Category:Freak Out! (The List)

The Freak Out! list. Click for larger versions

In the liner notes of *Freak Out! before a list of names it says:

"These People Have Contributed Materially in Many Ways to Make Our Music What it is. Please Do Not Hold it Against them."

Zappa later elaborated:

"That whole Freak Out! album is to be as accessible as possible to the people who wanted to take the time to make it accessible. That list of names in there, if anybody were to research it, it would probably help them a great deal." - Frank Zappa interview with Frank Kofsky in Jazz & Pop, 1967

Knowing who these people are/were is one thing; knowing what they meant to FZ is something completely different. They can be divided into several categories (and many had their name misspelled...):

• Composers, conductors etc.: Bulent Arel, Pierre Boulez, Robert Craft, Cecil Forsythe, Alois Haba, John Tasker Howard, Charles Ives, Mauricio Kagel, Luigi Nono, Leo Ornstein, Vincent Persichetti, Maurice Ravel, Silvestre Revueltas, Roger Huntington Sessions, Arnold Schönberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Igor Stravinsky, Jack Tillar, Edgar Varèse, Anton Webern.

• Popular Singers, Songwriters, Musicians & the likes: Dave Aerni, Joan Baez, John Beck, Molly Bee, Richard Berry, Charles Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Teddy Bunn, Albert Collins, David Crosby, Skip Diamond, Willie Dixon, Eric Dolphy, Don & Dewey, Bob Dylan, Bill Evans, Johnny Franklin, Ernie Freeman, Gene & Eunice, Vernon Greene, Buddy Guy, Slim Harpo, Chuck Higgins, Joe Huston, Bobby Jamieson, Don Julian, Terry Kirkman, Roland Kirk, Chatur Lal, Preston Love, Junior Madeo, Steve Mann, Little Arthur Matthews, Barry McGuire, Big Jay McNeely ("Cecil James McNeely"), Charles Mingus, Vic Mortenson, N.C. Mullick, Johnny Otis, Joe Perrino, Elvis Presley, Bob Reiner, Sabicas, Ravi Shankar, Jim Sherwood, Frankie Lee Simms, Guitar Slim, Lightnin' Slim, Alice Stewart, Don Vliet, Donald Woods.

• Producers, road managers, etc.: Dick Barber, Paul Buff, Mark Cheka, Herb Cohen, Jim Economides, Brian Epstein, Snuff Garrett, Jim Guercio, Jesse Kaye, Bob Keene, Art Laboe, Phil Spector, Nick Venet, Tom Wilson.

• Movie Stars, TV & Radio Personalities, Entertainers...: Diane Baker, Melvin Belli, Huggy Boy, Lenny Bruce, Rosemarie De Camp, Frank De Cova, Joe De Santis, Fred C. Dobbs, Bruce Gordon, Hunter Hancock, Lew Irwin, Wolfman Jack, Jeepers, Charles Middleton, J. Arthur Rank, B. Mitchell Reed, Herman Rudin, Sabu, Bill Stulla, Tim Sullivan, Sonny Tufts, John Wayne, Hal Zeiger.

• Painters, Writers & others: Salvador Dali, Jules Feiffer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Joyce, Eberhard Kronhausen, Loeb & Leopold, Sacco & Vanzetti, Robert Sheckley, Cordwainer Smith, Bram Stoker, Theodore Sturgeon, Yves Tanguy, Avedis Zildjian.

• Teachers, friends & acquaintances: Sandy Schwanekamp, Leonard Allen, Bobby Atler, William Ballard ("Mr. Ballard"), Sylvia Brigham, Sidney W. Brossman ("Dr. Brossman"), Don Cerveris, Randy De Wees, Uncle Ed, Phyllis Altenhaus ("Fyllis"), Animal Huxley, Karl Kohn, Lauren, Lucille, Mario, Jerry Murnane, Bob Narciso, Pepper, Pete (Lorraine Belcher), Nadine Reyes, Kaye Sherman, Phil Tanzini, Ernie Tosi, Jerry Ullberg ("Allberg"), Elmer Valentine, Pamela Zarubica.

This leaves another bunch of unknown, thus "un-identified" people (although there are some clues to some of them, perhaps): Jerry Allberg (probably "Ullberg"), The Bokelmans, Leonard Gorczyca, Carol, Cordy, Daddy-o Curtis Crump, George Di Carl, Donna No 1 ("Donna #1"), Donna No 2 ("Donna #2"), Shirley Eiler, Evy, Floyd, Carl Greenhouse, Jeff Harris, The Hypnotist, Lyn Johnson, Joyce, Joe Polly, Lance Reardon, Lillian Rudolph, Ruthie, Steffie, Lee Zugon.

Related pages: "We're Only In It For the Money (The List)", "One Size Fits All (The List), "The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)", "Them Or Us (The List)", "Tinsel Town Rebellion (The List)", PMRC (The List).