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Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album)

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Length
  
215:42

Label
  
VAULTernative Records

Release date
  
31 October 2011

Genre
  
Rock music


Released
  
October 31, 2011 (2011-10-31)

Recorded
  
October 11, 1971 (1971-10-11)

Carnegie Hall #91 (2011)
  
Road Tapes, Venue #1 #92 (2012)

Artists
  
Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention

Similar
  
Frank Zappa albums, Rock music albums

Carnegie Hall is a quadruple live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released posthumously on October 31, 2011, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records. It is a mono recording.

Contents

History

This is the official release of the live recording of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention's debut (and only two) performances at the titular New York City's Carnegie Hall on October 11, 1971.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.

Credits

Produced/Performed/Conducted by Frank Zappa

(*)

  • Medley #1: "Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle, Anita Nye, Louis Prima, Stanley Rhodes) / "Sincerely" (Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed) / "A Thousand Miles Away" (William Henry Miller, James Sheppard) / "The Vow" (Zeke Carey, George Motola, Horace Webb) / "Why Don't You Write Me?" (Laura Grace Hollins) / "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight" (Calvin Carter, James Hudson) / "Woo Woo Train" (Richard Barrett) / "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) / "Creation of Love" (Richard Barrett, Stuart Wiener) / "Tears on My Pillow" (Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford) / "The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram)
  • Medley #2: "Don't Look Back" (William Robinson, Ronald A. White) / "Runaway Child, Running Wild" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) / "Cloud Nine" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
  • Medley #3: "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Sidney Keith Russell, Robert William Scott) / "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) / "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)

    • Personnel

  • Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, band direction
  • Mark Volman – vocals, percussion
  • Howard Kaylan – vocals, percussion
  • Ian Underwood – keyboards, woodwinds
  • Don Preston – Minimoog
  • Jim Pons – bass, vocals
  • Aynsley Dunbar – drums

    • Songs

    1I Just Can’t Work No Longer2:32
    2Working All the Live Long Day / Chain Gang2:29
    3Medley #17:28

    References

    Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album) Wikipedia
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