MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY

Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Joe's Menage (2008) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Williamsburg, November 1, 1975
• Philly '76 (2009) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Philadelphia, October 29, 1976
• Zappa In New York (1978) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in NYC, December 26-29, 1976
  • same version with inserts from an unknown performance from January-February, 1977 on Läther (1996) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
• BTB I: Saarbrücken 1978 (1991) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Saarbrücken, September 3, 1978
• BTB II: At The Circus (1992) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Munich, September 8, 1978
• BTB I: Anyway The Wind Blows (1991) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Paris, February 24, 1979
• Buffalo (2007) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Buffalo, NY, October 25, 1980
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in NYC, August 25-26, 1984
  • different edits from the same shows on Does Humor Belong In Music? (Video) (1985) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Towson, March 23, 1988

Comments:

Touring versions from Foggy G's We're Only In It For The Touring:

1975-76
This is a rather skeletal version of the tune that we all know and probably have mixed feelings about.
1976-77
Essentially performed as on "Lather", accounting for obvious differences in instrumentation.
1978
Essentially performed as on "Saarbrucken" from Beat the Boots Volume I.
1979
Performed as on "Anyway the Wind Blows" from Beat the Boots Volume I.
1980 Oct-Dec
Essentially performed as always, accounting for the obvious differences in instrumentation.
1984
Yeah, like this song ever changed. Essentially performed as on YCDTOSA Volume III, with occasional Secret Word tweakage. Betty's musical taste's did evolve by this tour, however- away from Helen Reddy towards the more enjoyable "Echo and the Bunnymen" into the unforgiveably laughable "Twisted Sister".
1988
Exactly performed as on YCDTOSA Volume VI, as that is the only performance of this tune on tour. (As I sat and listened to the 3/23 show from which this is from, I realized that any artist who writes a song like this, and then has that song become typical, trite, commonplace in the minds of many of his fans, must truly be one far-out artist. This song gets very little respect in the hard-core FZ community (guilty as charged), which now amazes me. This is one messed up tune.)

TOP | MAIN | DISCOGRAPHY | SONGLIST | COVERS | CHRONOLOGY | VIDEOGRAPHY