately heavily censored in the USA. The "explicit content" warning label originated because Frank Zappa's songs.
A band can't get much tighter than Frank and the Mothers. You had to be at the top of your game to sit in Frank's bands.
That's not exactly true. He had an eye for seeing potential. He helped a lot of them see that potential, and even convinced a few of them to achieve that potential without him. He was like Miles Davis in the sense that he had an eye and ear for talent. Most of his underlings didn't reach the top of their game until after parting ways. Case in point, all those great little feat records with George Lowell, and those fantastic records Adrian did with King Crimson (to name a couple.)
bro he was just saying you had to be a sharp ass musician. which is exactly true.
Steve Vai himself
@@leontrans6783 meh
Back when you actually had to be good to sound good. No digital correction.
This black woman rocked to Frank Zappa back in the day. Love his music still.
That was Tina Turner & The Ikekettes!
Good. We won't tell on ya. Lol
Hey give me 5, on the side, in the hole, honey u got SOUL. And don't eat the yellow! Or a hand full of the deadly!
Dont matter whether your green yellow white black purple or orange,you enjoy the music-YOU ENJOY THE MUSIC,fair play to you and sending much love from a zappa fan in england
Your the coolest black chick in the world then .
Ew, there's an ad in my Zappa.
Strictly Commercial
Zappa recommends "adblock" to rid your music from those pesky ads..
I know right the audacity of such!!!!!
@@pale_saint oh the unmitigated audacity of this comment
he swearing right now
My dad loved him. In his drunken stupers he'd play this music I would be 7-8 year old and thought wow what Is this music... my farther died 3 months ago and here I am now 39yrs old listening to it at 8:30am ....
R.i.p
ALAN LASKEY ... ( THE BEAR )
sorry man for the loss
Peter nufc gg cuh
Big Bear lives on in Frank 💞
Same !!! Wow we have so much in common...
Sorry for your loss. Im hear because of my father as well. Also, because my buddies dog pissed
4:15 G R E A T G O O G L E Y M O O G L E Y
Perfecion
this is the one that made me as a kid love zappa. & 57 years later l still love this song. the whole thing st. alfonzo would be proud of me. a classic.
Frank Zappa is one of a kind, nobody else like him ever, and they will never be another great Frank Zappa!! I miss him so much!!
Thanks Gary Powell, for turning me on to Zappa about a bazillion years ago. I hope you had and are still having an awesome life!
Im 64 now and as a teenager I dug this back then and still diggin' right now 11/28/22 at 1:35 in da A.M. Saw this Man, twice in me lifetime. dayummm what musicianship Zappa and da Band. wow. Keep the GOOD music Playing.
I'm 62-1/2 and saw him once in the late '70's. I'm loving revisiting Franks music and the memories that return.
Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty eskimo
Save your money, don't go to the show
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow
Well, right about that time people
A fur-trapper who was strictly from commercial
Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo peekaboo
And he started into whippin' on my favorite baby seal
With a lead-filled snowshoe
I said, with a
Lead-Filled
With a lead filled snowshoe
He said, peekaboo
I said, with a
Lead-Filled
With a lead filled snowshoe
He said, peekaboo
He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal
He went whap with a lead-filled snowshoe, and
He hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he
That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. so I bent down
And I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous
Mitten-ful of the deadly yellow snow
The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!
Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow
Crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous
Circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
To take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
Here it goes,the circular motion, now rub it!
(Here fido)
And then
In a fit of anger
I pounced
And I pounced again
Great googly moogly!
I jumped up and down on the chest of the him
I injured
The fur trapper
Well he was very upset, as you can understand
And rightly so, because the
Deadly yellow snow crystals had
Deprived him of his
Sight
And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said
I can't see
I can't see
Oh, woe is me
I can't see
Well.....you know
I can't see
Nothin'
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye
And the husky wee-wee
I mean the doggie wee-wee
Has blinded me
And I can't see
Temporarily
Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the
Frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about
His deflicted eyes. and it was at that precise moment that he remembered
And ancient eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that
They write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes
As the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named
Nanook,
The only way you can get it fixed up is to go
Trudging across the tundra
Mile after mile
Trudging across the tundra
Right down to the parish of Saint Alphonzo
(Yes indeed, here we are!)
At St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast - where I stole the margarine!
And widdled on the bingo cards in lieu of the latrine!
I saw a handsome parish lady make her entrance like a queen.
While she was totally chenille and her old man was a marine.
As she abused the sausage patty and said “Why don’t ya treat me mean?”
(Hurt me! Hurt me! Hurt me!)
At St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast (Wow! Good God! Get off the bus!) - where I stole the margarine!
(St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! St. Alfonzo! Ooh, ahh!)
I sang every bit! ❤😂
Father Vyvian O'Blivion
Resplendent in his frock
Was whipping up the batter
For the pancakes of his flock
He was looking rather bleary
He forgot to watch the clock
But the night before
Behind the door
A leprechaun had stroked it
But the night before
Behind the door
A leprechaun had slowly stroked it
He slowly stroked it
But the night before
Behind the door
A leprechaun had stroked his spot
He stroked his spot
It set him off in such a frenzy
He sang "Lock Around the Crock!"
And he topped it off with a
And he topped it off with a
And he topped it off with a
As he stumbled on his
He was delighted as it stiffened
And ripped right through his sock
"Oh St. Alfonzo would be proud of me"
He shouted down the block
Domine vobiscum
Et cum spiritu tuo
Don't you eat my sleazy pancakes
Just for Saintly Alphonzo
They're so light and fluffy white
We'll raise a fortune by tonight
They're so light and fluffy white
We'll raise a fortune by tonight
They're so light and fluffy brown
They're the finest in the town
They're so light and fluffy brown
They're the finest in the town
Good morning your highness
Oo oo ooo
Good gosh, you're sumptuous
Oo oo ooo
Good morning your highness
Oo oo ooo
Good gosh, you're sumptuous
Oo oo ooo
The drumming is absolutely insane. Thanks Frank you where a genius RIP
Sounds a lot like Chris Palmer's drum'n!
Ralph Humphrey plays drums on this one.
@@mrmoofle thot itvwas jim gordon
Singing along with a 7/4 song gets me all googly-mooglied
How does UA-cam justify a commercial in the middle of this!? Thank you for helping me actively boycott these advertisers.
One of the coolest tracks ever, so tight, musicianship 10/10 even if you dont like the song it is at a level of creative genius. Alphonsos pancake breakfast breakout to rad for words. What a fuckin journey of a song. Respect
whiter shade of gray
Ghost Stories
Yea "Tight" is right , most respect to the drummer omg :)
Saw him in concert in 1978
@@glennwade4703 your a lucky man brother! I was born in 83
I had the honour of meeting him in person and being to his house...and he was 1 hell of a great guy and musician as well!!!!!!!
educating myself on the music of Frank Zappa and damn i'm having a blast listening to it.
Thanks for signaling that. Very cultured you're getting. Congrats.
You'll love Inca Roads, Dirty Love, Pojama People and Camarillo Brillo. ;)
zoot allures is a top album,as is over night sensation.
robert darger good point. This should be a primer in their education.
@@davidbowman4259 montana
Back in the day when this record was released I was never more amazed and laughed so hard over nan-nook, man we were so stoned. Great memories!!!
Fascinating how an apostrophe, makes such a difference.
I think was around 6 or 7 and my Dad introduced me to this. He was a single dad, recently divorced, and he had full custody, and thank God for it.
This is a gem of my childhood. I'll never forget it. I'm 35 now, and I'll never forget us listening to this on a cassette tape in his brand new (fuck you ex-wife) truck. He also had a single CD player velcro'ed to the hump in the middle of the cab, that had cables hooked up to the cig lighter input.
Oh the times!
Similar experience with me, but dad's go to with me was Donovan.
Thank god for single dads
This album is insane. Gawd, I've never danced, head-banged, and laughed so much in my days. Goofy, hilarious, much humor, savant-genius, prog, orchestral, bluesy, bipolar rock. I think Frank's brain was too big for his body.
Saw Frank and the MOI twice and it was a completely different experience than other concerts I had attended. I guess you had to be there. But we loved him.
Saw Zappa in the 70s and was completely blown away! Incredible!
Me too 74, they were giving everyone whoopie cushions at th door!! What a fantastic show... yes he gave us the PERFECT time to use them, and it was halirous, only FRANK ZAPPA 👍
And he wasn’t doing drugs.
Best Napoleon Dynamite Impersonation: “LUCKY!!!”
50 years ago this album Frank Zappa - Apostrophe came out and I was 2 and many years later I got this 8-Track tape to this day.
Music does that, brings back memories of where you were and who you were with - amazing memories. What a wonderful free world we once had.
Happy Birthday to the late and great Frank Zappa! Born in 1940, Zappa would have turned 76 years old today. R.I.P.
Wait that was yesterday?
Such a shame. :(
@@destroyernoah December 21st, 1940. So, on that day every year, I recommend saying goodbye to one another with a heartfelt "Watch out where the Huskies go!" in his honor. It is our civic duty, peeples!
im smoking pot and just found this and i think i might have pulled something laughing this guy is AWESOME
Classic….my parents used to listen to this song. Reminds me of my childhood. So wish I could turn back time.
Thanks to this song "Great Googlymoogly!" and "Right upside the head of my favorite baby seal" and "destined to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology " enttered the lexicon of slang for my friends and I back in middle school in the late 70s. It wasn't just the lyrics though. Lyrics without a good tune are just bad poetry.
.... WHAT A MASTERLY GUITAR PLAYER AND SONG WRITER .... HELLO FROM NORTHERN IRELAND ....
This is my favorite song for winter because it will be snowing here soon in Rhode island soon.
I'm convinced a big majority of his songs are based on stories he made up for his kids. My son will love this when I introduce it to him in a year or so. What a great storyteller..it's perfect.
Frank Zappa was the original Rapper. He has the best and most one of a kind speaking voices. He could never be imitated in any way. A true Original.
This song is timeless. I've had so much fun with it over the years
CRANK IT UP AND UNLEASH 'FRANK'S MONSTER!'
I love listening to this when I do alignments at work. Nobody in the dealer knows what’s going in this head...
This was my introduction to FZ.. friend’s house , into big brother’scollection in 1975 . Literally rolling on the floor laughing joyously and sitting quite still, listening in absolute amazement. . Excentrifugal forz. Is the best rap tune ever btw .. it’s my desert island FZ album .
i knew his name for a lot atime, now i know his music!
and WHAT A FUCKING MUSIC!!!!
Story, True or not was the song was made or developed during a Zappa concert in the most Northern part of Michigan called the U.P or Upper peninsula.. Not only was he in the Upper Peninsula but the most northern part called the Keweenaw Peninsula. It was WINTER... and if you ever been there ... it's just like Alaska. The concert was at ... MTU Michigan Tech U... The 'Huskies' ... St Alphonso's was a Church that had a pancake breakfast during the show time across the bridge in Hancock. Supposedly thats where it all started. Frank never forgot that trip it appears... This place is 200 straight North of Green Bay, so you can imagine the winter's.
That absolute sexy 7/4 time signature
Next time someone asks you to give an example of "It's a fine line between genius and insanity" play them this
Frank zappa was extremely Anti Drug and anti pot, even firing a guitarist for smoking pot before a show. Yet they created some of the best, trippiest music to listen too while tripping. 😀
AND JUST WHO DID HE FIRE ????
If some kid asks, "Who is Frank Zappa?" you play them THIS.
Play Montana first.
play them muffin man
@@pepe_152 Play them N-Lite from Civilization Phaze III, they will turn out just fine
good point. This should be a primer in their education.
And then play suicide chump next.
Frank Zappa is my musical litmus test for people
Not bad at all. Mine is usually early 90's Tom Waits
At least it isn't Tool
@@dannydunn2772 fantastic
Mine, too.
If I say, "I might be moving to Montana soon..." and someone replies with any lyric from the song, it is at that moment that I know we will be friends. 😃
The music world's truest head tripper. R.I.P., Frank.
Scariest fact of all: he wasn't on drugs; his weirdness was 100% ALL-NATURAL! That's why it's so nutritious and so good for you and I, campers! So, watch out where the Huskies go... !
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R.I.P. Mr Zappa ! What a great gift (your songs) you left to us !!!
oh, I thought you meant his sculpture
Any 2020 listeners still listen to this or is it just me😂
Of course! 2020 is bad enough; we need to be reminded not to eat the yellow snow. ;)
@@TheScandinavianOne st alfonso would be proud of you
Nope not just you brother. I got my led filled snowshoe looking for that Eskimo that whipped that baby seal.
Catch me listening to this in 2040
This was the album that made me love Frank's talent. I was 6, but I knew the good shit!
This is the first music I listened to when I was stationed in AK out of basic training. A bull moose named Bullwinkle was looking in the barracks window also!
Did you Rocky the Flying squirrel ?🐿🦇
The greatest music ever created , you feel it , live it , never will there be another like ho
Don't forget.
Your favourite band loves Frank Zappa. ❤
First time listening to Frank Zappa it was in the middle of the winter on Christmas break in Wisconsin. Out with friends smoking and somebody put this on. It's almost 40 years later and still remember listening to Zappa that first time. Incredibly different awesome lyrical journey only Frank can take you on.
Circular motion now,"RUB IT!"
Great guggaleemuggalee.
I was stationed in Germany when this album was released - and as fate would have it he played in Stuttgart that very same summer. Of course I went!
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You NEVER INTERRUPT ZAPPA FOR A COMMERCIAL- ESPECIALLY AN ANTI- TOBACCO COMMERCIAL. TOBACCO WAS HIS FAVORITE VEGETABLE!!!
And now he is dead because of it....
And if you call any vegetable, the chances are good... that the vegetable will respond to you! (Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutaba-aa-aa-aa-ga!)
Getting prostate cancer in your 50’s is utterly anomalous. Had to have been from smoking.
Or the medically documented link between smoking and an increased risk of prostate cancer
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Gracias Carlitos
@@martinm.6472 por nada 😆🖒
Great memorys about this great Song ❤️
Greetings from Germany
new and a friend where walking back too my place after picking up a bag of smoke. it was around 1984 we were around 14. we found a cassette with apostrophe on it. We never heard of Frank Zappa before that. We locked ourselves in my room smoked up and listened to it. We laughed so hard my mom was beating on the door asking what was going on in there. Good times and a great album.
Chuck M Your mom was going kick your ass 😂
Tederick Webb Yep
If you tell me your room was above Joe's Garage i will officially call bullshit.
So what your saying is you got high... and listened to apostrophe
Nice
Great story. Sounds like a great time
Used to listen to this tune with my best friend Hamid in Morocco in the early 80's... then spent over 30 years years in the Far East... Hamid left many years ago... I miss him heaps even today. Sitting in Athens tonight, listening to the tune... brings a smile to my face. Thanks Frank!
From the early years when he was on the Steve Allen Show playing the bicycle... even mentioned in Deep purple's Smoke on the Water... classic brilliant music with an unmatched sense of humor and intellect that will always stand the test of time... I miss Frank Zappa and wonder what he would have come up with in 2020 with all the shit that's going down now...
1974, just 14 years old and don't remember right how this album came to my hands and soon after the Overnight Sensation would go the same way, life and my perception of many things changed on a subtle way, his music and his persona walked with me until now...... Proud and grateful to be part of that generation growing up with such a talent people
Prince loved this song. RIP 💜
It is a great song to love
And this song loved being listened to by Prince, at least we can say that we lived and loved in the world when these beautiful people were here with us for a short time.
Both innovators !! Both missed..
prince was a badass to
I have been with my husband for over 30yrs( he introduced me to Zappa) 4 kids and 3 grandkidsi I appreciate Zappa and realize that he was a music genius.
The 70's was the only decade progressive enough to embrace the genius that was Mr Frank Zappa. Listened on vinyl in the 70's and now on UA-cam in 2021. Crazy how things have changed🤯 LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL..... LONG LIVE OLD ROCKERS 🎸 R.I.P. Frank
Been listening for 45 yrs now!!! Zappa Freak here!🤪😜🥰🥰🥰
I seen Frank Zappa over the years about 7 times and every time he was totally professional and his band was extremely tight you sure know how to pick on frank 👊😎
For the past 40 or so years, when asked a stupid question, I often answer with an out of context quote from Zappa. Example: How's it going?- "the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe". Or "St' Alphonso would be proud of me". Most people are awestruck by "my" wisdom and clarity and think me something I am not, philosophical. It has been fun for me anyhow.
Everybody in my platoon loved Zappa. Whites, Blacks, Latinos, even some Mormons. That was back in '73 and still feels GOOD!!
I injured
*fart*
the fur trapper
I always thought that the yellow snow was lemon flavored
Chris Rohrback lol
Don't try it, you'll be disappointed.
lol
It is. You should try it.
Well,,,,you was wrong.
This stuff would never get out of the basement these days. No one takes chances anymore. Thank the great googly moogly for zappa!!!
Saw Zappa at the Palladium in New Yerk on Halloween in 83 way crazy trip. RIP Frank your music will never grow old. Dweezil is carrying the torch.
There will never be another Frank Zappa
I wanted to dislike this because of the sad reality that it implicates.
We don't need another, This man gave the world more than it could ever chew. God blessed us with Zappa
Ben levin? The man did some sick stuff during this quarantine hahaha
Enzo Hernandez Just looked this guy up... you listen to this crap? Idk how this is comparable to Zappa in your mind but you should probably get yourself checked out. Don’t get me wrong, definitely 10 times better than the pop of today but it still falls on so many of the same tropes and retains a modern pop sound to it that makes it garbage to my ears if I’m being honest. But seriously, this guy couldn’t write like Zappa even if he sat on 1 song for 10 years, never mind 3 or 4 albums per year like Zappa.
@@qmaster5546 You say it, "To MY ears", is just a matter of taste mate. Some pop songs have some cool things too.
Great song and it's 2020. I haven't heard it in over 30 years!
Wow I'm from the future here it is the year 2525 already, Alaska is now floating around amok in the south Pacific with a great big majestic mountain smack dab in the middle rising up to the universe with killer bud sprouting up everywhere you dare tread, I picked a purple bud twisted it up and was immediately on a tour bus on Mars (the buses are always on time on Lars uh uh Mars)💫💫🍻✌️💨oh this song was on the hole time made the hole Trip a astronomical experience 🌞too be cherished forever and ever ☀️🤘🎉👩🚀❄️
I remember buying this on cassette when it was released. Brilliant stuff. Hasn't aged at all. The cassette has though!!
"hey frank, what key is this in exactly?"
"All of em."
Le rôle et l’effet de la musique dans notre vie de tous les jours ,merci Franck! Merci monsieur Zappa ! Laosava
This song was a favorite in 1975 when we got our first `snow dog', a Siberian Husky.' Living in the tunda of N.W. Iowa at that time, we laughed and started singing "watch out where the huskies go...".
great googly moogly!
Yeah yeah yeah
Al Fonso
Great googly moogly to you too Jack Hubbard
You see that loogie?
*brief guitar solo... *
Our names are similar
I once got drunk with this man, 1974 Ocean View Va. he walked in the club where me and three other sailors in uniform were getting drunk, him and 4 guys with him sat down with us, next thing I remember the shore patrol were taking us back to our ship the USS Columbus CG 12 .
So privilege to have grow up with Frank Zappa,amazing.
"Get on your feet and do the Funky Alfonso!" Gets me every time. 🤣
He said that!?!?!
@@pearllee601 8:35
Listening to it now lol
My favorite holiday memory, baking snowball cookies with my daughter when she asks, "Can we add yellow food coloring?" When asked why, she broke into the chorus, "Watch out where the huskies, and don't you eat that yellow snow!" .. That's my girl!
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So funny. Who would have thought of a title like "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite." Hysterical!
If you too are from Alaska or other parts of North American, then you can surely relate to that infamous deadly yellow snow. It looks just like a lemon snow cone.
He had the unmitigated audacity to jump up behind my ig-a-loo.
The nostalgia of singing this as a kid while playing in the snow
There is an artist in Argentina who resembles the great Frank Zappa, his name is Oggi Junco. He has released an album in 2009. Thanks Oggi!
True genius is rare, frank was a true genius. R.ip. Frank
FVZ
Got an ad in the middle of this song, with another song in it. For some reason it didn't seem that out of the ordinary.
Thank you for saving that baby seal Nanook. 😘💞
My stepdad used to quote this song all the time, also “To the pancake breakfast at St Alphonso’s where I stole the margarine..”
This reminds me of stoner/acid days of my youth!
This reminds me of my me right now today
when it was here.
I once had this tune come through the speakers in my crash helmet while I was standing at the top of the ridge of Arapahoe Basin ski area, preparing to ski down the back side, Montezuma Basin.
The opening sound effects mixed with the sound of the wind, and at first I didn't even know a tune had started.
Magic. Great run.