I told Frank, "Well, I've got this idea for a song called How's Yer Bird? from the--it was a Steve Allen saying, and so Frank said, "Oh, great idea! I have access to a studio in Cucamonga. Maybe we'll get together and do it." So he called me up a couple of days later(we exchanged phone numbers, obviously), and he said, "I have written the song, How's Yer Bird?" So he said, "Would you like to record it?" I said, "Yeah, of course," so we went up to Studio Z and we did How's Yer Bird? with Dick Barber, "Gnarler," on snorts and vocal noises. And on the other side was The World's Greatest Sinner, which was a song written by Frank, having to do, I guess, with the movie, "The World's Greatest Sinner," which Frank scored the film. But it isn't in the film. It was on the "B" side.
I wasn't aware of Dick Barber - aka the snorker, and have to take full credit for myself being the godfather of snorks and other such early Zappa noises.
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