Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album)

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Carnegie Hall is a quadruple live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released posthumously on October 31, 2011, by the Zappa Family Trust on Vaulternative Records. It is a mono recording. This is Official Release #91.

History

This is the official release of the live recording of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention's debut (and only two) performances at the titular New York City's Carnegie Hall on October 11, 1971.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.

Disc one

The Persuasions (support act) Show 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Just Can't Work No Longer"	Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler	2:32
2.	"Working All the Live Long Day/Chain Gang"	Trad./Sam Cooke	2:20
3.	"Medley #1"	(*)	7:28
4.	"Pieces of a Man"	Jerry Galen Foster, Wilburn Rice	2:53
5.	"Buffalo Soldier"	David Barnes, Margaret Ann Lewis, Mira Ann Smith	4:33
6.	"Medley #2"	(*)	2:36
7.	"Medley #3"	(*)	3:14
Total length:			25:36

FZ Show 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
8.	"Hello (To FOH)/Ready?! (To the Band)"		1:03
9.	"Call Any Vegetable"		10:36
10.	"Any Way the Wind Blows"		4:00
11.	"Magdalena"	Frank Zappa/Howard Kaylan	6:08
12.	"Dog Breath"		5:41
Total length:			27:28

Disc two

FZ Show 1 (continued)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Peaches en Regalia"	4:24
2.	"Tears Began to Fall"	2:32
3.	"She Painted Up Her Face/Half a Dozen Provocative Squats/Shove It Right In"	6:32
4.	"King Kong"	30:25
5.	"200 Motels Finale"	3:41
6.	"Who Are the Brain Police?"	7:08
Total length:		54:41

Disc three

FZ Show 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Auspicious Occasion"		2:45
2.	"Divan: Once Upon a Time"		5:40
3.	"Divan: Sofa #1"		3:11
4.	"Divan: Magic Pig"		1:43
5.	"Divan: Stick It Out"		4:54
6.	"Divan: Divan Ends Here"		4:17
7.	"Pound for a Brown"		6:03
8.	"Sleeping in a Jar"		2:46
9.	"Wonderful Wino"	Frank Zappa/Jeff Simmons	5:46
10.	"Sharleena"		4:52
11.	"Cruising for Burgers"		3:17
Total length:			45:13

Disc four

FZ Show 2 (continued)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Billy the Mountain - Part 1"	28:33
2.	"Billy the Mountain - The Carnegie Solos"	13:31
3.	"Billy the Mountain - Part 2"	5:37
4.	"The $600 Mud Shark Prelude"	1:27
5.	"The Mud Shark"	13:35
Total length:		62:42

Credits

Produced/Performed/Conducted by Frank Zappa

(*)

• Medley #1: "Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle, Anita Nye, Louis Prima, Stanley Rhodes) / "Sincerely" (Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed) / "A Thousand Miles Away" (William Henry Miller, James Sheppard) / "The Vow" (Zeke Carey, George Motola, Horace Webb) / "Why Don't You Write Me?" (Laura Grace Hollins) / "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight" (Calvin Carter, James Hudson) / "Woo Woo Train" (Richard Barrett) / "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) / "Creation of Love" (Richard Barrett, Stuart Wiener) / "Tears on My Pillow" (Al Lewis, Sylvester Bradford) / "The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram)
• Medley #2: "Don't Look Back" (William Robinson, Ronald A. White) / "Runaway Child, Running Wild" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) / "Cloud Nine" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
• Medley #3: "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Sidney Keith Russell, Robert William Scott) / "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) / "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals, band direction
• Mark Volman – vocals, percussion
• Howard Kaylan – vocals, percussion
• Ian Underwood – keyboards, woodwinds
• Don Preston – Minimoog
• Jim Pons – bass, vocals
• Aynsley Dunbar – drums