The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously)

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    From Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa by Neil Slaven:

    One evening the girls turned up in plastic baby bibs and oversized nappies, their hair in pigtails. Frank was so impressed, he invited them to dance on stage with the Mothers at their Orange County gig that night. He wanted them to call themselves Girls Together Only but, after some discussion, Outrageously was settled on. However, the Orange County coneheads wouldn’t allow half-naked girls on stage and their only audience that night were the men detailed (but not de-sexed) to prevent their appearance.

    The final element of The GTOs persona was bestowed upon them by Herbert Khaury. Before coming to Los Angeles, he’d performed Twenties’ Rudy Vallee songs in Greenwich Village, where he called himself Darry Dover and Larry Love. As Tiny Tim, he’d become a frequent celebrity guest on The Johnny Carson Show, made an album, God Bless Tiny Tim and a hit single, ‘Tiptoe Through The Tulips’, for Reprise. The girls went to see him at the Sunset Marquee and his quaint punctiliousness in calling them Miss Lucy, Miss Pamela, etc. completed the image that the GTOs would present to the world.
     
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    From Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa by Neil Slaven:

    Warner Brothers’ money was now supporting Frank’s extended family of musicians; even the GTOs were receiving $35 a week. Mercy Fontenot, a migrant from San Francisco, had joined the girls and she in turn introduced Cinderella as the last and, at 17, the youngest GTO. One of the songs they rehearsed for the Shrine Christmas concert was ‘The Captain’s Fat Theresa Shoes’, about an outsize pair of women’s shoes worn by Captain Beefheart. Another was ‘I’m In Love With The Ooo Ooo Man’, Miss Pamela’s paean of love for Nick St Nicholas of Steppenwolf. Don Preston was brought in to help them with arrangements for their recording debut. As Miss Pamela noted, “We had serious trouble harmonising, so we all sang together like a grade-school choir, which didn’t faze Frank – he thought of us as a living, breathing documentary.”

    The Mothers rhythm section provided backing tracks for the GTOs album, which got its title, Permanent Damage, from Miss Mercy’s physical status. She and Miss Christine and Miss Cinderella had taken up residence at the Landmark Hotel and were shooting heroin in Room 229. When Frank found out, he put their album on indefinite hold. The girls featured in the centre spread of the February 15 Rolling Stone – “The Groupies” issue.
     
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