The Mothers of Invention - Call Any Vegetable

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.
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Cheesy, cheesy!

(This is a song about vegetables . . . they keep you regular; they're real good for ya.)

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Call it by name
(Call any vegetable)
Call one today
(Call any vegetable)
When you get off the train
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Ooooh! The vegetable
Will respond to you

(Some people don't go for prunes . . . I dunno . . . I've always found that if they . . . )

Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Pick up your phone
(Call any vegetable)
Think of a vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Lonely at home
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you-hoooo

RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA RUTA-BAY-AY-AYGA
RUTA-BAYYYYY . . .

(A prune isn't really a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable.)

No one will know
If you don't want to let 'em know
No one will know
'Less it's you that might tell 'em so
Call and they'll come to you
Covered with dew
Vegetables dream
Of responding to you
Standing there
Shiny & proud by your side
Holding your hand
While the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable
Something to hide?
YAR-R-R-R-R-G-H!

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[joholso]

"Some people don't go for prunes, I don't know, I've always found that if...." lol

[MaryAnneRosato]

"Standing there shining and proud by your side, holding your hand while the neighbors decide...Why is a vegetable something to hide?" The best!

[Smile892011]

@dabidosan Cool story, rutabaga.

[cpdaddy7]

maintaining your coolness together, worshiping together in the church of your choice

[flankdrive45]

pick up yer phone

[gigantomaquia]

oh and I'm a HUGE fan of Zappa.

[gigantomaquia]

@metelmoose you are wrong, there is a lot of original music in a lot of different genres, from what I see in your profile, you only like rock...

[dabidosan]

NPR brought me here. No, Seriously! Their Quiz program "Wait...Wait, Don't Tell Me" has a segment called "Bluff the Listener". The question focused on a record breaking 85lb Rutabaga grown in Cardiff, Wales. The grower couldn't sell his Rutabaga because of the rules of the E.U. So Snoop Dogg sent the grower a video asking for his "Green Thumb" advice on growing other 'plants'. They played this song as the 'outro soundbite' for the segment. It's all true. What! You don't believe me?! Google it!!!

[FernyBass007]

is he mocking the protestant churches...

[Juggernaut48]

RUDABAEYAYGA!!



[fordachevy]

this song is a must to any music collection...