Original version(s)

• Originally released by The Beach Boys (Capitol 5009, 1963).

 

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Absolutely Free (1967), quoted in Brown Shoes Don't Make It, recorded at T.T.G., Los Angeles, CA, November 1966
  • same version on Mothermania (1969) as Brown Shoes Don't Make It
  • same version on Understanding America (2012) as Brown Shoes Don't Make It
  • same version, remixed in 1969, on Frank Zappa For President (2016) as Brown Shoes Don't Make It
• Whisky A Go Go, 1968 (2024), quoted in Brown Shoes Don't Make It, performed in Los Angeles, CA, July 23, 1968
• Road Tapes, Venue #2 (2013), quoted in Brown Shoes Don't Make It, performed in Helsinki, Finland, August 23, 1973
• Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981), quoted in Brown Shoes Don't Make It, performed in London, UK, February 18, 1979
• BTB I: Anyway The Wind Blows (1991), quoted in Brown Shoes Don't Make It, performed in Paris, France, February 24, 1979

 

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

• January-February 1977 (Europe)—known quotations: 19

 

Comments

FZ with Peter Occhiogrosso, The Real Frank Zappa Book, 1989, p. 187

One of the most exciting things that ever happened in the world of 'white-person music' was when the Beach Boys used the progression V-II on "Little Deuce Coupe." An important step forward by going backward.