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Boy Wonder Sessions, TTG Studios

Los Angeles, CA
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06/09/1966
Frank Zappa
Set 1Teenage Bill Of Rights
The Comedian
Boy Wonder I Love You
Orange Colored Sky
Teenage Bill Of Rights
Tears Come From Loving You
I Love
The Comedian

CommentJune 9th/10th, 1966

Produced by Tom Wilson
Arranged and conducted by Frank Zappa

Orange Colored Sky
June 10, 1966

Burt Ward--vocals
Dennis Budimir--guitar
Elliot Ingber--guitar
Lou Morell--guitar
William Pitman--guitar
Eugene DiNovi--piano
Anthony Terran--trumpet
John T. Johnson--tuba
Plas Johnson--sax
Jack Nimitz--b. clarinet, clarinet
Frederick Dutton--contra bassoon, bassoon
Benjamin Barrett--cello
Kenneth Watson--tympani, traps, mallets
John Guerin--drums

Boy Wonder, I Love You
T.T.G. Studios, LA
June 9, 1966

Burt Ward--vocals
Dennis Budimir--guitar
Elliot Ingber--guitar
Eugene DiNovi--piano
James Zito--French horn, trumpet
George Callender--tuba
Plas Johnson--sax
Justin Gordon--b. clarinet, clarinet
Benjamin Barrett--cello
Roy Estrada--bass
Jimmy Carl Black--drums


Notes from Greg Russo:
Burt Ward, the "Boy Wonder" Robin on the "Batman" TV series, was signed to MGM Records in June 1966 after an unproductive stint on the ABC-Paramount label. Tom Wilson produced with Zappa arranging and conducting, and the break in the master numbers indicates that other songs were recorded at these sessions: "Teenage Bill Of Rights", "I Love" ["Autumn Love"?], "The Comedian" and "Tears Come From Loving You". Of these, Ward only vocalized on "Teenage
Bill Of Rights", the other ones were meant to have his vocals, but time ran out at the recording session. Those recordings are backing tracks arranged and conducted by FZ, who's heard on occasion on the session tape. The record was released on November 14, 1966.
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