Shoes

From Zappa Wiki Jawaka

Zappa made references to shoes and other types of footwear regularly in his work.

• Go Cry On Somebody Else’s Shoulder: “I bought a new pair of shoes.”
• America Drinks: “1, 2, buckle my shoe.”
• Brown Shoes Don't Make It: "brown shoes don't make it" (...) "shining your shoes and cut your hair."
• Plastic People (1965 - unknown) “Their shoes are brown.”
• Plastic People (1966 - San Francisco): “Their shoes are brown.”
• Mr. Green Genes: “Eat your shoes/don’t forget the strings.”
• Willie The Pimp: “With my shoe shined black”
• Magic Fingers “beat you with a pair of tennis shoes”
• Dental Hygiene Dilemma: “Put it on your shoes, tie your bike with it.”
• Hunchentoot: Oh me, oh my, I wasted forty pair o' shoes just-a walkin' that floor wit de HUNCHENTOOTIN' BLUES!
• Nanook Rubs It “with a lead-filled snow shoe.”
• Father O'Blivion: “I brought you your snow shoes”
• Stink-Foot: “Get your shoes and socks on people…” “Bring the slippers…”
• Excentrifugal Forz: “Along a Hammond organism /underneath his shoes….”
• A close-up of a shoe is also clearly visible on the cover of Over-Nite Sensation
• Can't Afford No Shoes
• Wonderful Wino: “Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim shoe.”
• Debra Kadabra: “Shoes are too tight and pointed”
• Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy: “Then she gave a pair of shoes to me” (…) “I wonder what the shoes for?”
• Advance Romance: “Shoes is all wore.”
• Goblin Girl: “Little green shoes”
• Valley Girl: “And like all these really great shoe stores…”
• Be In My Video: “I’ll make you wear red shoes”
• The Mammy Anthem: “We got the talkin’ shoes”
• The Evil Prince: “And also his shoes”
• Beauty Knows No Pain: “Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.”
• White Person: “Golf shoes”
• Sinister Footwear
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes
• Beatle Boots