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Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s. The song combines a silly love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. The members of The Mothers perform the song in a very sloppy way on purpose. Many sound effects were creatively added to the recording to give it an authentic nightclub feel. At the end of the recording lead vocalist Ray Collins says good night to the audience and tells them to "drink it up, folks." It's implied that the nightclub crowd has devolved into some kind of mass altercation by the end of the song; shouts and cries of pain are heard in the background as the song winds up.

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  • America Drinks And Goes Home (song)
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  • Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s. The song combines a silly love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. The members of The Mothers perform the song in a very sloppy way on purpose. Many sound effects were creatively added to the recording to give it an authentic nightclub feel. At the end of the recording lead vocalist Ray Collins says good night to the audience and tells them to "drink it up, folks." It's implied that the nightclub crowd has devolved into some kind of mass altercation by the end of the song; shouts and cries of pain are heard in the background as the song winds up.
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  • 165.0
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  • Verve
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  • America Drinks and Goes Home
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  • 15(xsd:integer)
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  • 1967(xsd:integer)
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  • Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
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  • 14(xsd:integer)
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  • Zappa wrote the song to parody his experiences playing with drunken bar bands in the early 1960s. The song combines a silly love song lyric with an equally cliched melody. The members of The Mothers perform the song in a very sloppy way on purpose. Many sound effects were creatively added to the recording to give it an authentic nightclub feel. At the end of the recording lead vocalist Ray Collins says good night to the audience and tells them to "drink it up, folks." It's implied that the nightclub crowd has devolved into some kind of mass altercation by the end of the song; shouts and cries of pain are heard in the background as the song winds up. Soon after the song was released in early 1967 a few other songs appeared which used very similar ideas such as "On with the Show" by The Rolling Stones (released in 1967), "My Friend" by Jimi Hendrix (recorded in 1968, released in 1971) and "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" by The Beatles (recorded in 1967 and 1969, released in 1970.)
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