cover Bruce Linton
cover Frank Zappa
cover John Williams
liner notes [album annotation] John Mendelsohn
Distributed By Warner Bros. - Seven Arts Records, Inc.
Published By Bizarre Music Inc.
Published By Beefheart Music
Published By Third Story Music, Inc.
Published By Barmpatomph Musik
Published By Frank Zappa Music
Record Company Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Copyright (c) Warner Bros. Records Inc.
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 [m52896=(STS 1051)]
A2 & B2: From the 1969 Straight label double album Trout Mask Replica [m14817=(2-STS 1053)]
A3: From the 1969 Straight label album Farewell Aldebaran [m231661=(STS 1052)].
A4: From the 1969 Straight label album Blue Afternoon [m72153=(STS 1060)].
A5: From the Bizarre/Reprise album An Evening with Wild Man Fischer [m81284=(RS 6332 & 2XS 6332)]
A6: From the 1970 Straight label album Easy Action [m52891=(STS 1061)]
A7: From the 1969 Straight label album Penrod [m488659=(STS 1058)].
A8: From the 1969 Straight label album A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat [m150638=(STS 1054)].
B1: From the 1969 Straight label album Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up [m225629=(STS 1057)].
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. [m35995=(1979)]
B3: From the 1969 Bizarre/Reprise label album Burnt Weeny Sandwich [m36756=(RS 6370)]
B4: From the 1969 Straight label album Permanent Damage [m93069=(STS 1059)].
Also released as a single Circular Circulation b/w Mercy's Tune (ST 104).
B5: From the 1969 Bizarre/Reprise label album Hot Rats [m35600=(RS 6356)]

Some of the above albums were subsequently released on other labels, bearing respective catalog numbers for those labels.
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout: 31,047RE1 (A-side label)
Matrix / Runout: 31,048RE1 (B-side label)
Matrix / Runout: 31047 RE1 PRO368 A 1-B (A-side runout etched, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 31048 RE1 PRO368 B 1-B (B-side runout etched, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: 31047 RE1 PRO 368 1-A A11 (A-side runout etched, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 31048 RE1 PRO 368 1-B E (B-side runout etched, variant 2)
Matrix / Runout: 31047 RE1 PRO 368 A 1-A B (A-side runout etched, variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: 31048 RE1 PRO368-B 1- B (B-side runout etched, variant 3)
Matrix / Runout: 31047 RE1 PRO368 A 1-B C 1 (A-side runout etched, variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: 31048 RE1 PRO368 B 1-B C 1 (B-side runout etched, variant 4)
Matrix / Runout: S 31047 RE1 PRO368-A 1-A A2 (A-side runout etched, variant 5)
Matrix / Runout: S 31047 RE1 PRO368-B 1-B (B-side runout etched, variant 5)