{{More citations needed|date=December 2010}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Mom's Apple Pie | image = Mom's Apple Pie Album Cover.jpg | caption = ''Mom's Apple Pie'' album cover | alt = a woman licking her lips and holding a pie with a slice removed showing a subtle depiction of a woman's vulva and some semen leaking from the pie | background = group_or_band | origin = Warren, Ohio, United States | genre = {{hlist|Rock|hard rock}} | years_active = 1970–1974 | label = Brown Bag | past_members = }} '''Mom's Apple Pie''' was an American ten-member rock band from Warren, Ohio. They were best known for the cover of their first album.
==Career== The band released two albums, ''Mom's Apple Pie'' in 1972 and ''Mom's Apple Pie II'' in 1973. A third album was recorded but was not released until 2011. Their manager was Larry Patterson, and they recorded on a record label owned by Terry Knight, Brown Bag Records.<ref>Perrone, Pierre. (November 10, 2004) The Independent. ''[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20041110/ai_n12813230 Obituary: Terry Knight - Controversial manager of Grand Funk Railroad.]''</ref> The band enjoyed a successful career nationally and toured extensively across the United States.{{citation needed|date=May 2026}} Venues included a wide array of college campuses, clubs, concert halls, the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden.{{citation needed|date=May 2026}} They performed with such artists as The Doobie Brothers and David Bowie.{{citation needed|date=May 2026}} Patterson booked the demo session with record producer Kenny Hamann at the Cleveland Recording Company. Pia Knight, Terry's wife, overheard the demo being played in one of the rooms in the back of the recording studio and convinced her husband to sign the group.{{citation needed|date=May 2026}}
Both albums have become favorites among collectors, due in part to the self-titled first album's risqué cover artwork, which contains a subtle depiction of female genitalia.<ref>Ochs, Michael. ''1000 Record Covers''. Taschen, 2005, p. 361.</ref> The cover, designed by Nick Caruso, was banned shortly upon the album's release and an alternative cover was released, making both versions highly sought-after among collectors.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} The same picture was used, but the artist added a miniature brick wall, topped with razor wire, covering up the vulva in the pie, policemen looking in the windows, and a tear running down the woman's face. The third unreleased album tapes have been discovered by Patterson.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
==Band members== *Joe Ahladis – guitar *Pat Aulizia – drums *Bob Fiorino – vocals *Roger Force – saxophone, flute *Tony Gigliotti – vocals *Fred Marzulla – trombone *Dave Mazzochi – keyboards, vocals *Bob Miller – lead guitar *Bob Pinti – trumpet, vocals *Greg Yochman – bass
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