We're Only In It For The Money

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We're Only In It For The Money
Released March 1968
See also: The Old Masters, Box I Threesome No. 1 Money Demos

Players

The Mothers:

• Frank Zappa (guitar, piano, lead vocals, "weirdness & editing")
• Dick Barber ("snorks")
• Jimmy Carl Black ("Indian of the group", drums, trumpet, vocals)
• Roy Estrada (electric bass, vocals, "asthma")
• Bunk Gardner (all woodwinds, "mumbled weirdness")
• Billy Mundi (drums, vocal, "yak & black lace underwear")
• Don Preston (keyboards)
• Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood (soprano & baritone saxophones, "all purpose weirdness")
• Ian Underwood (piano, woodwinds, "wholesome")
• Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese ("telephone")

Also:

• Spider ("is the one who wants you to turn your radio around")
• Eric Clapton ("has graciously consented to speak to you in several critical area")
• Gary Kellgren ("creepy whispering")
• Dick Kunc ("cheerful interruptions")
• Sid Sharp (orchestral segments conductor)
• Vicki ("telephone ")
• Ronnie Williams (backwards voice)

Overdubs on the 1984 remix:

• Arthur Barrow (bass)
• Chad Wackerman (drums)

Tracks

LP Side One Are You Hung Up? (1:23) Who Needs The Peace Corps? (2:34) Concentration Moon (2:42) Mom & Dad (2:16) Bow Tie Daddy (1:22) Harry, You're a Beast (1:22) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (1:03) Absolutely Free (3:26) Flower Punk (3:57) Hot Poop (0:16) Side Two Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (2:00) Let's Make The Water Turn Black (1:54) The Idiot Bastard Son (3:27) Lonely Little Girl (1:10) Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (1:33) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise) (1:03) Mother People (2:30) The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny (6:30)

Current CD Are You Hung Up? (1:24) Who Needs The Peace Corps? (2:34) Concentration Moon (2:22) Mom & Dad (2:16) Telephone Conversation (0:49) Bow Tie Daddy (0:33) Harry, You're a Beast (1:21) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (1:03) Absolutely Free (3:24) Flower Punk (3:03) Hot Poop (0:27) Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (2:03) Let's Make The Water Turn Black (2:01) The Idiot Bastard Son (3:19) Lonely Little Girl (1:10) Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (1:33) What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise) (1:02) Mother People (2:26) The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny (6:25)

1986 CD, coupled with Lumpy Gravy Tracks 1 to 19 : Current CD tracks list Tracks 20 to 21 : Lumpy Gravy tracks list

Release Notes

Originally released in September 1968.
Basic sessions: Mayfair Studios, NYC, August-September, 1967; Engineer: Gary Kellgren.
Final recordings & re-mix: Apostolic Studios, NYC, October, 1967; Engineer: Dick Kunc.
Orchestral segments: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, February, 1967.
Produced by Frank Zappa.
Executive producer: Tom Wilson.
Photography: Jerrold Schatzberg.
Fashions: Tiger Morse.
Plaster figures & all other artwork: Cal Schenkel.

Background Information

Cover art: the "Money List!"

Alternate Covers

Initial release

Originally intended as the picture inside the cover but used (because MGM feared litigation by EMI) as the outer sleeve image for the initial release.

We're Only In It For The Money

Subsequent issues

Later releases would switch the cover images back as originally intended.

We're Only In It For The Money (MFSL
UDCD 764)

Versions

ZFT #	Version #	# discs	Format	Catalog #	Release (YYYY-MM-DD)	Barcode (EAN-13)	Artwork	Comment
4	0 Demo Acetate	1?	LP		Unreleased	None		Bootlegs do exist (see Money Demos)
	1.1 Original Stereo, Heavily Censored	1	LP	MGM Verve V6-5045X	1968-03-04	None		US edition. Blue Verve label.
	1.2 Original Mono, Heavily Censored	1	LP	MGM Verve V-5045				US edition.
	1.3 Original Stereo Partly Censored	1	LP	MGM Verve V6-5045X	?	None		US 2nd edition. Black Verve label.
	2 Important Remix, Uncensored	1	LP	Barking Pumpkin BPR 7777-3	1985-04-19			Included in The Old Masters, Box I set.
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 40024	1986	0144314002425? 0014431002427? (not printed)		US edition, AAD, coupled with Lumpy Gravy. Matrix # 818 PUMPKIN RYK-CD40024 SOI01
		1	CD	Zappa CDZAP 13	1988-12?	5016583601324		UK edition, coupled with Lumpy Gravy.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5023	1994-10-26	4988112405264		Japanese edition, coupled with Lumpy Gravy.
	1.3 Original Stereo, Partly Censored	1	CS	Rykodisc RAC 10503	1995-04-18	0014431050343		US edition.
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10503	1995-04-18	0014431050329		US edition.
		1	LP	Rykodisc RALP 10503	1995-05-02	0014431050312?		US edition.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5104	1995-09-25	4988112406988		Japanese edition.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5239	1996-05-24	4988112408395		Japanese edition = Rykodisc RCD 10503 repackaged with an obi strip and extra liner notes in Japanese
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 1206	2001-09-21	4988112412620		Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 40582/3	2002-03-21	None		Included in the Threesome No. 1 box set. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8736 DISCTRONICS RCD 10503 02
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10594	2005-07-19	0014431059421		= VideoArts VACK 1206, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed.
	1.3a[1][2] Original Stereo Slight Remaster, Partly Censored	1	CD	MFSL UDCD 764	2005-08-23	0821797076463		24 Karat Gold CD.
	Unknown	1	CD	VideoArts VACK 1320	2008-05-21	4988112417649		Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.

Notes

1. According to the Zappa Patio, the MFSL UDCD 764 Gold CD was made from the Ryko tapes but has a different equalization.
2. "All [MFSL] releases are made from the first generation master tape and mastered at half-speed, allowing for an improved sound quality" — Wikipedia, MFSL article.