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Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder

(Frank Zappa/Ray Collins)

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

Album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Joe's Corsage (2004) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder, recorded c. 1965
• Freak Out! (1966) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder, recorded at TTG, LA, March 9, 1966
  • same version (original vinyl mix) on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) and The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
    • same mix on The **** Of The Mothers (1969)
  • same version, basic tracks, on The MOFO Project/Object (2006) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder - Basic Tracks
  • same version, different vocal overdub, on The MOFO Project/Object (2006) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder - Vocal Overdub Take 2
    • same version on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder (Vocal Overdub Take 2)
• The MOFO Project/Object (2006) as Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder, performed in San Francisco, June 25, 1966
  • same version, shorter edit, on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) as part of Watts Riot Demo/Fillmore Sequence
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (1991) intro as part of Little Rubber Girl, performed in NYC, October 31, 1978

Tour(s) in which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1):

• June, 1966 (The Mothers)
• December, 1967-August, 1968 (MOI)
• August-October, 1978 (Europe & North America)

Comments:

FZ on the liner notes of Freak Out!:

Is very greasy. You should not listen to it. You should wear it on your hair.

Ray Collins in an August, 1989 interview:

I think I was thinking about my ex-wife, if I remember right. So Frank and I were in Cucamonga, and so I said, "Oh, I got this idea about, 'Don't bother me,' 'Go away,' 'Go cry on somebody else's shoulder.'" He said, "Great!" So I sat down at the piano and started playing it, and Frank joined in, and we created "Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder." And then of course, the spoken part that's on the Mothers' album, is all just ad-libbed, right in the studio, about the khakis, and the Mexican input.

Touring versions from Foggy G's We're Only In It For The Touring:

1968
This tune does not appear on any tapes from this tour, but during the February Denver performance, Frank can be heard reciting the spoken introduction found on the "Freak Out" album. At this point the tape cuts to another tune, but I am assuming that the band went ahead and actually performed the song. Obviously, I may be wrong, but hey...

1978
Essentially played as on "Freak Out", including Frank's spoken introduction, and accounting for obvious differences in instrumentation. One of the many treats of the Halloween show. "Little Rubber Girl" from YCDTOSA Volume IV is the outro from the 10/31 performance of "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder". Zappa's intro on the aforementioned release is edited from a different source, and being a continuation of another song, the tune does not actually begin cold as it does on that release.

Conceptual Continuity:

More songs by Ray Collins:

• Anything (Collins)
• Deseri (Collins/Buff)
• Everytime I See You (FZ/Collins)
• Fountain Of Love (FZ/Collins)
• Hey Nelda (FZ/Collins)
• Memories Of El Monte (FZ/Collins)
• Surf Along (FZ/Collins)

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