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==Lyrics==
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''For other versions of this song, see: [[Call Any Vegetable]].
  
==Players On This Song==
 
  
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==Lyrics==
  
===Zappa Albums===
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'''FZ:''' ''A lot of people don't bother about their friends in the VEGETABLE KINGDOM. They think, "Ah, what can I say? What can a person like myself say to a vegetable?" But the answer is simple, my friends: Just call ... and tell them how you feel ... about muffins, pumpkins, wax paper, caledonia, mahoganies, elbows and green things in general ... and soon: a new rapport! You and your new little green & yellow buddies... grooving together! OH NO! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice! Only in America! Woh-oh-oh-ah-agh-h ...<br>
* [[Absolutely Free]]. Same take on:
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** [[Mothermania]], included in '''Call Any Vegetable'''
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Call any vegetable<br>
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Call it by name<br>
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You gotta call one today<br>
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When you get off the train<br>
  
===Tribute & Cover Albums===
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Call any vegetable<br>
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And the chances are good<br>
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AR-R-H-R that the vegetable will respond to you!<br>
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'''FZ:''' ''Oh no! Can you see them responding? The pumpkin is breathing hard: huffa-puffa-huffa-puffa-huffa-puffa ...What a pumpkin!<br>
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==Players On This Song==
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* [[Frank Zappa]] - guitar, vocals
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* [[Ray Collins]] - vocals, tambourine
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* [[Jim Fielder]] - guitar, piano
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* [[Don Preston]] - keyboards
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* [[Bunk Gardner]] - woodwinds
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* [[Roy Estrada]] - bass, vocals
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* [[Jimmy Carl Black]] - drums, vocals
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* [[Billy Mundi]] - drums, percussion
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==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
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===Singles===
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===Zappa Albums & Side Projects===
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* [[Absolutely Free]]
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* [[Mothermania]] (included in '''Call Any Vegetable''')
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===Tribute & Cover Albums===  
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==Notes About This Song==  
 
==Notes About This Song==  
  
[[Soft-Sell Conclusion]] was originally called "If You Like Chickens".
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*Recorded at TTG, Los Angeles in November 1966.
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*This version of the song is a suite with three parts: "[[Call Any Vegetable (1966 - Los Angeles)|Call Any Vegetable]]", "[[Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin]]" and "[[Soft-Sell Conclusion]]". On ''[[Mothermania]]'', the whole suite is combined to one single track under the title "'''Call Any Vegetable'''".
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*This song was originally called "'''If You Like Chickens'''".
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*It includes quotes from "[[God Bless America]]" (Irving Berlin), "[[America The Beautiful]]" (Ward/Bates), "[[Marine's Hymn]]" (trad.) and "[[A Soldier's Tale]]" ([[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] - the theme appears at 1:25, right after "the pumpkin is breathing hard".)
  
 
==CC Clues In This Song==  
 
==CC Clues In This Song==  
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* References [[pumpkin]]s.
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* Mentions [[muffins]]
  
 
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[[Category:Tracks with sexual topics]]

Revision as of 17:01, 28 September 2011

For other versions of this song, see: Call Any Vegetable.


Lyrics

FZ: A lot of people don't bother about their friends in the VEGETABLE KINGDOM. They think, "Ah, what can I say? What can a person like myself say to a vegetable?" But the answer is simple, my friends: Just call ... and tell them how you feel ... about muffins, pumpkins, wax paper, caledonia, mahoganies, elbows and green things in general ... and soon: a new rapport! You and your new little green & yellow buddies... grooving together! OH NO! Maintaining your coolness together! Worshipping together in the church of your choice! Only in America! Woh-oh-oh-ah-agh-h ...

Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train

Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
AR-R-H-R that the vegetable will respond to you!

FZ: Oh no! Can you see them responding? The pumpkin is breathing hard: huffa-puffa-huffa-puffa-huffa-puffa ...What a pumpkin!

Players On This Song

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Singles

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Zappa Albums & Side Projects

Tribute & Cover Albums

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Notes About This Song

  • Recorded at TTG, Los Angeles in November 1966.
  • This song was originally called "If You Like Chickens".

CC Clues In This Song