Orchestral Favorites

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Orchestral Favorites is a studio album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in May 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label, distributed by Warner Bros. Records. The album is entirely instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. It reached number 168 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States. Though it was on his own label, Zappa did not authorize the original 1979 release of this album. Warner did no promotion and it was largely overlooked by fans upon release. At the same time Zappa gave interviews which described his legal problems with Warner and former manager Herb Cohen. The 1991 CD re-release was the first time the album was issued with Zappa's authorization. When the Zappa Estate reissued the album as a 40th Anniversary Edition in 2019, after Frank's death, additional live recordings with the same musicians were added.

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