Essra Mohawk & Frank Zappa's "Bizarre Beginnings"

This little ditty came after Zappa asked then 19 year old Essra Mohawk - https://www.facebook.com/ESSRAMOHAWK.FanPage - to join the Mothers and named her "Uncle Meat." Frank signed Essra to his production company and released her first album, SANDY'S ALBUM IS HERE AT LAST on Verve/Bizarre soon after. Mohawk claims "Frank may have been the first yuppie" to CNBC @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWCdlrAVqTU

"The only things I knew how to play were songs I'd written. Frank stepped off the stage to hear the piano & when he heard me singing my songs he jumped back up & said to follow. Frank said "Come into my office" & then asked "How'd you like to be a Mother?" And I said "sure."

Her PRIMORDIAL LOVERS was called in Rolling Stone "one of the 25 best albums of all time." Essra's "I Have Been Here Before" was the uncredited inspiration for David Crosby's "Deja Vu." She duets with Bonnie Bramlett on "The Moment" @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNkWEEPEtw

Mohawk wrote Cyndi Lauper's "Change of Heart" and songs for Vanilla Fudge, Bob Weir, The Shangri-Las, Rita Coolidge, Peabo Bryson, Annie Haslam, etc. Hear her sleeping giant of a song "Stronger Than The Wind" that Tina Turner also recorded @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1G1p3dtn4

"Bizarre Beginnings" is from REVELATIONS OF THE SECRET DIVA which commemorates the 40th Anniversary of 1967's Summer of Love.

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[TiniNormi]

This made me hard.

[fecinny]

@TiniNormi Ahhh... the power of music.

[cavemanfarts]

what song is this?

[fecinny]

@cavemanfarts The song is Bizarre Beginnings and Essra talks about her days with Frank in the MOI in the April 22nd issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[wizardeal]

thank you for the share

[fecinny]

You are very welcome.

[muzfan]

Thanks for putting Essra's music out here for the world. She is a great songwriter and performer.

[RaiderEleven]

I never knew that Essra was swept up in Zappa's Mothers of Invention maelstrom. She is fantastic!

[ageoftheinnocent]

electric aunt jemima?

[angie4josh]

@freespeech4u2 sounds a bit like muffin man not really

[freespeech4u2]

@angie4josh not really

[angie4josh]

sounds a bit like Muffin Man

[Chronepsis5]

Essra Mohewk awsome cause you can,t forget to thank the band Frank always had such awsome people behind him . Sometimes I forget that shame on me.

[gwamba]

crazy, this has been here for awhile...and first time s/hearing it....thanks for the post....not too many good things on here, but this was a good thing!