Fritz The Cat was based on the cult comic book character created by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. Crumb disowned the movie and subsequent sequel The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat.

Fritz The Cat tells the tale of a bored college student (Fritz) who decides to "bug out" and experiment with sex, drugs, and revolution; the main message of the movie seeming to be about social hypocrisy as Fritz comes out with cliched counterculture phrases and thoughts more because he likes the way they sound than because he actually understands them.

Besides including hits from the Fifties and Sixties by such artists as Bo Diddley and The Watson Sisters, the Fritz The Cat soundtrack contain some remarkable original music by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin. Much of it is decidedly funky - as were the characters on the screen - and can be considered, by today's standards, "acid jazz." The composers employed some of the most soulful players of the period for the Fritz The Cat soundtrack sessions, including vibraharpist Cal Tjader, keyboardist Merl Saunders, guitarists Arthur Adams and Chuck Day, bassist Chuck Rainey, and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie.

Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard LP sleeve.