Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is a music album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. It appeared in 1968 on the Verve label and the Doo Wop is attributed to a style of music that was popular in America in the 1950s and the Zappa truly appreciated.

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Importance

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth album by the Mothers of Invention. Frank Zappa - born in 1940 and grew up with the doo-wop music of the 1950s - loved and collected records of this genre. Some of his first compositions such as Memories of El Monte were doo-wop songs. Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is a collection of music, with Zappa composed almost all of the pieces. For inexperienced listeners sounding songs like Cheap Thrills, Jelly Roll Gum Drop Deseri and as average doo-wop songs. Other hand, more accurate listening reveals unusual chord progressions, Stravinsky quotes and the banal comic texts - all packaged in four-part harmony singing and linear three chords on the piano. Some pieces from the debut album Freak Out! have been re- arranged, but also old material from the period before the Mothers was prepared for the album. Pieces like Love of My Life and You Did not Try to Call Me were played often live Zappa even later.

Reception

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets was an " in every respect unique recording " which was not for the uninitiated listener, however, was the American critic John Alroy. The German rock journalist Volker Rebell, however, saw it as " a recording project with which he massively squinted [ Zappa, note] by charts listing ". Reviewer François Couture warned newcomers to Zappa 's oeuvre, this album is for " definitely not the best place ." Barry Miles noted the " very authentic " sounding album have irritated many Zappa fans who would have thought Zappa wanted to make fun of the doo-wop music. Miles: "But actually was Cruising with Ruben & the Jets ... a labor of love. "

Publications

The album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets has been published in several differing versions. The following overview highlights key differentiators.

  • The stereo original LP was released in early December 1968 with gatefold cover and blue Verve label on the U.S. market.
  • A follow-up single with the pieces Deseri and Jelly Roll Gum Drop was released in late December 1968 by Verve.
  • In February 1969, the album was released times with blue, sometimes with a white label in the UK. He lacked the gatefold cover as well as the simultaneously published in the U.S. and the UK mono versions and the Australian and Brazilian stereo versions. Was missing on the German and French editions - although called on the cover - the piece Deseri.
  • In the UK - this time with gatefold cover - released the first re-release in June 1973.
  • The demand for the mid -1970s on the market hardly available album prompted Black copier to publish a " facsimile bootleg" of the album. These bootlegs are distinguished by the slightly poorer sound quality and the somewhat imprecise pressure of the cover of the original LP.
  • Another LP re-release was found in 1985 brought out from Barking Pumpkin Records compilation The Old Masters Box One. The bass and drum tracks had allowed import new Zappa for this remix edition of Arthur Barrow (bass ), Jay Anderson ( bass) and Chad Wackerman.
  • For the first time on CD was released the remix version of the album in late 1987 with Rykodisc (USA and Australia), Zappa Records (Europe) and Vack (Japan). More CD re-releases in 1995 were released on Rykodisc and Vack.
  • In 2001 a CD version was released by Vack in Japan in small edition in cardboard sleeve which is a sticker and miniature reproductions of the original covers were settled.
  • Published in 2010 Zappa Records a CD with the "Original 1968 Vinyl Stereo Mix" and 8 bonus tracks under the title Greasy Love Songs.

Achievements

In contrast to the previously published albums of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention pieces were played by Cruising with Ruben & the Jets frequently by U.S. radio stations. Perhaps the disc jockeys had thought it were a record of the group " Ruben and the Jets "; maybe they had overlooked on the album cover to simply existing in a balloon regard to the actual performer. There, the question is asked, " Is this the Mothers of Invention recording under a different name in a load- ditch attempt to get Their cruddy music on the radio? " ( " Is this a last-ditch attempt by the Mothers of Invention, below by a plate get played their uncouth music on the radio a different name? ") the album missed the top 100 in the U.S. charts just barely.

Staff

The Mothers of Invention

And, in addition, on Zappa's Remix Album 1984

  • Jay Anderson - bass
  • Arthur Barrow - Bass
  • Chad Wackerman - drums

Production

  • Producer: Frank Zappa
  • Sound engineer Dick Kunc
  • Cover Design: Cal Schenkel

Content

Title list

The compositions are mostly of Frank Zappa. Exceptions are noted with (*) in the title description.

Record label Verve Records Compact Disc Digital Audio Pastiche Lumpy Gravy Mothermania Bootleg recording Electric guitar Bass guitar Ray Collins (rock musician) Baritone saxophone Grease (Film) Absolutely Free Uncle Meat Hot Rats Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Fillmore East – June 1971 Just Another Band from L.A. Waka/Jawaka The Grand Wazoo Over-Nite Sensation One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album) Bongo Fury Zoot Allures Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti Orchestral Favorites Tinsel Town Rebellion You Are What You Is The Man from Utopia Baby Snakes (soundtrack) London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I Them or Us Francesco Zappa (Album)
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