Burnt Weeny Sandwich

All tracks are written by Frank Zappa except where noted.

Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Studio album with live elementsby The Mothers of Invention
Released	February 9, 1970
Recorded	August 1967 – July 1969
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	41:27
Label	Bizarre/Reprise
Producer	Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
Hot Rats (1969) Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
The Mothers of Invention chronology
Uncle Meat (1969) Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"WPLJ" (Ray Dobard, Luther McDaniel)	3:02
2.	"Igor's Boogie, Phase One"	0:40
3.	"Overture to a Holiday in Berlin"	1:29
4.	"Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich"	4:35
5.	"Igor's Boogie, Phase Two"	0:35
6.	"Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown"	6:27
7.	"Aybe Sea"	2:45
Total length:		19:54

Side two

No.	Title	Length
8.	"Little House I Used to Live in"	18:42 [13]
9.	"Valarie" (Clarence Lewis, Bobby Robinson)	3:14
Total length:		21:56

Personnel

• Frank Zappa – guitar, organ, vocals
• Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums
• Roy Estrada – bass, backing vocals, Pachuco rap on "WPLJ"
• Janet Ferguson – backing vocals on "WPLJ"
• Bunk Gardner – woodwinds
• Buzz Gardner – trumpet
• Billy Mundi – drums (uncredited, left group in December 1967, pictured on gatefold cover and possibly played on "Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich")
• Lowell George – guitar, vocals
• Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin on "Little House I Used to Live In"
• Don Preston – piano, keyboards
• Jim Sherwood – woodwinds
• Art Tripp – drums, percussion
• Ian Underwood – piano, keyboards, woodwinds, saxophones
• John Balkin – bass on "WPLJ", string bass on "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin"

Production

• Producer: Frank Zappa
• Engineer: Dick Kunc
• Arranger: Frank Zappa
• Design: John Williams
• Cover art: Cal Schenkel
• CD package design: Ferenc Dobronyl
• CD art adaptation: Cal Schenkel

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1970	Billboard 200	94

References

1. AllMusic review
2. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 799, 800.
3. Lowe, Kelly Fisher (2007). The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   978-0803260054.
4. Ben Watson; Esther Leslie, eds. (2005). Academy Zappa: Proceedings of the First International Conference of Esemplastic Zappology (ICE-Z). SAF Publishing. ISBN   9780946719792.
5. James, Billy (October 1, 2002). Necessity Is: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. ISBN   9780946719518.
6. "Playboy Interview: Frank Zappa By David Sheff".
7. James, Billy (2002). Necessity Is . . .: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (2nd ed.). SAF Publishing Ltd. p. 133. ISBN   0-946719-51-9. Extract of page 133
8. "Song Review by François Couture". All Music. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
9. "CFNY, Toronto, October 2, 1978".
10. Watson, Ben (1994). Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play. Quartet Books Ltd. p. 9. ISBN   0-7043-7066-2.
11. "Burnt Weeny Sandwich".
12. "Yvar Mikhashoff's Panorama of American Piano Music". Mode Records. Archived from the original on November 3, 2014. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
13. Length of "Little House I Used to Live in" is incorrectly listed as 21:52 on the sleeve of the original LP and the 2012 CD.