While active, the Four Deuces had moderate but short-lived popularity, mainly along the West Coast, mostly due to the frequent radio airplay of their hit song, "W-P-L-J".

The band was formed when Luther McDaniel and a group of army friends from Fort Ord got together and began to sing gospel songs.

Moving to San Francisco, the band came into contact with Ray Dobard and his company, Music City Records.

This version was both a satire of and a homage to the original, and Zappa has conceded admiringly that he could not have written a song any more absurd,[4] stating during a concert in Toronto that the titular drink made him vomit.

[2] The song prompted[5][6] a rock radio station in New York then known as WABC-FM to change its call letters to WPLJ on February 14, 1971; it still uses the callsign to this day.