Very Distraughtening

The second half’s opening vocal that sounds like it’s coming from a drunk guy trying to sing along with the mainstream music that’s been darting in and out -- something like “ba-BOMP-BODDY!” -- will, with the release of The Lost Episodes, reveal itself to be a fragment of “Ronnie Sings?”, a recording of Frank’s boyhood friend Ronnie Williams (who introduced him to Paul Buff of Pal Studios, which would become Studio Z) making rough-throated scat sounds to Frank’s guitar accompaniment in an Ontario living room in 1961 or ‘62. Ronnie’s booger-saving, fart-lighting and accidental urine-creature-making activities are among the subjects of “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black” on the Money album; that song also cuts momentarily to the voice. It figures into the plot here as a “little pig with wings” (even though it sounds more like a goat with emphysema).