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The Mothers of Invention : Mothermania: The Best of the Mothers
A chronological listing of Frank Zappa music issued on vinyl records and compact discs.
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••• = Essential tracks.

Release Date

Record Label
[Country]
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Album Title /
Track Listing
Audio /
Matrix
April 1969 Bizarre/Verve [US] V6 5068(X) [stereo] (blue and silver label) 33-1/3 RPM
LP
Mothermania: The Best of the Mothers Stereo (with mono tracks)
Side One 1. Brown Shoes Don’t Make It [album version]
2. Mother People [mono remix]
3. The Duke of Prunes [album version]
4. Call Any Vegetable [edited version]
5. The Idiot Bastard Son [edited mono remix]
unknown
Side Two 1. It Can’t Happen Here [edited stereo remix from “Help, I’m a Rock”]
2. You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here [stereo remix]
3. Who Are the Brain Police? [stereo remix] •••
4. Plastic People [album version]
5. Hungry Freaks, Daddy [stereo remix] •••
6. America Drinks and Goes Home [album version]
unknown

Frank Zappa: lead guitar and vocals; Ray Collins: lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine; Roy Estrada: electric bass, vocals and guitarron; Jimmy Carl Black: drums; Billy Mundi: drums and percussion; Don Preston: keyboards; Bunk Gardner: woodwinds; Jim ‘Motorhead’ Sherwood: soprano and baritone saxophones; Ian Underwood: saxophones?; Elliot Ingber: alternate lead and rhythm guitars; Jim Fielder: guitar; other backing musicians.

To retire their Verve Records contract, Frank Zappa remixed and compiled this line-up of songs from the first three Mothers albums. The only mono version of the album was released (along with a stereo version) in the United Kingdom. The album was released on CD by the Zappa Family Trust on 19 November 2012.

 
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