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Laurel Canyon Legends Volume 6.
2,390 views Feb 11, 2022 Laurel Canyon Legends Volume 6 . On location focus of The Canyon and its favorite son, Frank Zappa. His haunts and former homes, his Laurel Canyon story and how it affected the exploding music scene of the sixties and seventies.
An interesting Frank Zappa/Linda Ronstadt connection:
From Frank Zappa: “In 1967 we were living in New York and I got a request from an advertising agency…So, Linda Ronstadt happened to be managed by Herb Cohen, who was our manager at the time. Ian Underwood and I put together this track, and Linda did the vocal on top of it, and we made a demo. They paid a thousand dollars for the demo, and that was the last I ever heard from ’em. They didn’t like what I did.” Oh well. ”
According to Ronstadt “It was so musically complicated that I don’t know if they liked it. It was kind of like Bambi and Deep Throat on the same bill; it was not a likely pairing.”
But all was not lost! Many years later that Zappa/Ronstadt demo would influence the theme to one of the greatest tv shows ever...The Simpsons.
From dangerousmindsdotnet: ” When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the music to sound like: The theme from The Jetsons, some of Esquivel’s “space age bachelor-pad music,” a teach-your-parrot-to-talk record, selections from Nino Rota’s Juliet of the Spirits soundtrack and this unused Frank Zappa-produced radio commercial for Remington electric shavers that features the vocal stylings of none other than a young Linda Ronstadt. The future queen of country rock is nearly unrecognizable here, speeded-up, multi-tracked and sounding like she’s just taken a hit off a helium balloon. At the end, Zappa tells listeners that the Remington electric razor “cleans you, thrills you… may even keep you from getting busted.”
According to legend, after giving the tape several listens Elfman told Groening, “I know exactly what you’re looking for!” The result:
1967 FRANK ZAPPA & LINDA RONSTADT RADIO AD THAT INFLUENCED ‘THE SIMPSONS’ THEME
When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the music to sound like: The theme from The Jetsons, some of Esquivel’s “space age bachelor-pad music,” a teach-your-parrot-to-talk record, selections from Nino Rota’s Juliet of the Spirits soundtrack and this unused Frank Zappa-produced radio commercial for Remington electric shavers that features the vocal stylings of none other than a young Linda Ronstadt.
The future queen of country rock is nearly unrecognizable here, speeded-up, multi-tracked and sounding like she’s just taken a hit off a helium balloon. At the end, Zappa tells listeners that the Remington electric razor “cleans you, thrills you… may even keep you from getting busted.”
According to legend, after giving the tape several listens Elfman told Groening, “I know exactly what you’re looking for!”
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When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the music to sound like: The theme from The Jetsons, some of Esquivel’s “space age bachelor-pad music,” a teach-your-parrot-to-talk record, selections from Nino Rota’s Juliet of the Spirits soundtrack and this unused Frank Zappa-produced radio commercial for Remington electric shavers that features the vocal stylings of none other than a young Linda Ronstadt.
The future queen of country rock is nearly unrecognizable here, speeded-up, multi-tracked and sounding like she’s just taken a hit off a helium balloon. At the end, Zappa tells listeners that the Remington electric razor “cleans you, thrills you… may even keep you from getting busted.”
According to legend, after giving the tape several listens Elfman told Groening, “I know exactly what you’re looking for!”
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Remembering That Time When Frank Zappa Recorded a Jingle for Remington Electric Shavers
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December 19, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Frank Zappa, Linda Ronstadt, Remington
As we approach Christmas, we’re once again seeing plenty of commercials for electric shavers. This is a good time to remember the time when Frank Zappa produced a spec piece for “Remington Electric Razor Machines.”
Zappa was living in New York at the time and got a request from one of the weirder people at an advertising agency. That person knew about the commercial Zappa had done for Luden’s Cough Drops…
…and thought he’d be the perfect guy to give a fresh spin to electric razors. “Why not?” he thought.
Zappa contacted a young singer named Linda Ronstadt (yes, her), with whom he shared a manager. Everyone was paid a thousand dollars for the demo–but ultimately rejected it. A shame, really.