The KKSM Song of the Day (as picked by Brutha B) is Apostrophe’ by Frank Zappa. This album was consistent with his previous albums in that while it had times of comic notes (‘Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow’) it also had times of ecological and ecclesiastical comment (‘St Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast’).
Rolling Stone describes him this way: “Frank Zappa was one of the first musicians to try and tear down the barriers between rock, jazz and classical music. In the late 60’s his band ‘The Mothers of Invention’ would slip from a Stravinsky number into a Jazz tune seamlessly.”
In 1994 he was inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame and in 1995 he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was very zealous on the issue of censorship. To the point where he cut his hair, put on a suit and appeared before congress in 1985 to express concern about the voluntary labeling of certain records that was a move that was initiated by Al Gore’s wife Tipper.
