The original softcover edition of this book includes sheet music of Zappa's compositions, superbly transcribed and arranged for piano/guitar/voice by Ian Underwood, plus 8 full-page pictures, storylines from Ruben & The Jets, Uncle Meat and The Legend of Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus & His Grand Wazoo (the same material which can be found in the album liner notes), and several illustrations by Cal Schenkel.
The Songbook contains piano transcriptions for:
- Brown Shoes Don't Make It
- Mother People
- Igor's Boogie
- Penis Dimension
- How Could I Be Such a Fool
- Let's Make the Water Turn Black
- Oh No
- America Drinks and Goes Home
- Son of Suzy Creamcheese
- Excerpt from Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Symphony Orchestra (piano with concert pitch melody line)
- Excerpt from Music for Electric Violin and Low-Budget Symphony Orchestra (transposed Bb Clarinet part)
- I'm Not Satisfied
- Mom & Dad
- Absolutely Free
- Uncle Meat
- The Idiot Bastard Son
- Piano Introduction to Little House I Used to Live In (revised)
- FZ's manuscripts
Frank Zappa
Ian Underwood (transcription)
Frank Zappa Music, Inc. and Munchkin Music co., Los Angeles USA
1973
128 pp, paperback, 30 x 23 cm
English