Andrew Hickey
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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs · Song 185: “Peaches En Regalia” by Frank Zappa · 21 Jul 2026
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Incidentally, if you want to buy the album Cruising with Ruben and the Jets, as it was actually released in the 1960s,
you should not buy the current issue of Cruising with Rubin and the Jets, but should instead buy an album called Greasy Love Songs.
In the 1980s, Zappa released remixed and partially re-recorded versions of We're Only in It for the Money and Rubin and the Jets, with the bass and drums replaced with some fairly ghastly 80s sounding ones by members of his 80s band.
The current CD of We're Only in It for the Money is, thankfully, the original 60s mix.
Reuben and the Jets, however, is the 80s remix and re-record and sounds bizarre.
Very few fans actually prefer the revised version, and for decades they complained vociferously about the unavailability of the original version.
Finally, in 2010, Zappa Records released the third in their Project Object series of archival versions of early Zappa and Mothers albums.
Lumpy Money had covered We're Only In It For The Money and Lumpy Gravy, Mofo had covered Freak Out, and Greasy Love Songs featured the full original mix of Rubin and the Jets, along with other things like single mixes, early mixes and so on.
Cruising with Rubin and the Jets is unique in the discography of Zappa and the Mothers for how many songs on it have songwriting contributions by people who aren't Zappa.
Almost all of Zapper's studio albums, both under his own name and under the mother's name, consist entirely of solo Zapper compositions.
Very occasionally there would be the odd song where a band member co-wrote, like George Duke co-writing Uncle Remus on Apostrophe, or Howard Kalen co-writing Magdalena on Just Another Band From L.A., but these would be few and far between.
There would also very occasionally be a cover version of an old blues or doo-wop song.
But the total songwriting credits for people who aren't Zapper probably amount to 1% of the total.
On Reuben and the Jets though, Ray Collins in particular gets to write several songs, two of them even without Zapper.
Desiree, which we just heard, had been written by Collins and Paul Buff back in the Palin Studio Z days, and the two had recorded a version of it back then.
Collins also co-wrote two songs, Love of My Life and Fountain of Love, with Zappa.
and wrote one song, Anything, entirely solo.
The rest of the album was entirely Zappa compositions, a mixture of doo-wop style remakes of songs from Freak Out, and tracks which, unlike Collins' contributions, make no pretence of having the kind of lyrics that would actually have made a doo-wop record in the late 50s.
Zappa explained his thinking behind the album in 1979, saying, I'll tell you there's a very scientific reason for the existence of Rubin and the Jets.
The closest relationship between that album as an artistic event and another event from a different field that you can compare it to would be the point in Stravinsky's career in which he decided he was going to write neo-classical music.
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