Cantaloupe Island (album)

Reissues

• Cantaloupe Island was digitally re-mastered and reissued on CD by BGO in 2006.

  Track listing

1. "King Kong" – 4:58
2. "Idiot Bastard Son" – 4:01
3. "Twenty Small Cigars" – 5:35
4. "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" – 7:18
5. "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" – 19:25
6. "America Drinks and Goes Home" – 2:42
7. "Foosh" – 9:01
8. "Pamukkale" – 6:33
9. "Contact" – 7:15
10. "Cantaloupe Island" – 8:28
11. "Starlight, Starbright" – 9:23

    Personnel

• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, electric violin, baritone violin
• Ernie Watts – alto and tenor saxophone
• Ian Underwood – tenor saxophone
• George Duke – piano
• Frank Zappa – guitar
• Wilton Felder – bass
• John Heard – bass
• Buell Neidlinger – bass
• Dick Berk – drums
• John Guerin – drums
• Art Tripp – drums
• Gene Estes – percussion, vibraphone
• Arthur Maebe – flugelhorn, French horn, tuben
• Vincent DeRosa – French horn, descant
• Gene Cipriano – English horn, oboe
• Jonathan Meyer – flute
• Donald Christlieb – bassoon
• Milton Thomas – viola
• Harold Bemko – cello, electronic sounds

  Production notes

• Richard Bock – producer
• Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, conductor
• Ian Underwood– conductor
• Leonard Feather – liner notes
• David Brand – engineer
• Dick Klune – engineer
• Andrew Thompson – remastering
• Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer