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Brown Shoes Don't Make It

According to Zappa, the beginning background music was inspired by Lightnin' Slim's "Have Your Way".


I Can't Make It

When "I Can't Make It" was released in 1967, Small Faces had acrimoniously left the management of Don Arden and were signed to Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label.

Naugahyde

American singer and musician Frank Zappa mentioned Naugahyde in the 1967 Mothers of Invention song "Brown Shoes Don't Make It": "Every desire is hidden away / In a drawer in a desk by a Naugahyde chair."


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