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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
 
For the front cover, [[Cal Schenkel|Calvin Schenkel]] designed a spoof on cheesy horror-movie ads, featuring cartoony wording and a photo that turned out not to be Frank screaming, as at first glance, but yawning (“Chunga’s Revenge” therefore being revealed as a funny Zappa term for weariness).  
 
For the front cover, [[Cal Schenkel|Calvin Schenkel]] designed a spoof on cheesy horror-movie ads, featuring cartoony wording and a photo that turned out not to be Frank screaming, as at first glance, but yawning (“Chunga’s Revenge” therefore being revealed as a funny Zappa term for weariness).  
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Each second song on the original side 1 and side 2 has to do with women performing "favors" of a sexual nature; the implication is that military men are at least as “dirty” as stereotypical rock musicians. The line “What the road ladies do to you” from “[[Road Ladies]]” is a twist on “Ooh, what it do to you” from “[[WPLJ]]” on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]; the wine makes you horny, but the girl gives you venereal disease. The names “Freddie and Joe” heard in “[[Would You Go All the Way?]]” are send-ups of “[[Flo & Eddie|Eddie and Flo]].”
 
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“[[Twenty Small Cigars]]” (a pack of cigarettes) is an outtake from the Hot Rats sessions and features [[Max Bennett]] on stand-up bass. Both the guitar and overdubbed harpsichord are played by Frank.
 
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“[[The Nancy & Mary Music]]” comes from a concert at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and features [[George Duke]] doing vocal drum imitations.
 
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== Conceptual Continuity ==
 
== Conceptual Continuity ==
  

Revision as of 13:42, 12 April 2006

Release Info

Chunga's Revenge

Released October 1970.


Produced by Frank Zappa.
Special help on production: Dick Barber.
Engineers: Dick Kunc, Stan Agol, Roy Barker.
Cover design: Cal Schenkel.
Front cover photo: Phil Franks.

Tracks

  1. Transylvania Boogie (05:02)
  2. Road Ladies (04:10)
  3. Twenty Small Cigars (02:18)
  4. The Nancy & Mary Music (09:28)
  5. Tell Me You Love Me (02:34)
  6. Would You Go All The Way? (02:30)
  7. Chunga's Revenge (06:16)
  8. The Clap (01:23)
  9. Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink (02:44)
  10. Sharleena (04:05)

Players

Background

For the front cover, Calvin Schenkel designed a spoof on cheesy horror-movie ads, featuring cartoony wording and a photo that turned out not to be Frank screaming, as at first glance, but yawning (“Chunga’s Revenge” therefore being revealed as a funny Zappa term for weariness).

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD) 		Barcode
(EAN-13) 		Artwork Comment
11 1.1
Original
Stereo 		1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
MS 2030 		1970-10-23 None   US edition.
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
RSLP 2030 		1970 None   UK edition, golden green sleeve.
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
K44020 		1971 None   UK 2nd edition (red sleeve).
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
HRES 291-40 		1972 None   Spanish edition titled La Venganza de Chunga.
Unknown 1 LP Barking Pumpkin
BPR 8888-5 		1986-11-25     Included in The Old Masters, Box II set.
1.2
Poor
Quality
Remaster 		1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10164 		1990-05 0014431016424   US edition.
1 CD Zappa Records
CDZAP 23 		1990-05 5016583602321   UK edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5029 		1994-10-26 4988112405714   Japanese edition.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10511 		1995-05-02 0014431051128   US edition. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8724 DISCTRONICS RCD 10511 02
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5120 		1995-10-25 4988112407800   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5255 		1996-05-30 4988112408555   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1212 		2001-09-21 4988112412682   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.
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