Brown Shoes Don’t Make It (original stereo album mix)

~ Recording by The Mothers of Invention

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.12Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:26The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
  • US1967-06-26
Verve (jazz label, aka “Verve Records”, use this for release labels)V6-5013
1.1Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:26The Mothers of InventionMothermania: The Best of The MothersThe Mothers of InventionAlbum + Compilation
  • US1969-03-24
Verve (jazz label, aka “Verve Records”, use this for release labels)V6-5068X
3.12Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:26The Mothers of InventionThe Old Masters, Box OneZappaAlbum + Compilation
Barking Pumpkin RecordsBPR-7777
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30Frank Zappa / The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeFrank Zappa / The Mothers of InventionAlbum
RykodiscRCD 10093
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
Zappa RecordsCDZAP 12
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
Zappa RecordsCD ZAP 12
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
  • US1995-05-02
RykodiscRCD 10502
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30Frank Zappa / The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeFrank Zappa / The Mothers of InventionAlbum
RykodiscD31395, RCD 10502
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
Videoarts MusicVACK-1204
2.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionThreesome No. 1Frank ZappaAlbum + Compilation
Ryko Records, RykodiscRCD 40582, RCD 40582/3
1.1Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:27The Mothers of InventionMothermania: The Best of The MothersThe Mothers of InventionAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2009-05-10
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:29The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely Free (remaster)The Mothers of InventionAlbum
  • US2012-07-31
Zappa Records0238352, ZR 3835
1.1Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:31The Mothers of InventionMothermaniaThe Mothers of InventionAlbum + Compilation
  • US2012-11-19
Zappa RecordsZR 3840
1.1Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:31The Mothers of InventionMothermania: The Best of The Mothers (reissue, remastered)The Mothers of InventionAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2012-11-20
Zappa Records0238402
1.12Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:26The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely FreeThe Mothers of InventionAlbum
Zappa RecordsZR 3835-1
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:29The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely Free (24‐bit 192.0 kHz – stereo)The Mothers of InventionAlbum
Frank Zappa Catalog, UMG Recordings, Inc. (operational headquarters of Universal Music Group, based in Santa Monica, USA; read annotations)
3.12Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionThe Old MastersZappaAlbum + Compilation
Bootleg
1.14Brown Shoes Don’t Make It7:30The Mothers of InventionAbsolutely Free / Over‐Nite SensationThe Mothers of InventionAlbum + Compilation
[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)GP-SSR 000145

Relationships

engineer:Ami Hadani
producer:Tom Wilson (producer, worked with Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Zappa, VU, etc.)
bass:Roy Estrada
drums (drum set):Jimmy Carl Black
drums (drum set) and percussion:Billy Mundi
guitar:Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
keyboard:Don Preston (piano/keyboards, member of Mothers of Invention)
tambourine:Ray Collins
trumpet:Don Ellis (trumpet)
woodwind:Bunk Gardner
conductor:Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
recording of:Brown Shoes Don’t Make It

Related works

Brown Shoes Don’t Make It

lyricist and composer:Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
is the basis for:Shut Up and Dye Your Shoes
lyrics quoted in:I Should Be So Lucky (Jesus H. Christ version)