Who Needs The Peace Corps?

Album(s) in which song has appeared:

We're Only In It For The Money (1968) as Who Needs The Peace Corps?, recorded at Mayfair and/or Apostolic, NYC, August-October 1967
- same version on The Mothers Of Invention (Golden Archive Series)
- same version on Pregnant (1972)
- same version on Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention (Transparency)
- same version on Mothermania (1969) (Spanish edition) as Who Needs The Peace Corps?
- same version, with over-dubs recorded at UMRK c. 1982-83, on We're Only In It For The Money (1984 re-mix) (1985) as Who Needs The Peace Corps?
quoted on Bogus Pomp from Orchestral Favorites (1979), recorded at Royce Hall, UCLA, September 18-19, 1975
quoted on Bogus Pomp from London Symphony Orchestra Vol. II (1987), recorded at Twickenham Studio, London, January 12-14, 1983
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (1991) as Who Needs The Peace Corps?, performed in 1988

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

May, 1970 (MOI Reunion)
October-December, 1974 (MOI) <quoted>
February-March, 1988 (North America)
April-June, 1988 (Europe)

Comments:

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

1970 (Jun-Dec)
Only performed once on this tour, and I personally have yet to hear it. Anybody out there coherent enough who remembers hearing this and can fill us all in, while we take care of our hair?
1988
Essentially performed as on TBBYNHIYL, with its companion piece "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" always present.

Conceptual Continuity:

Lumpy Gravy ("the pony's mane starts to get good in the back")
Flower Punk
The Big Surfer ("an all expense paid trip as the first members of the Peace Corp to be sent to . . . ")

Crabs/The Clap:

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