Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
December 2nd 1968
Zappa Records
Official Release #5
Catalog Number: ZR 3838
Produced by: FZ
Executive Producer: Tom Wilson
“This is an album of greasy love songs & cretin simplicity. We made it because we really like this kind of music (just a bunch of old men with rock & roll clothes on sitting around the studio, mumbling about the good old days). Ten years from now you’ll be sitting around with your friends someplace doing the same thing if there’s anything left to sit on.”
The Mothers of Invention:
Ray Collins: Lead Vocals
FZ: Low Grumbles, Oo-wah and Lead Guitar***
Roy Estrada: High Weazlings, Dwaedy-doop & Electric Bass
Jimmy Carl Black and/or Arthur Dyer Tripp III: Lewd Pulsating Rhythm
Ian Underwood or Don Preston: Redundant Piano Triplets
Motorhead Sherwood: Baritone Sax & Tambourine
Bunk Gardner and Ian Underwood: Tenor and Alto Saxs
Original Engineer, Dick Kunc, Apostolic Studios, New York
Digitally Re-Mixed 1984, UMRK
Cover by Cal Schenkel
Liner photo by Dick Barber and Cal Schenkel
“The present day Pachuco refuses to die!” RUBEN SANO, June 1955
Liner Notes & Original Art Direction by FZ, NT&B.