At the time, that is in 1977, rumors started circulating about Frank Zappa having had recorded a four record set on the magnitude and scope of `Uncle  Meat' to be released on his own newly formed record label, Zappa Records.  The rumors were true and you probably know that because of a contractual  snafu with Warner Brothers/Reprise he lost the rights to the material in a  lawsuit.  The material from that album, which was to have been called  'Lather', was repackaged by WBR into the four albums; Live in New York,  Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, and  Orchestral Favorites.  There exists some  promo test pressings of the original Lather which sell for exorbitant  amounts at record collector conventions and so I was glad that the record  was finally released on CD.  Even with four bonus tracks though, this  is still not the complete Lather album.  Disk one has the original lp  sides one, two, and three, intact.  Disk two has sides four, five and six  and it starts with the intact side four, however on the rest of the CD the  track order becomes jumbled, and a 3:07 version of Baby Snakes  from the  original side six was, for some reason, dropped from this release! (a 1:50  version appears on the Sheik Yerbouti album).  The liner notes make no  mention of this fact.  Nor do the notes tell us if the final track on the  original Lather album's side seven, "One More Time for the World" is the  same as the track that was put in that position on the CD, "The Ocean is  the Ultimate Solution"  In fact, the notes seem to be written by someone  who isn't that familiar with Zappa.  For example, for the track 3 disk 2,  Big Leg Emma ("I'm in a big dilemma about my big leg Emma...she used to knock  me out until her face broke out) is a number Frank played on stage long  before their first record, but the notes say, "A song that celebrates as it  ridicules...  The fickle finger of fate is pointing firmly at the guys on  this one..."  say what?  The four bonus tracks kind of compensate for  this sloppy package.  The first one is Frank introducing the Lather album  on the radio and talking over the first track, Re-gyptian Strut.  The  second bonus track, `The Leather Goods' is typical Zappa guitar solo that  breaks into Led Zeppelin's `Whole Lotta Love' at the end.  `Revenge of the  Knick Knack People' could easily have fit on the Lumpy Gravy album.  It  opens with a demented voice asking, "hey, you got an upset stomach? I'll  give you a Pepto-Dismal"  and continues with munchkin giggles and rolling,  tapping percussion.  `Time is Money' is a slightly different version than  the one on the `Sleep Dirt' album.