- Zapped

From early in 1969 to 1977, Reprise Records (and their parent label Warner Bros. Records) ran a USA & Canada only mail-order promotion on a number of the inner sleeves of their mainstream artists' releases. This was to promote a wide range of less popular artists on compilation albums known as the 'Loss Leader' PRO series, sold at a significantly reduced mail-order price.

This Frank Zappa-oriented 'Zapped' release is the 6th issue in the series, a compilation geared to promoting both the artists 'signed' to Zappa and the two labels, Straight and Bizarre Records, which Zappa co-founded with Herb Cohen. (These two labels were manufactured and distributed for Reprise Records by Warner Bros. Records from mid 1969 [Previously 7Arts]).

The black & white cover of this PRO 368 release has a portrait of Zappa and the title is "Zapped" without an accent over the 'e' (as on a subsequent/similar PRO 368 release with a 'collage' cover & Reprise label). This record's label is pale blue with a dark blue 'Bizarre' text.

Issues did occasionally appear later in retail outlets, particularly in Australia.

Track sources on this compilation:
A1: From the 1969 Straight label album "Pretties For You" [url=/master/52896](STS 1051)[/url]
A2 & B2: From the 1969 Straight label double album "Trout Mask Replica" [url=/master/14817](2-STS 1053)[/url]
A3: From the 1969 Straight label album "Farewell Aldebaran" [url=/master/231661](STS 1052)[/url].
A4: From the 1969 Straight label album "Blue Afternoon" [url=/master/72153](STS 1060)[/url].
A5: From the Bizarre/Reprise album "An Evening with Wild Man Fischer" [url=/master/81284](RS 6332 & 2XS 6332)[/url]
A6: From the 1970 Straight label album "Easy Action" [url=/master/52891](STS 1061)[/url]
A7: From the 1969 Straight label album "Penrod" [url=/master/488659](STS 1058)[/url].
A8: From the 1969 Straight label album "A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat" [url=/master/150638](STS 1054)[/url].
B1: From the 1969 Straight label album "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" [url=/master/225629](STS 1057)[/url].
Recorded at Whitney Studios, Glendale 1969.
Zappa performed on this & produced under the pseudonym LaMarr Bruister.
Not the Zappa version on Joe's Garage Act I. [url=/master/35995](1979)[/url]
B3: From the 1969 Bizarre/Reprise label album "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" [url=/master/36756](RS 6370)[/url]
B4: From the 1969 Straight label album "Permanent Damage" [url=/master/93069](STS 1059)[/url].
Also released as a single "Circular Circulation" b/w "Mercy's Tune" (ST 104).
B5: From the 1969 Bizarre/Reprise label album "Hot Rats" [url=/master/35600](RS 6356)[/url]

Some of the above albums were subsequently released on other labels, bearing respective catalog numbers for those labels.