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It Can't Happen Here

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Freak Out! (1966) as It Can't Happen Here, recorded at TTG, LA, March 12, 1966
  • same version released as a single (Verve VK 10418, June 1966)
  • same version (original vinyl mix) on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) and The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
  • same version, different edit, on Mothermania (1969) as It Can't Happen Here
    • same version on The MOFO Project/Object (2006) as It Can't Happen Here (Mothermania Version)
  • same version, 1970 remix, on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) as It Can't Happen Here (1970 FZ Remix)
  • same version (CD remix) on Zappa Picks by Jon Fishman of Phish (2002)
• BTB I: 'Tis The Season To Be Jelly (1991) as It Can't Happen Here, performed in Stockholm, September 30, 1967
• BTB I: Unmitigated Audacity (1991) as part of Dupree's Paradise/It Can't Happen Here, performed in South Bend, May 12, 1974
• quoted in What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? from Joe's Menage (2008), performed in Williamsburg, November 1, 1975
• quoted on The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit from Zappa In New York (1978), performed in NYC, December 26-29, 1976
  • same version on Läther (1996) as The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit

Comments:

FZ on the liner notes of Freak Out!:

Note (...) the stunning four-part barber shop harmony toward the end. Note the obvious lack of commercial potential. Ho hum.

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

1970
Though he claimed it couldn't, it did- once- and I have yet to hear it. Has anyone? Don't worry- you're safe.

1971
But it did. And I have yet to hear it. But don't worry, we're safe.

1974 (May)
Essentially performed as on "Unmitigated Audacity", with the standard deviation coming in Frank's slightly improvised vocals.

Conceptual Continuity:

• Brown Shoes Don't Make It ("TV dinner by the pool")
• Suzy Creamcheese

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