FW: Waka-waka

[Sherwood, Harrison]

>From: 	Steven Maas (CUTR)
>
>Henry Musikar wrote:
>> If I remember correctly (IIRC), they are two albums that might have 
>> been put on one CD. Hot Rats had a solarized photo for the cover, 
>> Waka Jawaka a faucet.
>
>I woulda sworn the original Hot Rats had the water faucets, one labeled
>Hot and the other Rats.  Well memory does play tricks. 
>
>C'mon, foax! This is the Internet! Volumes of pop-culture information at your
>fingertips, just about all of it totally unreliable!
>
>The Zappa Discography at the St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage
>(http://www.wins.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/albums/) gives a release date for Hot
>Rats of 15 October 1969. Waka/Jawaka came out 5 July 1972. The source of the
>confusion is the fact that, yes, the cover of Waka/Jawaka has a drawing of a
>sink with the two faucets labeled "Hot" and "Rats."
>
>I am at a loss to explain this. I am at a loss to explain quite a lot about
>Frank Zappa.
>
>Harrison
>