(Front) Design by Cal Schenkel  - Photo by Sherwin Tilton (LP inside left) (LP inside right) (LP back) Design by Cal Schenkel  - Photo by Sherwin Tilton

Live at The Roxy, LA, CA - December 8-10, 1973

Linked material:

Roxy & elsewhere

 

  1 Penguin in bondage
  2 Pygmy twylyte
  3 Dummy up [Frank Zappa, Jeff Simmons, Napoleon Murphy Brock]
  4 Village of the sun
  5 Echidna’s arf (of you)
  6 Don’t you ever wash that thing?
  7 Cheepnis
  8 Son of Orange County {Oh no + The Orange County lumber truck}
  9 More trouble every day
10 Be-bop tango (of the Old Jazzmen’s Church) {+ The hook + Anything you wanna do}

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


Album notes by FZ
Most of the material in this double set was recorded December 10, 11 and 12, 1973, at the Roxy, Hollywood. Other portions were extracted from road tapes (4-track 15-ips masters) of show #2, Mothers Day, 1974, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, and the gymnasium extravaganza at Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1974.
Some of the material has been overdubbed (Bolic Studios and Paramount Studios, Hollywood), but all basic tracks are live. The Roxy remote recording was done by Wally Heider (16-track 30-ips), engineered originally by Kerry McNab (who also was responsible for the re-mix on the whole album). The engineer for the road tapes was Bill Hennigh. None of the road material has been overdubbed.

1. Penguin in bondage


[FZ] Thank you. (Brian, I could use a little bit more monitor. Hello, hello. Can’t you turn it up any more than that? Hello, hello. Hey!)

Alright… (BURP - Pardon me, folks). The name of this song is “Penguin in bondage” an’ it’s a song that uh… deals with… the possible variations on a basic theme which is… well, you understand what the basic theme is. And then the variations include uh… maneuvers that might be executed with the aid of uh… extraterrestrial gratification and devices which might or might not be supplied in a local department store or perhaps a drugstore but at very least in one of those fancy new shops that they advertise in the back-pages of the free press. This song suggests to the suggestible listener that the ordinary procedure uh… that I’m circumlocuting at this present time in order to get this text on television, is that uh… if you wanna do something other than what you thought you were gonna do when you first took your clothes off and you just happened to have some DEVICES around… then it’s… it’s not only OK to get into the PARAPHERNALIA of it all but…
Hey! What did he say? Ready?
 

She’s just like a penguin in bondage, boy
Oh yeah oh yeah oh
Rennenhenninnahenninnenninahennn
Way over on the wet side of the bed
(Knirps for moisture)
Just like the mighty penguin
Flappin’ her eight ounce wings
(The penguin flap)
 
Lord, you know it’s all over
If she come atcha on the strut & wrap ‘em all around yer head
Flappin’ her eight ounce wings, flappinumm
 
She’s just like a penguin in bondage, boy
Shake up the pale-dry ginger ale
Tremblin’ like a penguin when the battery fail
 

Lord, you must be havin’ her jumpin’ through a hoopa real fire
With some Kleenex wrapped around a coat-hang wire
 
[Instrumental]
 
She’s just like a penguin in bondage, boy
Oh yeah oh yeah oh
Rennenhenninnahenninneninahenn
Howlin’ over to some antarcticulated moon
In the frostbite nite with her flaps gone white
Shriekin’ as she spot the hoop across the room
(Every time she sees the hoop)
 
You know it must be a penguin bound down
If you hear that terrible screamin’ and there ain’t no other birds around
 
She’s just like a penguin in bondage, boy
Oh yeah oh yeah oh
She’s just like a penguin in bondage, boy
Oh yeah oh yeah oh
Rennenhenninnahenninneninahenn
Aw, you must be careful not to leave her straps TOO LOOSE
‘Cause she just might box yer dog
‘Cause she just might box yer doggie
An’ leave you a dried-up dog biscuit…

2. Pygmy twylyte


[Instrumental]
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Green hocker croakin’ in the pygmy twylyte
Crankin’ an’ a-coke’n in the Winchell’s Donuts midnite
Out of his deep on a ‘fore day run hurtin’ for sleep in the Quaalude moonlight
 

Green hocker in a Greyhound locker smokin’ in the pygmy twylyte
Joined the bus on the 33rd seat by the doo-doo room with the reek replete
 
Crystal eye, crystal eye
Got a crystal kidney & he’s ‘fraid to die
In the pygmy twylyte
Downer midnite
Pygmy twylyte
Downer midnite
Pygmy twylyte
Downer midnite
Pygmy twylyte
Downer midnite
 
[Instrumental]

3. Dummy up


[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Sunrise
Get up in the mornin’
You know, I think it’s mornin’
Sun is shinin’ bright
I wanna get outside
Gonna wash my face
An’ grab my hat
Put it on my head
I take a walk downtown
Yeah-hey
Because I feel so-oh good
I think I’m gonna take a walk downtown
Hey! Sunlight!
 
Wo!
Somethin’ I never seen before
Been a-walkin’ down the street every day
Nobody like you ever passed my way
Maybe there must be too much sun
Couldn’t be my hat, must be too much…
Wait a minute!
What’s that you…?
What’s that?
What…?
What’s that?
What…?
What’s that?
What…?
 
[FZ] Dummy up!
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] What is that?
I know what that is, I know what that is
I bet you that’s a restaurant menu
Let me see!
Let me see!
 
[Jeff Simmons] Not only do you get the Desenex burger, not only the Desenex burger, but you are in for a real treat, Jim
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute, I think I like that dance better than this. What are you talkin’ about, creep?
[Jeff Simmons] What I’m talkin’ about is you’ve been in this killer fog down here too long
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] What?
[Jeff Simmons] You need somethin’ to get up and go to school with
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute, you’re not talkin’ to an old FOOL now, you know, I wasn’t born yesterday!
Wait a minute. I think I’ll take…
[Jeff Simmons] I like that little dance you were doin’ down there
[FZ] Jeff Simmons tries to corrupt Napoleon Murphy Brock by showing him a lewd dance and suggesting that he smoke a high-school diploma
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Hey! What you… What you…? Wait a minute!
[Jeff Simmons] Hey this… this stuff…
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I’ve never seen one of these before, that’s not a menu?
[Jeff Simmons] This stuff is expensive
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] What is that?
[Jeff Simmons] You shoot it, you’ll conserve all winter
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I do what?
[Jeff Simmons] It last longer
[FZ] Not only do you get the Desenex burger
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] No… no
[Jeff Simmons] Now, come on, try it
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] No, no, no
[Jeff Simmons] It’s really good
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] No. Smoke THAT?
[Jeff Simmons] Have I ever lied to you? Have I ever seen you before?
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I don’t… I don’t even know you!
[Jeff Simmons] Look
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I don’t even know what that is!
[Jeff Simmons] Just bef
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] And you’re tellin’ me to smoke it?
[Jeff Simmons] Just before, we smoked the tapes that you made
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Smoked the tapes?
[Jeff Simmons] Smoked the tapes of your group
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I think I’d rather dance
[Jeff Simmons] You can really get off! Let’s try a joint of this
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] A WHAT?
[Jeff Simmons] A joint!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] You mean this kinda joint?

[Jeff Simmons] No, man! Where you been in livin’? Reseda?
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] No, San Jose
[FZ] The evil dope pusher is cutting up a white gym sock, formerly owned by Carl Zappa and still damp. The shredded sock will be placed inside of a high-school diploma and ignited with a sulphur preparation.
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute
[FZ] His first taste of big city life
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] That’s OK, wait a minute… wait
DUMMY UP
[Jeff Simmons] Hey, the roach of this is really gonna be good, so I’ll save it
 
[FZ] Have mercy!
[George Duke] Awright, awright
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] What d’you do with that thing?
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT THING THAT YOU HAVE?
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
What do you do with that thing?
I wanna know
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute
[FZ] Now the next step of this operation…
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute
[FZ] The evil corrupter of youth is going to take him from Step One, which is a mere high-school diploma stuffed with a gym sock, to Step Two, which is a college degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. Smoke that and it’ll really get you out there!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I still don’t feel as good as I felt this mornin’, yeah, yeah
[FZ] You’ll grow out of it
[Jeff Simmons] DUMMY UP!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I heard it again, somebody said…
[Jeff Simmons] You see this?
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] What d’you mean? College!
[FZ] College!
[Jeff Simmons] That’s college-rhythm
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] You mean if I smoke that…
It’s the same as if… as if I was at college?
Roll it over up!
Roll it over up!
Roll it over up!
Gimme a…
 
[FZ] No, no, the college degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all, you get… you get nothing with your college degree
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Oh, but that’s what I want
[FZ] I forgot, I’m sorry
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Well, you get nothin’, but that’s what I want
[FZ] A true Zen saying: “Nothing is what I want”
 
[FZ] The results of a higher education!

4. Village of the sun


[FZ] Thank you. Thank you very much. Awright, does anybody here know where Palmdale is? YOU DO? Good. Do… Have you ever heard of a place called “Sun Village”? You… Some… Some of you know where Sun Village is, alright, it’s out on back of Palmdale, alright. At one time, that used to be a big place for raisin’ turkeys, and I went to high-school in Lancaster which is not far from… from Palm. Oh! Is it very good for other things out there now? Good, heh. (Ken, turn me up so they can hear what I’m saying). Ladies and gentlemen, this is a song about this place where I used to live where they used to raise turkeys.
Ready?
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Goin’ back home to the village of the sun
Out in back of Palmdale, where the turkey farmers run
I done made up my mind and I know I’m gonna go to Sun
Village, good God, I hope the wind don’t blow
 
It take the paint off your car and wreck your windshield too
I don’t know how the people stand it, but I guess they do
‘Cause they’re all still there (even Johnny Franklin too)
In the village of the sun, ah ah
Village of the sun
Village of the sun, son
(Sun Village to you-ooo ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo)
Well!
 
Little Mary, and Teddy, and Thelma too, now
Where Palmdale Boulevard, woh, cuts on through
Past the Village Inn, well, & Barbecue now, yeah
(I heard it ain’t there… well, I hope it ain’t true)
Where the stumblers gonna go to watch the lights turn blue?
Where the stumblers gonna go to watch the lights turn blue?
Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-wahhh
 
Goin’ back home to the village of the sun
Out in back of Palmdale, where the turkey farmers run
I done made up my mind and I know I’m gonna go to Sun
Village, good God, I hope the wind don’t blow
 
It take the paint off your car and wreck your windshield too
I don’t know how the people stand it, but I guess they do
‘Cause they’re all still there (even Johnny Franklin too)
In the village of the sun
Village of the sun, ah ah
Village of the sun, son
(Sun Village to you-ooo ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo)
Well!

5. Echidna’s arf (of you)


[Instrumental]

6. Don’t you ever wash that thing?


[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Ladies and gentlemen
Watch Ruth!
All through this film
Ruth has been thinking:
“What can I possibly do
That will amaze everyone?”
I think she’s come up with the answer, just keep your eye on her
 
[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Thank you!

7. Cheepnis


[FZ] “Cheepnis”. Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies? Anybody? I LOVE monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheapness in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps, but true cheapness is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider. I’ll tell you, a good one that I saw one time, I think the name of the film was “IT CONQUERED THE WORLD” and the… (Did you ever see that one?) the monster looks sort of like an inverted ice-cream cone with teeth around the bottom. It looks like a (phew!) like a teepee or sort of a rounded off pup tent affair, and it’s got fangs on the base of it, I don’t know why but it’s a very threatening sight, and then he’s got a frown and, you know, ugly mouth and everything.

 Movie snapshot from “It conquered the world”

And there’s this one scene where the monster is coming out of a cave, see? There’s always a scene where they come out of a cave, at least once, and the rest of the cast… It musta been made around the 1950’s, the lapels are about like that wide, the ties are about that wide and about this short, and they always have a little revolver that they’re gonna shoot the monster with, and there is always a girl who falls down and twists her ankle, heh-hey! Of course there is! You know how they are, the weaker sex and everything, twisting their ankle on behalf of the little ice-cream cone. Well, in this particular scene, in this scene, folks, they uh… they didn’t wanna re-take it ‘cause it musta been so good they wanted to keep it, but they… when the monster came out of the cave, just over on the left hand side of the screen you can see about this much two-by-four attached to the bottom of the thing as the guy is pushing it out, and then, obviously off-camera, somebody’s goin’: “NO! GET IT BACK!” And they drag it back just a little bit as the guy is goin’: “KCH! KCH!” Now, that’s cheapness. Awright. And this is “Cheepnis” here.
 
One, two, three, four
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] I ate a hot dog, it tasted real good
Then I watched a movie from Hollywood
 
I ate a hot dog, it tasted real good
Yum-yum yummy-yummy-yum yum-yum yummy-yummy-yum
Then I watched a movie from Hollywood
Dum-dum dummy-dummy-dum dum-dum dummy-dummy-dum
 
Little Miss Muffet on a squat by me, yeah
Took a turn around, I said: “Can y’all see now?
The little strings on the giant spider?
The Zipper from the Black Lagoon?
HA HA HA!
The vents by the tanks where the bubbles go up
(And the flaps on the side of the moon!)
 
The jelly & paint on the 40 watt bulb
They use when The Slime droozle off!
The rumples & the wrinkles in the cardboard rock, yeah
And the canvas of the cave is too soft!
 
The suits & the hats & the ties too wide
And too short for the scientist-man!
The chemistry lady with the roll-away mind, yeah
While the monster just ate Japan!”
 
[FZ] Ladies and gentlemen, the monster, which the peasants in this area call “Frunobulax” (apparently a very large poodle dog), has just been seen approaching the power plant! Bullets can’t stop it. Rockets can’t stop it. We may have to use NUCLEAR FORCE!
 
HERE COMES THAT POODLE DOG! BIG AS A BLIMP WITH A RHINESTONE COLLAR!
 
SNAPPIN’ OFF THE TREES LIKE THEY WAS BONSAI’D ORNAMENTS ON A DRY-WOBBLE LANDSCAPE. KEEP IT AWAY! DON’T LET THE POODLE BITE ME! WE CAN’T LET IT REPRODUCE! OH! SOMEBODY GET OUT THE PANTS!
 
[FZ] The National Guard has formed up at the base of the mountain and is attempting to lure the enormous poodle towards the cave, where they hope to destroy it with napalm! A thousand of the troopers are now lined up and are calling to the monster:
 
“Here Fido! Here Fido! Here Fido!”
 
GOT A GREAT BIG SLIMEY “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG HEAVY “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG POODLE “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG HAIRY “THING”
 
GOT A GREAT BIG SLIMEY “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG HEAVY “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG POODLE “THING”
GOT A GREAT BIG HAIRY “THING”
 
C’mon, everybody! Hurry! Let’s go!
Somebody get the distilled water! Get the canned goods!
Get the toilet paper! You know we need it!
 
GO TO DA SHELTER! (“MY BABY, MY BABY!”)
GO TO DA SHELTER
GO TO DA SHELTER
 
GO TO DA SHELTER! (“MY BABY, MY BABY!”)
GO TO DA SHELTER
GO TO DA SHELTER
 
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Little Miss Muffet on a squat by me
Can ya see the little strings danglin’ down?
Makes the legs go wobble an’ the mouth flop shut, yeah
An’ the horrible eye
An’ that horrible eye
An’ that horrible eye
Go rollin’ around!
 
Can y’see it at all? Can y’see it from here?
Can y’laugh till you’re weak on yer knees?
If you can’t, I’m sorry, ‘cause that’s all I wanna know!
I need a little more cheepnis, please
 
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Cheaper the better
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Cheaper the better
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Cheaper the better
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis, please
Cheaper the better
Cheaper the better
Cheaper the better
Cheaper the better
Baby, I’m sorry, ‘cause it’s all I wanna know
I need a little more cheepnis

8. Son of Orange County {Oh no + The Orange County lumber truck}


[Napoleon Murphy Brock] And in your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world
The words from your lips
(I am not a crook)
I just can’t believe you are such a fool
 
I just can’t believe you are such a fool
I just can’t believe you are such a fool
I just can’t believe you are such a fool
I just can’t believe you are such a fool
 
[Instrumental]

9. More trouble every day


[FZ] Well, I’m about to get sick from watchin’ my TV
Been checkin’ out the news till my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day is just another rotten mess
(Sure ‘nuff!)
And when it’s gonna change, my friend, is anybody’s guess
Well! Woa!
 
So I’m watchin’ and I’m awaitin’, I’m hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
There’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
There’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
 
Wednesday I watched the riot, I seen the cops out on the street
I watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff, and chokin’ in the heat
I listen to reports ‘bout the whisky passin’ around
I seen the smoke & fire and the market burnin’ down
I watched while everybody on his street would take a turn
To stomp & smash & bash & crash & slash & bust & burn
 
I’m a-watchin’ and I’m awaitin’, but I’m hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
There’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
There’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
 
[Instrumental]
 
Watchin’ and I’m waitin’, I’m hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
There’s no way to delay…

10. Be-bop tango (of the Old Jazzmen’s Church) {+ The hook + Anything you wanna do}


[FZ] Some of you may know that the tango, which is not a very popular dance anymore, was at one time reputed to be a dance of unbridled passion. Back in the old days when it wasn’t so easy to get your rocks off, when it was hard to make contact with a member of the opposite camp, and you had to resort to things like dancing close together and going… hey. Those were the days. Well, those days are probably gone forever - I don’t know, unless Nixon is going to bring them back a little bit later - but, we have this very special highly evolved permutated tango. It’s actually a perverted tango. By the time… he he, yes, it’s so perverted! This is the “Be-bop tango”, a special entertainment event that includes choreography a little bit later, so watch out, folks.
(You can turn on the big lights, we may need ‘em. You know, the ones in the audience, heh heh heh). OK, you’re ready? Not too fast now ‘cause I wanna get the right notes on the tape an’ this… this has to be the one… this has to be the one with all the right notes on it. OK, ‘re you ready? An’ this is a hard one to play.
One, two, three, four
 
The cowbell as a symbol of unbridled passion, ladies and gentlemen
 
[Instrumental]
 

[FZ] Now, as you might have noticed, Bruce Fowler has just completed some sort of trombone solo, based on the idea of an evolved tango-event. Bruce has also prepared for you a demonstration of a dance that he hopes will sweep the ocean , right after the mud shark did. Bruce is now warming up the important muscles of the body, in preparation… in preparation for the real live be-bop tango, which we’re gonna demonstrate. Napoleon will assist him.
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Wait a minute now
[FZ] Napoleon, just put your horn down, just relax, put your head back, here comes the drill. OK, ha ha ha! You know what I’m talkin’ about? OK. This is sort of like jazz in its own peculiar way.
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny
OK, let’s go!
[George Duke] Yeah, man, jazz, man, you know what I mean?
This is be-bop, even though you think it doesn’t sound like that
Be-bop! That’s no be-bop!
[FZ] Now, as you might have noticed, some of you with a musical education can tell that the notes that George just sang when he went “This is be-bop, even though you think it doesn’t sound like that”, it’s actually a sort of a twisted form of the theme of the tango itself which will get de even more depraved as the number goes on. George will now attempt to dismember that melody, play it and sing it at the same time while…
[George Duke] Pe-dop!
[FZ] (Hey, that’s the way) … while we sort of dance to it, OK? Try it, George.
[George Duke] Pe-do-do-dum-deh-dum-deh do-do-deh-dum-deh
Tee-do-do-teep
Goop
Do-do
Tee-dum-do-do tee-dum-do-do keep do-deah
E-dum do-dee-dum
Do-do-dee-doo
Do-dee-dah
OH YEAAAAH!
 
[George Duke] As I was saying…
[FZ] Now, what we’d like to do at this point is get some volunteers from the audience to… (I know you will, oh God, you will). We need some… heh heh heh. (Now, as a matter of fact you did, didn’t you? Heh heh). No, we wanna have some people who’ve never tried it before, who’ve never even thought of trying it before. A boy, a girl, preferably who like each other, who would like to come up here and attempt to dance to what George sings.
[George Duke] Pe-dop
[FZ] Do we have anybody whose…? You’re one. OK, what’s your name?
[Carl] Carl
[FZ] Your name is Carl? Please, Carl, step on to the stage. Pleased to meet you, Carl.
[George Duke] Pe-do-dum-dee dum-dee-dum-de-de-dop
[FZ] Alright. OK? Let’s see uh… is there anybody in the… in the back? Well, oh-oh, hey! What’s your name?
[Rick] Rick
[FZ] Rick, and…?
[Jane] Jane
[FZ] Jane? RICK and JANE and CARL! Alright, here’s how it works: there’s a beat going on like this; an’ that’s a pedestrian beat.
You don’t dance to that beat, you dance to what George sings, OK?
[George Duke] Peddle-up
[FZ] The little ones, OK? The little quick ones, OK? Ready? George, make them dance!
[George Duke] Dup
[FZ] No, no, Rick, you’re too reserved. Ready? Give it to ‘em George!
[George Duke] Pe-dup-dum-dup
Dum-dup dum-deddle-do-do-dup
Dum-deddle-dup
[FZ] No, no
[George Duke] Pe-dum duddle-deddle-dup
Do-do-dee-doo
Do-dee-DAH
[FZ] No, no, come on now, loosen up! Listen, encourage them! When it… When… Ah! OK! Alright, one more time, dance!
[George Duke] Pee-deddle-dup pe-dop
Doop doop dum deddle-de-dup pe-dop dum-de-dee-dah
De-dum de-dum do-dee-up
Po-dee
Po-dee do-dee-dum
Do-we-ooh doo-doo-roo-doo
De-da-da dee-dah
[FZ] Let’s study this phenomenon!
[George Duke] De-dum do-de-dum
Do-ah-dee po-dee-dah
De-dum do-de-dum
Po-dah-dee po-dee-dah
De-dum do-de-dum
Do-dah-dee po-dee-dah
De-dum doddle-dee-oh-du-dup
De-dum dup
De-dum do-wee-oh-do-dup
De-dum doddle-dee-oh-du-dup
De-dum doo-wee-ooh dup-du-ep
De-deddle-de-deddle-de-dum-du
Deddle-de-deddle-dew-du-dup
 
[FZ] Now look, Rick and Jane and Carl, you… you’re wonderful but you’re just too reserved
[Jane] I still can, Frank!
[FZ] I know you will, maybe in a minute. OK, I’ll t tell you what: go back to your seats and we’ll bring up the next batch, OK? Carl, Rick and Jane!
[FZ] Alright, you wanna try…
[Lana] I’ll do anything you say, Frank
[FZ] OH MY GOD! Awright, your name is Lana, right? Lana, dance!
[George Duke] De-dum do-dep dum-deddle-dup
De boop
Boop bep
Do-duddle-do
Dep-de-dum
De-dum do-de-dum
Po-dah-dee-ooh po-dee-dah
[FZ] Now that’s more like it
[George Duke] Do-um-de-um do-um deddle-doop
De-do dee-dap
Po-da-dum do-deddle-do-dee-dah
Deddle-deddle-dup
Twiddle-dep
Do-dum-do-deh
Do-de-dum de-dep
A-doo-be-doo-deh
Doo-be-doo-deh
Do-be-dop
Be-doo-be-do-pe-de-bop
Pa-doo-be-deh
Pa-doo-do-do-dah
Do-doo-do-pe-deh
Do-doo-doo-dah
Pa-do-pa-doo-pe-dep
Do-doo-doo-dah
[FZ] Lana, you’re so good! We have to bring up some other people to assist you. Brenda, imported from Edwards Air Force Base, where she… ladies and gentlemen, Brenda… Brenda is a professional harlot, and she just got finished stripping for a bunch of guys at Edwards Air Force Base, and she made it down here in time for the show. Two hours of taking it off for the boys in the Corp, really good. OK. Heh! Brenda… Brenda has a lovely assistant named Carl, or Robert James Davis if you prefer.
Herb Cohen, ladies and gentlemen!
OK, dance!
[George Duke] Du-du-dip
Du-dep
De-dum de-um-dum
Um-deddle-um-deddle
De-dum-de-dum
Oo-wee-oo-dep
Pe-de-dum de-dum deddle-dop
 
[FZ] You’re still too adagio, I keep telling you!
[George Duke] Be-dum de-dum
Do-ah-dee po-dee-dah
Po-dee-dah
Po-dee-dah
 
[FZ] Turn on the bubble machine!
[George Duke] Oop-dwe-dah
Oop-dwe-dah
Deep-dwe-dah
Do-we do-do-de-dum
Deddle-de-dum
Oo-we-oo-wop-deddle-de-doop
Be-deddle-dep um-dep um-dep
Um-diddy-up um-dup
Deek-ne-dah
 
[FZ] God, is that a cheap bubble-machine!
[George Duke] Now… wha
Ow po-eh-doo-dum do-do-dah-woo
Wo-de-um do-doo we-dep
Deddle-dup boo-zoo-woo eh-de-dah-wo-zip
 
[FZ] Ladies and gentlemen, DUNT’S EX-WIFE!
 
[Instrumental]
 
[FZ] Ladies and gentlemen, you’re probably sitting in your chairs, saying to yourselves: “I could do that!” And of course you can! And now is your big chance, all you have to do… First step is easy, all you gotta do is stand up. Go ahead, just stand up. There you go, you are standing up. Yes, some of you are not standing up, but you won’t have as much fun as the ones who are standing up. (OK, turn on the big lights so everybody can see what’s going on). Yes, very many of you are standing up.
OK, LINK YOUR MIND WITH THE MIND OF GEORGE DUKE!
[George Duke] Deddle-du-dup
[FZ] And when… (That’s it!) when he plays those funny fast little notes, twitch around and have a good time with the “Be-bop tango”, let’s try it!
[Napoleon Murphy Brock] Anything you wanna do
Is alright
Wanna do
Anything you wanna do
Is alright

Yes, there, guys, you know you came to the right place
Tonight
Give me some of that wine now
 
[Instrumental]
[FZ] As you might have guessed, ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of our concert. We’d like to thank you ver would like to thank you very much for coming, hope you had a good time!
Bruce Fowler on trombone
Napoleon Murphy Brock on tenor sax and lead vocals
Ruth Underwood on percussion
Ralph Humphrey on drums
Chester Thompson on drums
Tom Fowler on bass
And George Duke on the keyboards
Thank you very much!
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Concert poster by Cal Schenkel

English lyrics from site Information Is Not Knowledge.