Peaches en Regalia

"Peaches en Regalia" is an instrumental jazz fusion composition by Frank Zappa. It was released on Zappa's album Hot Rats in 1969 and has been recorded many times since. It was also released as a single in 1970, with "Little Umbrellas" as the B-side.^[1] Zappa used the piece on many of his tours, often as either the opening or the encore of a show.^[1]^[2]

"Peaches en Regalia" has been included in the "underground" version of The Real Book, despite being compositionally more complicated than typical jam session tunes. Having a song included in the book has been described "the ultimate insider credential for a jazz composer".^[3]

The tune is used as instrumental background music on the BBC London radio programme presented by Danny Baker. It was also the theme tune for the early 1970s BBC2 show One Man's Week.

A cover of the piece recorded by Zappa Plays Zappa (including Zappa's son Dweezil and former Zappa alumni Steve Vai and Napoleon Murphy Brock) won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in February 2009.^[4]

Personnel

Frank Zappa — octave bass, percussion
Ian Underwood — keyboards, flute, saxophone, clarinet
Shuggie Otis — bass
Ron Selico — drums

Renditions

By Zappa

Year	Album	Notes
1969	Hot Rats
1971	Fillmore East – June 1971	Live (as "Peaces En Regalia" on original vinyl album art)
1981	Tinsel Town Rebellion	Live as "Peaches III"
1991	Any Way the Wind Blows	Recorded live in 1979, released as part of the Beat the Boots series.
1992	Swiss Cheese / Fire!	Recorded live in 1971, released as part of the Beat the Boots II series.
2010	Hammersmith Odeon	Recorded live in 1978 at the famous London venue.
2011	Carnegie Hall	Recorded live in 1971.

On tribute albums

Year	Performer	Album
1994	The Muffin Men	Say Cheese & Thank You
1994	Riccardo Fassi Tankio	Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
1995	Harmonia	Harmonia Meets Zappa
1996	Omnibus Wind Ensemble	Music by Frank Zappa
1997	Ed Palermo	Ed Palermo Big Band Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
1999	The Dangerous Kitchen	Pays Tribute to Frank Zappa
2004	Ensemble Modern	Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa
2004	The Muffin Men	Bakers Dozen
2004	Pollo Del Mar	Lemme Take You to the Beach (Various artists)
2005	Colin Towns	Frank Zappa's Hot Licks

Other versions

Year	Performer	Album
1994	Jon Poole	What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
1995	Meridian Arts Ensemble	Prime Meridian
2000	Dixie Dregs	California Screamin'
2000	The Grandmothers	Eating the Astoria
2006	Dweezil Zappa	Go with What You Know
2006	Daniele Sepe	Suonarne 1 per educarne 100
2007	Phish	Vegas 96
2009	Les cris de Paris (a cappella)	Encores (alpha)
2011	Phish	2011/07/01 I Super Ball IX, NY
2015	Dr. Zilog	Apothecary

Legacy

Don Miguel Vilanova (aka Botafogo), an Argentine blues musician, had a band in the late 1980s inspired by the blues and Frank Zappa's Album, Peaches en Regalia; transliterated literally in Spanish with the same name, "Durazno de Gala".^[5]

Notes

1 2 François Couture: Peaches en Regalia review on AllMusic—retrieved on March 14 2009
↑ Frank Zappa shows — retrieved on March 14 2009
↑ Ted Gioia: Peaches en Regalia review at jazz.com — retrieved on March 14 2009
↑ Grammy.com Archived December 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.: 51st Grammy Awards winners — retrieved on 15 March 2009
↑ Bien al Sur, Historias del Blues en la Argentina by Gabriel Gratzer and Martín Sassone. 2015. Gourmet Musical. p. 78.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

Singles	"How Could I Be Such a Fool?" "Trouble Comin' Every Day" "Who Are the Brain Police?" "Big Leg Emma" "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" "Lonely Little Girl" "Motherly Love" "Deseri" "Anyway the Wind Blows" "WPLJ" "My Guitar" "Peaches en Regalia" "Tell Me You Love Me" "Tears Began to Fall" "Magic Fingers" "What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning" "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" "I'm the Slime" "Cosmik Debris" "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" "Du Bist Mein Sofa" "Find Her Finer" "Disco Boy" "Dancin' Fool" "Bobby Brown" "Joe's Garage" "Stick It Out" "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" "Love of My Life" "Harder Than Your Husband" "You Are What You Is" "Goblin Girl" "Valley Girl" "The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou" "Cocaine Decisions" "Baby Take Your Teeth Out" "In France" "The Girl in the Magnesium Dress" "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" "Zomby Woof" "Stairway to Heaven"

Other compositions	"Absolutely Free" "Advance Romance" "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" "America Drinks & Goes Home" "Are You Hung Up?" "Billy the Mountain" "The Black Page" "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" "Camarillo Brillo" "Cheepnis" "Duodenum" "Father O'Blivion "Help, I'm a Rock" "I Have Been in You" "Inca Roads" "Jewish Princess" "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" "A Little Green Rosetta" "Memories of El Monte" "Montana" "Muffin Man" "Nanook Rubs It" "Plastic People" "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" "Rollo" "Sleep Dirt" "St.Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" "A Token of My Extreme" "The Torture Never Stops" "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" "Willie the Pimp" "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station"

Filmography	200 Motels Baby Snakes The Dub Room Special Video from Hell Does Humor Belong in Music? The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels The Amazing Mr. Bickford Uncle Meat The Torture Never Stops A Token Of His Extreme Roxy The Movie

Relatives	Gail Zappa Moon Zappa Dweezil Zappa Ahmet Zappa Diva Zappa

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