Frank Zappa and the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra

Lumpy Gravy is the debut solo album by Frank Zappa, written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. Zappa conducted the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It is his third album overall: his previous releases had been under the name of his group, the Mothers of Invention.

It was commissioned and briefly released, on August 7, 1967, by Capitol Records in the 4-track Stereo-Pak format only and then withdrawn due to a lawsuit from MGM Records. MGM claimed that the album violated Zappa's contract with their subsidiary, Verve Records. In 1968 it was reedited and released by MGM's Verve Records on May 13, 1968. The final version of the album consisted of two musique concrète pieces that combined elements from the original orchestral performance with elements of surf music and the spoken word. It was praised for its music and editing.

Produced simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa saw Lumpy Gravy as the second part of a conceptual continuity that later included his final album, Civilization Phaze III.

Musicians - Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra :

Arnold Belnick – strings
Harold Bemko – strings
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Jimmy Carl Black – chorus
Jimmy Bond – bass
Monica Boscia – chorus
Dennis Budimir – guitar
Frank Capp – drums
Donald Christlieb – woodwind
Gene Cipriano – woodwind
Vincent DeRosa – french horn
Joseph DiFiore – strings
Jesse Ehrlich – strings
Alan Estes – percussion, drums
Gene Estes – percussion
Louis "Louie the Turkey" Cuneo – chorus
Roy Estrada – bass, chorus
Larry Fanoga (Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood) – vocals, chorus
Victor Feldman – percussion, drums
Bunk Gardner – woodwind
James Getzoff – strings
Philip Goldberg – strings
John Guerin – drums
Bruce Hampton – chorus
Jimmy "Senyah" Haynes – guitar
Harry Hyams – strings
Jules Jacob – woodwind
Pete Jolly – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Harold Kelling - vocals
Ray Kelly – strings
Jerome Kessler – strings
Alexander Koltun – strings
Bernard Kundell – strings
William Kurasch – strings
Michael Lang – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Arthur Maebe – French horn
Leonard Malarsky – strings
Shelly Manne – drums
Lincoln Mayorga – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Ted Nash – woodwind
Richard Parissi – French horn
Glenn Phillips - vocals
Don Randi – piano
Jerome Reisler – strings
Emil Richards – percussion
Tony Rizzi – guitar
John Rotella – percussion, woodwind
Joseph Saxon – strings
Ralph Schaeffer – strings
Leonard Selic – strings
Kenny Shroyer – trombone
Paul Smith – piano, celeste, harpsichord
Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Al Viola – guitar
Bob West – bass
Tibor Zelig – strings
Jimmy Zito – trumpet

1968 version, part one

No. Title Length

1. "The Way I See It, Barry" 0:06
2. "Duodenum" 1:32
3. "Oh No" 2:03
4. "Bit of Nostalgia" 1:35
5. "It's from Kansas" 0:30
6. "Bored Out 90 Over" 0:31
7. "Almost Chinese" 0:25
8. "Switching Girls" 0:29
9. "Oh No Again" 1:13
10. "At the Gas Station" 2:41
11. "Another Pickup" 0:54
12. "I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again" 3:49
Total length: 15:50

1968 version, part two

No. Title Length
1. "Very Distraughtening" 1:33
2. "White Ugliness" 2:22
3. "Amen" 1:33
4. "Just One More Time" 0:58
5. "A Vicious Circle" 1:12
6. "King Kong" 0:43
7. "Drums Are Too Noisy" 0:58
8. "Kangaroos" 0:57
9. "Envelops the Bath Tub" 3:42
10. "Take Your Clothes Off"

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