Trivia for RandomKoolzip: What was Frank Zappa's highest charted single?

[Pale Blue Dot]

Go ahead. If you don't get this, everyone will laugh at you...:-)

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Valley Girl, #12, 1982. I think.

Probably wrong....shit, I'm tired (that's no excuse!)

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. You're right, mostly.

It hit #32,

His other charted singles were:

Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (#86)

and

Dancin' Fool (#45)

I guess he just isn't as good as Boyz II Men & Mariah Carey! :evilgrin:

[Kenneth ken]

3. that woulda (almost) been my guess

...that one song with the valley girl obnoxious parts, he did with his daughter - woulda been the actual guess.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. And "Yellow Snow" made it to like #30 or something...

and "Dancin Fool" was in the top 20. Unless i'm hallucinating. Or off my game (both.)

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Wow. In my dreamworld, Zappa was far more successful

commercially. I was way off!

[Zomby Woof]

6. his highest-charting album

"We're Only In It For The Money" with the Mothers of Invention actually hit Billboard at #29 in 1968. No singles from that brilliant album though.

"Hot Rats" was his biggest selling album in the UK, reaching the Top 10 in 1969.

Due to its success in the Scandinavian countries, "Bobby Brown" was the best-selling single in Warner Brothers's European department history when released in 1979.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. "Bobby Brown" wasn't on Warner Bros.

By that point, Zappa was on "Zappa" records, distributed by PolyGram.

[Zomby Woof]

9. I got it from a Zappa interview

It may have been a pre-Sheik version, before the WB lawsuits and troubles began. I have a huge collection of magazine clips of Zappa interviews. He made a sardonic joke, "Can you imagine all those cars driving around with "Bobby Brown" cranked up and them not understanding the lyrics? Or on the jukeboxes?" I am paraphrasing, and the WB factoid could be a reporter error in the interview.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

10. Jimmy Carl Black, he's the Indian of the group

"We're Only In It For The Money" was my first exposure to Zappa and still my favorite, "Absolutely Free" notwithstanding. ( "Call Any Vegetable" shoulda been a single!) "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" is still one of my favorite singin'-in-the-shower songs.

We see them after school in a world of their own
To some it might seem creepy what they do
The neighbors on the right sat and watched them every night
We bet you'd do the same if they was you

:D

[Zomby Woof]

11. whizzing and pasting and pooting through the day

Ronnie helping Kenny burn his little poots away! :D

[Semi_subversive]

8. My Fvaorite

was Dynamo Hum. The Poodle Chews It was pretty cool as well.