Original version(s)

• written in the summer of 1961; originally recorded between November and December, 1961, for the movie The World's Greatest Sinner (Tim Carey, 1962).

 

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Beat The Boots III: Disc Three (2009), as The World's Greatest Sinner, recorded November-December, 1961
• Lumpy Gravy (1968), as parts of Oh No and I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again, recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, February-March 1967
  • same version, with overdubs from 1984, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009), as part of Lumpy Gravy—Part One
  • part of the same version on Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention (Transparency) (1975), as part of Excerpt From Lumpy Gravy
  • same version, different edit, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009), as part of Gum Joy and Up & Down
  • same recordings, original takes, on The Lumpy Money Project/Object (2009), as How Did That Get In There? and Unit 3A, Take 3
• Uncle Meat (1969), as part of Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague, recorded at Apostolic, NYC, October 1967-February 1968
  • same version on Video From Hell (1987)
  • same version on Uncle Meat (The Movie) (1988)
  • same version on Meat Light (2016), as Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
  • same version, different speed and edit, on Meat Light (2016), as Blood Unit

• see also Holiday In Berlin

 

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

• May, 1970 (MOI Reunion)—known performances: 1 (final theme as part of 200 Motels)

• see also performances of Holiday In Berlin

 

Comments

Structure

Original Soundtrack.	Apocrypha	The Soundtracks	Dialog	Music heard	Later versions
	0:00-0:05		(Horse neighs)
0:00-0:19	0:05-0:24	0:00-0:19		Rock Band Theme #1
0:19-0:57	0:24-1:02	0:19-0:59	Satan: Oh, Yes. This is the place where a simple, average, American family lives.	Orchestral Theme #1—Overture
	1:02-1:12	0:59-1:13	Satan: There's Clarence, my boy. Just like any other male—the only difference is, (horse neighs) he wants to be God (dog barks). And that's coming right out of the horse's mouth. (horse neighs)
	1:12-1:27		Satan: There's Edna, his loving wife, and her brood, following Clarence to the very end—she has no choice. Alonzo, the gardener, Clarence's faithful friend, astute in the art of picking weeds.
1:32-2:01	1:27-1:57	1:13-1:45	Satan: They all want to get into the act. Including myself. Oh, boy, that Clarence, my greatest possibility since the apple incident.	Orchestral Theme #2	Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 01:47)
2:01-2:08	1:57-2:02	1:45-1:53	Satan: Don't let me down Clarence, don't let me down, boy, whatever you do!
2:40-3:04			Edna: [...] Clarence: [...]	Orchestral Theme #3	Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 00:46)
7:43-8:48		1:53-3:02	Clarence: . . . How are you tonight, Rex? Ah! They didn't take care of you, did they? Ok. I wanna stay with you, Rex, you're so sweet, nobody wants to listen to me, but you will . . . Boy, ah . . . hh-hhh . . . You understand me prob'ly, Rex, more than the other people understand me. Now don't you go to sleep on me, Rex. Your master's gonna be somebody. I'm gonna make people live long, I'm gonna put something into life, I'm gonna make life be eternal. I'm gonna do it, Rex. I know you're not laughing at me. I know you won't laugh at me, Rex . . . Someday people will never die.	Orchestral Theme #3	Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 0:46)
9:09-9:26			Clarence: I have a plan. A plan that nobody else has ever heard before. A plan that's gonna make me a GOD.	Orchestral Theme #4
10:15-12:05		3:02-5:22		Rock Band Theme #2—Rock Concert
13:00-13:05	2:03-2:08		Satan: Now, go, Clarence, go, go, go!
13:05-13:47				Unidentified Blues Piece
16:32-17:04				Orchestral Theme #3	Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 0:46)
18:57-18:59	2:02-2:03		Clarence: C'mon, followers!
18:59-19:33	2:08-2:44		Clarence: My name is God Hilliard! Follow me . . .	Orchestral Theme #5—Fanfare
19:33-19:40	2:44-2:50		Clarence: . . . to every nook and corner of the United States!
24:25-26:21			Clarence: Please! Please! Please! Please!	Rock Band Theme #3
29:08-29:10	2:50-2:52		Satan: God, listen to them!
29:10-29:30	2:52-3:13		Satan: It's fantastic! The best seat in my household is reserved for you, but you must keep up this high score. A representative will call on you to insure your greatest hour yet to come. In other words, Clarence, go to Hell!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!	Rock Band Theme #4—With Orchestra
33:31-34:06			[...]	Orchestral Theme #3	Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 00:46)
34:06-36:04			[...]	Rock Band Theme #3
40:59-41:12		5:22-5:32	Edna: Why don't we live the way we used to, Clarence?	Orchestral Theme #6—Love Theme
42:12-42:38	3:21-3:47	5:32-6:00	Girl: God . . . I love you . . . hhh . . .	Orchestral Theme #6—Love Theme
43:05-43:42				Orchestral Theme #7—Fanfare
44:19-45:16	3:47-4:47	5:59-6:57	Clarence: I don't wanna go to—	Orchestral Theme #8—Slow Theme	including Lumpy Gravy Part One 1:38
50:18-50:33			: You must understand, God, you have to convince the people that you're not an atheist [...]	Orchestral Theme #3—Variant
50:34-50:59			[...]	Orchestral Theme #9
52:59-53:55			[...]	Orchestral Theme #10
59:09-59:18	3:13-3:21			Orchestra Hit & Drum Roll
59:51-60:24				Mars (Holst)
61:46-62:22				"O Tannenbaum" (Trad.)
64:55-67:08	4:47-7:00	6:57-9:13		Orchestral Theme #11
70:39-73:26	7:00-9:48	9:13-12:06		Orchestral Theme #12 ("Blood Unit")	including parts of Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague (Uncle Meat (1969) version, 2:30) and Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 01:11)
73:26-73:29		12:06-12:09	Clarence: Oh, my God!
73:29-73:40	9:48- 9:59	12:09-12:20		Orchestral Chord
?		12:21-12:31		Orchestral Theme #13—Closing Credits (Part 1)	(note: these ten seconds missing on some copies of the movie.)
73:40-75:37	9:59-11:55	12:31-14:30		Orchestral Theme #13 (including Themes #3 & #8)—Closing Credits (Part 2)	including Lumpy Gravy Part One 1:38 and 13:09; Holiday In Berlin, Full Blown (Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) version, 0:46)

Original transcription by Patrick Neve
Corrections and additions by Román and Charles Ulrich