Montana (Frank Zappa Song) - Other

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The song (with the solo edited out) was the B-Side of "I'm the Slime" (1973) and many years later, put on the Strictly Commercial compilation.

At the time Zappa was recording this album, Ike and Tina Turner and the Ikettes were recording in the same studio. Zappa was looking for back-up vocalists and was surprised that Tina and the Ikettes were willing to do the job. It is often said that Zappa brings out the best in musicians and that's what's happening here. Tina and the Ikettes felt challenged by the vocal part in the middle of the song...

Zappa: "It was so difficult, that one part in the middle of the song "Montana", that the three girls rehearsed it for a couple of days. Just that one section. You know the part that goes "I'm pluckin' the ol' dennil floss..."? Right in the middle there. And one of the harmony singers got it first. She came out and sang her part and the other girls had to follow her track. Tina was so pleased that she was able to sing this that she went into the next studio where Ike was working and dragged him into the studio to hear the result of her labour. He listened to the tape and he goes, "What is this shit?" and walked out". Quoted by Barry Miles in "Zappa: A Biography".

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