Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

Joe's Camouflage (2014), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, recorded early September 1975
Joe's Menage (2008), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Williamsburg, VA, November 1, 1975
Zappa '75—Zagreb/Ljubljana (2022), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, November 22, 1975
Philly '76 (2009), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Philadelphia, PA, October 29, 1976
Zappa In New York (LP, 1978), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in New York, NY, December 26, 27, 28 & 29, 1976, with overdubs from Record Plant, LA, CA, c. April 1977
- same version on Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2019), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
- same performances, different edits, on Läther (1996) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
- same version, different mix, on Zappa In New York (CD, 1991) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
Zappa In New York 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2019), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in New York, NY, December 27, 28 & 29, 1976
BTB II: At The Circus (1992), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Munich, Germany, August 31, 1978
BTB I: Saarbrücken 1978 (1991), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Saarbrücken, Germany, September 3, 1978
Chicago '78 (2016), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Chicago, IL, September 29, 1978
BTB I: Anyway The Wind Blows (1991), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Paris, France, February 24, 1979
Buffalo (2007), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Buffalo, NY, October 25, 1980
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in New York, NY, August 25-26, 1984
- different edits from the same shows on Does Humor Belong In Music? (Video) (1985) as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992), as Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, performed in Towson, MD, March 23, 1988

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

September-December 1975 (MOI)—known performances: 28
January-March 1976 (MOI Pacific & European Tour)—known performances: 33
October-November 1976 (North America)—known performances: 5
December 1976 (New York)—known performances: 4
January-February 1977 (Europe)—known performances: 1
August-October 1978 (Europe & North America)—known performances: 31
February-April 1979 (Europe)—known performances: 30
October-December 1980 (North America)—known performances: 17
August-September 1981 (rehearsals)—known performances: 1
July-September 1984 (North America)—known performances: 28
September-October 1984 (Europe)—known performances: 10
October-December 1984 (North America)—known performances: 6
February-March 1988 (North America)—known performances: 1

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1975-76: This is a rather skeletal version of the tune that we all know and probably have mixed feelings about.

1976-77: Essentially performed as on "Lather", accounting for obvious differences in instrumentation.

1978: Essentially performed as on "Saarbrucken" from Beat the Boots Volume I.

1979: Performed as on "Anyway the Wind Blows" from Beat the Boots Volume I.

1980 Oct-Dec: Essentially performed as always, accounting for the obvious differences in instrumentation.

1984: Yeah, like this song ever changed. Essentially performed as on YCDTOSA Volume III, with occasional Secret Word tweakage. Betty's musical taste's did evolve by this tour, however- away from Helen Reddy towards the more enjoyable "Echo and the Bunnymen" into the unforgiveably laughable "Twisted Sister".

1988: Exactly performed as on YCDTOSA Volume VI, as that is the only performance of this tune on tour. (As I sat and listened to the 3/23 show from which this is from, I realized that any artist who writes a song like this, and then has that song become typical, trite, commonplace in the minds of many of his fans, must truly be one far-out artist. This song gets very little respect in the hard-core FZ community (guilty as charged), which now amazes me. This is one messed up tune.)