A Pound For A Brown On The Bus

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Albums & Side Projects

In order of recording:

• Uncle Meat, also containing a 2nd version of this song named The Legend Of The Golden Arches
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5, as A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
• Electric Aunt Jemima, as A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
• Ahead Of Their Time, as Pound For A Brown
• Our Man In Nirvana, as A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
• Tengo Ná Minchia Tanta, as A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
• Jean-Luc Ponty: King Kong, included in Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra
• Swiss Cheese/Fire!, included in track Sofa No. 2 / Eddy Are You Kidding / Stick It Out / King Kong / Wonderful Wino
• An Evening In Detroit as Pound For A Brown (+ Drum Solo)
• Zappa In New York (CD release only, as Pound For A Brown
• Saarbrücken 1978, as Pound For A Brown
• At The Circus, as A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4, as Pound For A Brown - Solos (1978)
• The Yellow Shark, as Pound For A Brown

Tributes & Cover Albums

• The Band From Utopia: A Tribute To The Music Of Frank Zappa, as Pound For A Brown
• Sheik Yerbouti: Insanity Sauce
• Le Concert Impromptu & Bossini: Prophetic Attitude, as A Pound For A Brown
• Colin Towns + NDR Bigband: Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (And Funny Smells)

Notes About This Song

From liner notes of The Yellow Shark:

The tune dates from 1957 or '58. It was originally a string quartet I wrote right about the time I graduated (from high school). It's one of the oldest pieces, and it's been played by just about every one of the touring bands, in one version or another. The title, "Pound for a Brown", was based on a bet. On our first trip to Europe, when we got to England, one of the guys in the band bet another guy in the band a pound that he wouldn't "brown-out" on the bus on the way into London.

CC Clues In This Song

The track on Electric Aunt Jemima includes Sleeping In A Jar.