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The Freak Out! back cover. The small text reads: "These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were gonna get them for a dance after the basketball game but my best pal warned me you can never tell how many will show up...sometimes the guy in the fur coat doesn't show up and sometimes he does show up only he brings a big bunch of crazy people with him and they dance all over the place. None of the kids at my school like these Mothers...specially since my teacher told us what the words to their songs meant. Sincerely forever, Suzy Creamcheese Salt Lake City, Utah."
The Freak Out! back cover. Freak Out! is the debut album by American Experimental rock band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27 1966 on Verve Records. The small text reads: "These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were gonna get them for a dance after the basketball game but my best pal warned me you can never tell how many will show up. . . sometimes the guy in the fur coat doesn't show up and sometimes he does show up only he brings a big bunch of crazy people with him and they dance all over the place. None of the kids at my school like these Mothers. . . specially since my teacher told us what the words to their songs meant.
Sincerely forever,
Suzy Creamcheese
Salt Lake City, Utah. "

Suzy Creamcheese was a fictionally credited vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director The Mothers of Invention was an American Rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975 On the album Freak Out! (which features a "letter" from Suzy Creamcheese on the back cover), Suzy Creamcheese was played by Jeannie Vassoir; on Absolutely Free and Mothermania it was Lisa Cohen; and on We're Only in It for the Money, and Uncle Meat it was Pamela Zarubica. Freak Out! is the debut album by American Experimental rock band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27 1966 on Verve Records. Absolutely Free (1967 is the second album by The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. Mothermania (subtitled The Best of the Mothers) (1969 is a Compilation album by The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa We're Only in It For the Money is an Experimental rock album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. Uncle Meat, released in 1969 is the soundtrack to The Mothers of Invention 's long-delayed film of the same name; the front cover designed by

As an indication of the surreal nature of the running Suzy Creamcheese gag in Frank Zappa's work the following from Freak Out! may give a little clue:

Male voice: Suzy?
Female voice: Yes?
Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese?
Female voice: Yes?
Male voice: This is the voice of your conscience baby. Freak Out! is the debut album by American Experimental rock band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27 1966 on Verve Records. Conscience is a hypothesized Ability or faculty that distinguishes whether our actions are right or wrong . . uh, I just want to check one thing out with you. . . you don't mind, do ya?
Female voice: What?
Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what's got into you?

Zappa claims that in a 1967 tour in Europe, some fans asked Zappa if Suzy toured with them. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Because of that, Zappa used Zarubica as Suzy in that tour. [1]

There was an allusion to this character in Casino. Casino is an Academy Award nominated 1995 Crime drama Film directed by Martin Scorsese. There is also an episode of the television series The West Wing in which, during a poker game, Toby Ziegler calls C. J. Cregg "Suzy Creamcheese" in jest.

References

  1. ^ Zappa, Frank. Interview. KBEY-FM, Kansas City, MO. October 22, 1971.

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