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Run Home, Slow Soundtrack

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

• original soundtrack written in 1959, and recorded at Art Laboe's Original Sound, LA, 1963

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

Main Title Theme:

• The Lost Episodes (1996) as Run Home Slow Theme, recorded at Art Laboe's Original Sound, LA, 1963
  • same version on Strictly Genteel (1997)
  • same version, different mix on The Old Masters Box One Mystery Disc (1985) as Theme from "Run Home Slow"
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992) as Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme, performed in NYC, February 14, 1969

The Little March:

• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992) as The Little March, performed in NYC, February 14, 1969

Duke Of Prunes (see its own entry)

Run Home Cues, #2:

• The Lost Episodes (1996) as Run Home Cues, #2, recorded at Art Laboe's Original Sound, 1963
• Lumpy Gravy (1968) as part of Oh No, recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, February-March 1967
  • same version on Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention (Transparency)
  • same version on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of Gum Joy
  • same version, 1984 mix, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of Lumpy Gravy - Part One
  • same recordings, original takes, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of How Did That Get In There? and Unit 3A, Take 3

Run Home Cues, #3:

• The Lost Episodes (1996) as Run Home Cues, #3, recorded at Art Laboe's Original Sound, 1963

Tour(s) in which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1):

• November, 1968-May, 1969 (MOI) ("Main Title Theme" & "The Little March")

(See Duke Of Prunes entry for its own performances)

Comments:

FZ on the booklet of The Old Masters Box One:

'RUN HOME SLOW' was a low budget western produced by Tim Sullivan, starring Mercedes McCambridge, written by my friend and high school English teacher, Don Cerveris. I wrote the music for it. The money from this job was used to buy an electric guitar and the Pal Recording Studio in Cucamonga. Pal was re-named 'STUDIO Z.'

FZ on the booklet of You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992):

These were themes (originally written in 1959) from a cowboy movie for which I did the music in 1962 or 1963 (...). The plot had something to do with a bad ranch lady, a nymphomaniac cowgirl, and a hunch-back handy-man named Kirby who eventually winds up pooching the nympho in a barn, next to the rotting carcass of the family donkey.

Rip Rense on the booklet of The Lost Episodes (1996):

After several years of setbacks, Run Home Slow was eventually shot (starring Mercedes McCambridge, released in 1965), and Frank's score was finally recorded by a small pick-up orchestra in 1963 at Art Laboe's Original Sound in Hollywood, with Paul Buff engineering

Paul Buff on Reverend Neve's Zappa Page:

To my recollection, the Run Home Slow soundtrack did not use the Pomona Valley Symphony - they were Hollywood studio musicians, I believe. I did the recording at Original Sound, with Zappa producing and directing.

From Paolo Fabretti (April 6, 2002)

"Run home cues, #2" on Lumpy Gravy!

... That's right, you heard right, on Lumpy Gravy part 1 the song "Oh No" starts off with the 12-notes quote from "The world's greatest sinner" (OK), but between it and "Oh No" itself (1:47-2:08) there's nothing more and nothing less that a slow jazzy version of what we know as "RUN HOME CUES, #2"!

The music in the movie:

The first column timings are from the actual movie, and the second column ones are those of the The Soundtracks bootleg version.

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