“Dancin' Fool” by Frank Zappa

"Dancin' Fool" was the first single pulled from Frank Zappa's 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti, with "Bobby Brown (Goes Down)" following it out, and it brought him about as close to the pop mainstream as he ever got: number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1979. Among his American singles, only "Valley Girl" in 1982 climbed higher. It even drew a Grammy nomination for best male vocal, though it went home empty-handed.

It's Zappa's baby all the way: he wrote, arranged and produced it, sang lead and played electric guitar, with Terry Bozzio on drums and Patrick O'Hearn on bass. The song had first surfaced on stage on October 30, 1977, a show preserved on the Halloween '77 box set in 2017, and it later landed on the best-of Strictly Commercial.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.