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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''.]] | [[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> | '''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> | ||
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[[Gail Zappa]]'s brother, Arthur Sloatman was nicknamed ''"Midget"''. | [[Gail Zappa]]'s brother, Arthur Sloatman was nicknamed ''"Midget"''. | ||
Revision as of 11:48, 1 June 2026
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. [1]
One of Zappa's favorite films, Freaks, also features appearances of small people.
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. 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
- Ringo Starr plays a character named Larry the Dwarf in 200 Motels (The Film)
- Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce: "Munchkin cretins" (...) "munchkins get me hot".
- Penis Dimension: "If you're a lady and you've got munchkin tits...".
- Munchkin Tits
- The Red Throbber: "Enbalmed in a munchkin plastic bath tub".
- 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. [2]
- Be In My Video: "And midgets dressed in white"
- Brown Moses: "Dis pygmy I be clutchin"
- 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
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z21XZ6k_CGY: Nigey Lennon and Richard Greenaway, part 2 (from the 27:10 mark)
- ↑ Frank Zappa, They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Society Pages, June 1990
