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200 Motels is a 1971 surrealist musical film written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, and featuring music by Zappa. An international co-production of United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars the Mothers of Invention , Theodore Bikel , Keith Moon and Ringo Starr .
They also had a collaboration with animation studio Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, dating back to when this company made the cartoon scenes in Zappa's film 200 Motels. Flo & Eddie did the music for their films Down and Dirty Duck and The Adventures of the American Rabbit , the television special Peter and the Magic Egg , and their Strawberry Shortcake ...
In Marcel Gotlib's comics series Hamster Jovial the title character listen to 200 Motels and questions the lyrics of the song Penis Dimension. [10] The cartoonist frequently referenced Zappa in other comics too. [11] A September 1970 issue of National Lampoon featured a parody of Archie Comics in which teenagers go to a Zappa concert. The ...
[The World of Strawberry Shortcake] was clearly as much a program-length commercial as the old Hot Wheels cartoon show had been. But the regulatory mood in Washington had changed, and the Strawberry Shortcake special opened the way for what sometimes appears to be the transformation of children's television into a promotional arm of the toy ...
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200 Motels, the soundtrack album to Frank Zappa's film of the same name, was released by United Artists Records in 1971. [2] The original vinyl release was a two-record set, largely containing alternating tracks of rock music performed by the Mothers of Invention and symphonic music performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth, all composed and orchestrated by Zappa.
Simmons also appears in the Zappa movie The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1989). Numerous Zappa bootleg recordings from the same era also feature Simmons. Simmons's music career began in Seattle. In 1967 he became a member of the local group Blues Interchange which soon changed its name to Easy Chair.
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a documentary film made and released by Frank Zappa in 1987, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels. It was released direct-to-video . [ 1 ]