Orchestral Favorites

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Orchestral Favorites
Studio album by Frank Zappa
Released	May 4, 1979
Recorded	Royce Hall, UCLA September 19, 1975
Genre	Experimental rock
Length	33:57
Label	DiscReet Records
Producer	Frank Zappa
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Frank Zappa chronology
Sheik Yerbouti (1979) Orchestral Favorites (1979) Joe's Garage (1979)

Orchestral Favorites is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May, 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. The album features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra.

It is one of three albums which Zappa's distributor, Warner Bros. Records initially refused to release. In 1976 Zappa delivered master tape copies of this album to Warner Bros. along with Studio Tan and Sleep Dirt. Zappa attempted to fulfill his contract with Warner by delivering all three albums at once. Warner declined to release the albums at the time. The label failed to pay what was owed to Zappa according to his contract for the rights to release the albums. Zappa filed suit against Warner. A fourth album completed at the same time, Zappa in New York, was released first, though the content had been altered by the distributor without Zappa's permission.

Warner Bros., still holding onto the tapes, claimed they retained the right to release the albums as they saw fit. In 1977 Zappa re-edited most of this material, plus a few new items, into a 4 LP box set called Läther. A preliminary deal Zappa set up in 1977 with Mercury/Phonogram saw the Läther compilation get as far as the test pressing stage before Warner Bros. put a stop to the deal, citing ownership of the material. Again, Warner declined to release the recordings.

When the 1976 recordings were eventually released in 1979 Zappa had no say in the decision. Orchestral Favorites was released with no musical credits, as Zappa had not supplied this information. Warner commissioned sleeve art by Gary Panter, which was not approved by Zappa.

Much of the material on the album was made available to the public again when Läther was finally released to the public in 1996.

It was reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991; this edition was reissued again in 1995 by Ryko.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Strictly Genteel" – 7:04
2. "Pedro's Dowry" – 7:41
3. "Naval Aviation In Art?" – 1:22

[edit] Side two

1. "Duke Of Prunes" – 4:20
2. "Bogus Pomp" – 13:27

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Album release information

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