Personnel
- Musicians
- Frank Zappa – guitar, piano, lead vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black – trumpet, drums, vocals, & Indian of the group
- Roy Estrada – electric bass, vocals
- Bunk Gardner – all woodwinds
- Billy Mundi – drums, vocals
- Don Preston – keyboards
- Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, road manager
- Suzy Creamcheese – telephone voice
- Ian Underwood – piano, woodwinds
- Pamela Zarubica – vocals
- Eric Clapton – Male speaking part in "Are You Hung Up?" and "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music."
- Gary Kellgren – "the one doing all the creepy whispering" (i.e., interstitial spoken segments)
- Spider Barbour – vocals
- Dick Kunc – "cheerful interruptions" vocal
- Vicki Kellgren – additional telephone vocals
- Sid Sharp – orchestral arrangements on "Absolutely Free", "Mother People" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny"
- Production
- Producer: Frank Zappa
- Executive producer: Tom Wilson
- Engineers: Gary Kellgren, Dick Kunc
- Remixing: Dick Kunc
- Editing: Dick Kunc, Frank Zappa
- Arranger: Frank Zappa
- Concept: Frank Zappa
- Art direction: Cal Schenkel
- Design: Cal Schenkel
- Artwork: Cal Schenkel
- Photography: Jerrold Schatzberg
- Fashion advisor: Tiger Morse
- Wardrobe: Billy Mundi
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