Fandango! is the fourth album

Album

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 by American

United States

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 blues rock band ZZ Top

ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...

, released in 1975. Half the cuts are selections from live shows, the other half are new songs from the studio. A remastered and expanded edition of this album was released on February 28, 2006.

Fandango

Fandango

Fandango is a lively couple's dance, usually in triple metre, traditionally accompanied by guitars and castanets or hand-clapping . Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has an instrumental introduction followed by "variaciones"...

, from which the album gets its name, is a type of dance similar to flamenco

Flamenco

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.

During the height of ZZ Top's success in the early 1980s a digitally

Digital recording

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 remixed version of the recording was released on CD and the original 1975 mix version was discontinued. The remix version created controversy among fans because it significantly changed the sound of the instruments, especially drums. The remix version was used on all early CD copies and was the only version available for over 20 years. A remastered and expanded edition of the album was released on February 28, 2006, containing three bonus live tracks. The 2006 edition is the first CD version to use Terry Manning

Terry Manning

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's original 1975 mix.

Singles

The only single released from the album was Tush

Tush (song)

"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning...

. The single peaked at #20 on the US Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, making it the bands first top 40 single.

Track listing

All songs by Billy Gibbons

Billy Gibbons

William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...

, Dusty Hill

Dusty Hill

Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...

 and Frank Beard

Frank Beard (musician)

Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...

 except where noted.

Side A

1. "Thunderbird" (Live) – 4:08
2. "Jailhouse Rock
   Jailhouse Rock (song)
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   " (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (Live) – 1:57
3. "Backdoor Medley" (Live) – 9:25
   • "Backdoor Love Affair" (Gibbons, Bill Ham
     Bill Ham
     Bill Ham was the manager, producer, and image-maker of ZZ Top, from its inception in late 1969 until September 2006.-Career:...
     
     ) – 1:10
   • "Mellow Down Easy" (Willie Dixon
     Willie Dixon
     William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
     
     ) – 3:39
   • "Backdoor Love Affair No. 2" (Gibbons) – 2:05
   • "Long Distance Boogie" – 2:32

Side B

1. "Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings" – 2:42
2. "Blue Jean Blues" – 4:43
3. "Balinese" – 2:39
4. "Mexican Blackbird" – 3:07
5. "Heard it on the X" – 2:24
6. "Tush
   Tush (song)
   "Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning...
   
   " – 2:15

Thunderbird

Thunderbird was originally written and performed by the Nightcaps, a band formed in the 1950s when the members were teenagers. The Nightcaps performed the song and distributed it on their album "Wine, Wine, Wine" but never applied for copyright. ZZ Top began performing its version of the song in 1975, and has conceded that its version is lyrically and musically identical to the Nightcaps' song. The Nightcaps sued ZZ Top for, among other things, copyright infringement, but their claims were dismissed because, in part, ZZ Top had registered a copyright on the song in 1975.

2006 Remastered Version Bonus Tracks

10. ""Heard it on the X" (Live)
11. "Jailhouse Rock" (Live) (Leiber, Stoller)
12. "Tush" (Live)

Tracks 1-3 (side A of the original LP) were recorded live at The Warehouse, New Orleans, "captured as it came down-hot, spontaneous and presented to you
honestly, without the assistance of studio gimmicks". Tracks 4-9 (side B) were new studio recordings. Tracks 10-12, recorded live, are bonus to CD.

Personnel

• Billy Gibbons
  Billy Gibbons
  William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Dusty Hill
  Dusty Hill
  Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
• Frank Beard
  Frank Beard (musician)
  Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion

Production

• Producer – Bill Ham
• Engineers – Jim Reeves, Robin Brians, Terry Kane, Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig
  Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....
  
   (mastering), Terry Manning
  Terry Manning
  Terry Manning is a music producer, songwriter, photographer and recording engineer known for work in rock, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres....
  
  
• Album concept – Bill Ham
• Design – Bill Narum
  Bill Narum
  Bill Narum was an artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon known for his work in popular entertainment, and for being one of the few non-natives to have lived with the Tarahumara tribe of northern Mexico in Copper Canyon...
  
  
• Photography – John Dekalb

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Pop Albums	10

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1975	"Tush"	Pop Singles	20