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{{Album Release Infobox |
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    Home          = [[Album History (by Cover)|Album History]] |
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    Previous album = [[You Are What You Is|Previous]] |
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    Next album    = [[The Man From Utopia|Next]] |
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    Cover          = ship_arriving_too_late_to_save_a_drowning_witch.jpg |
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    Name          = Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch |
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    Released      = May 1982 |
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    Related        = See also:<br>{{IINKLink|lyrics/Ship_Arriving_Too_Late_To_Save_A_Drowning_Witch.html}},{{ZPLink|vinylvscds/drowning_witch.html}}, {{KURLink|fz-discography/ship-arriving-too-late-to-save-a-drowning-witch}}<br>[[Chalk Pie]]<br>[[The Frank Zappa E.P.]]<br>[[Specialized Digital Audio Gratification]] |
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</div>
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==Players==
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*[[Biography|Frank Zappa]] (lead guitar, vocals)
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*[[Steve Vai]] (guitar)
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*[[Ray White]] (rhythm guitar, vocals)
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*[[Tommy Mars]] (keyboards)
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*[[Bobby Martin]] (keyboards, sax, vocals)
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*[[Ed Mann]] (percussion)
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*[[Scott Thunes]] (bass)
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*[[Arthur Barrow]] (bass)
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*[[Patrick O'Hearn]] (bass)
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*[[Chad Wackerman]] (drums)
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*[[Roy Estrada]] (vocals)
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*[[Ike Willis]] (vocals)
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*[[Bob Harris]] (vocals)
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*[[Lisa Popeil]] (vocals)
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*[[Moon Zappa]] (vocal on [[Valley Girl]])
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==Tracks==
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{| cellspacing="30"
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|valign="top"|<div id="LP"><big>'''LP'''</big></div>
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'''Side One'''
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#[[No Not Now]] (5:50)
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#[[Valley Girl]] (4:58) [actually 4:50]
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#[[I Come From Nowhere]] (6:20)
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'''Side Two'''
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#[[Drowning Witch]] (12:01)
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#[[Envelopes]] (2:44)
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#[[Teen-age Prostitute]] (2:40)
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|valign="top"|<div id="Current CD"><big>'''Current CD'''</big></div>
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#[[No Not Now]] (5:51)
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#[[Valley Girl]] (4:50)
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#[[I Come From Nowhere]] (6:09)
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#[[Drowning Witch]] (12:03)
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#[[Envelopes]] (2:45)
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#[[Teen-age Prostitute]] (2:42)
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|-
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|valign="top"|<div id="1986 CD"><big>'''1986 CD, coupled with [[The Man From Utopia]]'''</big></div>
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*Tracks 1 to 10 : [[The Man From Utopia#LP|The Man From Utopia LP tracks]] list
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*Tracks 11 to 16 : [[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch#Current CD|Current CD tracks]] list
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|valign="top"|<div id="CS"><big>'''Cassette (UK edition)'''</big></div>
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'''Side One'''
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#[[No Not Now]] (5:51)
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#[[Valley Girl]] (4:50)
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#[[I Come From Nowhere]] (6:17)
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'''Side Two'''
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#[[Drowning Witch]] (12:04)
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#[[Envelopes]] (2:46)
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#[[Teen-age Prostitute]] (2:40)
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|}
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==Release Notes==
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==Liner Notes==
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 +
==Background Information==
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{|
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| valign="top" |<blockquote>"...the title of the album is going to be Drowning Witch. A long time ago there was this guy called [[wikipedia:Roger Price (comedian)|Roger Price]] who did this cartoon called Droodles and one of the pictures in the book was called 'Drowning Witch.' Right now we're in the process of trying to locate this guy to get permission to use the picture because this book came out in the '50s. I want to use the original picture."</blockquote>
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<div align=right>— Frank Zappa, Record Review magazine interview, 1982.</div>
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| [[Image:Lucky_Droodle.png|none|thumb|150px|1953 Droodle by Roger Price]]
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|}
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from a [[KPFM-FM Radio Interview, 84/5|KPFM-FM Radio Interview]]:
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CA: "I've noticed that … ah … you've got a credit here for droodles, copyright 1953."
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FZ: "Yeah, the illustration on the cover, yeah."
  
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== Release Info ==
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CA: "Oh, is it this old things like on party napkins?"
  
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== Tracks ==
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FZ: "Right, yeah!"
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[[No Not Now]]
 
  
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[[Valley Girl]]
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CA: "Really, droodles!" [laughs]
  
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[[I Come From Nowhere]]
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FZ: "Yeah, I remembered that one, that one was my favorite droodle of all time, is that one right there. And, and I went on a search to find Roger Price, the guy who did those things and found out that he lived in the San Fernando Valley and works for a publishing company down there and … ah … licensed the right to use that droodle on the cover. That's the original droodle!"
  
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[[Drowning Witch]]
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==Conceptual Continuity==
  
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[[Envelopes]]
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==Versions==
  
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[[Teen-age Prostitute]]
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{| {{Versions Table Header}}
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| rowspan="25" align="center" | 35
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| rowspan="12" align="center" | '''1.1<br>Original<br>[[wikipedia:Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]'''
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | [[wikipedia:Long playing record|LP]]
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| [[Barking Pumpkin]]<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/shiparriving.JPG|FW&nbsp;38066}}
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| 1982-05-03
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | [[wikipedia:Compact audio cassette|CS]]
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| Barking Pumpkin<br>FWT&nbsp;38066
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| 1982-05-03
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | LP
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| [[CBS Records|CBS]]<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/drowningwitch_uk.jpg|CBS&nbsp;85804}}
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| 1982-06<ref name="MStrong">Martin C. Strong, 2004, ''The Great Rock Discography'', p. 1722.</ref>
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| UK edition. Some first copies had a bonus 7" promotional single named [[The Frank Zappa E.P.]]
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| CBS<br>CBS&nbsp;40-85804
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| 1982-06<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| UK edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | LP
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| [[CBS/Sony]]<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/drowningwitch_japan_25AP_2362.jpg|25AP&nbsp;2362}}
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| ?
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| Japanese edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | LP
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| [[EMI Records|EMI]]/Fame<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/shiparriving_argentinia.jpg|5318&nbsp;51&nbsp;2608141}}
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| ?
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| None
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| &nbsp;
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| Argentinian edition, titled [[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch|Barco Llegando Demasiado Tarde Para Salvar A Una Bruja Ahogándose]].
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| EMI/Fame<br>15318&nbsp;51&nbsp;2608144
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| ?
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| None
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| &nbsp;
 +
| Argentinian edition, titled [[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch|Barco Llegando Demasiado Tarde Para Salvar A Una Bruja Ahogándose]].
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | LP
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| EMI<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/Shiparriving_UK_EMC_3501.jpg|EMC&nbsp;3501}}
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| 1986-02<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| UK 2<sup>nd</sup> edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| EMI<br>TCEMC&nbsp;3501
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| 1986-02<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| UK 2<sup>nd</sup> edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | [[wikipedia:Compact disc|CD]]
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| EMI<br>CDP&nbsp;7&nbsp;90074&nbsp;2
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| ?
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| 0077779007424
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| &nbsp;
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| UK edition, coupled with [[The Man From Utopia]]. [[Matrix Numbers|Matrix #]] CDP&nbsp;7&nbsp;90074&nbsp;2 · ·MASTERED· ·BY NIMBUS·
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
 +
| align="center" | LP
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| Fame<br>{{SUTCLink|pictures/SATLTSADW_Fame_label.jpg|FA&nbsp;3180}}
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| 1987-06<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| UK 3<sup>rd</sup> edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| Fame<br>TCFA&nbsp;3180
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| 1987-06<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| UK 3<sup>rd</sup> edition.
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|-
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| rowspan="11" align="center" | '''1.2<br>Original<br>[[wikipedia:Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]'''<br><small>(I Come From Nowhere is shortened)</small>
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| [[Barking Pumpkin]]<br>D2&nbsp;74235
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| 1991
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| 0013347423524
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| Barking Pumpkin<br>D4&nbsp;74235
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| 1991
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| 0013347423548
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | LP
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| [[Zappa Records|Zappa]]<br>ZAPPA&nbsp;42
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| ?
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| 5016583604219
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| &nbsp;
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| UK edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| Zappa<br>CDZAP&nbsp;42
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| 1991-08<ref name="MStrong"/>
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| 5016583604226
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| &nbsp;
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| UK/French edition, [[wikipedia:SPARS Code|AAD]]. Matrix # ZAP&nbsp;CD&nbsp;42 MPO 01 @
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CS
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| Zappa<br>TZAPPA&nbsp;42
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| 1991
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| 5016583604240
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| &nbsp;
 +
| UK edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
 +
| align="center" | CD
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| Barking Pumpkin/[[Music Scene Incorporated|MSI]]<br>MSI&nbsp;80046
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| ?
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| Japanese edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| [[Intercord Record Service|Intercord]]<br>i.r.s.&nbsp;970742
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| ?
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| &nbsp;
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| &nbsp;
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| German edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| [[Rykodisc]]<br>{{DiscogsPicLink|1951096|RCD&nbsp;10537}}
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| 1995-05-02
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| 0014431053726
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD&nbsp;10537 01
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| [[VideoArts]]<br>VACK&nbsp;5088
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| 1995-06-25
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| 4988112406858
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| &nbsp;
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| Japanese edition.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| VideoArts<br>VACK&nbsp;5223
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| 1996-04-15?
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| 4988112408234
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| &nbsp;
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| Japanese edition = Rykodisc RCD&nbsp;10537 repackaged with an [[wikipedia:obi strip|obi strip]] and extra liner notes in Japanese
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
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| align="center" | CD
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| VideoArts<br>{{MLPLink|zappa-frank/ship-arriving-too-late-vack-1243|VACK&nbsp;1243}}
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| 2002-05-29
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| 4988112413283
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| &nbsp;
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| Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.
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|-
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| rowspan="2" align="center" | '''1.2<br>Original<br>[[wikipedia:Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]'''<br><small>(I Come From Nowhere is shortened)</small>
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| align="center" | 1
 +
| align="center" | CD
 +
| Zappa/[[wikipedia:Universal Music Enterprises|UMe]]<br>ZR&nbsp;3865
 +
| 2012-09-25
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| 0824302386521
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| &nbsp;
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| US edition, manufactured and distributed by UMe<ref name="ZFTEmail">Email announcement by the [[ZFT]] on July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2012.</ref>.
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|-
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| align="center" | 1
 +
| align="center" | CD
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| Zappa/[[wikipedia:Universal Music Group|UMG&nbsp;Intl]]<br>0238652
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| 2012-09-25
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| 0824302386521
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| &nbsp;
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| EU edition = Zappa/UMe ZR&nbsp;3865, manufactured in Germany.
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|}
  
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== Players ==
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==Notes==
  
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== Background ==
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<references/>
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The shape of the enlarged Droodle on the front cover spells out “ZA” (and even an arguably incomplete “FZ”).
 
  
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In 1916, when German poet Ernie Ball opened a dictionary to a random page in order to find a term for his new artistic movement, he arrived at dada, which means “goodbye” in German and “hobby horse” in French. Ball now gave it a third meaning, which went along with Zappa’s motif “anything, anytime, anywhere, for no reason at all.” It centered on the comic derision of society’s fixtures and a belief in the interconnectedness, on one level or another, of everything and everyone. In forcing connections between initially unrelated things, Dadaists questioned the value of certain types of art over others. This was one general idea behind Zappa’s inclusion of unconventional ingredients in pieces framed and presented as music. Non-instrument objects and musically unorthodox mouth sounds were presented as being just as “valid” as customary musical sources, and mistakes and covertly recorded conversations made art out of real life, not some mystical, transcendent or “lofty” state.
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==See Also==
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<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”No Not Now” from this album provides a great example of the above: a single addictive, melodious rock song manages to poke fun at truckers, Mormons, truckers hauling string beans (a food popular with Mormons), Mormon entertainers Donny and Marie Osmond, Hawaiian Punch (for which the siblings once sang a TV jingle, which can briefly be heard instrumentally after a remark about Hawaiian shirts in “Drowning Witch,” as well as during other concert pieces from this period), and the ‘60s TV show Hawaii Five-O. A hobby horse is even mentioned in this opening song.
 
  
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== Conceptual Continuity ==
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*[[Chalk Pie]]
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*[[The Frank Zappa E.P.]]
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*[[Specialized Digital Audio Gratification]]
  
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== Versions ==
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[[Category:Discography]]
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[[Category:1982]]
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[[Category:Original Albums]]

Revision as of 20:55, 16 July 2021

Album History
Previous Next
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
Released May 1982
See also:
IINK,Patio, KUR
Chalk Pie
The Frank Zappa E.P.
Specialized Digital Audio Gratification

Players

Tracks

LP

Side One

  1. No Not Now (5:50)
  2. Valley Girl (4:58) [actually 4:50]
  3. I Come From Nowhere (6:20)

Side Two

  1. Drowning Witch (12:01)
  2. Envelopes (2:44)
  3. Teen-age Prostitute (2:40)
Current CD
  1. No Not Now (5:51)
  2. Valley Girl (4:50)
  3. I Come From Nowhere (6:09)
  4. Drowning Witch (12:03)
  5. Envelopes (2:45)
  6. Teen-age Prostitute (2:42)
1986 CD, coupled with The Man From Utopia
Cassette (UK edition)

Side One

  1. No Not Now (5:51)
  2. Valley Girl (4:50)
  3. I Come From Nowhere (6:17)

Side Two

  1. Drowning Witch (12:04)
  2. Envelopes (2:46)
  3. Teen-age Prostitute (2:40)

Release Notes

Liner Notes

Background Information

"...the title of the album is going to be Drowning Witch. A long time ago there was this guy called Roger Price who did this cartoon called Droodles and one of the pictures in the book was called 'Drowning Witch.' Right now we're in the process of trying to locate this guy to get permission to use the picture because this book came out in the '50s. I want to use the original picture."

— Frank Zappa, Record Review magazine interview, 1982.
1953 Droodle by Roger Price

from a KPFM-FM Radio Interview:

CA: "I've noticed that … ah … you've got a credit here for droodles, copyright 1953."

FZ: "Yeah, the illustration on the cover, yeah."

CA: "Oh, is it this old things like on party napkins?"

FZ: "Right, yeah!"

CA: "Really, droodles!" [laughs]

FZ: "Yeah, I remembered that one, that one was my favorite droodle of all time, is that one right there. And, and I went on a search to find Roger Price, the guy who did those things and found out that he lived in the San Fernando Valley and works for a publishing company down there and … ah … licensed the right to use that droodle on the cover. That's the original droodle!"

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD) 		Barcode
(EAN-13) 		Artwork Comment
35 1.1
Original
Stereo 		1 LP Barking Pumpkin
FW 38066 		1982-05-03 None   US edition.
1 CS Barking Pumpkin
FWT 38066 		1982-05-03 None   US edition.
1 LP CBS
CBS 85804 		1982-06[1] None   UK edition. Some first copies had a bonus 7" promotional single named The Frank Zappa E.P.
1 CS CBS
CBS 40-85804 		1982-06[1] None   UK edition.
1 LP CBS/Sony
25AP 2362 		? None   Japanese edition.
1 LP EMI/Fame
5318 51 2608141 		? None   Argentinian edition, titled Barco Llegando Demasiado Tarde Para Salvar A Una Bruja Ahogándose.
1 CS EMI/Fame
15318 51 2608144 		? None   Argentinian edition, titled Barco Llegando Demasiado Tarde Para Salvar A Una Bruja Ahogándose.
1 LP EMI
EMC 3501 		1986-02[1]     UK 2nd edition.
1 CS EMI
TCEMC 3501 		1986-02[1]     UK 2nd edition.
1 CD EMI
CDP 7 90074 2 		? 0077779007424   UK edition, coupled with The Man From Utopia. Matrix # CDP 7 90074 2 · ·MASTERED· ·BY NIMBUS·
1 LP Fame
FA 3180 		1987-06[1]     UK 3rd edition.
1 CS Fame
TCFA 3180 		1987-06[1]     UK 3rd edition.
1.2
Original
Stereo
(I Come From Nowhere is shortened) 		1 CD Barking Pumpkin
D2 74235 		1991 0013347423524   US edition.
1 CS Barking Pumpkin
D4 74235 		1991 0013347423548   US edition.
1 LP Zappa
ZAPPA 42 		? 5016583604219   UK edition.
1 CD Zappa
CDZAP 42 		1991-08[1] 5016583604226   UK/French edition, AAD. Matrix # ZAP CD 42 MPO 01 @
1 CS Zappa
TZAPPA 42 		1991 5016583604240   UK edition.
1 CD Barking Pumpkin/MSI
MSI 80046 		?     Japanese edition.
1 CD Intercord
i.r.s. 970742 		?     German edition.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10537 		1995-05-02 0014431053726   US edition. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD 10537 01
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5088 		1995-06-25 4988112406858   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5223 		1996-04-15? 4988112408234   Japanese edition = Rykodisc RCD 10537 repackaged with an obi strip and extra liner notes in Japanese
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1243 		2002-05-29 4988112413283   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.
1.2
Original
Stereo
(I Come From Nowhere is shortened) 		1 CD Zappa/UMe
ZR 3865 		2012-09-25 0824302386521   US edition, manufactured and distributed by UMe[2].
1 CD Zappa/UMG Intl
0238652 		2012-09-25 0824302386521   EU edition = Zappa/UMe ZR 3865, manufactured in Germany.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Martin C. Strong, 2004, The Great Rock Discography, p. 1722.
  2. ↑ Email announcement by the ZFT on July 31st, 2012.

See Also

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