Frank Zappa's 'Baby Snakes' is an album featuring the soundtrack to film of the same name, released on March 28, 1983 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'The Man from Utopia' is an album featuring Steve Vai on guitar and released on March 28, 1983 by Barking Pumpkin.

'Just Another Band from L.A.' by The Mothers of Invention is a live album recorded on August 7, 1971 on The Campus Of UCLA In Los Angeles and released on March 26, 1972 by Bizarre.

Frank Zappa's 'Apostrophe' is his eighteenth album released on March 22, 1974 by Discreet.

Frank Zappa's 'Sheik Yerbouti' is a live double album with studio elements released on March 3, 1979 by Zappa Records.

Frank Zappa's 'Does Humor Belong in Music?' is the only authorized (by FZ) CD (featuring concert recordings from October–December 1984) and released on January 27, 1986 by EMI.

Frank Zappa's 'Sleep Dirt' is an album released (without his permission) on January 19, 1979 by Discreet.

Frank Zappa's 'Zappa in New York' is a live double album recorded on December 26–29, 1976 at the Palladium in New York City and released On March 3, 1978 By Discreet.

Frank Zappa's 'Thing-Fish' is an album originally released as a triple album box set on December 21, 1984 by Barking Pumpkin.

To Celebrate Frank Zappa, who passed away today in 1993, we have selected various solo artists or bands who have covered the songs Zappa wrote or co-wrote.

They are Swann, Zappa Jam, Jimmy Herring, Robert Trujillo, Zappa Plays Zappa, Lior Shlick, Roni Wagner, Daniel Kolben, George Duke, The HeadShakers with Napoleon M. Brock, CRAESH, Caballero Reynaldo, The Fall, The Big Note, Talichova Komorní Filharmonie

Here, they are reunited in one glorious playlist. Enjoy!

Tracklist

1 . Swann - Bobby Brown More by the same : Facebook

2 . Zappa Jam - G Spot Tornado More by the same : Facebook

3 . Jimmy Herring - Zoot Allures More by the same : on RVM

4 . Robert Trujillo & Zappa Plays Zappa - Muffin Man More by the same : on RVM

5 . Lior Shlick, Roni Wagner & Daniel Kolben - Motherly Love More by

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This day ( December 4, 1993), in  Los Angeles, California, died Frank Zappa, an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director.

Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention' is an album released as a protest against warning stickers on albums on November 21, 1985 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'Jazz from Hell' is an instrumental album released on November 15, 1986 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'The Yellow Shark' is an album of orchestral music composed by Zappa, performed by the Ensemble Modern and released on November 2, 1993 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'Zoot Allures' is an album titled from the French expression 'Zut alors!' and released on October 20, 1976 by Warner Bros.

Frank Zappa's 'Them or Us' is an album released on October 18, 1984 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'Broadway the Hard Way' is a live album recorded during his 1988 and final world tour and released on October 14, 1988 by Barking Pumpkin.

'Bongo Fury' by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart is an album released on October 2, 1975 by Discreet.

Frank Zappa's 'You Are What You Is' is a double album released on September 23, 1981 by Barking Pumpkin.

Frank Zappa's 'Joe's Garage' is a rock opera, originally released on September 17 and November 19, 1979 as two separate studio albums by Zappa Records.

Frank Zappa's 'Studio Tan' is an album released on September 15, 1978 by Discreet.

1973 is one of Frank Zappa's busiest years.

Think about it : in one year, he records three albums, releases one and plays seventy-seven concerts throughout the world.

From March till the end of May, he is at Bolic Sound in Inglewood and Whitney Studios in Glendale to complete his seventeenth studio album "Over-Nite Sensation" (to be released in September) and to tape parts of his solo project "Apostrophe."

'Roxy & Elsewhere' by Frank Zappa & The Mothers is a live album released on September 10, 1974 by DiscReet.

'Over-Nite Sensation' by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention is their seventeenth studio album released on September 7, 1973 by DiscReet

Frank Zappa's 'Lumpy Gravy' is his debut solo album (with Zappa conducting the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra) released on August 7, 1967.

'Zapp' is their self-titled debut album co-produced by Bootsy Collins and released on July 28, 1980 by Warner Bros.

Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats' is his second solo (and his first after the dissolution of the Mothers of Invention) album recorded from July 18 till August 30, 1969 and released on October 10, 1969 by Bizarre/Reprise.

Frank Zappa's 'Waka Jawaka' is an album released on July 5, 1972 by Bizarre/Reprise.

'One Size Fits All' by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention is an album released on June 25, 1975 by Discreet.