Frank Zappa Documentary Soundtrack Gathers Career Highlights, Unreleased Tracks
0In tandem with the arrival of the long-awaited authorized Frank Zappa documentary, UMe and Zappa Records have digitally released the official soundtrack for Zappa, featuring highlights from the composer’s catalog, live recordings, interview clips and a dozen unreleased tracks from Zappa’s vaults. The 3CD/5-LP version of Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack — out digitally now — boasts 68 tracks spanning from the Mothers of Invention’s Freak Out to Zappa’s final orchestral work The Yellow Shark. The deluxe version of the soundtrack also includes offerings from Zappa’s Bizarre Records — Alice Cooper’s “No Longer Umpire,” the GTO’s “The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes” — as well as pieces by Edgard Varese and Igor Stravinsky and 26 original Zappa score cues by John Frizzell. From the Zappa Family Trust vaults, the soundtrack includes the Mothers performing the Zappa-penned doo-wop track “Memories of El Monte” and other unheard recordings from 1968 Whisky A Go-Go concert, a live rehearsal of “Apostrophe,” Zappa’s rendition of “Dancin’ Fool” from a 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live, excerpts from a 1970 Fillmore West concert and more. 'Zappa': 11 Things We Learned From the Long-Awaited Authorized Documentary 'Zappa': See New Trailer for 'Definitive' Doc About Unclassifiable Artist Before the Landslide: Inside the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac Barry Gibb: 13 Essential Tracks Physical editions of the soundtrack are available to preorder now, with the 5-LP version — available on both 180-gram black vinyl as well as limited edition 180-gram smoke vinyl — due out May 7th, 2021 and the 3CD version expected January 19th, 2021. A 2-LP edition on 180-gram clear vinyl will also be available. Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List CD1: Anyway The Wind Blows (from Freak Out!) – The Mothers of Invention You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here (from Freak Out!) – The Mothers of Invention Everytime I See You – The Heartbreakers Motherly Love (from Freak Out!) – The Mothers of Invention Memories Of El Monte (Live from the Whisky A Go-Go – June 23, 1968) – The Mothers of Invention* Oh! In The Sky (Live from the Whisky A Go-Go – June 23, 1968) – The Mothers of Invention* The Duke (Live from the Whisky A Go-Go – June 23, 1968) – The Mothers of Invention* How Could I Be Such A Fool? (from Mystery Disc) – Frank Zappa “The Reason We Have Stayed Together…” – Frank Zappa interview with Warren Duffy / WMEX Boston, MA – January 31, 1969* Black Beauty (from Mystery Disc) – Frank Zappa Absolutely Free (from We’re Only In It For The Money) – The Mothers of Invention You Didn’t Try To Call Me (Basic Tracks) (from The MOFO Project/Object) – Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention Agency Man (from Mystery Disc) – Frank Zappa Oh No (from Weasels Ripped My Flesh) – The Mothers of Invention Mother People (from We’re Only In It For The Money) – The Mothers of Invention Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite: Finale – Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille & Myung Whun Chung “F