''Baby Snakes'' is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's film of the same name. It features seven songs from the film.

Overview

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'' set, this LP was originally offered for sale only as a mail order item through Columbia Records' Record Club division in

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, IN. The LP was later offered to distributors for conventional brick-and-mortar store sales. '' Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack'' was released to iTunes on December 21, 2012.

Track listing

AAAFNRAA: Baby Snakes – The Compleat Soundtrack

''AAAFNRAA Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack'' is the complete soundtrack, released to iTunes on Zappa's birthday on December 21, 2012. Of the official releases, it is the only release which is available only as a download. Its tracks are:

Credits

* Frank Zappa – director, keyboards,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

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– vocals, guitar *

Tommy Mars Tommy Mars (born Thomas Mariano on October 26, 1951) is an American keyboard player known for his work with Frank Zappa. Mars began piano lessons at age eight, and later his instrument range expanded to various keyboards and synthesizers. Mars g ...

– keyboards,

* Peter Wolf – keyboards * Patrick O'Hearn –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

Terry Bozzio Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Perso ...

– drums, vocals on "Titties & Beer" and "Punky's Whips" *

Ed Mann Ed Mann is a musician who has been "a drummer and piano dabbler since childhood." He is best known for his mallet percussion performances onstage with Frank Zappa's ensemble from 1977 to 1988, and his appearances on over 30 of Zappa's albums ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

Production

* Arranged & Produced by Frank Zappa * Engineered & Mixed by Joe Chiccarelli * Mastered by Bob Stone * Norman Seeff – photography *

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– photography

References

{{Authority control 1983 soundtrack albums Albums produced by Frank Zappa Barking Pumpkin Records albums Film soundtracks Frank Zappa albums Albums recorded at the Palladium (New York City)