Waka/Jawaka
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| Released July 1972 | |
| See also: IINK, Patio, KUR The Old Masters, Box III Threesome No. 2 | |
Players
- Frank Zappa (acoustic guitar, electric bed springs, vocals, guitar, percussion)
- Mike Altschul (baritone sax, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet, tenor sax, baritone sax)
- Bill Byers (trombone, baritone horn)
- George Duke (ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano, tack piano)
- Aynsley Dunbar (drums, washboard, tambourine)
- Tony Duran (slide guitar, vocals)
- Erroneous (electric bass, vocals, fuzz bass)
- Janet Ferguson (vocals)
- "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow (pedal steel solo)
- Sal Marquez (trumpets, vocals, flugelhorn, chimes)
- Joel Peskin (tenor sax)
- Kris Peterson (vocals)
- Don Preston (piano, Minimoog)
- Ken Shroyer (trombone, baritone horn)
- Jeff Simmons (Hawaiian guitar, vocals)
Tracks
LP
Side One
Side Two
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CD
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Release Notes
Recorded: Paramount Studios, LA, April-May, 1972.
Released July 1972.
Produced by Frank Zappa.
Engineered by Kerry McNab (Under the thoughtful supervision of Marshall Brevitz).
Cover illustration by Marvin Mattelson (The idea for the sink courtesy Sal Marquez).
Cover photo by Philip Schwartz.
Packaging by Cal Schenkel.
This album is dedicated to Paul Hof & Barry Keene.
Liner Notes
Background Information
"'Waka/Jawaka' ... is something that showed up on a Ouija board at one time."
— Frank Zappa, interview by Jerry Williams on WGOE-FM Richmond VA, November, 1972, from the Frank Zappa GSW Project Vol. 6 1971-72, disk 2 track 22.
Conceptual Continuity
Versions
| ZFT # | Version # | # discs | Format | Catalog # | Release (YYYY-MM-DD) |
Barcode (EAN-13) |
Artwork | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 Original Stereo |
1 | LP | Warner Bizarre/Reprise MS 2094 |
1972-07-05 | None | US edition. | |
| 1 | CS | Warner/Reprise REP MS2094 |
1972? | None | US edition. | |||
| 1 | LP | Warner Bizarre/Reprise K 44203 |
1972-08[1] | None | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | LP | Warner Bizarre/Reprise REP 44203 (2094) |
1972? | None | German edition. Matrix # Side1: WEA - 44203 - A - PF Side2: WEA 44203 - A - PF | |||
| 1 | LP | Warner-Pioneer Bizarre/Reprise P-8277R |
None | Japanese edition. | ||||
| 1.2 Remaster Stereo |
1 | LP | Barking Pumpkin BPR 9999-1 |
1987-12-30 | Included in The Old Masters, Box III set. | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10094 |
1989? | 0014431009426 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Zappa CDZAP 10 |
1989-01[1] | 5016583601027 | UK edition, AAD. Matrix # ZAP 10 MPO 03 @@ | |||
| 1 | CS | Barking Pumpkin D4 74215 |
1990-10-17 | 0013347421544 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CS | Zappa TZAPPA 10 |
? | 5016583601041? | UK edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5032 |
1994-10-26 | 4988112405745 | Japanese edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 10516 |
1995-05-02 | 0014431051623 | US edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5123 |
1995-10-25 | 4988112407831 | Japanese edition. | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 5258 |
1996-05-30? | 4988112408586 | Japanese edition = Rykodisc RCD 10516 repackaged with an obi strip and extra liner notes in Japanese | |||
| 1 | CD | Rykodisc RCD 40583/2 |
2002-03-21 | None | Included in the Threesome No. 2 box set. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8708 DISCTRONICS RCD 10516 01 | |||
| 1 | CD | VideoArts VACK 1215 |
2001-10-24 | 4988112412712 | Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve. | |||
| 1.3 Remastered Original Stereo |
1 | CD | Zappa/UMe ZR 3848 |
2012-08-28 | 0824302384824 | US edition, manufactured and distributed by UMe[2]. Source: Original 1972 Analog Master. Mastered by Doug Sax with Robert Hadley & Sangwook "Sunny" Nam at The Mastering Lab, Inc., 2012. | ||
| 1 | CD | Zappa/UMG Intl 0238482 |
2012-08-28 | 0824302384824 | EU edition = Zappa/UMe ZR 3848, manufactured in Germany. | |||
| 1 | CD | Zappa/Universal Music Japan UICY-75363 |
2012-11-28 | 4988005737618 | Japanese edition, audiophile SHM-CD, mini-album papersleeve with an obi strip and liner notes in Japanese. |
