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[[Billy Mundi]]--drums, percussion
 
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==Albums On Which This Song Has Appeared==
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==Recordings On Which This Song Has Appeared==
  
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===Official Frank Zappa Albums:===
 
* [[Absolutely Free]]  
 
* [[Absolutely Free]]  
 
* [[Mothermania]], including '''Soft-Sell Conclusion'''
 
* [[Mothermania]], including '''Soft-Sell Conclusion'''
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* [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]
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* [[Playground Psychotics]] (dialogue part)
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[[Beat The Boots]] series:
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* [[Swiss Cheese/Fire! (BTB)|Swiss Cheese/Fire!]]
 
* [[Freaks & Motherfuckers (BTB)|Freaks & Motherfuckers]]
 
* [[Freaks & Motherfuckers (BTB)|Freaks & Motherfuckers]]
* [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]
 
* [[Swiss Cheese/Fire! (BTB)|Swiss Cheese/Fire!]]. Same take on
 
  
 
==Notes About This Song==
 
==Notes About This Song==

Revision as of 06:11, 27 July 2005

Lyrics

Absolutely Free version:

Cheesy, cheesy!


(This is a song about vegetables . . . they keep you regular; they're real good for ya.)

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)

Call it by name
(Call any vegetable)

Call one today
(Call any vegetable)

When you get off the train
(Call any vegetable)

Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Ooooh! The vegetable
Will respond to you

(Some people don't go for prunes . . . I dunno . . . I've always found that if they...)

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)

Pick up your phone
(Call any vegetable)

Think of a vegetable
(Call any vegetable)

Lonely at home
(Call any vegetable)

Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you-hoooo

RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAYYYYY . . .

(A prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.)

No one will know
If you don't want to let 'em know
No one will know
'Less it's you that might tell 'em so
Call and they'll come to you
Covered with dew
Vegetables dream
Of responding to you
Standing there
Shiny & proud by your side
Holding your hand
While the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable
Something to hide?
YAR-R-R-R-R-G-H!


Just Another Band From L.A. version:

Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Yeah-eh-hey, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la . . . oh

Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Yeah-eh-hey, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la, the vegetable will respond to you
La-la-ah la-la . . .

Ruta-bay-ay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ay-ayga,
Ruta-bay-ay-ayga, Ruta-bay-ay-ayga,
Ruta-bayyyyy . . .

No one will know
If you don't want to let 'em know
No one will know
'Less it's you that might tell 'em so

Call and they'll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetables dream,
Vegetables dream,
Vegetables dream,
Of responding to you

Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
To hide!
To hide!
To hide!

Shoo-shoo Shoo-shoo
Shoo-shoo Shoo-shoo . . .

FZ: You know, a lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. They, they think: What can I say? Some times they think: Where can I go?
Howard: Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in Burbank?
Mark: At Ralph's vegetarian poodle clippin', where you can come this . . .
Howard: Where can I go to get organic vaseline for my intercourse?
Mark: At Bob and Ray's Swahili restaurant, where you can come this close . . .
Howard: Where can I go to get my jeans embroidered in Fullerton?
Mark: At Jeans, at Jeans North where nothing fits
Howard: Where can I go to get my zipper repaired in Hollywood?
Mark: Who gives a fuck anyway!
Howard: Where can I go to get my speakers fixed?
Mark: Hey . . . at Jack La . . .
Howard: Where can I go to get my exit lights?
Mark:: At Jack La Lanne Hamburgers on 312 Whittier Boulevard
Howard: Where can I go to get my stomach pumped? Where can I go to collapse?
Mark: Adee do
FZ: Questions, Questions, Questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned young person today. Ah, but it's a great time to be alive, ladies and gentlemen. And that's the theme of our program for tonight. It's so FUCKING GREAT to be alive! Is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. And I wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who doesn't believe that it is FUCKING GREAT to be alive, I wish they would go now, because this show will bring them down so much . . .

God bless America
Land that I...


Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You gotta call one today
When you get off the train

Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
OH! That the vegetable will RESPOND to you

Mark: And if you're a consenting adult we want you to call today. In Los Angeles, the number is RIchmond 9-6135, in Downey, it's 347-8932.

Call it direct,
Call it collect,
But call it today!

Players On This Song

Frank Zappa--guitar, vocals
Ray Collins--vocals, tambourine, PRUNE
Jim Fielder--guitar, piano
Don Preston--keyboards
Bunk Gardner--woodwinds
Roy Estrada--bass, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black--drums, vocals
Billy Mundi--drums, percussion

Recordings On Which This Song Has Appeared

Official Frank Zappa Albums:

Beat The Boots series:

Notes About This Song

Zappa says:

"The best clue to this song might lie in the fact that people who are inactive in a society... people who do not live up to their responsibilities... are vegetables.
I feel that these people... even if they are inactive, apathetic or unconcerned at this point... can be motivated toward a more useful sort of existence. I believe that if you call any vegatable it will respond to you."

(From FZ's song-by-song comments to the album)

Zappa says some more:

"There's a twisted reference to Charles Ives at the end of Call Any Vegetable. One of the things that Ives is noted for is his use of multiple colliding themes- the musical illusion of having several marching bands marching through each other. In our low-rent version, the band splits into three parts, playing "The Star-Spangled Banner," "God Bless America" and "America The Beautiful" all at the same time, yielding an amateur version of an Ives collision. Unless listeners pay attention in that one spot- there are only a few bars of it, they might think it was a 'mistake.'"
(From The Real Frank Zappa Book)

CC Clues In This Song