You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
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Tacky Raccoons 
thanks for minding the gap!
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Looked like they missed a spot.
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That’s the version of “You Didn’t Try To Call Me” from the Mothers Of Invention’s third album “Cruisin’ With Ruben and the Jets”. Here’s the original from “Freak Out”:
I really love both albums. A radio station here in the Pittsburgh area used to play a song by the Mothers back in the late 60s called “I’m Not Satisfied” that gave me chills. I ran out to get it and saw that it was on
Freak Out”. Went home and played it, but it was a completely different version of that tune. Played the rest of the album though and was blown away. Found out later that the version I wanted was on “Ruben and the Jets”. I really got into the Mothers and Zappa…..
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Taminator– You’re absolutely correct, and I thought of Ruben & the Jets at the last minute when I heard Flo & Eddie doing background vocals. They weren’t with Zappa when Freakout came out. Dang, now I have to post a correction!
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Correction added to post with credit. Thanks a wad.
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You’re absolutely welcome and thank you for all the great posts………..
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There was another band with the name Ruben & The Jets. IIRC, they asked FZ if they could record under that name, and he brought them into Studio Z.
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Nice! Reminds me of FZ’s greaser tune from “Ruben & the Jets”………
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L.A. Chicano R&B is great, and there’s a resurgence that’s been going on for a while. Check out Joey Quinones, Thee Sinseers, The Altons & Adriana Flores.
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