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}} ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'' is the fourth studio album by the Mothers of Invention. Released on December 2, 1968 on Bizarre and Verve Records with distribution by MGM Records, it was subsequently remixed by Frank Zappa and reissued independently. As with the band's previous three albums, it is a concept album, influenced by 1950s doo wop and rock and roll. The album's concept deals with a fictitious Chicano doo wop band called Ruben & the Jets, represented by the cover illustration by Cal Schenkel, which depicts the Mothers of Invention as anthropomorphic dogs. It was conceived as part of a project called ''No Commercial Potential'', which produced three other albums: ''Lumpy Gravy'', ''We're Only in It for the Money'' and ''Uncle Meat''. The album and its singles received some radio success, due to its doo wop sound. The band Ruben and the Jets was named after this album. This is Official Release #5. == Background == During a previous recording session engineer Richard Kunc and the Mothers of Invention discussed their high school days and doo wop songs. Ray Collins and some of the other members of the band started singing and performing the songs, and Zappa suggested, that they record an album of doo wop music. Zappa described the album as an homage to the 1950s vocal music that he was "crazy" about.〔 Collins later left the Mothers of Invention, and Zappa began working on a project entitled ''No Commercial Potential'', which included sessions that produced ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'', as well as ''We're Only in It for the Money'', a revised version of ''Lumpy Gravy'', and ''Uncle Meat''.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA160, http://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA326〕 After The Mothers of Invention's contract with MGM and Verve Records expired, Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen negotiated to form a semi-independent record label Bizarre Records, with Verve releasing three Bizarre releases with distribution by MGM: a new Mothers of Invention album, ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'', the compilation ''Mothermania'', and an album by Sandy Hurvitz, ''Sandy's Album is Here at Last''.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA160, http://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA169, http://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA326〕 Zappa stated regarding the releases ''Lumpy Gravy'', ''We're Only in It for the Money'', ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'' and ''Uncle Meat'', "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cruising with Ruben & the Jets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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