Are You Hung Up?
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| "Are You Hung Up?" | ||||
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| Song by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention from the album We're Only in It for the Money | ||||
| Released | March 4, 1968 | |||
| Recorded | February 1967, Capitol, LA Aug-Sept 1967, Mayfair, NYC October 1967, Apostolic, NYC |
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| Genre | Experimental rock Musique concrète |
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| Length | 1:24 | |||
| Label | Verve/Bizarre/Rykodisc | |||
| Writer | Frank Zappa | |||
| Composer | Frank Zappa | |||
| Producer | Frank Zappa | |||
| We're Only in It for the Money track listing | ||||
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"Are You Hung Up?" is the opening track on the 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.
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"Are You Hung Up?" is a short montage of dialogue and musique concrète, lasting 1 minute and 24 seconds in length. It includes stuttering hippie vocals by Eric Clapton, "Uh, out of sight. Are, are you hung up?", engineer Gary Kellgren whispering about Frank Zappa's mighty, omniscient presence in the control room, a brief guitar lick and Jimmy Carl Black saying "Hi, boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group." This statement, a catchphrase used frequently by Black in concert[citation needed], resurfaces on later recordings by the original Mothers of Invention[clarification needed].
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