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.

• Jazz Musicians: George Di Carl, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Preston Love, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor

• Blues Musicians: Charles Brown, Teddy Bunn, Buddy Guy, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Albert Collins, Skip Diamond, Willie Dixon, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf, Frankie Lee Simms, Guitar Slim, Lightnin' Slim, Little Walter, Willie Mae Thornton, Muddy Waters, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Sonny Boy Williamson

• Doo-wop and R&B Musicians: Richard Berry, Don & Dewey, Gene & Eunice, Vernon Greene, Chuck Higgins, Joe Huston, Don Julian, Little Arthur Matthews, Big Jay McNeely ("Cecil James McNeely"), Donald Woods

• Folk Musicians: Joan Baez, The Bokelmans, Bob Dylan, Bobby Jamieson, Chatur Lal, Barry McGuire, N.C. Mullick, Silvestre Revueltas, Sabicas, Ravi Shankar, P.F. Sloan, Alice Stuart, Tiny Tim

• Pop & Rock Musicians: John Beck, Molly Bee, David Crosby, Ernie Freeman, Elvis Presley, Bob Reiner, Jim Pons

• Musicians in bands Zappa played in, or collaborated with: Dave Aerni, Johnny Franklin, James William Guercio, Terry Kirkman, Junior Madeo, Steve Mann, Vic Mortenson, Joe Perrino, Jim Sherwood, Henry Vestine, Don Vliet, Terry Wimberley

• Pseudonyms for bands Zappa played in: Loeb & Leopold, Sacco & Vanzetti

• 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, Johnny Otis, Phil Spector, Nick Venet, Tom Wilson, Hal Zeiger.

• Actors: Diane Baker, Rosemarie De Camp, Frank De Cova, Joe De Santis, Fred C. Dobbs, Bruce Gordon, Charles Middleton, Herman Rudin, Sabu, Sonny Tufts, John Wayne.

• Comedians: Lenny Bruce, Lew Irwin.

• Film Directors: Tim Sullivan

• Radio Presenters: Huggy Boy, Hunter Hancock,Wolfman Jack, B. Mitchell Reed.

• TV Presenters: Jeepers, Bill Stulla

• Painters and Visual Artists: Salvador Dali, Jules Feiffer, Eberhard Kronhausen, Yves Tanguy

• Writers: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Joyce, Robert Sheckley, Cordwainer Smith, Bram Stoker, Theodore Sturgeon

• Businesspeople: J. Arthur Rank, Avedis Zildjian

• Attorneys: Melvin Belli

• Friends & Acquaintances: Leonard Allen, Bobby Atler, Sylvia Brigham, Randy De Wees, Uncle Ed, Phyllis Altenhaus ("Fyllis"), Leonard Gorczyca, Carl Greenhouse, Jeff Harris, Animal Huxley, Karl Kohn, Lauren, Lucille, Mario, Jerry Murnane, Bob Narciso, Pepper, Pete (Lorraine Belcher), Nadine Reyes, Lillian Rudolph, Sandy Schwanekamp, Kaye Sherman, Phil Tanzini, Elmer Valentine, Pamela Zarubica.

• Teachers: William Ballard ("Mr. Ballard"), Sidney W. Brossman ("Dr. Brossman"), Don Cerveris, Shirley Eiler, Jerry Murnane, Ernest Tosi ("Ernie Tosi"), Jerry Ullberg ("Allberg").

This leaves another bunch of unknown, thus "unidentified" people: Carol, Cordy, Daddy-o Curtis Crump, George Di Carl, Donna No 1 ("Donna #1"), Donna No 2 ("Donna #2"), Evy, Floyd, The Hypnotist, Lyn Johnson, Joyce, Joe Polly, Lance Reardon, Ruthie, Steffie and 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), Category:The Yellow Shark (The List), The MOFO Project/Object (The List).