Over-Nite Sensation

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Over-Nite Sensation
Released September 1973
See also:
IINK, Patio, KUR
The Old Masters, Box III
Apostrophe/Overnite DVD

Players

Tracks

LP

Side One

  1. Camarillo Brillo (4:01)
  2. I'm The Slime (3:35)
  3. Dirty Love (3:00)
  4. Fifty-Fifty (6:08)

Side Two

  1. Zomby Woof (5:11)
  2. Dinah-Moe Humm (6:05)
  3. Montana (6:37)
Current CD
  1. Camarillo Brillo (3:59)
  2. I'm The Slime (3:35)
  3. Dirty Love (2:59)
  4. Fifty-Fifty (6:10)
  5. Zomby Woof (5:10)
  6. Dinah-Moe Humm (6:03)
  7. Montana (6:33)
1986 CD,
coupled with Apostrophe (')

Release Notes

Recorded at Bolic Sound, Inglewood, CA; Whitney, Glendale, CA; and Paramount Studios, LA, CA, March-June, 1973.
Released September 1973.
Produced, arranged & conducted by Frank Zappa.
Engineers: Barry Keene, Terry Dunavan, Fred Borkgren & Steve Desper.
Re-mix: Kerry McNabb.
Technicians: Paul Hof, Jay "Dunt" Sloatman, Kanzas J. Canzus.
Cover illustration: David B. McMacken.
Graphics: Cal Schenkel.
Photography: Emerson-Loew.

Liner Notes

Background Information

Dave McMacken on the cover art content and concept:

"I listened to a truly bizarre take of the scene that Zappa imagined. In fantastic detail, he proceeded to tell me the story of Over-Nite Sensation and that the cover painting was to be done in a formal, realistic "Dutch Master" style, with the objects in the painting to be portrayed as visual elements from the story.

The painting captures a moment in the life of a band roadie on tour, with "Over-Nite Sensation" being a reference to the horniness of bands on the road. The space we're looking at is in a true perspective, but they're in a mirror and the object on the viewer's side are in reverse. Our focal object is a grapefruit, the symbol of a sexual object, and the grapefruit's been penetrated, with "cum" oozing out of it. The fire extinguisher symbolizes the completion of the act of intercourse, and even the frame is a sexual fantasy, starting off in gold and going to rot. All of the other items - the Holiday Inn, the food, maps and oozing TV - represent the doldrums of being on the road." [1]

Conceptual Continuity

On the far right of the larger canvas of the 200 Motels (triptych)[2] by Dave McMacken there is a floating disembodied hand apparently pointing at Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler in bondage gear, he later re-used a similar disembodied hand motif on the Overnite Sensation sleeve [3].

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD)
Barcode
(EAN-13)
Artwork Comment
17 1.1
Original
Stereo
1 LP Warner DiscReet
MS 2149
1973-09-07 None   US edition.
1 CS Warner DiscReet
CRX 2149
? None   Canadian edition.
1 LP Warner DiscReet
K 41000
? None   UK edition.
1 LP Warner DiscReet
DIS 41 000
  None   Dutch & German editions. (MS-2149) is also printed on the Dutch label.
1 LP Warner-Pioneer DiscReet
P-8380D
  None   Japanese edition.
1 LP Warner DiscReet
41000 B
  None   French edition. N° 41 000 (31628) & (31629) are printed on the labels, B 41 000 (MS 2149) on the back cover. Matrix #
Face A: 2 upside down MS 2149 31628-2 1C =41000 A logo A
Face B: 2 upside down MS 2149 31629-2 1D =41000 B logo A
1 LP Warner DiscReet/Music-Hall
50-14.356
  None   Argentinian edition.
1.2
Discrete
Quadraphonic
1 Quadradisc LP Warner DiscReet
MS4 2149
1973 None   US edition.
1 Quad-8 Tape Reprise
REP L9M 2149
? None   US edition.
1 7" R-R,
7½ IPS
DiscReet
DISQ 2149-QF
1973? None   US edition.
1.3a
Censored
Version
1 LP Warner Reprise
HRES 291-54
  None Censored artwork. Spanish edition, Dinah-Moe Humm replaced by Eat That Question.
1.3b
Censored
Version
1 LP Warner Reprise
HRES 291-54
  None Censored artwork. Spanish edition, Dinah-Moe Humm replaced by Magdalena.
1.4
Remastered
from
Quadraphonic
1 LP Barking Pumpkin
BPR 9999-3
1987-12-30     Included in The Old Masters, Box III set.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 40025
1986-09 0014431002526   US edition, coupled with Apostrophe (').
1 CS Barking Pumpkin
D4 74221
1989-10-11? 0013347422145   US edition, XDR. Titled Overnight Sensation.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5034
1994-10-26 4988112405769   Japanese edition, coupled with Apostrophe (').
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10518
1995-04-18 0014431051821   US edition. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8724 DISCTRONICS RCD 10518 01
1 CD Warner Music Argentina/ Rykodisc
1443-10518-2
1995? 0014431051821   Argentinian edition.
1 CD BMG/Rykodisc
D108635/RCD 10518
1995? D108635
(code 39)
  US edition.
1 CS Rykodisc
RAC 10518
1995-04-18 0014431051845   US edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5107
1995-09-25 4988112407718   Japanese edition.
1 CD Festival/Rykodisc
D31428
1995 9399603142820   Australian edition = RCD 10518.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5242
1996-05-30? 4988112408425   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1217
2001-10-24 4988112412736   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10590
2005-07-19 0014431059025   = VideoArts VACK 1217, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1322
2008-05-21 4988112417663   Japanese edition,
mini-album papersleeve.
1.5
Remixed
from
Discrete
Quadraphonic
1 CS Zappa
TZAPPA 36
? 5016583603649?   UK edition.
1 CD Zappa
CDZAP 18
1990-03 5016583601829   UK edition, coupled with Apostrophe ('). U.M.R.K. DIGITAL REMIX.
Unknown 1 MD Rykodisc
RMD 40025
1992 or later 0014431002588   Coupled with Apostrophe (').
1.6
Remastered
Original Stereo
1 CD Zappa/UMe
ZR 3850
2012-08-28 0824302385029   US edition, manufactured and distributed by UMe[4].
Source: Original 1973 Analog Master. Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering, 2012.
1 CD Zappa/UMG Intl
0238502
2012-08-28 0824302385029   EU edition = Zappa/UMe ZR 3850, manufactured in Germany. Matrix # 4 x Universal logo IFPI L127 08243 023 850-2 01 + 52991194 MADE IN GERMANY BY EDC A IFPI 0113
1 CD Zappa/Universal Music Japan
UICY-75365
2012-11-28 4988005737632   Japanese edition, audiophile SHM-CD, mini-album papersleeve with an obi strip and liner notes in Japanese.
1 LP
(180 g)
Zappa/UMe
ZR 3850-1
2013-06-18 0824302385012   US edition. Source: Original 1973 Analog Master. Mastered by Chris Bellman, Bernie Grundman Mastering, 2013.
1 LP
(180 g)
Zappa/UMG Intl
0238501
2013-06-18 0824302385012   GB
Side2: -27809- P. USA FVZ-2013-2-B WWW.ZAPPA.COM GB
1 LP
(180 g)
Zappa/UMe
ZR 3850-1[5]
2018-01-19[6] 0824302385081
(sticker)
  US limited edition (500 copies), orange in clear vinyl, manufactured and distributed by Newbury Comics.

Notes

  1. http://rockpopgallery.typepad.com/rockpop_gallery_news/2010/04/uncovered-interview-overnite-sensation-by-dave-mcmacken.html
  2. http://www.ratzandcompany.com/shop-online-1/frank-zappas-200-motels-triptych
  3. http://www.ratzandcompany.com/shop-online-1/copy-of-frank-zappas-200-motels-2
  4. Email announcement by the ZFT on July 31st, 2012.
  5. Same gatefold sleeve as the 2013 US edition with same catalog number ZR 3850-1 and barcode 824302385012. The upper sticker mentions ZR3850C and the lower sticker ZR3850C ST03
  6. Twitter announcement by Newbury Comics on December 21st, 2017.

See also

In the 1994 film Le Péril jeune In one scene Over-Nite Sensation is shown to pupils in a classroom. In another scene the Zappa toilet poster can be seen hanging on a wall and the song Dirty Love is used on the soundtrack.