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The World's Greatest Sinner

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

• Original unreleased instrumental version recorded between November and December, 1961 as part of The World's Greatest Sinner original soundtrack

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared:

• Vocal version recorded at Pal Studio, Cucamonga, released as a single by Baby Ray & The Ferns (Donna 1378, April 1963), re-issued on:
  • Rare Meat (Del-Fi Records, 1983)
  • Rare Beefheart Vintage Zappa (Pop Almanac, France, 1991)
  • Cucamonga Years - The Early Works of Frank Zappa 1962-1964 (MSI, Japan, 1991)
  • Early Works 1963-1964 (TECX-18207, Japan, 1992)
  • Cucamonga! Frank's Wild Years (Del-Fi, 1996)
  • How's Your Bird? (Get Back, Italy, 1998)

Comments:

Bryan Thomas on the liner notes of Cucamonga (Del-Fi, 1998):

"The b-side of 'How's Your Bird?' was 'World's Greatest Sinner,' a track Zappa had written a few years earlier for the film soundtrack of the same name."

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