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Artist: Frank Zappa Title: Läther Label:   Zappa Country: USA Catalogue: SRZ-4-1500 Date: Oct 1977 Format: Unreleased Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Frank Zappa	Re-Gyptian Strut	Frank Zappa	Rate
A2	Frank Zappa	Naval Aviation In Art	Frank Zappa	Rate
A3	Frank Zappa	A Little Green Rosetta	Frank Zappa	Rate
A4	Frank Zappa	Duck Duck Goose	Frank Zappa	Rate
A5	Frank Zappa	Down In De Dew	Frank Zappa	Rate
A6	Frank Zappa	For The Young Sophisticate	Frank Zappa	Rate
B1	Frank Zappa	Tryin' To Grow A Chin	Frank Zappa	Rate
B2	Frank Zappa	Broken Hearts Are For Assholes	Frank Zappa	Rate
B3	Frank Zappa	Legend Of The Illinos Enema Bandit	Frank Zappa	Rate
C1	Frank Zappa	Lemme Take You To The Beach	Frank Zappa	Rate
C2	Frank Zappa	Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra	Frank Zappa	Rate
C3	Frank Zappa	RDNZL	Frank Zappa	Rate
D1	Frank Zappa	Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?	Frank Zappa	Rate
D2	Frank Zappa	The Black Page #1	Frank Zappa	Rate
D3	Frank Zappa	Big Leg Emma	Frank Zappa	Rate
D4	Frank Zappa	Punky's Whips	Frank Zappa	Rate
E1	Frank Zappa	Flambay	Frank Zappa	Rate
E2	Frank Zappa	The Purple Lagoon	Frank Zappa	Rate
F1	Frank Zappa	Pedro's Dowry	Frank Zappa	Rate
F2	Frank Zappa	Läther	Frank Zappa	Rate
F3	Frank Zappa	Spider Of Destiny	Frank Zappa	Rate
F4	Frank Zappa	Duke Of Orchestral Prunes	Frank Zappa	Rate
G1	Frank Zappa	Filthy Habits	Frank Zappa	Rate
G2	Frank Zappa	Titties 'N Beer	Frank Zappa	Rate
G3	Frank Zappa	One More Time For The World	Frank Zappa	Rate
H1	Frank Zappa	The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary	Frank Zappa	Rate

Notes

Test pressings were manufactured with a typed insert containing artist, title, catalog number SRZ-4-1500, track listings and running times,
and "All selections composed and arranged by Frank Zappa" and "Produced by Frank Zappa" text at bottom of each insert.


“Läther” (pronounced 'leather') was originally conceived as a four-record box set in 1977. When Frank delivered the album to Warner Bros.
Records, the label refused to release it, telling him that he owed them four separate albums. Zappa re-edited and reconfigured some of the
'Läther 'material into the individual albums “Zappa In New York”, “Studio Tan”, “Sleep Dirt” and “Orchestral Favorites”.
After releasing “Zappa In New York”, Warner refused to pay him or to release the rest of the albums. When Zappa attempted to get a distribution deal with
Mercury/Phonogram to release “Läther”, Warner Bros. decided to release the individual albums he had delivered to them, and the release
of “Läther”' was cancelled. In December 1977 Zappa took matters into his own hands by playing the entire “Läther” work on Pasadena, CA.
radio station KROQ, instructing listeners to record it. Prior to 1996, when Rykodisc released an expanded version on CD, “Läther” was only
available on bootlegs which had been sourced either from tapes of the radio broadcast or from copies of the test pressing.

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