MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We're Only In For The Money Gatefold cover 12" Vinyl LP Album

 Album: original 1968 pressing, black Verve label with silver printing, empty Verve T logo, bottom of the label near 6 o'clock has "7165 Sunset Blvd", album cover spine has X, album cover back has "V6 5045X", matrix/stamper codes (hand written): "V6-5045 Side 1 MGS 1250 REV F" / "V6-5045 Side 1 MGS 1251 REV F"

This album "We're only in for the Money USA FOC" is the third studio album by The Mothers of Invention. Released on 4 March 4 1968 on Verve Records

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Essential Album Information For: MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We're Only In For The Money

Music Genre:

Jazz Fusion, Prog Rock

Label & Catalognr:

VERVE Records V6-5045 / MGS 1250

Media Format:

Record Format: 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record
Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram  

Year & Country:

1968 Made in USA

MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We're Only In For The Money Production & Recording Information

Album Packaging

This 12" LP vinyl music record comes comes in a Fold Open Cover (FOC), which is also also known as a Gatefold cover. The inner pages of this album cover contains photos, artwork.

Producers:

Frank Zappa for Bizarre Productions - Producer

Tom Wilson - Producer

Album Cover Design & Artwork:

Nifty, Tough and Bitchen - Album Cover Design

Photography:

Jerrold Schatzberg Fashions - Photographer

Tiger Morse - Photographer

Musicians on: MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We're Only In For The Money

Band-members, Musicians:

Frank Zappa – guitar, piano, lead vocals

Jimmy Carl Black – trumpet, drums, vocals, & Indian of the group

Roy Estrada – electric bass, vocals

Bunk Gardner – all woodwinds

Billy Mundi – drums, vocals

Don Preston – keyboards

Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, road manager

Suzy Creamcheese – telephone voice

Ian Underwood – piano, woodwinds

Pamela Zarubica – vocals

Eric Clapton – Male speaking part in "Are You Hung Up?" and "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music."

Gary Kellgren – "the one doing all the creepy whispering" (i.e., interstitial spoken segments)

Spider Barbour – vocals

Dick Kunc – "cheerful interruptions" vocal

Vicki Kellgren – additional telephone vocals

Sid Sharp – conductor

Track-listing of: MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We're Only In For The Money

Tracklisting Side One:
  1. "Are You Hung Up?" 1:23
  2. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" 2:34
  3. "Concentration Moon" 2:32
  4. "Mom & Dad" 2:16
  5. "Bow Tie Daddy" 1:22
  6. "Harry, You're a Beast" 1:22
  7. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" 1:03
  8. "Absolutely Free" 3:26
  9. "Flower Punk" 3:57
  10. "Hot Poop" 0:26
Tracklisting Side Two:
  1. "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music" 2:03
  2. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" 1:45
  3. "The Idiot Bastard Son" 2:44
  4. "Lonely Little Girl" (Listed as "It's His Voice on the Radio" on the original LP sleeve.) 1:45
  5. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" 1:35
  6. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)" 0:57
  7. "Mother People" 2:32
  8. "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" 6:25

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VERVE RECORDS V6-5045 ( MGS 1250= Record Label Details

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