Ronnie Sings?

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

The Lost Episodes (1996) as Ronnie Sings?, recorded in Ontario, circa 1961-62
- a fragment backwards at the end of Let's Make The Water Turn Black on We're Only In It For The Money (1968)
  - same version in Strictly Commercial (1995)
  - same version, mono mix, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) at the beginning of The Idiot Bastard Son
  - same version, 1984 remix with overdubs, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) at the beginning of The Idiot Bastard Son
- another fragment at the beginning of Very Distraughtening on Lumpy Gravy (1968)
  - same version, 1984 mix, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of Lumpy Gravy - Part Two

Comments:

Rip Rense in the liner notes of The Lost Episodes (1996):

Ronnie's distinctive vocal prowess, captured here in a living room in Ontario circa 1961-62, also later figured into the 1962 Zappa recording, 'How's Your Bird?' (credited to eventual MOI Ray Collins' group, Baby Ray and the Ferns), a fragment following 'Let's Make the Water turn Black' on We're Only In It For The Money, and the chorus of Lumpy Gravy in 1967. Presented here in resplendent glory, Ronnie's vocal perhaps suggests the essence of the young empiricists' joie de vivre. (For further details of the boys' adventures, see pages 85-87 of The Real Frank Zappa Book.)

Conceptual Continuity:

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