dcxii. ZAPPA, Frank: America Drinks and Goes Home

dcxii. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)

America Drinks and Goes Home (1967)
FZ, guitar, vocals
Jimmy Carl Black, drums, vocals
Ray Collins, vocals, tambourine, harmonica
Roy Estrada, bass, vocals
Billy Mundi, drums, percussion
Don Preston, keyboards
Jim Fielder, guitar, piano
Bunk Gardner, woodwinds
Herb Cohen, cash register machine sounds
Terry Gilliam, girlfriend and others, voices
(2:48)

from Absolutely Free

"America Drinks and Goes Home is an unsubtle parody of adult conduct in neighborhood cocktail lounges in America. The humor is aimed at (1) the type of music your parents like to listen to, (2) the manner in which they like to have it performed (the insincerity of the nightclub crooner in his closing address to the alcoholics at the bar), (3) the manner in which the audience persists in talking above the level of the music while it is being performed -- which belies their disrespect for music as an art and for anyone involved in the performance of music." -- FZ

Jean-Luc Ponty's version.