fzs-19. One Size Fits All, Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; and Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, August 1974 - April 1975.[DiscReet Records] June 25, 1975, rereleased May 2, 1995.

fzs-19. One Size Fits All

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

This article is about the Frank Zappa album. For the Pink Cream 69 album, see One Size Fits All (Pink Cream 69 album).

One Size Fits All
Studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Released	June 25, 1975
Recorded	Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; and Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, August 1974 - April 1975
Genre	Jazz fusion, hard rock, progressive rock
Length	42:55
Label	DiscReet Records
Producer	Frank Zappa
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Robert Christgau (C+) link Piero Scaruffi link
Frank Zappa chronology
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974) One Size Fits All (1975) Bongo Fury (1975)

One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It is the last Zappa album to be recorded with The Mothers of Invention. A special four-channel Quadraphonic version of the album was prepared and advertised, but not released.

The album features the final version of The Mothers of Invention, with George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood, Tom Fowler and Napoleon Murphy Brock. The album itself features one of Zappa's most complex and well-known tracks, "Inca Roads". One of Zappa's heroes, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, guests on two tracks.

Early U.S. LP pressings of the album have a skip during Inca Roads at approximately 4:40 into the track. This error was a manufacturing defect not caught during the test pressing stage. The first round of pressings were recalled after the mistake was caught, but a significant number had already been sold. The highly complex nature of the music made it difficult to recognize the error without comparing it to the correct version.

In 1988, One Size Fits All was released on CD by Rykodisc.