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Penguins - Memories of El Monte: Doo Wop written by teenaged Frank


The kind of music he would parody later! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXotL1EtbKk

"The first rock and roll song I ever wrote was Memories of el Monte. I had never written anything that resembled rock and roll up until the time I was twenty years old. All the rest of my compositions had been chamber or orchestral music. So I happened to like Rhythm and Blues and I decided to try and write a Rhythm and Blues song." Frank Zappa - Music Canada Quarterly, March, 1974

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