Suzy Creamcheese

" back cover. The small text reads: "These Mothers is crazy. You can tell by their clothes. One guy wears beads and they all smell bad. We were gonna get them for a dance after the basketball game but my best pal warned me you can never tell how many will show up...sometimes the guy in the fur coat doesn't show up and sometimes he does show up only he brings a big bunch of crazy people with him and they dance all over the place. None of the kids at my school like these Mothers...specially since my teacher told us what the words to their songs meant.
Sincerely forever,
Suzy Creamcheese
Salt Lake City, Utah."] Suzy Creamcheese was a fictionally credited vocalist and character on and in a number of albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. On the album "Freak Out!" (which features a "letter" from Suzy Creamcheese on the back cover), Suzy Creamcheese was played by Jeannie Vassoir; on "Absolutely Free" and "Mothermania" it was Lisa Cohen; and on "We're Only in It for the Money", and "Uncle Meat" it was Pamela Zarubica.

As an indication of the surreal nature of the running Suzy Creamcheese gag in Frank Zappa's work the following from "Freak Out!" may give a little clue:

:Male voice: Suzy?:Female voice: Yes?:Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese?:Female voice: Yes? :Male voice: This is the voice of your conscience baby... uh, I just want to check one thing out with you...you don't mind, do ya?:Female voice: What?:Male voice: Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what's got into you?

Zappa claims that in a 1967 tour in Europe, some fans asked Zappa if Suzy toured with them. Because of that, Zappa used Zarubica as Suzy in that tour.Zappa, Frank. Interview. KBEY-FM, Kansas City, MO. October 22, 1971.]

There was an allusion to this character in Casino. There is also an episode of the television series The West Wing in which, during a poker game, Toby Ziegler calls C.J. Cregg "Suzy Creamcheese" in jest. Also on the Oct 2nd, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, during the formidable opponent section, Stephen Colbert says, "Not so fast Suzy Creamcheese."

References

* Track "Requiem For Suzy Creamcheese" appears on vinyl LP "PSYCHEDELIA - A MUSICAL LIGHT SHOW" by The Mesmerizing Eye (SMASH RECORDS MGS-27090)