For Real!

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For Real! is a 1973 album produced by Frank Zappa, and recorded by a band called Ruben and the Jets, named after Zappa's 1968 album Cruising with Ruben & the Jets. The band followed For Real! with an album called Con Safos, released in 1974. For Real! was reissued on CD in 1994 by Edsel Records.

[edit] Tracks

1. If I Could Only Be Your Love Again (Frank Zappa) 3:34
2. Dedicated To The One I Love (Lawman Pauling/Ralph Bass) 5:45
3. Show Me The Way To Your Heart (Tony Duran/Leonard Duran) 5:04
4. Sparkie (Tony Duran/Ruben Guevara) 4:30
5. Wedding Bells (Robert "Frog" Camarena) 2:58
6. Almost Grown (Chuck Berry) 2:20
7. Charlena (Manuel Chavez/H. Chaney) 5:54
8. Mah Man Flash (Ruben Guevara) 2:38
9. Santa Kari (Ruben Guevara) 4:29
10. Spider Woman (Paul Hof/Lonnie Scott/Tony Duran/Ruben Guevara) 3:58
11. All Night Long (John Gray) 2:22

[edit] Album credits

• Produced by Frank Zappa
• Recorded at Paramount Recording Studios, Hollywood California
• Engineered by Kerry McNab (May 1972)
• Sun West Recording Studios, T.K., Hollywood, California - engineered by Buck Herring and Wally Duguid
• Original album design: Cal Schenkel
• Cover photography: Ed Caraeff
• Interior photograph: Ray Leong
• Ruben Guevara: vocals and tambourine
• Tony Duran: lead and slide guitar, vocals (lead vocal on "Show Me The Way To Your Heart"), (piano and slide guitar on "Dedicated To The One I Love")
• Robert "Frog" Camarena: rhythm guitar and vocals (lead vocal on "Almost Grown" and "Wedding Bells")
• Johhny Martinez: bass and vocals (lead vocal on "Dedicated To The One I Love"), organ and falsetto
• Robert "Buffalo" Roberts: tenor saxophone and '55 Buick tail pipe
• Bill Wild: bass, sings second tenor
• Bob Zamora: drums
• Jim Sherwood: baritone saxophone and tambourine
• Frank Zappa: uncredited guitar on "Dedicated To The One I Love"

[edit] External links

• info
• All Music Guide
• review