"Frankenstein" is a rock instrumental by The Edgar Winter Group from their album They Only Come Out At Night. In live performances of the song, Edgar Winter further pioneered the advancement of the synthesizer as a lead instrument by becoming the first person ever to strap a keyboard instrument around his neck, giving him the on-stage mobility and audience interaction of guitar players. The song topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for a week starting in May of 1973, and sold over one million copies. It was knocked out of the #1 spot by Paul McCartney's "My Love." Frankenstein reached #18 in the UK the following month.[1]
Its name, coined by the band's drummer Chuck Ruff, is derived from the fact that the final version of the song was literally pieced together from many different sections of recording tape representing the various instrumental sections of the music, using a razor blade and splicing tape. Winter fr
equently refers to the appropriateness of the name also in relation to its "monster-like, lumbering beat". (One riff was first used by Winter on his jazz-oriented debut album Entrance in the song "Hung Up". He later tried a variation on it, "Martians" from the Standing on Rock album.) Winter played
many of the instruments on the track, including keyboards, saxophone, and timbales. As the release's only instrumental cut, the song was not initially intended to be on the album, and was only included on a whim as a last-minute addition. It was originally released as the B-side to "Hangin' Around",
but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit. The song features a "double" drum solo (Chuck Ruff on drums and Winter on percussion). In fact, the working title of the song was "The Double Drum Solo."

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