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[[File:Ringo Starr 200 Motels.jpg|350px|thumb|right|[[Ringo Starr]] als Larry the Dwarf on the set of ''200 Motels''.]]
'''Dwarves''', '''midgets''' and '''little people''' in general, particularly ''pygmies'', are recurring characters in Zappa's music, being part of his [[Conceptual Continuity]]. In conversation with [[Nigey Lennon]], [[Andrew Greenaway]] analyzed the recurring use of dwarfs and midgets in Zappa's work. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z21XZ6k_CGY: Nigey Lennon and Richard Greenaway, part 2 (from the 27:10 mark) </ref>

[[Gail Zappa]]'s brother, Arthur Sloatman was nicknamed ''"Midget"''.

* ''[[Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula]]''
* [[Ringo Starr]] plays a character named Larry the Dwarf in ''[[200 Motels (The Film)]]''
* ''[[Camarillo Brillo]]'': "''And she was breeding a dwarf, but she wasn't done yet."''
* ''[[Pygmy Twylyte]]''
* ''[[Montana]]'': ''"Just me and the pygmy pony over by the dental floss bush"''
* ''[[The Torture Never Stops]]'': ''"And a sinister midget with a bucket and a mop, where the blood goes down the drain"''.
* ''[[The Radio Is Broken]]'': The final line is: "''Dwarf Nebula!"'', which seagues into ''[[Mõggio]]'', a song was inspired by a dream [[Diva Zappa]] had about a tiny little father named Moggio living under the pillow. <ref>Frank Zappa, ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2|They're Doing the Interview of the Century]]'', [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages]], June 1990</ref>
* ''[[Be In My Video]]'': ''"And midgets dressed in white"''
* ''[[Brown Moses]]'': ''"Dis pygmy I be clutchin"''
* In the 1993 interview ''[[Zappa Plays On]]'', Zappa referred to his maze-like house in [[Laurel Canyon]] as ''"early Rumpelstiltskin"''.

==References==
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[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]

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 ==Quotes==
-''"I am never alone. I have a house with six dwarfs who take care of me. The dwarfs change from week to week so I don't get bored."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[Fifty-Four Fab, Boss Questions...]]'', 1966.
+''"I am never alone. I have a house with six dwarfs who take care of me. The dwarfs change from week to week so I don't get bored."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[Fifty-Four Fab, Boss Questions ...]]'', 1966.
 ==References==

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 [[Gail Zappa]]'s brother, Arthur Sloatman was nicknamed ''"Midget"''.
-Frank Zappa's music publishing company ''[[Munchkin Music]]'' was named after the dwarves from the film ''The Wizard Of Oz''.
+Frank Zappa's music publishing company ''[[Munchkin Music]]'' was named after the dwarves from the film ''The Wizard Of Oz''. In ''[[Z-Pack - L.A. Times article]]'' ([[Rip Rense]], Los Angeles Times, 24 October 1985), on ''"Porn Wars,"'' Zappa programmed the voices into a digital computer system keyboard, which allowed him to ''"play"'' the voices in registers ranging from ''"gorilla"'' to ''"munchkin"'' to ''"mega-chipmunk"'' to ''"mosquito."'' Robert L. Doerschuk in ''[[The Zappa Legacy]]'' (Keyboard, April 1994) reports how [[Tommy Mars]] sang a song from ''The Wizard of Oz'' that pleased Zappa. Mars then noticed the ''Munchkin Music'' logo on his musical score and felt this was very ''cosmic''.
 * ''[[Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula]]''
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 * ''[[Penis Dimension]]'': ''"If you're a lady and you've got munchkin tits..."''.
 * ''[[Munchkin Tits]]''
 * ''[[Camarillo Brillo]]'': "''And she was breeding a dwarf, but she wasn't done yet."''
 * ''[[Pygmy Twylyte]]''

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 * ''[[Montana]]'': ''"Just me and the pygmy pony over by the dental floss bush"''
 * ''[[The Torture Never Stops]]'': ''"And a sinister midget with a bucket and a mop, where the blood goes down the drain"''.
 * ''[[The Radio Is Broken]]'': The final line is: "''Dwarf Nebula!"'', which seagues into ''[[Mõggio]]'', a song was inspired by a dream [[Diva Zappa]] had about a tiny little father named Moggio living under the pillow. <ref>Frank Zappa, ''[[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2|They're Doing the Interview of the Century]]'', [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages]], June 1990</ref>
 * ''[[Be In My Video]]'': ''"And midgets dressed in white"''

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 * ''[[Champagne Lecture]]'': munchkin vegetables are discussed.
 * In the 1993 interview ''[[Zappa Plays On]]'', Zappa referred to his maze-like house in [[Laurel Canyon]] as ''"early Rumpelstiltskin"''.
 ==References==

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 [[File:Ringo Starr 200 Motels.jpg|350px|thumb|right|[[Ringo Starr]] als Larry the Dwarf on the set of ''200 Motels''.]]
 '''Dwarves''', '''midgets''', '''munchkins''' (characters from ''The Wizard Of Oz'') and '''little people''' in general, particularly ''pygmies'', are recurring characters in Zappa's music, being part of his [[Conceptual Continuity]]. In conversation with [[Nigey Lennon]], [[Andrew Greenaway]] analyzed the recurring use of dwarfs and midgets in Zappa's work. <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z21XZ6k_CGY: Nigey Lennon and Richard Greenaway, part 2 (from the 27:10 mark) </ref>
 [[Gail Zappa]]'s brother, Arthur Sloatman was nicknamed ''"Midget"''.