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Down in France z what's your favorite African American Zappa song

Nig Biz

Little Beige Sambo

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"no one looks good with brown lipstick on"

Uncle Remus

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Brown Moses

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

Why don't you like me?

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Rhymin' Man

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I'm petulant, and I'm having a frenzy...

dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood.....


oh baby

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hey punk, how did your skin become so thin.....

Dong Work for Yuda

Well, if Plook can have two favourites, then so can I!

"You Are What You Is"

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

^^^Jeez I obviously need a ZFM rule book to post anywhere...

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that's what happens when you don't read you loose your link to higher thinking

JPD stole Brown Moses from me. He obviously hacked into my drafts.


...So I'll go with Dirty Love

I did not!
The NSA posted it on their "of national concern" website.

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
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Ha!

Dirty Love is a better song anyway. But not necessarily better for this mysterious topic.

I always thought Dirty Love was a song about poodles not black people.

Village of the Sun is about Sun Village, CA a predominantly black community near where Zappa was living in Lancaster. Johnny Franklin, who is namechecked in the song, was an African-American who was in an early Zappa band (the Blackouts, I believe). The “Stumblers” mentioned in the song were old, drunk black guys (possibly homeless?) that could be found there.

Maybe the thread topic could have been more specific...

Dirty Love is performed with African Americans.

In France

great blues tune

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Not trying to start a fight, but probably at least half of the Zappa catolog was performed with black musicians regardless of style or lyrical content.

Could Jimmie Carl Black be considered a black musician?

you are what you is (a brilliant zappa word: appropriot, as in "appropriate" as in proper as well as in the sense of "to take", combined with griot--)

Yes, I know. Why would that start a fight? Is Dirty Love not black enough for you? Is that it?

The author of this thread never specified that it was for Zappa lyrics about African Americans. The music for Dirty Love has a pronounced African influence.