Waka/Jawaka

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Waka/Jawaka is an album by Frank Zappa, released in 1972.

It is the jazz-influenced musical precursor to The Grand Wazoo, and, as the front cover indicates, a sequel of sorts to 1969's groundbreaking Hot Rats. The songs could be described as "engagingly quirky jazzy horn-dominated constructions".

The title is an onomatopoetic reference to the rhythmic guitar sound that was becoming popular of the time.

Contents

1 Track listing
2 Credits
3 Production
4 Special mention
5 Charts
6 External links

Track listing

All songs by Frank Zappa.

"Big Swifty" – 17:22
"Your Mouth" – 3:12
"It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" – 4:16
"Waka/Jawaka" – 11:18

Credits

Frank Zappa – guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, electric bed springs
Tony Duran – slide guitar, vocals
George Duke – ring-modulated & echoplexed electric piano, tack piano
Sal Marquez – trumpet, vocals, flugelhorn, chimes
Erroneous – electric bass, vocals, fuzz bass
Aynsley Dunbar – drums, washboard, tambourine
Chris Peterson – vocals
Joel Peskin – tenor sax
Mike Atschul – baritone saxophone, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet, tenor sax
Jeff Simmons – Hawaiian guitar, vocals
'Sneaky Pete' Kleinlow – pedal steel
Janet Ferguson – vocals
Don Preston – guitar Minimoog
Bill Byers – trombone, baritone horn
Ken Shroyer – trombone, baritone horn

Production

Producer: Frank Zappa
Engineers: Marshall Brevitz, Kerry McNabb
Mastering: Frank Zappa
Supervisor: Marshall Brevitz
Concept: Sal Marquez
Creative consultant: Sal Marquez
Design: Cal Schenkel
Cover Design: Cal Schenkel
Cover illustration: Marvin Mattelson
Illustrations: Marvin Mattelson
Photography: Philip Schartz
Back cover: Philip Schwartz
Packaging: Cal Schenkel
Repackaging: Ferenc Dobronyi

Special mention

Thanks to Bob Moog and Co. for the use of their new frequency shifter.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1972	Pop Albums	152

External links

[Release details]

Frank Zappa
Main Albums
Freak Out! \| Absolutely Free \| We're Only in It for the Money \| Lumpy Gravy \| Cruising with Ruben & the Jets \| Uncle Meat \| Hot Rats \| Burnt Weeny Sandwich \| Weasels Ripped My Flesh \| Chunga's Revenge \| Fillmore East - June 1971 \| Just Another Band from L.A. \| Waka/Jawaka \| The Grand Wazoo \| Over-Nite Sensation \| Apostrophe (') \| Roxy & Elsewhere \| One Size Fits All \| Bongo Fury \| Zoot Allures \| Zappa in New York \| Studio Tan \| Sleep Dirt \| Sheik Yerbouti \| Orchestral Favorites \| Joe's Garage \| Tinsel Town Rebellion \| Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar \| You Are What You Is \| Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch \| The Man from Utopia \| London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1 \| \| Them or Us \| Thing-Fish \| Francesco Zappa \| Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention \| Does Humor Belong in Music? \| Jazz from Hell \| London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2 \| Guitar \| Broadway the Hard Way \| The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life \| Make a Jazz Noise Here \| Playground Psychotics \| Ahead of Their Time \| The Yellow Shark
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore
Vol. 1 \| Vol. 2 \| Vol. 3 \| Vol. 4 \| Vol. 5 \| Vol. 6
Posthumous Albums
Civilization, Phaze III \| The Lost Episodes \| Läther \| Mystery Disc \| Everything Is Healing Nicely \| \| Halloween \| Joe's Corsage \| Joe's Domage \| Joe's XMASage \| Imaginary Diseases
Compilations
Mothermania \| The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa \| Strictly Commercial \| \| Have I Offended Someone?
Films and Videos
200 Motels \| Baby Snakes \| The Dub Room Special \| Video from Hell \| Does Humor Belong in Music? \| The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels \| The Amazing Mr. Bickford \| Uncle Meat
Unreleased
Trance-Fusion \| The Rage And The Fury \| Dance Me This

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