Baby Snakes
Album by Frank Zappa
Released	March 1983
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	36:13
Label	Rykodisc
Producer(s)	Frank Zappa
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Frank Zappa chronology
The Man from Utopia (1983)	Baby Snakes (1983)	London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 (1983)

Baby Snakes is the live soundtrack to the 1979 Frank Zappa movie of the same name. The "movie about people who do stuff that is not normal" contains footage from Zappa's 1978 Halloween concert at New York City's Palladium Theater, backstage antics from the crew, and stop motion clay animation from award-winning animator Bruce Bickford. Image File history File links Zappa_Baby_Snakes. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, singer and satirist. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Rykodisc was one of the first CD-only record companies in the late 1980s. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) is (among many other tasks) primarily responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for mass production and commercial release. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, singer and satirist. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, singer and satirist. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Stop motion is an animation technique which makes things that are static appear to be moving. ... The term Claymation is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies; the more generic term is clay animation, but claymation has entered the English language as a genericized trademark. ...

Track listing

1. "Intro Rap" – 0:37
2. "Baby Snakes" – 1:45
3. "Titties and Beer" – 6:13
4. "Black Page, No. 2" – 2:50
5. "Jones Crusher" – 2:53
6. "Disco Boy" – 3:51
7. "Dinah-Moe Humm" – 6:37
8. "Punky's Whips" – 11:29

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – director, keyboards, vocals, producer, main performer, guitar
• Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals, performer
• Patrick O'Hearn – bass guitar
• Peter Wolf – keyboards, performer
• Ed Mann – performer, percussion
• Terry Bozzio – drums, performer
• Roy Estrada – vocals, voices, performer
• Adrian Belew – vocals, performer, guitar
• Bob Stone – digital remastering
• Norman Seeff – photography
• Joe Chiccarelli – mixing
• Lynn Goldsmith – photography

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External links

• Baby Snakes at the Internet Movie Database