Disco Boy - Revision history

Jason.Kreitzer at 15:28, 9 December 2021

2021-12-09T15:28:23Z

Duncan: /* Records On Which This Song Has Appeared */

2021-11-05T14:48:15Z

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Duncan: /* Lyrics */ Replaced with something more akin to the actual lyrics rather than the garbage that was cut and pasted here

2021-10-29T10:00:07Z

Lyrics: Replaced with something more akin to the actual lyrics rather than the garbage that was cut and pasted here

Duncan: /* CC Clues In This Song */

2021-10-29T09:47:11Z

CC Clues In This Song

Duncan: /* Notes About This Song */ An actual citation - which we already had :-(

2021-10-29T09:46:23Z

Notes About This Song: An actual citation - which we already had :-(

Duncan: /* Notes About This Song */ Rm personal anecdotes

2021-10-29T09:30:13Z

Notes About This Song: Rm personal anecdotes

Jason.Kreitzer at 15:18, 28 October 2021

2021-10-28T15:18:01Z

Jason.Kreitzer at 01:03, 6 September 2021

2021-09-06T01:03:49Z

Jason.Kreitzer at 17:33, 31 July 2021

2021-07-31T17:33:54Z

Jason.Kreitzer at 21:00, 18 July 2021

2021-07-18T21:00:29Z

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 * [[Understanding America]]
 * [[Halloween 77]]
+* [[2012 AAAFNRAA (Baby Snakes Soundtrack)]]
 ===Tribute & Cover Albums===

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 ==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 ===Singles===
-* [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:10) / [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:10) - Frank Zappa (1977)
+* [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:28  Mono mix) / [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:28 Stereo Mix) - Frank Zappa (March 1977) WBS 8342 Promotional - Not For Sale version.
-* [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:10) / [[Ms. Pinky|Ms. Pinky]] (03:40) - Frank Zappa (1977)
+* [[Disco Boy|Disco Boy]] (05:28) / [[Ms. Pinky|Ms. Pinky]] (03:49) - Frank Zappa (March 1977) WBS 8342
 ===Zappa Albums & Side Projects===
 * [[Zoot Allures]]. Same track on
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 * [[Halloween 77]]
 ===Tribute & Cover Albums===
 ==Notes About This Song==

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 ==Lyrics==
-Disco Boy
+Disco boy! Run to toilet and comb your hair<br>
-<br>Run to the toilet, honey,
+Disco boy! Pucker your lip, and check your shoulders<br>
-<br>Comb your hair
+'Cause some dandruff might be hiding there<br>
 <br>
-<br>Disco Boy
+Disco boy, your the disco king, aw the<br>
-<br>Pucker yer lip,
+Disco thing made you think someday that you<br>
-<br>'N check yer shoulder,
+Just might go somewhere<br>
-<br>'Cause some dandruff might be
+<br>
-<br>Hidin' there!
+Disco girl, you're outa sight, you need a<br>
+Disco boy, to treat you right<br>
-<br>Disco Boy,
+He'll do a little dance, take you home tonight<br>
-<br>You're the DISCO KING!
+Leave his hair alone, but you can kiss his comb<br>
-<br>Aw, the Disco-Thing
+<br>
-<br>Made you think
+Disco boy! Run to toilet and comb your hair<br>
-<br>Someday,
+Disco boy! Shake it more than three times and you're<br>
-<br>That you
+Playing with it while you're standing there<br>
-<br>Just might GO SOMEWHERE!
+<br>
+Disco boy, do the bump every night, 'til the disco girl<br>
-<br>Disco Girl!
+Who's really right, gonna fall for your line<br>
-<br>You're 'out-a-site'!
+And feed you a box full of chicken delight<br>
-<br>You need a Disco Boy
+<br>
-<br>To treat you right
+Disco chit-chat so demure<br>
-<br>He'll do a little dance;
+Pump that booty all across the floor<br>
-<br>Take you home tonight
+A disco drink, a disco wink<br>
-<br>(Leave his hair alone,
+You never go duty that's what you think<br>
-<br>But you can kiss his comb)
+You never go duty that's what you think<br>
+You never go duty that's what you think<br>
-<br>Disco Boy!
+<br>
-<br>Run to the toilet boy,
+Duty, go duty<br>
-<br>'N comb your hair
+Duty, go duty<br>
+Duty, you never go duty<br>
-<br>Disco Boy!
+Duty, you never go duty<br>
-<br>Shake it more than three times 'n yer playin' with it
+Duty, you never go duty<br>
-<br>(WOW!)
+Duty, you never go duty<br>
-<br>While yer standin' there!
+You never duty, go duty<br>
-<br>(Well . . . )
+Duty, you never duty<br>
 <br>
-<br>Disco Boy!
+Disco boy! You got one more chance, to comb your hair again<br>
-<br>Do the Bump every night, 'til the Disco Girl
+Disco boy! They're closing the bar, and she's<br>
-<br>Who's REALLY RIGHT
+Leaving with your friend<br>
-<br>Gonna fall for yer line,
+<br>
-<br>'N feed you a box fulla
+Disco boy, that's the way it goes, so wipe your nose, and<br>
-<br>Chicken Delight!
+Try it again, to get a little lay tomorrow<br>
 <br>
-<br>Disco chit-chat; so demure!
+Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord that you<br>
-<br>Pump that booty all across the floor!
+Still got hands, to help you do that jerkin' that'll<br>
-<br>A disco drink
+Blot out your disco sorrow<br>
-<br>A disco wink
+<br>
-<br>"You never go doody!"
+It's disco love tonight, make sure you look alright<br>
-<br>(That's what you think)
+It's disco love tonight, make sure you look alright<br>
 ==Players On This Song==

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 ==CC Clues In This Song==
 [[Category:Singles]]
 [[Category:Tracks]]

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 ==Notes About This Song==
-This another piece from what I believe is '''New Music Express''', 1977 interview  <br>
+From [[Zappa On Air]]:
-and feed you a box full of '''chicken delight'''. - Chicken Delight was a fried chicken fast foodery, similar to Kentucky Fried. I can't explain it, but the above lyrical excerpt really captures the 70's. <br><br>
+<blockquote>
 ==CC Clues In This Song==

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	and feed you a box full of '''chicken delight'''. - Chicken Delight was a fried chicken fast foodery, similar to Kentucky Fried. I can't explain it, but the above lyrical excerpt really captures the 70's. <br><br>		and feed you a box full of '''chicken delight'''. - Chicken Delight was a fried chicken fast foodery, similar to Kentucky Fried. I can't explain it, but the above lyrical excerpt really captures the 70's. <br><br>
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−	"Box" is slang for a vagina. "Chicken" is also slang for a vagina. "And when she feeds it to you, you have to eat it!" Big surprise to get an explicit sexual reference out of Zappa. Poor Disco Boy! He suffers the same fate as most Zappa characters--he gets dissed.
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−	I think it's interesting that the online lyrics for this song (including those above) always show up as "and try again to get a little lay tomor-row" when the version I listen is "get a little pussy tomorrow." Was there another version for radio or something?
−
−
−	~~'''Duty. Go duty!''' - You never go doody. Children's slang for shit. I always thought that lyric was on the stupid side.~~
−
−	Two additional comments: The way I have always heard the lyric is "get a little leg tomorrow", which is also slang for the same thing. Second, "never go doody" is a reference to women (especially the women who reject one's advances), and their supposed self-regard that they do not excrete like normal human beings, compare the last segment of "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on "Sheik Yerbouti". The idea that women are equipped with anuses and engage in normal excretory functions is double-edged: it is meant to be a come down to their attraction, in which case the idea is very old, compare [[Wikipedia:Jonathan Swift\|Jonathan Swift]]'s "The Lady's Dressing Room" for an explicit discussion of this, and second, it is meant to humanize women, and remind them that they are just like everyone else.

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 ==CC Clues In This Song==
 * Compare with ''[[Crab-Grass Baby]]'': ''"I pooped my pants, pooped my pants, pooped my pants! I went doody, faaather, sob-sob-sob-sob-sob."''
 * Compare with the lyrics in the second segment of ''[[Broken Hearts Are For Assholes]]'', as well as ''[[Dancin' Fool]]'', another satire on the disco experience.
 * Refers to a [[Nose]]: ''"So wipe your nose and tried to get a little laid, tomorrow."''
 [[Category:Singles]]
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 [[Category:Tracks with sexual topics]]

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 '''Duty. Go duty!''' - You never go doody. Children's slang for shit. I always thought that lyric was on the stupid side.
-Two additional comments:  The way I have always heard the lyric is "get a little leg tomorrow", which is also slang for the same thing.  Second, "never go doody" is a reference to women (especially the women who reject one's advances), and their supposed self-regard that they do not excrete like normal human beings, compare the last segment of "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on "Sheik Yerbouti". The idea that women are equipped with anuses and engage in normal excretory functions is double-edged: it is meant to be a come down to their attraction, in which case the idea is very old, compare [[Jonathan Swift]]'s "The Lady's Dressing Room" for an explicit discussion of this, and second, it is meant to humanize women, and remind them that they are just like everyone else.
+Two additional comments:  The way I have always heard the lyric is "get a little leg tomorrow", which is also slang for the same thing.  Second, "never go doody" is a reference to women (especially the women who reject one's advances), and their supposed self-regard that they do not excrete like normal human beings, compare the last segment of "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on "Sheik Yerbouti". The idea that women are equipped with anuses and engage in normal excretory functions is double-edged: it is meant to be a come down to their attraction, in which case the idea is very old, compare [[Wikipedia:Jonathan Swift|Jonathan Swift]]'s "The Lady's Dressing Room" for an explicit discussion of this, and second, it is meant to humanize women, and remind them that they are just like everyone else.
 ==CC Clues In This Song==

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 * [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4]]
 * [[Hammersmith Odeon (The Album)]]
 * [[Halloween 77]]

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 ==Players On This Song==
-[[FZ]] - guitar, bass, keyboards, synth, vocal <br>
+[[Biography|FZ]] - guitar, bass, keyboards, synth, vocal <br>
 [[Terry Bozzio]] - drums, bg. vocal <br>
 [[Davey Moire]] - bg. vocal <br>