FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• The Lost Episodes (1996) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, recorded at Pal Recording Studio, Cucamonga, January, 1961
  • same version on Paul Buff Presents The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives, Vol. 11 (2010) as "Never On Sunday (1961 Version)"
• Lumpy Gravy (1968) as Take Your Clothes Off from Lumpy Gravy Part II, recorded at Pal Recording Studio, Cucamonga, March, 1963
  • same version on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of Lumpy Gravy—Part Two
  • same version on Paul Buff Presents The Pal And Original Sound Studio Archives, Vol. 20 (2010) as "Never On Sunday (1963 Version)"
• Joe's Corsage (2004) as I'm So Happy I Could Cry, recorded c. 1965
• We're Only In It For The Money (1968) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, recorded at Mayfair and/or Apostolic Studios, NYC, July-October 1967
  • same version on The Worst Of The Mothers (1971)
  • same version on Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention (Transparency) (1975)
  • same version, single edit (Verve/MGM VK-10570, 1967), on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as part of Lonely Little Girl—The Single
  • same version, mono mix, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  • same version, 1984 remix with overdubs, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  • same version, instrumental mix, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Instrumental)
• Joe's Camouflage (2014) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, recorded August 25, 1975
• Joe's Menage (2008) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, performed in Williamsburg, November 1, 1975
• FZ:OZ (2002) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, performed in Sydney, Australia, January 20, 1976
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992) as Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, performed in NYC, October 31, 1978

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

• September-October, 1974 (MOI European Tour)—known quotations: 1
• September-December, 1975 (MOI)—known performances: 27
• January-March, 1976 (MOI Pacific & European Tour)—known performances: 1
• August-October, 1978 (Europe & North America)—known performances: 1
• 1987 (rehearsals)—known performances: 1

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1968: I have two different tapes of the 4/10 show in which this song purportedly appears, but it does not appear on either one. Possibly my tapes are simply missing this performance, but I have a feeling that this is simply a mislabeling of a tape somewhere in the past twenty years. [There is, however, a "Wedding Dress Song" in this show which I have never seen on a set list, and maybe the TYCOWYD titles actually refers to this other overlooked instrumental.]

1975-76: Another of the great WOIIFTM tunes. Brock handles the vocals, of course, singing the melody as on WOIIFTM, while the band plays the accompaning music reggae style. Brock sings the first verse, the band performs an instrumental version of the second verse, Lewis takes a short keyboard solo, and then Brock finishes the lyrics and the tune. Pretty cool.

1978: The YCDTOSA Volume VI version is an edited take on the single '78 performance of this tune- from the Halloween concert, of course. In the actual concert, Frank instructed the band to vamp on the opening chords for about half-a-minute prior to beginning the actual tune- sort of a warm-up- and this vamp is edited out of the officially released version.

Bunk Gardner, quoted by Billy James, Necessity Is . . . , 2001, p. 41

Frank changed the names of the songs many, many times. When we first started rehearsing at the Lindy Theatre I remember a lot of the melodies that later Frank changed the titles of. Like "Transition" later became "20 Small Cigars," and "Never On Sunday" became "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance."