Post by Johnny Zell

Happy 51st Anniversary!!...One Size Fits All is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released On June 25th 1975. It is the tenth and last studio album of the band. The album features the summer/fall 1974 lineup of the Mothers of Invention, with George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock. One track features bassist James "Birdlegs" Youman, who stood in for Fowler when the bassist broke his hand while on tour.The album features one of Zappa's most complex tracks, "Inca Roads". One of Zappa's heroes, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, guests on two tracks (flambe vocals on the out-choruses of "San Ber'dino" and "Andy"). Captain Beefheart also appears under a pseudonym. Zappa stated in the liner notes that the album was recorded simultaneously with their next album, but this "next album" would be replaced by Bongo Fury, consisting mostly of live recordings with Beefheart from May 1975. From comments Zappa made in radio interviews in April 1975, it seems likely that the unreleased next album would have included "Greggery Peccary," which first appeared three years later on Studio Tan. Early U.S. LP pressings of One Size Fits All are notable in that they have the catalog number "BS 2879" inscribed - and crossed out - in the runoff matrix, indicating that at one point One Size Fits All was (perhaps mistakenly) planned to be released on Warner Bros. Records, whose Reprise Records subsidiary distributed Zappa's DiscReet Records label. The album was ultimately released on DiscReet with a catalog number in Reprise's sequence, DS 2216. Warner Bros. did not reassign the number BS 2879 to another album. Frank Zappa – guitar, lead (4, 6, 9) and backing vocals George Duke – keyboards, lead (1, 8, 9) and backing vocals, synthesizer Napoleon Murphy Brock – flute, lead (5, 8) and backing vocals, tenor saxophone Ruth Underwood – marimba, vibraphone, percussion Chester Thompson – drums, sound effects, voices Tom Fowler – bass guitar (all but 2) James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass guitar (2) Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals (7, 8) Captain Beefheart (credited as 'Bloodshot Rollin' Red') – harmonica (7) Production Kerry McNabb – engineer, remixing Cal Schenkel – design, illustrations, paintings Mike D. Stone of the Record Plant – engineer Michael Braunstein – engineer Unity – assistant engineer Dick Barber – assistant engineer, assistant Gary O. – engineer Ferenc Dobronyi – design J.E. Tully – design Coy Featherstone – assistant engineer Paul Hof – assistant engineer, assistant Matti Laipio – voices, assistant engineer Bill Romero – voices, assistant engineer Richard "Tex" Abel – assistant engineer, assistant Jukka – engineer. Recorded August 27, 1974– April 1975 Studio Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; and Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, CA. Producer Frank Zappa. Charts Album Year Chart Peak 1975 Billboard 200 26.