IMDB says "Baby Snakes" was released in 1979, which would appear to date this clip fairly precisely.

its going to the bank......genious!

Great.

utterboxtv: First, that is NOT Casey Kasem interviewing Zappa. It is Alan Thicke. Second, Zappa is of mixed Sicilian, Greek, French, and Arabic descent, though I've never heard/read anyone attributing the Arabic portion of his heritage to any specific nationalitly, i.e. Lebanese, Egyptian, Algerian, or whatever. In one of the other vids here on YT he identifies himself as "Italian", probably due to the identification of his surname.

> dont know what the show is or the date of this event It's "Thicke of the Night" on 28 April 1984

It took me a while to figure out Thicke's quip. Baseball icon Jim Palmer at the time did a major print ad for Jockey underwear posing in his briefs. Hence, the reference to Terry's stagewear in the clip. Frank not being very engaging in the interview, but the audience seemed to enjoy it.

Alan Thicke Show 1984

Alan Thicke always seemed to be one of those corporate shills, but a cool guy behind the scenes. I think this is true because he had Frank on his show, but more importantly, Frank agreed to do the show.

I tried to try to watch Thicke of The Night on many occasions but most of the time it seemed like the cast was on Xanax and it made Johnny Carson seem cutting edge.

utter: Try Googling what? I made three points in my previous post. With which one of them, exactly, do you disagree? As I wrote: Zappa himself, in a video interview available here on YT, identifies himself as "Italian". The nationalities I've listed as his heritage is taken from a documentary available here on KZread and Zappa's Wikipedia entry. Sorry, I don't have the titles of the videos on hand.

And, FYI, more persons on this post than just me have pointed that the interviewer is Alan Thicke. The title is wrong. Try Googling Alan Thicke and Casey Kasem yourself.

Jim Palmer on drums?

"thicke of the night" ean in 83-84 one season

@Hazzaroonee according to another uploader March 30, 1984

He would LOVE Internet! :)

02:35 I'm with ya, Frank. Frank always had dogs in the household, no wonder

"Boom! There goes your tenure."

this is thicke of the night not casey kasem. This is where arsenio got rolling on tv.

Hey guido's already fistpumped back then. This clip needs an epilepsy warning with all the flickering going on.

that's 8:37 of my life I wish I had back.

Frank's a pro..he wouldn't be on the program unless he wanted to....you wouldn't know shit about what Frank wanted

"jim palmer on drums" ???

actually i didnt respect him even before this interview... you're talking about Alan Thicke, right?

Triva--- Both Zappa and Kasem are of Lebanese decent.

how can you confuse casey kasem with this guy? he doesn't even sound like shaggy!

Interview not going well. Frank shouldn't have showed up if he didn't want to be there.

actually the university composers rather liked it

Is this guy 4 real....try'n 2 outwit Frank!!

The audience must be on drugs. Hysterically laughing at nothing.

try googling it.. you may find 108,000 pages that disagree with you. Casey?, well that's what the title of the video says..

Doesn't look like it. Don't really care either.

It's amazing how an audience so not use to being challenged or offered anything of real interest could appreciate Zappa. They gave someone as bland, unmemorable and stiff as Alan Thicke a career. Go figure.

Not as much as Alan Thicke!! He makes me ashamed of being Canadian.