Any Way The Wind Blows (The Track)

Records In Which This Song Has Appeared

Zappa Singles

Any Way the Wind Blows / Jelly Roll Gumdrop - Ruben & The Jets (1968)

• Any Way The Wind Blows (02:56)
• Jelly Roll Gumdrop (02:24)

Zappa Albums

In order of recording

• The Lost Episodes
• Freak Out!
• Cruising With Ruben & The Jets, as Anyway The Wind Blows.
• Swiss Cheese/Fire! (BTB), as Anyway The Wind Blows.
• FZ & The Mothers Of Invention (The Bootleg), as Anyway The Wind Blows.

Tributes & Cover Albums

• Unmatched
• The Muffin Men: [[Muffinz}}, as Anyway The Wind Blows.

Notes About This Song

“Any Way the Wind Blows” was originally recorded at Studio Z in the early ‘60s by Frank and an ever-shifting squad of musicians called The Soots, along with an instrumental piece called “Never on Sunday” (later retitled “Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance”). Both were turned down by Dot Records. Milt Rogers, the label’s A&R man, told Frank that the distorted guitar would hinder -- you guessed it -- the songs’ “commercial potential.”