200 Motels - 50th Anniversary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Remastered) Frank Zappa

• Disc 1:
• 1 Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture 01:59
• 2 Mystery Roach 02:33
• 3 Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers 00:48
• 4 This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue) 00:56
• 5 Tuna Fish Promenade 02:30
• 6 Dance Of The Just Plain Folks 04:39
• 7 This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise) 00:59
• 8 The Sealed Tuna Bolero 01:40
• 9 Lonesome Cowboy Burt 03:51
• 10 Touring Can Make You Crazy 02:53
• 11 Would You Like A Snack? 01:23
• 12 Redneck Eats 03:03
• 13 Centerville 02:31
• 14 She Painted Up Her Face 01:42
• 15 Janet's Big Dance Number 01:18
• 16 Half A Dozen Provocative Squats 01:57
• 17 Mysterioso 00:48
• 18 Shove It Right In 02:32
• 19 Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude 04:00
• 20 I'm Stealing The Towels 02:14
• 21 Dental Hygiene Dilemma 05:12
• 22 Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? 03:00
• 23 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 03:11
• 24 Penis Dimension 04:35
• 25 What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning 03:27
• Disc 2:
• 26 A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes 01:09
• 27 Magic Fingers 03:55
• 28 Motorhead's Midnight Ranch 01:30
• 29 Dew On The Newts We Got 01:10
• 30 The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts 00:41
• 31 The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth 01:10
• 32 The Girl's Dream 00:55
• 33 Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce 01:01
• 34 Strictly Genteel (The Finale) 11:23
• 35 Road Ladies (Alternate Mix) 04:10
• 36 What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening (Demo) 02:45
• 37 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? (Demo) 04:52
• 38 Bwana Dik (Demo) 03:06
• 39 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (Demo) 03:02
• 40 Do You Like My New Car? (Demo) 03:12
• 41 Magic Fingers (Demo) 02:46
• 42 Phyllis & Aynsley 01:54
• 43 What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning (Demo (Alternate Mix)) 04:03
• 44 Tell Me You Love Me (Demo (Mix Outtake)) 03:08
• 45 Road Ladies (Demo (Alternate Take)) 04:30
• 46 What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening (Demo (Studio Outtakes)) 02:26
• 47 What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening (Demo (Alternate Take, Incomplete)) 02:50
• 48 "Aynsley Dunbar, Ladies & Gentlemen" (Demo) 00:46
• 49 Magic Fingers (Demo (Version B - Mix Outtake)) 02:54
• 50 What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning (Demo (Mix Outtake)) 03:04
• 51 Tell Me You Love Me (Demo (Alternate Take)) 03:35
• Disc 3:
• 52 Scene 1-2: Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:02
• 53 Scene 3: “What’s The Deal?” (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:00
• 54 Mystery Roach (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:32
• 55 Scene 32: “It’s A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This…” (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:16
• 56 Scene 14: What’s The Name Of Your Group? I (Dialog Protection Reel) 00:58
• 57 Scene 32: “We Haven’t Formed The Group Yet” (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:27
• 58 Scene 15: What’s The Name Of Your Group? II (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:42
• 59 Scene 17: “When Do We Get Paid?” (Dialog Protection Reel) 05:13
• 60 Scene 18: Went On The Road (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:42
• 61 Scene 19-20: “Special Delivery” (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:12
• 62 Scene 21: Centerville (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:09
• 63 Scene 21: Janet & Lucy (Dialog Protection Reel) 00:45
• 64 Scene 22: This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue) (Dialog Protection Reel) 00:57
• 65 Scene 23 - 24: Tuna Fish Promenade (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:30
• 66 Scene 28: The Sealed Tuna Bolero (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:41
• 67 Scene 29: Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:51
• 68 Scene 30: JCB & Rance (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:29
• 69 Scene 21: Larry The Dwarf (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:12
• 70 Scene 81: Magic Fingers (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:54
• 71 Scene 47: Larry The Dwarf in the Hotel Room (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:31
• 72 Scene 33: The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts (Dialog Protection Reel) 00:32
• 73 Scene 40-41: The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:05
• 74 Scene 42: Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:01
• 75 Scene 45: A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:08
• 76 Scene 57: The Perverted Nun (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:28
• 77 Scene 87: “Penis!” (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:01
• 78 Scene 58: She Painted Up Her Face (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:44
• 79 Scene 60: Janet’s Big Dance Number (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:14
• 80 Scene 61: Half A Dozen Provocative Squats (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:55
• 81 Scene 62: Lucy’s Seduction Of A Bored Violinist (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:21
• 82 Scene 63: Shove It Right In (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:32
• 83 Scene 67: “I Am Bwana Dik!” (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:47
• 84 Scene 68-69: What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:39
• 85 Scene 77: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (Dialog Protection Reel) 03:19
• Disc 4:
• 86 Scene 90: Biff Debris & Jeff (Dialog Protection Reel) 04:39
• 87 Scene 84-85: Penis Dimension (Dialog Protection Reel) 04:39
• 88 Scene 32: Mystery Roach (Acoustic)/“Yeah? Well Fine!” (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:21
• 89 Scene 71: What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning (Dialog Protection Reel) 01:40
• 90 Scene 92: Jeff Flips Out/I’m Stealing The Room (Dialog Protection Reel) 02:55
• 91 Scene 100: Strictly Genteel (Dialog Protection Reel) 05:02
• 92 Scene 100: 200 Motels Finale (Dialog Protection Reel) 10:12
• 93 "I Was Gonna Make A Movie One Time…" 00:20
• 94 200 Motels Movie Ad #1 00:26
• 95 What’s The Name Of Your Group? (FZ Edit) 02:59
• 96 200 Motels Movie Ad #2 00:57
• 97 FZ On Ringo Starr 00:16
• 98 Ringo Starr on 200 Motels 02:59
• 99 200 Motels Movie Ad #3 00:54
• 100 Motorhead's Midnight Ranch (Mix Outtake) 01:31
• 101 Looking For Newts 03:21
• 102 "They Are Only In It For The Money" 01:09
• 103 200 Motels Movie Ad #4 00:27
• 104 200 Motels Commercial Session Outtakes 10:42
• 105 Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? (Mix Outtake 1) 02:26
• 106 "I Shall Ruin All The Tapes" 00:25
• 107 Janet's Big Dance Number (Basic Tracks) 01:20
• 108 Martin Lickert Voice-Over 00:22
• 109 Touring Can Make You Crazy (Mix Outtake) 02:53
• 110 Penis Dimension (Instrumental Alternate Take) 02:13
• 111 Centerville (Mix Outtake) 02:51
• 112 Mystery Roach (Alternate Master) 03:26
• 113 Magic Fingers (Mix Outtake) 02:58
• 114 200 Motels Movie Ad #5 00:55
• Disc 5:
• 115 What Is 200 Motels? 02:58
• 116 Theodore Bikel Voice-Over 00:32
• 117 Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture (Mix Outtake) 02:10
• 118 What’s The Name Of Your Group? (Complete Sequence, Pt 1) 03:43
• 119 What’s The Name Of Your Group? (Complete Sequence, Pt 2) 02:45
• 120 What’s The Name Of Your Group? (Complete Sequence, Pt 3) 02:14
• 121 Can I Help You With This Dummy? 02:05
• 122 Pianos for The Pleated Gazelle 01:16
• 123 Synth Tracks I 01:29
• 124 Would You Like A Snack? (Alternate Take) 02:10
• 125 Howard Kaylan/Mark Volman Voice-Over 00:16
• 126 Centerville (Rough Mix) 02:54
• 127 This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue) (Mix Outtake) 00:56
• 128 Tuna Fish Promenade (Mix Outtake) 02:31
• 129 The Sealed Tuna Bolero (Alternate Take) 01:41
• 130 Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Mix Outtake) 03:53
• 131 Naval Aviation In Art? 02:17
• 132 Redneck Eats/The Restaurant Scene (Basic Tracks) 03:50
• 133 Mystery Roach (Basic Tracks) 04:02
• 134 I Have Seen The Pleated Gazelle 06:16
• 135 Dew On The Newts We Got (Rough Mix) 01:12
• 136 The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts (Rough Mix) 00:51
• 137 Motorhead's Midnight Ranch (Rough Mix) 02:03
• 138 The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth (Rough Mix, Alternate Ending) 01:12
• 139 The Girl's Dream (Rough Mix) 00:56
• 140 Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce (Rough Mix) 01:16
• 141 Scene 43: A Cardboard Box 00:39
• 142 Scene 44 00:50
• 143 A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes (Rough Mix) 01:10
• 144 She Painted Up Her Face (Compressed Mix) 01:42
• 145 The Secret Stare (Compressed Mix) 03:25
• 146 Half A Dozen Provocative Squats (Compressed Mix) 01:56
• 147 Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist (Basic Tracks) 01:32
• 148 Shove It Right In (Compressed Mix) 02:33
• 149 Postlude (Basic Tracks) 03:08
• 150 What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning (Mix Outtake) 04:07
• Disc 6:
• 151 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (Alternate Take) 03:16
• 152 Magic Fingers (Alternate Take) 03:42
• 153 Penis Dimension (Basic Tracks) 04:40
• 154 Scene 86 01:28
• 155 Scene 87 (Alternate Take) 03:16
• 156 Synth Tracks II 01:58
• 157 I'm Stealing The Towels (Basic Tracks, Alternate Take) 02:15
• 158 Scene 94 - "He’s Always Watching Me" 00:34
• 159 Dental Hygiene Dilemma, Pt. 1 (Basic Tracks) 06:21
• 160 Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? (Mix Outtake 2) 00:53
• 161 Dental Hygiene Dilemma, Pt. 2 (Basic Tracks) 02:44
• 162 Strictly Genteel (Basic Tracks) 08:05
• 163 200 Motels Finale (Alternate Take) 03:16
• 164 200 Motels Finale (Master Take Basic Tracks / Unedited Ending) 05:59
• 165 Movie Theater Skit (Commercial Session Outtake) 01:29
• 166 200 Motels Album Ad #1 01:01
• 167 Script Rehearsal Trim 02:50
• 168 Lonesome Cowboy Burt (In Rehearsal, 1969) 02:56
• 169 Lonesome Cowboy Burt (In Rehearsal, 1970) 03:38
• 170 200 Motels Album Ad #2 00:31
• 171 Penis Dimension (Jingle Music) 00:18
• 172 TV Hype (Commercial Session Outtake) 06:36
• 173 200 Motels Movie Ad #6 00:11
• Total Runtime 07:17:12

Info for 200 Motels - 50th Anniversary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Remastered)

Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels 50th Anniversary Edition, the Zappa Trust and UMe are giving another glimpse into some of the extraordinary unreleased and rare material unearthed from FZ’s vault that will be available on the monstrous new six-album set that boasts a new remaster of the original soundtrack, demos, studio outtakes, work mixes, interviews and movie ads, along with newly discovered dialog reels, revealing an early audio edit of the film. Also included in the collection is a wealth of never-before-heard audio documentary material surrounding the project.

Available today is an exciting, previously unreleased alternate version of “Magic Fingers (Version B, Mix Outtake),” from the demo sessions, recorded in August 1970 at Whitney Studios, and featured on album 2 alongside a handful of outtakes and alternate takes of other soundtrack standouts like “Tell Me You Love Me,” “Road Ladies,” “What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening,” and “What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning.” “Magic Fingers (Version B, Mix Outtake)” starts off like the original but then takes a wild detour halfway through, trading Zappa’s extended guitar workout for a rollicking mix of rock and roll motifs crammed into an exhilarating three minutes.

This latest outtake comes on the heels of the recently released non-music track, “What Is 200 Motels,” culled from the 200 Motels commercial and trailer recording session, recorded in November 1971, and featuring Frank Zappa, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman and Jim Pons parodying a news interview about the surrealistic documentary film. This track, available on album 5: 200 Motels – Alternates and Outtakes,

followed the October release of “Mystery Roach” (Dialog Protection Reel) taken from Disc 3, which houses the “Dialog Protection Reels.” Found in the Vault, these work in progress tracks reveal an early version of the movie. The music mixes are in mono and were created before Zappa went into Whitney Studios for over-dubbing and sweetening.

Fully authorized by the Zappa Trust and produced by Ahmet Zappa and Zappa Vaultmeister Joe Travers, the expansive 200 Motels 50th Anniversary Edition is a definitive super deluxe six-album set of the beloved, yet hard to find, soundtrack that has been lovingly assembled in celebration of the film and soundtrack’s golden anniversary. The packaging replicates the original booklet updated with revealing new liner notes from Pamela Des Barres, Ruth Underwood and Joe Travers, as well as Patrick Pending’s essay from the 1997 reissue, and is chock full of motion picture artwork, stills and images, from the film and its making, many which have never been seen before. This must-have collector’s release will also include a custom “200 Motels” keychain and Do-No-Disturb motel door hanger and a full-size replica of the original movie poster. Years in the making, all the audio was meticulously identified and transferred over several years as Travers dug through the Vault to create a new high resolution 96K/24B digital patchwork stereo master from the original analog tapes. The Vault material was mastered by John Polito in 2021.

Album 1 and 2 feature the remastered soundtrack with the second half of the second disc consisting of demos and demo outtakes; two of the many highlights from these sessions include unreleased alt mixes and alt takes of the Chunga’s Revenge tunes, “Road Ladies” and “Tell Me You Love Me.” Discs 3 and 4 contain the “Dialog Protection Reels,” which reveal an early version of the movie, while Disc 5 and 6 present unreleased outtakes, alternates and historical nuggets sequenced in the order of the original shooting script, the way Zappa originally envisioned before he ran into time and budget constraints. These illuminating discs reveal Zappa’s original intent for the film for the first time.

Released in October 1971, Frank Zappa’s “200 Motels” was a miraculous feat, a cinematic collision of the venerated musician and composer’s kaleidoscopic musical and visual worlds that brought together Zappa and his band, The Mothers, Ringo Starr as Zappa – as “a large dwarf” – Keith Moon as a perverted nun, Pamela Des Barres in her acting debut, noted thespian Theodore Bikel, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and an incredible assortment of characters (both on screen and off) for a “surrealistic documentary” about the bizarre life of a touring musician. A heady, psychedelic stew of low and high brow art forms, the film, written by Zappa and co-directed by him and Tony Palmer, mixed together irreverent comedic skits, madcap satire, eye-popping animation and virtuosic on-screen musical performances from both The Mothers and the RPO for a fascinating and free-wheeling multimedia extravaganza. Shot in just 10 days with a budget of around $650,000 from distributor United Artists, “200 Motels” was one of the first movies to be filmed entirely on videotape and Zappa and crew pushed the envelope of the burgeoning new medium’s possibilities, mostly notably through its use of spectacular – and at the time – state-of-the-art visual effects. Described by Zappa as “at once a reportage of real events and an extrapolation of them… other elements include ‘conceptual by-products’ of the extrapolated ‘real event’ … In some ways the contents of the film are autobiographical,” “200 Motels” was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a “a stunning achievement” with “just the right touch of insanity,” and the “Zaniest piece of filmusical fantasy-comedy since The Beatles' ‘A Hard Day's Night’” by Daily Variety.

The music, and its corresponding soundtrack, was equally diverse, a wild pastiche of avant garde rock and orchestral compositions interspersed with dialog from the film. Up until that time, compositions like the finale piece, “Strictly Genteel,” were some of the most ambitious material ever written and recorded by Zappa. The band in the film and on the soundtrack consisted of Frank Zappa (guitar & bass), Mark Volman (vocals & special material), Howard Kaylan (vocals & special material), Ian Underwood (keyboards & winds), Aynsley Dunbar (drums), George Duke (keyboards & trombone), Martin Lickert (bass), Jimmy Carl Black (vocals), and Ruth Underwood (orchestra drum set), not to mention the aforementioned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In true Zappa fashion as he wrote in the album’s original liner notes, “This music is not in the same order as in the movie. Some of this music is in the movie. Some of this music is not in the movie. Some of the music that’s in the movie is not in the album. Some of the music that was written for the movie is not in the movie or the album. All of this music was written for the movie, over a period of 4 years. Most of it (60%) was written in motels while touring.”

Putting together this 50th anniversary edition was a labor intensive process that bore fruit at nearly every turn as Travers dug through Zappa’s expansive archives to put together this exhaustive edition. As Travers writes in the liners, “During this search and seizure mission, I was able to unearth a multitude of audio treasures from a very large number of tapes. Original demos, session outtakes, alternate mixes and versions, and even dialog reels that captured an edit of the film that predates the final assembly which eventually made it to theaters everywhere in 1971.” Amongst the gems discovered include a number of ¼-inch reel-to-reel tapes that were made at Trident Studios during February of ’71, which contain rough mixes of nearly everything that was recorded on multi-track. As Travers explains, “they reflect raw performances, as they happened before FZ would get a hold of the multi-track masters and bring them to Whitney Studios in Glendale for over-dubs and sweetening. The Trident tapes allow us to hear music that did not make the film, or the final soundtrack album. They also helped us to reconstruct pieces of music like ‘The Pleated Gazelle’ or ‘What’s The Name Of Your Group?’ into their full sequences per the score. Over the years, even Frank himself forgot the sheer amount of music that actually did get recorded. All of the archiving for this 50th Anniversary set has produced incredible amounts of content that we would never had known existed otherwise.”

Frank Zappa, guitar, bass
Jimmy Carl Black, vocals
George Duke, keyboards, trombone
Mark Volman, vocals („Special Material“)
Howard Kaylan, vocals („Special Material“)
Jim Pons, voice (Voice Of The Bad Conscience)
Ian Underwood, keyboards, woodwind instruments
Aynsley Dunbar, drums
Martin Lickert, bass
Ruth Underwood, orchestra drum set
Theodore Bikel, narrator
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Elgar Howarth, conductor
The Top Score Singers
Classical Guitar Ensemble

Remastered by Bernie Grundman

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Booklet for 200 Motels - 50th Anniversary (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Remastered)