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Orchestral Favorites
Orchestral Favorites is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. The album is instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra.
Overview.
The album's creation was spurred by Warner Bros.' rejection of Zappa's "Läther" album. After Warner had demanded more albums than Zappa was contractually obliged to provide and had reedited the live album "Zappa in New York", a lawsuit ensued, during which "Studio Tan",
1977, Zappa delivered the master tapes for a quadruple-LP set, entitled "Läther". However, Warner changed its position following legal action from Cohen, and refused to release the album, claiming that Zappa was contractually bound to deliver four more albums to Warner for the DiscReet label.
During 1977, Zappa created the individual albums "Zappa In New York", "Studio Tan", "Sleep Dirt" and "Orchestral Favorites" by re-editing recordings from same batch of tapes that made up the