THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION. FRANK ZAPPA, JIMMY CARL BLACK, ART TRIPP, IAN UNDERWOOD, ROY ESTRADA, BUNK GARDENER
Comments
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "WPLJ" (The Four Deuces) 3:02
2. "Igor's Boogie, Phase One" 0:40
3. "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin" 1:29
4. "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" 4:35
5. "Igor's Boogie, Phase Two" 0:35
6. "Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" 6:27
7. "Aybe Sea" 2:45
Side two
No. Title Length
8. "Little House I Used to Live in" [9] 18:42
9. "Valarie" (Jackie and the Starlites) 3:14
Personnel
Frank Zappa – guitar, organ, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums
Roy Estrada – bass, backing vocals, Pachuco rap on "WPLJ"
Janet Ferguson – backing vocals on "WPLJ"
Bunk Gardner – wind
Buzz Gardner - trumpet
Billy Mundi – drums (uncredited, left group in December 1967, pictured on gatefold cover and possibly played on "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich")
Lowell George – guitar, vocals
Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "The Little House I Used to Live In"
Don Preston – piano, keyboards
Jim Sherwood – wind
Art Tripp – drums, percussion
Ian Underwood – piano, keyboards, wind
John Balkin – bass on "WPLJ", string bass on "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin"