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1969 song by Frank Zappa
"Willie the Pimp"
Song by Frank Zappa
from the album Hot Rats
Released
October 10, 1969
Recorded
July–August 1969[1]
Genre
Blues rock[2][3]
hard rock[4]
Length
9:25
Label
Bizarre/Rykodisc
Songwriter(s)
Frank Zappa
Producer(s)
Frank Zappa
"Willie the Pimp" is a song from Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats. It features an idiosyncratic Captain Beefheart vocal and one of Zappa's classic guitar solos. It is the only track that is not instrumental on the album,[5] though the track features a long guitar solo.
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^Greene, Doyle (2016). Rock, Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, 1966-1970: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground Defined an Era. McFarland. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-4766-2403-7.
^Brend, Mark (2007-12-06). Rock And Roll Doctor: Lowell George: Guitarist, Songwriter, and Founder of Little Feat. Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0879307264.
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