The backup singers here are Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Frank recorded this at Ike Turners studio in California. Notice Frank didn't use any forbidden words here, all innuendo.
when i saw you pull up this song i couldn't wait to see the expression on your face after the first few lyrics lmaooooo and that just made my day! Great reaction Justin!! haha
One wonders - will he ever get around to hearing the longer edit of the song (from the box set and/or Have I Offended) where we get to hear a mini-solo from George Duke whilst Frank adds another link to Montana.
FCC banned all Radio play of Dinah Moe 6 months after the album came out. WBCN Boston played it for 5 more years. Frank was making a point to CONGRESS that a song can be extremely filthy without using a single swear word. The point was Congress was trying to ban some words. NEXT UP: Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, may as well do the tune "Sex" from another album too....
Your reaction was priceless, I was listening to this music back when it first came out, now at age 68 I still get a good laugh, especially watching someone else hear it for the first time and crack up at the lyrics.
Many a Zappa track was used to get unwanted guests to move on, especially if they were at all prudish. The tune itself is awesome with Tina Turner & co on backing vocals. Keep diggin' the Zappa.
The 1974 live album "Roxy And Elsewhere" starts of with a sexually themed song with good Zappa guitar. That album has a couple of complicated instrumentals worth hearing that are really one piece separated for CD track convenience.Together, they total just under 14 minutes and are "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" and "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?". That whole live album is worth a listen.
"Zircon encrusted tweezers" are part of Zappa's "conceptual continuity", where themes and motifs reappear over different songs and on different albums. Listen to the song "Montana" and you'll find where zircon encrusted tweezers made their entrance.
Lewd lyrics wasn't some random thing for Zappa. In 1965 he was arrested for making a "pornographic" audio tape, some grunts and moans which were all fake. He was sentenced to 6 months but ended up spending 10 days in jail with the rest suspended. It really upset him and influenced the rest of his career. He purposely put "porn" in his music as a way of giving the finger to those who done him wrong. Doing on stage the same thing that he was arrested for gave Zappa a lot of satisfaction.
@@kevinhodgson2990 I thought that happened in California, but I also knew FZ lived in NY during the late 60's so that confused me. FZ was hired to make a soundtrack for a movie, he wasn't involved in the porn but still got arrested. Funny because not long after California became a hotbed of porn production.
Frank made you blush like a school girl. 😊 Now, that was priceless. A standard at our monthly poker game, we all sang along and laughed. Musically, it's brilliant. The story? Frank challenging free speech haters. Think of it, nobody today would produce that album today.
Sure, not the most subtle song FZ ever wrote, but it's always enjoyable seeing Americans being embarrassed by someone talking about the most natural thing in the world.
For those who read the comments, keep thee video playing during the credits at the end. Pure honest questions, answers more than likely answered at the comments below.
the tweezers reference is from another song. Zappa liked to reference earlier themes throughout his career. i believe he stated that all of his music is connected.
About 45 years ago I was backpacking, and at the end of my trip was driving home when I saw another backpacker hitchhiking. I picked him up. He was from France but spoke English. I asked him if he liked Frank Zappa, because I had some Zappa tapes with me. He said that he didn't like his texts (lyrics). Haha! So I put in some Frankie Goes to Hollywood and he was fine with the homosexual vibe. Okay, I made up the last part. Or did I?
@@dannylgriffinLike Bobby Brown, I find the lyrics a bit juvenile. I probably laughed when I first heard them but I preferred more literary texts. Neil Peart is my favorite lyricist.
As Frank himself said, he released around 60 albums in his lifetime, and only about 30 of his songs had any sexual content. This didn't stop his albums being banned from sale in the bible belt states, even the instrumental ones.
This is just a classic of the 70s! Just think about the people who listened to this kind of music before! As far as I'm sure it was unusual for them, even now it sounds like something new, unusual and funny! 😃
It's Zappa. Some albums contain songs like this with other sublime songs. Take Sheik Yerbouti, Some songs with bad lyrics, yet some sublime songs like City of Tiny Lights and Yo' Mama. You don't get it if you don't get it. Or the three album Joe's Garage. Gail Zappa asked bands not to ever play Watermelon in Easter Hay from JG as a respect to Frank. She considered it his greatest song. Some agree. You decide.
You mean you won't go into the special meaning of "Kiss my aura, Dora" ? !!! But seriously, this song was a mainstay on FM rock radio back in 73-74-75. Different times.
I do like the one about the pygmy pony's and the dental floss bush. "With a Pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand Every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand." 😮
The chorus girls gave it a bit of class at times. (It's quite likely to be one of the humorless-tending Frank Zappa songs that just talks of his own experiences of kind - adapted a bit. Apparently from the new Moon Unit Zappa book he often had prostitutes in the house, and never mind the wife and kids around, and when he was out there was a fair chance he was at a brothel. I didn't get the details exactly, so don't quote me on that.) Still the chorus came up with some pretty smart stuff, I think?
I have all of Zappa's work and love virtually everything he's ever done. This is one of the few tracks of his that kind of misses for me. There's some nice musical moments, but the crude comedy is somewhat tedious. On this occasion. I forgive him, though, because he's my absolute idol.
@@cpmf2112 Its funny when ppl dont get Zappa, its often times through misinterpretation. Ppl who dont like Zappa have much more in common then they realize
When I was a teenager, I loved his “naughty” lyrics. Now that Im older, I think they detract from his brilliant music. But not so much to cause me to stop listening.
@@La_sagne It's fine. If you want to hear a great Zappa throwaway song, listen to "Lemme Take You to The Beach". It's the most hilariously insane teenage song ever put to tape.
@@La_sagne the lyrics are puerile and terrible, sadly like a lot of Frank's tunes. For a supposedly clever man, he really was obsessed with some childish stuff.
@@pentagrammaton6793 He just didn't care about lyrics. He would've been perfectly happy writing instrumental music only, but that won't put food on your table. He wasn't really played on the radio, but by writing naughty lyrics, he got attention and had some fun with it as well.
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Why tweezers you ask? The answer is in the final song...and it's not just any old tweezers.
The backup singers here are Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Frank recorded this at Ike Turners studio in California. Notice Frank didn't use any forbidden words here, all innuendo.
when i saw you pull up this song i couldn't wait to see the expression on your face after the first few lyrics lmaooooo and that just made my day! Great reaction Justin!! haha
One wonders - will he ever get around to hearing the longer edit of the song (from the box set and/or Have I Offended) where we get to hear a mini-solo from George Duke whilst Frank adds another link to Montana.
FCC banned all Radio play of Dinah Moe 6 months after the album came out. WBCN Boston played it for 5 more years.
Frank was making a point to CONGRESS that a song can be extremely filthy without using a single swear word. The point was Congress was trying to ban some words.
NEXT UP:
Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, Ms. Pinky, may as well do the tune "Sex" from another album too....
Your reaction was priceless, I was listening to this music back when it first came out, now at age 68 I still get a good laugh, especially watching someone else hear it for the first time and crack up at the lyrics.
That look of confusion on your face was pure gold JP.
I was introduced to this at about 14 or 15. Been a fan since the mid 70s.
Lead vocals and spoken parts are Zappa, the female vocals are Tina Turner and the ikettes.
Many a Zappa track was used to get unwanted guests to move on, especially if they were at all prudish. The tune itself is awesome with Tina Turner & co on backing vocals. Keep diggin' the Zappa.
The 1974 live album "Roxy And Elsewhere" starts of with a sexually themed song with good Zappa guitar. That album has a couple of complicated instrumentals worth hearing that are really one piece separated for CD track convenience.Together, they total just under 14 minutes and are "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" and "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?". That whole live album is worth a listen.
Justin your reaction was priceless! I have this album and I laughed when I heard this song for the first time.
I was like 15 when I heard this. Just what a growing boy going through puberty needed to hear.classic 😊
"Zircon encrusted tweezers" are part of Zappa's "conceptual continuity", where themes and motifs reappear over different songs and on different albums. Listen to the song "Montana" and you'll find where zircon encrusted tweezers made their entrance.
Lewd lyrics wasn't some random thing for Zappa. In 1965 he was arrested for making a "pornographic" audio tape, some grunts and moans which were all fake. He was sentenced to 6 months but ended up spending 10 days in jail with the rest suspended. It really upset him and influenced the rest of his career. He purposely put "porn" in his music as a way of giving the finger to those who done him wrong. Doing on stage the same thing that he was arrested for gave Zappa a lot of satisfaction.
Zappa was living in NY then, right?
@@dannylgriffinI remember that it was California from the book "Zappa: A Biography". The web says Cucamonga, CA.
@@kevinhodgson2990 I thought that happened in California, but I also knew FZ lived in NY during the late 60's so that confused me. FZ was hired to make a soundtrack for a movie, he wasn't involved in the porn but still got arrested. Funny because not long after California became a hotbed of porn production.
A classic. The tweezers are there to provide continuity with the next song. They are for plucking floss, of course.
Conceptual continuity
Frank made you blush like a school girl. 😊 Now, that was priceless. A standard at our monthly poker game, we all sang along and laughed. Musically, it's brilliant. The story? Frank challenging free speech haters. Think of it, nobody today would produce that album today.
the crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe (')
Love Zappa, seen him twice, front row one time. He sweat on me and my date as he wailed his guitar.
First time listens are always precious. Your a sport, JP.🙂
1st Zappa song I heard. I never looked back.
Naughty naughty Frank!
Whatdya mean cooties? No cooties on me!
The Zircon encrusted tweezers are a callback (call forward?) to the next song on the album, "Montana". They didn't make any sense in that song either.
Sure, not the most subtle song FZ ever wrote, but it's always enjoyable seeing Americans being embarrassed by someone talking about the most natural thing in the world.
For those who read the comments, keep thee video playing during the credits at the end. Pure honest questions, answers more than likely answered at the comments below.
the tweezers reference is from another song. Zappa liked to reference earlier themes throughout his career. i believe he stated that all of his music is connected.
yep, conceptual continuity as he called it
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This is the first Zappa track that my brother played for me (I was 14 or 15). I’ve never been into pervy lyrics but I like the music.
About 45 years ago I was backpacking, and at the end of my trip was driving home when I saw another backpacker hitchhiking. I picked him up. He was from France but spoke English. I asked him if he liked Frank Zappa, because I had some Zappa tapes with me. He said that he didn't like his texts (lyrics). Haha! So I put in some Frankie Goes to Hollywood and he was fine with the homosexual vibe. Okay, I made up the last part. Or did I?
@@dannylgriffinLike Bobby Brown, I find the lyrics a bit juvenile. I probably laughed when I first heard them but I preferred more literary texts. Neil Peart is my favorite lyricist.
As Frank himself said, he released around 60 albums in his lifetime, and only about 30 of his songs had any sexual content. This didn't stop his albums being banned from sale in the bible belt states, even the instrumental ones.
I love watching reactions to this song, and this was a good one.
Glad you enjoyed Brian :D
Fun song. I like it.
Waiting for "Joe's Garage" ('Packard Goose' !)
Think of what else was going on in "pop" music in 1973 and consider this.
That was Frank.
This is just a classic of the 70s! Just think about the people who listened to this kind of music before! As far as I'm sure it was unusual for them, even now it sounds like something new, unusual and funny! 😃
tweezers are used for plucking eyebrows and such
That just Sank you.
It's pretty funny how you keep reacting to Frank's "naughty" songs. Especially since you're so shy about that! On the channel, at least. 😂
Frank loved old cheap crappy Sci-Fi movies and was always fascinated by the hum of the Dynamo in the background of the mad professors laboratory.
Truth! Franks was apparently a great B-movie SciFi fan. And this long before MST3K!
And "dynamo hum" was a conceptual continuity trope dating back to the Uncle Meat sleevenotes.
Aw gimme a half a dozen for the hotel room!
I really enjoyed the redness of your face during this one. Never saw you blush so hard!
I always suspected you were a gentleman at heart.
Haha ty Ed 🫣
School girl lol
It's Zappa. Some albums contain songs like this with other sublime songs. Take Sheik Yerbouti, Some songs with bad lyrics, yet some sublime songs like City of Tiny Lights and Yo' Mama. You don't get it if you don't get it. Or the three album Joe's Garage. Gail Zappa asked bands not to ever play Watermelon in Easter Hay from JG as a respect to Frank. She considered it his greatest song. Some agree. You decide.
Tina Turner and the Ikettes on backup vocals.
You mean you won't go into the special meaning of "Kiss my aura, Dora" ? !!! But seriously, this song was a mainstay on FM rock radio back in 73-74-75. Different times.
I do like the one about the pygmy pony's and the dental floss bush.
"With a
Pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
Every other wrangler would say
I was mighty grand." 😮
Another brilliant performance by Tina Turner and the Ikettes.
Great song...one for the ages. IMO, it's the most lewd Zappa song and also the most memorable.
Most lewd? I don't know about that. Bobby Brown? Catholic Girls?
Lmao nothing to see here!!! Moving along now
Now you understand why Ike refused that Tina and the Ikettes be credited on the album... 😉
I wondered when you would get to this track. Yes, sounds good but...um... This is why I prefer instrumental Zappa these days :-)
The chorus girls gave it a bit of class at times.
(It's quite likely to be one of the humorless-tending Frank Zappa songs that just talks of his own experiences of kind - adapted a bit. Apparently from the new Moon Unit Zappa book he often had prostitutes in the house, and never mind the wife and kids around, and when he was out there was a fair chance he was at a brothel.
I didn't get the details exactly, so don't quote me on that.)
Still the chorus came up with some pretty smart stuff, I think?
what a surprise😂😂😂😂😂
I have all of Zappa's work and love virtually everything he's ever done. This is one of the few tracks of his that kind of misses for me. There's some nice musical moments, but the crude comedy is somewhat tedious. On this occasion. I forgive him, though, because he's my absolute idol.
Not a song to play on the stereo in family living room on Sunday night.
Another album with Tina Turner and the Ikettes singing background. Ike wouldn't let them be credited on the album.
Welcome to the 1970's!
I read somewhere that he took the lyrics from a porn magazine...
If you want a masterpiece by genesis try the Brazilian
Haaaahhhhh!!!!!😂😅
Early rap? It was the early 70s. The sexual revolution and a less conservative and prudish time. People were actually amused by this.
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So who requested this? Everyone? OK.
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The greatest clickbait ever, lol
I never could take Zappa seriously. 😐
Why would anyone try to do that when Frank didn't? 😂
@@cpmf2112 Its funny when ppl dont get Zappa, its often times through misinterpretation. Ppl who dont like Zappa have much more in common then they realize
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When I was a teenager, I loved his “naughty” lyrics. Now that Im older, I think they detract from his brilliant music. But not so much to cause me to stop listening.
Not a fan.
I like this album as it goes, but this is a throwaway track for me.
its such a good track though
@@La_sagne It's fine. If you want to hear a great Zappa throwaway song, listen to "Lemme Take You to The Beach".
It's the most hilariously insane teenage song ever put to tape.
@@La_sagne the lyrics are puerile and terrible, sadly like a lot of Frank's tunes. For a supposedly clever man, he really was obsessed with some childish stuff.
Maybe it was funny in 1973...this album is pretty overrated anyway, like a lot of 70s Zappa albums.
@@pentagrammaton6793 He just didn't care about lyrics. He would've been perfectly happy writing instrumental music only, but that won't put food on your table.
He wasn't really played on the radio, but by writing naughty lyrics, he got attention and had some fun with it as well.
you just cant fuck with frankie boy....