Released October 2, 1975 Producer Frank Zappa Label DiscReet Records | Length 41:02 Release date 2 October 1975 | |
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Recorded May 20 & 21, 1975 (mostly live) & January 1975 (studio) Bongo Fury
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(1978) Artists Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Mothers of Invention Genres Progressive rock, Hard rock, Blues rock, Comedy rock Similar Frank Zappa albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
Bongo Fury is an album released by Frank Zappa and the Mothers with Captain Beefheart in 1975. The live portions were recorded on May 20 and 21, 1975, at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. Tracks 5, 6 and 9 (intro only) are studio tracks that were recorded in January 1975 (during the sessions which produced One Size Fits All and much of Studio Tan).
Contents
The album is a notable entry in Zappa's discography, because it was the last to feature a majority of his early 1970s band, which appeared on Over-Nite Sensation (1973), Apostrophe (') (1974), Roxy & Elsewhere (1974), and One Size Fits All (1975).
Napoleon Murphy Brock's vocals are featured both on the sprawling "Advance Romance" as well as on the three-part harmonies of "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy". Captain Beefheart, in his only tour with Zappa's band, delivers vocals and harmonica on several tracks, including his two short prose readings "Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top" and "Man with the Woman Head". Bongo Fury also marks the first appearance of Terry Bozzio, who would become Zappa's featured drummer between 1975 and 1978.
Track listing
All tracks performed by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart; all tracks composed by Zappa, except where noted. This is the last original Frank Zappa album on which the band name "The Mothers [of Invention]" is used.
Musicians
Production staff
Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)
Songs
1Debra Kadabra3:54
2Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy6:00
3Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top3:22