Tracklist

1	The Grand Wazoo	13:20
2	For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)	6:06
3	Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus	2:57
4	Eat That Question	6:42
5	Blessed Relief	8:00

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – Videoarts Music Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rykodisc
• Copyright (c) – Zappa Family Trust

Credits

• Liner Notes – 大山甲日*
• Liner Notes [翻訳] – 茂木健*

Notes

Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.

Actual tracklisting is different from the one on the replicated back cover.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4988112417878

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MS 2093	The Mothers	The Grand Wazoo ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Bizarre Records, Reprise Records	MS 2093	US	1972
RCD 10026	Frank Zappa	The Grand Wazoo ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Rykodisc	RCD 10026	US	1986
RS 2093	The Mothers	The Grand Wazoo ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Reprise Records	RS 2093	New Zealand	1972
RCD 10026	Frank Zappa	The Grand Wazoo ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Rykodisc	RCD 10026	US	1986
RCD 10517	Frank Zappa / The Mothers	Frank Zappa / The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Rykodisc	RCD 10517	US	1995

Tracklist

A1	For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)	7:15
A2	The Grand Wazoo	13:24
B1	Cletus Awreetus - Awrightus	2:55
B2	Eat That Question	6:41
B3	Blessed Relief	8:00

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
• Record Company – Kinney Music GmbH
• Manufactured By – TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten GmbH

Credits

• Bass – Erroneous
• Brass – Ernie Tack (tracks: A1, A2), Malcolm McNabb* (tracks: A1, A2), Sal Marquez
• Cover, Design, Illustration – Cal Schenkel
• Drums – Aynsley Dunbar
• Gong – Lee Clement (tracks: B2)
• Guitar – Tony Duran (tracks: A1, A2, B3)
• Guitar, Producer, Composed By, Arranged By – Frank Zappa
• Keyboards – George Duke (tracks: B1 to B3)
• Percussion – Alan Estes (tracks: A1, A2), Bob Zimmitti (tracks: A1, A2), Frank Zappa (tracks: B2)
• Photography By – Barry Feinstein, Ed Caraeff, Tony Esparza
• Recorded By – Kerry McNabb
• Saxophone – Ernie Watts (tracks: B1)
• Synthesizer [Mini Moog] – Don Preston (tracks: A1, A2)
• Trombone – Bill Byers* (tracks: A1, A2), Ken Shroyer* (tracks: B1)
• Vocals – Chunky (tracks: B1), Frank Zappa (tracks: B1), George Duke (tracks: B1), Janet Neville-Ferguson* (tracks: A1, A2), Sal Marquez (tracks: A1, A2)
• Woodwind – Tony "Bat Man" Ortega* (tracks: A1, A2), Earl Dumler (tracks: A1, A2), Fred Jackson (tracks: A1, A2), Joanne Caldwell McNabb (tracks: A1, A2), Joel Peskin (tracks: B2, B3), Johnny Rotella* (tracks: A1, A2), Mike Altschul

Notes

This is the German 2nd press, manufactured likely Spring 1973. There are two more 1973 German versions of this album:
Frank Zappa And The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo - a slightly later repress also with a bold WEA on the label right to the spindle hole, and Frank Zappa And The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo - the first WEA reissue, also from somewhere 1973.

Rim text: A WARNER BROS. INC. U.S.A RECORDING. KINNEY MUSIC
Cover says Frank Zappa and the Mothers
THE GRAND WAZOO

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, runout Side A, etched): 31 450-A" PF
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, runout Side B, etched): WEA 31451 44209–B PF
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, runout Side A+B, stamped): Manufactured in Germany
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, runout Side A, etched): WEA 31 450-A" PF
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, runout Side B, etched): WEA 31451 PF
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, runout Side B, stamped): Manufactured in Germany
• Rights Society: GEMA

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MS 2093	The Mothers	The Grand Wazoo ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Bizarre Records, Reprise Records	MS 2093	US	1972
RCD 10026	Frank Zappa	The Grand Wazoo ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Rykodisc	RCD 10026	US	1986
RS 2093	The Mothers	The Grand Wazoo ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	Reprise Records	RS 2093	New Zealand	1972
RCD 10026	Frank Zappa	The Grand Wazoo ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Rykodisc	RCD 10026	US	1986
REP 44 209, MS 2093	Frank Zappa And The Mothers	Frank Zappa And The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo ‎(LP, Album, RP, Gat)	Reprise Records, Reprise Records	REP 44 209, MS 2093	Germany	Unknown