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==Lyrics==
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<i>Cheesy, cheesy!</i>
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==Versions of this Song==  
  
<br>''(This is a song about vegetables . . . they keep you regular; they're real good for ya.)''
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===''Absolutely Free'' Version===
<br><br>Call any vegetable
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*[[Call Any Vegetable (1966 - Los Angeles)]]
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
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*[[Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin]]
<br>Call it by name
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*[[Soft-Sell Conclusion]]
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Call one today
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>When you get off the train
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Call any vegetable
 
<br>And the chances are good
 
<br>Ooooh! The vegetable
 
<br>Will respond to you
 
<br><br>''(Some people don't go for prunes . . . I dunno . . . I've always found that if they...)''
 
<br><br>Call any vegetable
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Pick up your phone
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Think of a vegetable
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Lonely at home
 
''<br>(Call any vegetable)''
 
<br>Call any vegetable
 
<br>And the chances are good
 
<br>That a vegetable will respond to you-hoooo
 
<br><br>RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
 
<br>RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
 
<br>RUTA-BAYYYYY . . .
 
<br><br>''(A prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.)''
 
<br><br>No one will know
 
<br>If you don't want to let 'em know
 
<br>No one will know
 
<br>'Less it's you that might tell 'em so
 
<br>Call and they'll come to you
 
<br>Covered with dew
 
<br>Vegetables dream
 
<br>Of responding to you
 
<br>Standing there
 
<br>Shiny & proud by your side
 
<br>Holding your hand
 
<br>While the neighbors decide
 
<br>Why is a vegetable
 
<br>Something to hide?
 
<br>YAR-R-R-R-R-G-H!
 
  
==Players On This Song==
 
[[Frank Zappa]]--guitar, vocals<br>
 
[[Ray Collins]]--vocals, tambourine, PRUNE<br>
 
[[Jim Fielder]]--guitar, piano<br>
 
[[Don Preston]]--keyboards<br>
 
[[Bunk Gardner]]--woodwinds<br>
 
[[Roy Estrada]]--bass, vocals<br>
 
[[Jimmy Carl Black]]--drums, vocals<br>
 
[[Billy Mundi]]--drums, percussion
 
  
==Albums On Which This Song Has Appeared==
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===''Just Another Band From L.A.'' Version===
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*[[Call Any Vegetable (1971 - Los Angeles)]]
  
* [[Absolutely Free]]
 
* [[Mothermania]], including '''Soft-Sell Conclusion'''
 
* [[Freaks &amp; Motherfuckers (BTB)|Freaks &amp; Motherfuckers]]
 
* [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]
 
* [[Swiss Cheese/Fire! (BTB)|Swiss Cheese/Fire!]]. Same take on
 
  
==Notes About This Song==
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===''Playground Psychotics'' Version===
 
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*[[Champagne Lecture]]
=== Zappa says: ===
 
 
 
''"The best clue to this song might lie in the fact that people who are inactive in a society... people who do not live up to their responsibilities... are vegetables. <br>I feel that these people... even if they are inactive, apathetic or unconcerned at this point... can be motivated toward a more useful sort of existence. I believe that if you call any vegatable it will respond to you."''<br>
 
(From FZ's song-by-song comments to the album)
 
 
 
=== Zappa says some more: ===
 
 
 
''"There's a twisted reference to [[Charles Ives]] at the end of [[Call Any Vegetable]]. One of the things that Ives is noted for is his use of multiple colliding themes- the musical illusion of having several marching bands marching through each other. In our low-rent version, the band splits into three parts, playing "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]," "[[God Bless America]]" and "[[America The Beautiful]]" all at the same time, yielding an amateur version of an Ives collision. Unless listeners pay attention in that one spot- there are only a few bars of it, they might think it was a 'mistake.'"''<br>
 
(From [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]])
 
 
 
==CC Clues In This Song==
 
[[Category:Tracks]]
 
[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]
 

Revision as of 07:33, 27 December 2007

Versions of this Song

Absolutely Free Version


Just Another Band From L.A. Version


Playground Psychotics Version