ccl. ZAPPA, Frank: King Kong

ccl. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)

King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio) (0:52)
King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild) (1:20)
King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It) (1:45)
King Kong (The Gardner Varieties) (6:21)
King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks) (0:32)
King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival)
FZ, guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
Ray Collins, swell vocals
Jimmy Carl Black, drums, droll humor, poverty
Roy Estrada, bass, cheesburgers, Pachuco falsetto
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston, electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi, drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS
Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner, piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, bassoon (all of these electric and/or no-electric depending)
Ian Underwood, electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, special assistant, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal
Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp, drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific inquiries
Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood, pop star, frenetic tenor saxophone stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies
(7:29)

from: Uncle Meat.

King Kong (or some variation thereof) appears on 28 official FZ albums:

1. Lumpy Gravy (1967)
2. Uncle Meat (1969)
3. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
4. Chunga's Revenge (1970)
5. Fillmore East -- June 1971 (1971)
6. Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981)
7. Guitar (1988)
8. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 (1989)
9. Make A Jazz Noise Here (1991)
10. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 (1992)
11. Playground Psychotics (1992)
    
12. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (1992)
13. Ahead Of Their Time (1993)
14. Trance-Fusion (2006)
15. The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009)
16. Hammersmith Odeon (2010)
17. Carnegie Hall (2011)
18. Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012)
19. Finer Moments (2012)
20. Roxy By Proxy (2014)
21. Meat Light (2016)
22. Road Tapes, Venue #3 (2016)
23. Halloween 77 (2017)
24. The Roxy Performances (2018)
25. Halloween 73 (2019)
26. Halloween 81 (2020)
27. The Mothers 1970 (2020)
28. Zappa -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2020)

+ Jean-Luc Ponty's fantastic 1970 album, King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa.

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From (18) above:

"We would like to play for you 'The Legend Of King Kong.'

Story about a large, electric gorilla marooned -- marooned on an island somewhere in the middle of the ocean, leading a happy, banana-fed existence, until one day some very shrewd Americans discover that he's happening on a cosmic giant gorilla level on the island, and they figure that -- seeing as how they're smart, and shrewd, and American businessmen, you know, unequaled in the world of creative finance, you know how they are -- they're gonna get themselves together on a boat and go to the place where the gorilla is and they're gonna snatch him right up.

So they do, they go out there and they catch the gorilla -- who is obviously not very thrilled about it -- and they knock him out, stick him on the boat, bring him back to the United States, make a lot of money off of him, then they kill him."