FRANK ZAPPA 'WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY' VERVE MONO UK 1ST PRESS

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE UK 1967 'VERVE' FIRST PRESSING OF FRANK ZAPPA'S 'WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY'!!!

We're Only in It for the Money is the third studio album by The Mothers of Invention. Released on March 4, 1968 on Verve Records, it was subsequently remixed and re-recorded by Frank Zappa and reissued independently by Rykodisc Records in 1986.

Here is the background to the record's original release 1967/8 courtesy of Wikipedia:

As with the band's previous two albums, We're Only in It for the Money is a concept album, and satirizes left and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and Uncle Meat.

We're Only in It for the Money encompasses rock, orchestral and experimental music, with its orchestral segments deriving from the recording sessions for Lumpy Gravy, which was previously issued as a solo instrumental album by Capitol Records and was subsequently reedited by Zappa and released by Verve; the reedited Lumpy Gravy was produced simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money and is the first part of a conceptual continuity, continued with the reedited Lumpy Gravy and concluded with Zappa's final album, Civilization Phaze III (1994).

Background

While filming Uncle Meat, Frank Zappa recorded in New York City for a project called No Commercial Potential, which ended up producing four albums: We're Only in It for the Money, a revised version of Zappa's solo album Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets and Uncle Meat, which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which was not completed until 1987.[1]

Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."[1]

As the recording sessions continued, The Beatles released their acclaimed album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. In response to the album's release, Zappa decided to change the album's concept to parody the Beatles album, because he felt that the Beatles were insincere and "only in it for the money".[2] The Beatles were targeted as a symbol of Zappa's objections to the corporatization of youth culture, and the album served as a criticism of them and psychedelic rock as a whole.[2]

[edit]Recording

Band member Ray Collins had left the Mothers before the New York recording sessions took place, but later rejoined when the band was recording the doo-wop songs that formed the album Cruisin' with Ruben & the Jets.[2] Gary Kellgren was hired as an engineer for the project, and subsequently wound up delivering spoken pieces of dialogue that linked segments of We're Only in It for the Money.[3] During the recording sessions, Verve requested that Zappa remove a verse from the song "Mother People". Zappa complied, but reversed the recording and included the backwards verse as part of the dialogue track "Hot Poop", concluding the album's first side[4], but this would be removed by Verve themselves on subsequent represses of their own.

While recording We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa discovered that the strings of Apostolic Studios' grand piano would resonate if a person spoke near those strings. The "piano people" experiment involved Zappa having various speakers improvise dialogue using topics offered by Zappa. Various people contributed to these sessions, including Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart and Tim Buckley.[5] The "piano people" voices primarily consisted of Motorhead Sherwood, Roy Estrada, Spider Barbour, All-Night John (the manager of the studio) and Louis Cuneo, who was noted for his laugh, which sounded like a "psychotic turkey".[6]

During the production, Zappa experimented with recording and editing techniques which produced unusual textures andmusique concrète compositions; the album featured abbreviated songs interrupted by segments of dialogue and unrelated music which changed the continuity of the album.[7] Segments of orchestral music included on the album came from a solo orchestral album by Zappa previously released by Capitol Records under the title Lumpy Gravy in 1967.[3] MGM claimed that Zappa was under contractual obligation to record for them, and subsequently Zappa re-edited Lumpy Gravy, releasing a drastically different version on Verve Records, after the release of We're Only in It for the Money. The artwork of Lumpy Gravy identified it as "phase 2 of We're Only in It for the Money", while We're Only in It for the Money was identified in its artwork as "phase one of Lumpy Gravy", alluding to the conceptual continuity of the two albums.[3]

Before release, MGM censored several tracks without Zappa's knowledge, involvement or permission.[3][8] On the song "Absolutely Free", the line "I'm not going to do any more publicity balling for you" was edited by MGM to remove the word "balling", changing the context of the sentence.[3] Additionally, on "Let's Make The Water Turn Black", the line "and I still remember Mama, with her apron and her pad, feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe" was removed.[8] Zappa later learned that this line was censored because an MGM executive thought that the word "pad" referred to a sanitary napkin, rather than a waitresses order pad.[8] Also censored was the Lenny Bruce reference in "Harry, You're A Beast",[9] and a spoken segment of "Concentration Moon" referring to The Velvet Underground as being "as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group".[6] Zappa later declined to accept an award for the album upon being made aware of the censorship, stating "I prefer that the award be presented to the guy who modified this record, because what you're hearing is more reflective of his work than mine."[8]

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE FIRST PRESSING  COPY OF THE 1967 ALBUM BY FRANK ZAPPA CALLED 'WE'RE ONLY IT IT FOR THE MONEY'!! 


ARTIST OR BAND: FRANCIS VINCENT ZAPPA
ALBUM TITLE: WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa. 

Side one No. Title Length 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 Side two No. Title Length 11. "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music"   2:03 12. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black"   1:45 13. "The Idiot Bastard Son"   2:44 14. "Lonely Little Girl (It's His Voice on the Radio)"   1:45 15. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance"   1:35 16. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)"   0:57 17. "Mother People"   2:32 18. "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny"   6:25 Total length: 39:15

LABEL: VERVE UK. EXCELLENT CONDITION SMOOTH BLACK / SILVER VERVE RECORDS UK PRESSING FOR EARLIEST EVER 1ST PRESSING!!
LABEL CONDITIONS: BOTH EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION, WITH MINIMAL IF ANY  SPINDLE MARKS AND NO LABEL DAMAGE AT ALL!! NO WRITING, SMUDGES, SPINDLE DAMAGE WHATSOEVER!!
CATALOGUE NUMBER: VLP.9199
RECORD SPEED: MARKED ON THE LABELS AS '33 1/3 R.P.M.'
WARPS: PLEASE ASSUME THAT THE RECORD LIES FLAT AND PLAYS WELL
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: LABELS ARE MARKED MGM RECORDINGS LTD - MADE IN GT. BRITAIN'. ONLY EVER ON EARLIEST PRESSINGS!!
RARITY: A HUGE RARITY!! THIS RECORD IS CLASSED AS THE PINNACLE OF ZAPPA'S GREATNESS, BUT SOLD IN ABSOLUTELY TINY QUANTITIES WITHIN THE UK!!

ORIGINAL YEAR OF RELEASE: 1967
MATRIX NUMBERS: SIDE ONE V5045 A-1 SIDE TWO V5405 B-1
STAMPER CODES: 1A  / 1C??
RUN OUT ETCHINGS: NONE ON RECORD

COVER GRADE & FORMAT: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT 'GARROD & LOFTHOUSE' COVER IN VERY GOOD (+) PLUS  CONDITION!! HARSHLY GRADED!!
COVER FRONT: A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS ULTRA RARE 1967 1ST PRESS. THE COVER IS A HEAVYWEIGHT GATEFOLD COVER WITH SUPER RARE INTERNAL LAMINATED FULL COLOUR,  BASED ON A PARODY OF THE BEATLES 'SARGEANT PEPPER'S' COVER!! MINOR 'RUBBING' IN THE FRONT  LAMINATE, WITH MODERATE CREASING AROUND THE SPINE AND GENERAL FRONT PANEL. HARSHLY GRADED, AND STILL VERY SHINY AND BRIGHT COLOURS! OVERALL VERY PRESENTABLE! FRONT PANEL GRADED VERY GOOD CONDITION
COVER BACK: VERY MUCH LIKE THE FRONT PANEL, THIS COVER IS BRIGHT AND CLEAN WITH MIMIMAL  RUBBING AND MODERATE  AMOUNTS OF CREASING WITHIN THE CARD. I GRADE THE REAR OF THE SLEEVE HARSHLY AT VERY GOOD CONDITION ALSO
COVER CENTREFOLD: THIS IS A DOUBLE GATEFOLD  SLEEVE THAT DOES OPEN OUT INTO A FULL COLOUR GLOSSY LAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE IN VERY GOOD (+) PLUS CONDITION!! MEGA RARE TOP ONLY FLIPBACKS ARE ALL IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!!
TOP & BOTTOM EDGES: TOP EDGES ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH TOP AND  BOTTOM EDGES HAVING MINIMAL IF ANY WEAR INTO THE CARD, WITH NO SPLITS OR TEARS
RIGHT EDGE: SIMPLY EXCELLENT CONDITION WITHIN MINIMAL CREASING AND MINIMAL IF ANY EDGEWEAR ON THE OPENING EDGE!
SPINE AND TEXT: VERY GOOD (-) MINUS  CONDITION, WITH MODERATE WEAR AND 'CRACKING' IN THE LAMINATE, WITH THE FIRST 'E' IN 'WE'RE' WITH SOME 'TOUCHING IN'.
CORNERS: ALL ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, WITH MINOR  WEAR / BUMPING  ON ALL EDGES 
THE INNER SLEEVE: AT LEAST VERY GOOD CONDITION!! MILD CREASING AND YELLOWING ONLY, WITH MINIMAL PENCIL MARKING (SEE PHOTO'S)
VINYL CONDITION: THIS HEAVY WEIGHT 1ST PRESSING RECORD IS EXCELLENT (-) MINUS CONDITION!! HARSHLY GRADED!! I GRADE VERY CRITICALLY!! SUPER PRESSING WITH MODERATE  HAIR LINES ONLY FROM THE PAPER SLEEVE, WITH MINIMAL SCUFFING ACROSS THE SURFACE. STILL RETAINS A VERY NICE SHINE AND VERY, VERY SOLID COPY OF THIS RARE ALBUM!!
ALBUM PLAYBACK: MY ALBUMS ARE ALWAYS PLAYED ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO ENSURE ACCURATE GRADING AND FULL CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. I AM SO DELIGHTED THAT THIS RECORD PLAYS AS WELL AS IT LOOKS!! PLAYBACK MUST AS EXCELLENT MINUS (-) CONDITION THROUGHOUT MY PLAY THE RECORD DID NOT JUMP OR STICK AT ALL! I NOTICED NO NASTY POPS, WITH MINOR  CRACKLE / BACKGROUND NOISE WITHIN THE QUITE SECTIONS AND RUN-IN'S ON THE PLAYBACK!!
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT!! A SUPERB PRESSING FOR ANY FRANK ZAPPA FAN!! I OFFER FANTASTIC SERVICE, WITH SUPERB AND SAFE PACKAGING, AND SUPER FAST DELIVERIES.
BID WITH CONFIDENCE!!!