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From: bartok@bnr.ca (Vince Cross)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Big Brother/Zappa
Date: 23 Dec 1993 11:16:40 -0600

In article <H.eg.5YZAQ&tD5P2@harvee.billerica.ma.us>, S. Mudgett aka little gator <scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us> wrote: >In <931222.81277.WJR0@delphi.com>, Bill Rourke writes:
>>Help me out. A co-worker (young pup) insists that Frank Zappa was the son
>>of Big Brother Bob Emery. I KNOW this isn't so and I'm not trying to start
>>anything. I watched Big Brother when I was a kid, and listened to Frank Zappa
>>when
>what an idiot. everybody knows that zappa's father was mr. greenjeans.

Zappa dispels the "Mr Green Genes rumor" on p. 13 of his autobiography, "The Real Frank Zappa Book":

"Because I recorded a song called 'Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the 'Hot Rats' album in 1969, people have believed for years that the character with that name on the 'Captain Kangaroo' TV show (played by Lumpy Brannum) was my 'real' Dad. No, he was not."

On page 15, he explains that his father was a Greek-Arab from a Sicilian village called Partinico and came over on an immigrant boat when he was young. I don't know who this "Bob Emery" guy is, but he sounds about as Sicilian as Vicky Robinson.

Vince "I am not the illegitimate son of Michael Jackson" Cross


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