FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Joe's Domage (2004), as Frog Song and It Just Might Be A One Shot Deal, recorded in 1972
• Waka/Jawaka (1972), as It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal, recorded at Paramount Recording Studios, LA, CA, April 19 & 21, 1972
  • same version on Son Of Cheep Thrills (1999)
  • same version on Zappa Picks By Jon Fishman Of Phish (2002)
  • same version, different mix, on Waka/Wazoo (2022), as It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (Alternate Mix)
• Wazoo (2007), "Mystery Song #2" line quoted in The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement IV—The New Brown Clouds, performed in Boston, September 24, 1972
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (1988), "Mystery Song #2" line quoted in Approximate, performed in Helsinki, Finland, September 22-23, 1974
• Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition (2024), "Mystery Song #2" line quoted in Approximate—Bale, performed in Basel, Switzerland, October 1, 1974, early show
• Studio Tan (1978), "Mystery Song #2" line quoted in The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary, recorded at The Record Plant, January 3-14, 1975
  • same version, different edit on Läther (1996) as The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
• Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary (2019), "Mystery Song #2" line quoted in The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary, performed at Royce Hall, UCLA, September 18, 1975

 

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

• February-May 1973 (MOI)—known quotations: 1 ("Mystery Song #2")
• October-December 1973 (MOI)—known quotations: 1 ("Mystery Song #2")
• September-October 1974 (MOI European Tour)—known quotations: 15 ("Mystery Song #2")
• October-December 1974 (MOI)—known quotations: 1 ("Mystery Song #2")
• October-November 1976 (North America)—known quotations: 1 ("Mystery Song #2")

 

Comments

Jon Naurin on the FZShows Homepage:

Mystery Song #2. This is just a short little melody, which appears as part of the huge BeBop Tango improvisations on Toronto, 23-Nov 1973 (late), and in the Dupree's Paradise intro on Frankfurt, 12-Sep 1974 (early). In both cases, Frank starts playing the melody, and some other band members join in quickly.
Mystery Song #2 has now been identified as the riff that goes along with "But you should be diggin' it while it's happening" in "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal". A big hand for Tan Mitsugu, who identified it.

A partial list of "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal" quotations, compiled by Charles Ulrich

All performances of New Brown Clouds:
72/09/10 Los Angeles
72/09/15 Berlin
72/09/16 London
72/09/22 New York
72/09/24 Boston
75/09/18 Los Angeles

Probably all performances of Approximate, September-November 1974:
74/09/08 Bologna
74/09/09 Milan
74/09/11 (early) Vienna
74/09/12 (late) Frankfurt
74/09/14 Berlin
74/09/16 Hamburg
74/09/20 Copenhagen
74/09/22-23 Helsinki (as heard on YCDTOSA 2)
74/09/29 Brussels
74/10/01 (early) Basel
74/10/31 (late) New York
74/11/08 (early) Passaic
74/11/17 Philadelphia

Miscellaneous songs:
73/03/11 Arlington (improvisations)
73/11/23 (late) Toronto (BeBop Tango)
74/09/11 (late) Vienna (Village Of The Sun)
74/09/12 (early) Frankfurt (Dupree's Paradise)
74/09/12 (late) Frankfurt (Penguin In Bondage)
74/09/14 Berlin (Cosmik Debris)
74/09/16 Hamburg (Dupree's Paradise)
74/10/01 (early) Basel (Cosmik Debris)

Any more?

 

Conceptual Continuity

• The Perfect Stranger