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==Lyrics==  
 
==Lyrics==  
==Players On This Song==  
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==Players On This Song==
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*[[Biography|Frank Zappa]] lead guitar
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*[[Ike Willis]] guitar
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*[[Mike Keneally]] guitar, synth
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*[[Bobby Martin]] keyboards
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*[[Ed Mann]] percussion
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*[[The Fowler Brothers|Walt Fowler]] trumpet
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*[[The Fowler Brothers|Bruce Fowler]] trombone
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*[[Paul Carman]] alto sax
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*[[Albert Wing]] tenor sax
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*[[Kurt McGettrick]] baritone sax
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*[[Scott Thunes]] bass
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*[[Chad Wackerman]] drums
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==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==  
 
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==  
 
===Singles===  
 
===Singles===  
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===Tribute & Cover Albums===  
 
===Tribute & Cover Albums===  
 
==Notes About This Song==  
 
==Notes About This Song==  
out-take from [[The Torture Never Stops]]
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Out-take from ''[[The Torture Never Stops]]'' at [[88/05/01 Stockholm Sweden Johanneshovs Isstadion|Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm May 1, 1988]].
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''Gorgo'' could be a reference to the 1961 British monster movie ''Gorgo''. Yet in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]'' Zappa mentions that he owned ''"a vile short-tempered Siamese cat named Gorgo"'', whom he named after Gorgonzola, one of the Grunt People in his project ''[[Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People]]''.
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==CC Clues In This Song==  
 
==CC Clues In This Song==  
[[Category:Tracks]]
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'''Gorgo''' is one of the stars in the "[[One Size Fits All]]" (1975) "universe".
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[[Eddie Are You Kidding?]] performed by [[Flo & Eddie]] (without FZ), contains a line 'Our lovely model [[Gorgo]] here will demonstrate'... (see [[Illegal, Immoral And Fattening]] from 1975).
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[[Category:Tracks]]
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[[Category:Fictional characters]]
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[[Category:Favorite Films]]
 
[[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)]]
 
[[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)]]
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[[Category:Fictional characters]]
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[[Category:Animals]]
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[[Category:Zappa Household]]
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[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]

Latest revision as of 20:43, 5 December 2021


Lyrics

Players On This Song

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Singles

FZ Albums & Side Projects

Tribute & Cover Albums

Notes About This Song

Out-take from The Torture Never Stops at Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm May 1, 1988.

Gorgo could be a reference to the 1961 British monster movie Gorgo. Yet in The Real Frank Zappa Book Zappa mentions that he owned "a vile short-tempered Siamese cat named Gorgo", whom he named after Gorgonzola, one of the Grunt People in his project Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People.

CC Clues In This Song

Gorgo is one of the stars in the "One Size Fits All" (1975) "universe".

Eddie Are You Kidding? performed by Flo & Eddie (without FZ), contains a line 'Our lovely model Gorgo here will demonstrate'... (see Illegal, Immoral And Fattening from 1975).