Vinyl: Y RFK Assassination LP Solar SLP-331 SEALED Weird Frank Zappa psych

"Y" LP Solar SLP-331 ( Robert Kennedy assassination documentary album)

Exremely rare lp that was originally supposed to be released by Frank Zappa on his Straight label. Produced by Doug Moody and released in a very limited pressing by Solar Records. Contains audio from the Ambassador Hotel June 5 ,1968 including Kennedy's speech, crowd noise, news reports, a witness reinactment (?!), and interviews. This lp is still sealed and is unplayed, Part of the shrink wrap is torn off on the back and has been written on with pen "To Ted McLaughlin, with warm appreciation for "Trying To Make A Difference!" Success Always, Teddy Charach Aug 5 / '74". Teddy (Theodore) Charach was the writer, director, and host/interviewer of the 1973 documentary "The Second Gun" as well as a star of the 1967 documentary "Mondo Hollywood"

Here is some info from a Zappa related website:

Robert Kennedy Assasination Documetary Album

From Drew:

I've had access to lots of audio interviews, unlike most people, and ... Zappa revealed a lot of things in audio interviews. Like the Kennedy LP he made, another unreleased project. That is mentioned in the 1980 Rotterdam interview.

From Biffy the Elephant Shrew:

The LP that Drew alludes to is a documentary about the assassination of Robert Kennedy. I don't know how well established this is, but I've seen it claimed that this album would have been DiscReet DSK 2293, the missing catalog number between the LP releases of Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites.

From Jeff Szarka:

I was checking a dark, dirty, rarely accessed portion of my hard drive today [December 9 2000] and I found a very interesting mp3 file of Frank Zappa being interviewed. More specifically he was talking about the mysterious RFK assassination album:

"A man came to us with some tapes. He had been making a documentary album about the assassination of Robert Kennedy and he had interviewed all these people and he had put together this really fantastic album. That was when we had the Bizarre label and the deal with Warner Brothers on the bizarre label was we could bring projects to them and they had the right to refuse them and they heard that and that's why it never came out. They were afraid of it."

I haven't heard this before myself. Hopefully I am breaking some news
to brighten an otherwise election-filled day.

From L.R.:

hello: you have the R.F. Kennedy related LP listed as Reprise 2293-that is the # for Essential Jimi Hendrix vol.2--'m pretty sure the RFK record was slated to be Straight #1065 (or whatever the missing # is). Best regards.