Album
One Size Fits All
Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
1975 · Jazz, Rock
30 collectors on Gatefold own this
One Size Fits All is a Rock album by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention, originally released in 1975. On Gatefold: 134 pressings tracked, owned by 30 collectors.
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One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It is the last Zappa album to be released with the subheading of "The Mothers of Invention". A special four-channel Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released. The album features the final version of The Mothers of Invention, with George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock. Zappa continued to tour and record, oftentimes with members of previous "Mothers of Invention" lineup. The album itself features one of Zappa's most complex and well-known track, "Inca Roads". One of Zappa's heroe, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, guests on two track. Early U.S. LP pressings of One Size Fits All are particularly notable, for two reasons: Many early copies contain a skip during "Inca Roads" at approximately 4:40 into the track. This error was a manufacturing defect not caught during the test pressing stage. The album was recalled after the mistake was caught, but a significant number had already been sold. The highly complex nature of the music made it difficult to recognize the error without comparing it to the correct version. Some copies also have the catalog number "BS 2879" inscribed - and crossed out - in the runoff matrix, indicating that at one point One Size Fits All was (perhaps mistakenly) planned to be released on Warner Bro. Record, whose Reprise Records subsidiary distributed Zappa's DiscReet Records label. The album was ultimately released on DiscReet with a catalog number in Reprise's sequence, DS 2216. Warner Bro. did not reassign the number BS 2879 to another album. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Inca Roads8:45
- A2Can't Afford No Shoes2:37
- A3Sofa No. 12:38
- A4Po-Jama People7:38
Side B
- B1Florentine Pogen5:23
- B2Evelyn, A Modified Dog1:05
- B3San Ber'dino5:51
- B4Andy6:03
- B5Sofa No. 22:38
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Prog Rock
- layered
- frenzied
- cerebral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bloodshot Rollin' RedHARMONICA MUSICIAN , HARMONICA
- Chester ThompsonDRUMS DRUMS, OTHER DRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Frank ZappaGUITAR GUITAR , BACKING VOCALS GUITAR, BACKING VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY
- George DukeKEYBOARDS , SYNTHESIZER KEYBOARDS , SYNTHESIZER , BACKING VOCALS KEYBOARDS, SYNTHESIZER
- James YoumanBASS MUSICIAN , BASS
- Johnny Guitar WatsonVOCALS BACKING VOCALS MUSICIAN , VOCALS
- Napoleon M. BrockFLUTE, SAXOPHONE FLUTE, SAXOPHONE, VOCALS FLUTE, TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Ruth UnderwoodMARIMBA, PERCUSSION, VIBRAPHONE MUSICIAN , VIBRAPHONE , MARIMBA, PERCUSSION PERCUSSION
- Tom FowlerBASS MUSICIAN , BASS
- Curtis MayfieldWRITTEN-BY
- Jeff SimmonsGUITAR, VOCALS
- Robert 'Frog' CamarenaVOCALS
- Tony DuranSLIDE GUITAR
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