FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Original version recorded at Original Sound Recording Studios, LA, January, 1963, released as a single by The Penguins (Original Sound OS-27, February 20, 1963), re-issued on:
  • Art Laboe's Memories of El Monte (Original Sound, 1991)
  • Cucamonga Years - The Early Works of Frank Zappa 1962-1964 (MSI, Japan, 1991)
  • The Doo-Wop Box II (Rhino, 1996)
  • Cucamonga! Frank's Wild Years (Musical Tragedies, Germany, 1999)
  • Paul Buff Presents The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives, Vol. 7 (2010)
  • same version, stereo mix, on Spotlite On Original Sound Records (Collectables COL CD 6045, January 25, 2000)
    • same version on Paul Buff Presents The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives, Vol. 13 (2010)

Comments:

FZ (from "In His Own Words"), 1974:

The very first tunes that I wrote were 50's doo wop, 'Memories Of El Monte', and stuff like that. It's always been my contention that the music that was happening during the 50's has been one of the finest things that ever happened to American music and I loved it. I could sit down and write a hundred more of the 1950's type songs right now, and enjoy every minute of it.

Conceptual Continuity:

• Dog Breath

More songs by Ray Collins:

• Anything (Collins)
• Deseri (Collins/Buff)
• Everytime I See You (FZ/Collins)
• Fountain Of Love (FZ/Collins)
• Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (FZ/Collins)
• Hey Nelda (FZ/Collins)
• Surf Along With Ned & Nelda (FZ/Collins)