STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - BURNT WEENY SANDWICH

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Good Monday morning fellow quarantiners and welcome back to the stack of wax known as Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember vocalist/guitarist, Lowell George, known for his work early on with Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, and later as the frontman of swamp rock band Little Feat, on what would have been his 75th Birthday. He died from a heart attack, in 1979, brought on by an accidental cocaine overdose. He was 34. To honor his legacy, we spotlight the 6th studio album by the Mothers Of Invention, Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Burnt Weeny Sandwich was released February 9th, 1970, on the Bizarre/Reprise label and produced by Frank Zappa. It reached #94 on the Billboard 200, and spawned a sole single, "WPLJ", a cover of the 50s R&B band, The Four Deuces. The LP consists of studio recordings mixed with live elements.  The album came with a triple fold full color poster of the cover, but sadly ours no longer contains said poster ....

1. "WPLJ" (The Four Deuces) 3:02
2. "Igor's Boogie, Phase One" 0:40
3. "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin" 1:29
4. "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich" 4:35
5. "Igor's Boogie, Phase Two" 0:35
6. "Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" 6:27
7. "Aybe Sea" 2:45

Side two

8. "Little House I Used to Live in" 18:42
9. "Valarie" (Jackie and the Starlites) 3:14

Frank Zappa – guitar, organ, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums

Roy Estrada – bass, backing vocals, Pachuco rap on "WPLJ"
Janet Ferguson – backing vocals on "WPLJ"

Bunk Gardner – wind
Buzz Gardner - trumpet

Billy Mundi – drums (uncredited, left group in December 1967, pictured on gatefold cover and possibly played on "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich")

Lowell George – guitar, vocals

Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "The Little House I Used to Live In"

Don Preston – piano, keyboards
Jim Sherwood – wind
Art Tripp – drums, percussion
Ian Underwood – piano, keyboards, wind

John Balkin – bass on "WPLJ", string bass on "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin"

Producer: Frank Zappa
Engineer: Dick Kunc
Arranger: Frank Zappa
Design: John Williams
Cover art: Cal Schenkel