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Revision as of 14:10, 3 April 2006

Release Info

Chunga's Revenge

Released October 1970.

Tracks

  1. Transylvania Boogie (05:02)
  2. Road Ladies (04:10)
  3. Twenty Small Cigars (02:18)
  4. The Nancy & Mary Music (09:28)
  5. Tell Me You Love Me (02:34)
  6. Would You Go All The Way? (02:30)
  7. Chunga's Revenge (06:16)
  8. The Clap (01:23)
  9. Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink (02:44)
  10. Sharleena (04:05)

Players

Background

For the front cover, Calvin Schenkel designed a spoof on cheesy horror-movie ads, featuring cartoony wording and a photo that turned out not to be Frank screaming, as at first glance, but yawning (“Chunga’s Revenge” therefore being revealed as a funny Zappa term for weariness).

Each second song on the original side 1 and side 2 has to do with women performing "favors" of a sexual nature; the implication is that military men are at least as “dirty” as stereotypical rock musicians. The line “What the road ladies do to you” from “Road Ladies” is a twist on “Ooh, what it do to you” from “WPLJ” on Burnt Weeny Sandwich; the wine makes you horny, but the girl gives you venereal disease. The names “Freddie and Joe” heard in “Would You Go All the Way?” are send-ups of “Eddie and Flo.”

Twenty Small Cigars” (a pack of cigarettes) is an outtake from the Hot Rats sessions and features Max Bennett on stand-up bass. Both the guitar and overdubbed harpsichord are played by Frank.

The Nancy & Mary Music” comes from a concert at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and features George Duke doing vocal drum imitations.

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD)
Barcode
(EAN-13)
Artwork Comment
11 1.1
Original
Stereo
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
MS 2030
1970-10-23 None   US edition.
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
RSLP 2030
1970 None   UK edition, golden green sleeve.
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
K44020
1971 None   UK 2nd edition (red sleeve).
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
HRES 291-40
1972 None   Spanish edition titled La Venganza de Chunga.
Unknown 1 LP Barking Pumpkin
BPR 8888-5
1986-11-25     Included in The Old Masters, Box II set.
1.2
Poor
Quality
Remaster
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10164
1990-05 0014431016424   US edition.
1 CD Zappa Records
CDZAP 23
1990-05 5016583602321   UK edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5029
1994-10-26 4988112405714   Japanese edition.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10511
1995-05-02 0014431051128   US edition. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8724 DISCTRONICS RCD 10511 02
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5120
1995-10-25 4988112407800   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5255
1996-05-30 4988112408555   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1212
2001-09-21 4988112412682   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.