FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Freak Out! (1966), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, recorded at T.T.G. Studios, LA, March 9, 1966
  • same version (original vinyl mix) on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006) and The MOFO Project/Object (2006)
    • same mix on Pregnant (1972)
  • same version, 1969 remix, on Mothermania (1969), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  • same version, 1985/1987 remix, on Freak Out! (LP, 1985; CD, 1987; CD, 1995; CD, 2012), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy
    • same version on Zappa en la Radio (1997)
    • same version on Understanding America (2012), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy
    • same version, remixed on August 4, 1987, on The MOFO Project/Object (2006), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  • same version, basic tracks, on The MOFO Project/Object (fazedooh) (2006), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy (Basic Tracks)
  • same version, basic tracks, remixed on January 8, 1970, on The MOFO Project/Object (2006), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  • same version, different vocal overdub, on The MOFO Project/Object (2006), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy—Vocal Overdub 1
• The MOFO Project/Object (2006), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in San Francisco, CA, June 25, 1966
• BTB II: Electric Aunt Jemima (1992), as part of Little House I Used To Live In, performed in Denver, CO, May 3, 1968
• Whisky A Go Go, 1968 (2024), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in Los Angeles, CA, July 23, 1968
  • same version, different mix, on Whisky A Go Go, 1968 (2024), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy (FZ Mono Mix)
• Road Tapes, Venue #1 (2012), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 25, 1968
• Beat The Boots III: Disc Four (2009), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in Appleton, WI, May 23, 1969
• Zappa/Erie (2022), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in Edinboro, PA, May 8, 1974
• BTB I: Unmitigated Audacity (1991), as Hungry Freaks, Daddy, performed in South Bend, IN, May 12, 1974

 

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

• June 1966 (The Mothers)—known performances: 1
• October 1967-August 1968 (MOI)—known performances: 8; known quotations: 1
• September-October 1968 (2nd MOI European Tour)—known performances: 3
• November 1968-May 1969 (MOI)—known performances: 4
• May-August 1969 (MOI)—known performances: 1
• April-May 1974 (MOI 10th Anniversary Tour)—known performances: 7
• February-March 1988 (North America)—only soundcheck

 

Comments

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

1968: This is probably the most straightforward music performed this year. This is essentially performed as on "Freak Out!", complete with guitar solo, and overflowing with attitude. No messing around, no random instrumental noises, no weird musical intrusions (well, actually, there is an unreleased, short "sanitized" take on the main theme following the guitar solo, which somehow adds to the overall force of this tune)—just the mean spirited "Hungry Freaks Daddy". Frank, of course, cannot refuse throwing some random chaos into the closing chords, but that is par for the course and does not distract from the straightforward honesty of this song.

1974: Essentially performed as on "Unmitigated Audacity" from Beat the Boots Volume I, with Brock on vocals.

Mike Keneally, "February 15 1988," 1988 Was A Million Years Ago, keneally.com, February 15, 1998

Frank asked me if I knew "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" and I knew the first part of it but when it got to the weirder chords they didn't spring immediately to my fingers and he said "Oop! Encyclopedia failure." And when dinner came around I took the Telecaster and went to a spare dressing room and figured out the chords, and then walked in to where he was having dinner and told him I'd learned the song, and he said we'd try it at the next soundcheck.

Mike Keneally, "February 29 1988," 1988 Was A Million Years Ago, keneally.com, February 29, 1998

We practiced a myriad of cover tunes [...], in addition to "What Kind Of Girl Like You Doing In A Church Like This," we rehearsed "Time Is On My Side", "Lucy In The Sky", "Strawberry Fields", "Paperback Writer", "Taxman", "Norweigan Wood", "Within You Without You", "Sunshine Of Your Love"—there might have even been a couple more that I forgot about—and then, finally, we started work on "Hungry Freaks, Daddy."

 

Conceptual Continuity

• Trouble Every Day ("Great Society")