Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" is a suite by the American musician Frank Zappa, made up of the first four tracks of his 1974 album Apostrophe ('): "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow", "Nanook Rubs It", "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast", and "Father O'Blivion". Each song in the suite is loosely connected, although the songs are not all connected by one overall story/theme. The suite was only played in full from 1973 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. "Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" contains Zappa's percussionist Ruth Underwood on marimba, who added a very distinct sound to many of his songs in the early 1970s.

"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
Single by Frank Zappa
from the album Apostrophe (')
B-side"Cosmik Debris"
ReleasedAugust 1974
RecordedMay & December 1973
Genre
Length3:26 (Single version)
10:53 (Original suite)
2:07 ("Don't Eat the Yellow Snow")
4:38 ("Nanook Rubs It")
1:50 ("St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast")
2:18 ("Father O'Blivion")
LabelDiscReet
Songwriter(s)Frank Zappa
Producer(s)Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa singles chronology
"Cosmik Debris"
(1974)
"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"
(1974)
"Du Bist Mein Sofa"
(1975)

In keeping with the arctic theme of the song, after the first lyric "Dreamed I was an Eskimo" there is a musical quotation from the 1947 jazz tune "Midnight Sun".

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