Doo Zap

Frank Zappa's 1968 doo wop pastiche album 'Crusing With Ruben and the Jets' is so lovingly and respectfully done that, despite his own description of it as 'greasy love songs & cretin simplicity', it has good claims to be the best doo wop album ever released.

Unfortunately Frank couldn't resist tinkering with it in the digital age, and CD versions of the record are overdubbed with hideous bass and synth sounds that just about ruin every song. Thus Zappa used 80's studio trickery to lay waste to a 60's record that had set out to be, and succeeded as, a pastiche of 50's style

I lost my vinyl copy years ago, so here is the track that suffers least from the 80's 'production'.

It is very worthwhile trying to track down a vinyl copy of the LP to wallow in the sheer cretin simplicity and wondrousness of the whole thing