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