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Zappa referred to shoes and other types of footwear regularly in his work.  
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[[File:Zappassock.jpg|thumb|right|Close-up of Zappa's shoes circa 1968]]
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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.”
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* [[Advance Romance]]: “Shoes is all wore.”  
 
* [[America Drinks]]: “1, 2, buckle my shoe.”  
 
* [[America Drinks]]: “1, 2, buckle my shoe.”  
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* [[Be In My Video]]: “I’ll make you wear red shoes”
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* [[Beauty Knows No Pain]]: "Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die."
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* [[Blue Suede Shoes]]
 
* [[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]: "brown shoes don't make it"  (...) "shining your shoes and cut your hair."  
 
* [[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.”
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* [[Can't Afford No Shoes]]
* [[Plastic People (1966 - San Francisco)]]: “Their shoes are brown.”
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* [[The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes]] (by [[GTO's|The GTO's]])
* [[Mr. Green Genes]]: “Eat your shoes/don’t forget the strings.”  
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* [[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]: “Then she gave a pair of shoes to me” (…)  “I wonder what the shoes for?”  
* [[Willie The Pimp]]: “With my shoe shined black”
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* [[Church Chat]]: "With a SHOE"
* [[Magic Fingers]] “beat you with a pair of tennis shoes”
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* [[Debra Kadabra]]: “Shoes are too tight and pointed”
 
* [[Dental Hygiene Dilemma]]: “Put it on your shoes, tie your bike with it.”  
 
* [[Dental Hygiene Dilemma]]: “Put it on your shoes, tie your bike with it.”  
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* [[The Evil Prince]]: “And also his shoes”
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* [[Excentrifugal Forz]]: “Along a Hammond organism /underneath his shoes….”
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* [[Father O'Blivion]]: “I brought you your snow shoes”
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* [[Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes]]
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* [[Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder]]:  “I bought a new pair of shoes.”
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* [[Goblin Girl]]: “Little green shoes”
 
* [[Hunchentoot]]: Oh me, oh my, I wasted forty pair o' shoes just-a walkin' that floor wit de HUNCHENTOOTIN' BLUES!
 
* [[Hunchentoot]]: Oh me, oh my, I wasted forty pair o' shoes just-a walkin' that floor wit de HUNCHENTOOTIN' BLUES!
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* [[Joe's Garage (Track)|Joe's Garage]]: "Got matching suits and [[The Beatles|Beatle boots]]"
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* [[Magic Fingers]] “beat you with a pair of tennis shoes”
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* [[The Mammy Nuns]]: “We got the talkin’ shoes”
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* [[Mr. Green Genes]]: “Eat your shoes/don’t forget the strings.”
 
* [[Nanook Rubs It]] “with a lead-filled snow shoe.”  
 
* [[Nanook Rubs It]] “with a lead-filled snow shoe.”  
* [[Father O'Blivion]]: “I brought you your snow shoes”
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* [[Plastic People (1965 - unknown)]] “Their shoes are brown.”
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* [[Plastic People (1966 - San Francisco)]]: “Their shoes are brown.”
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* [[Porn Wars]]: "Gold lamé hoof covers"
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* [[Prelude To King Kong]]: "sneakers" "galoshes"
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* [[Sinister Footwear]]
 
* [[Stink-Foot]]: “Get your shoes and socks on people…” “Bring the slippers…”
 
* [[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…”
 
* [[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”
 
* [[White Person]]: “Golf shoes”
* [[Sinister Footwear]]
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* [[Willie The Pimp]]: “With my shoe shined black”
* [[Blue Suede Shoes]]
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* [[Wonderful Wino]]: “Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim shoe.”
* [[Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes]]
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* A close-up of a shoe is also clearly visible on the cover of [[Over-Nite Sensation]]
* [[Beatle Boots]]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 17:57, 6 March 2024

Close-up of Zappa's shoes circa 1968

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