Waka/Jawaka

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Waka/Jawaka
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 Big Swifty (17:22) Side Two Your Mouth (3:12) It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (4:17) Waka/Jawaka (11:17)

CD Big Swifty (17:22) Your Mouth (3:12) It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (4:17) Waka/Jawaka (11:19)

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.

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.

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	LP	Warner Bizarre/Reprise K 44203	1972-08[1]	None		UK edition.
		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.
		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.

Notes

1. Martin C. Strong, 2004, The Great Rock Discography, p. 1721.