1:02 I like how he continues to Booglarize her on the phone while the tune kicks in.

This might the best video I've ever seen. Early Beefheart, the innocent girl, the slick presenter, the teenagers awkwardly dancing. It's perfection.

Can you imagine these kids dancing to Neon meate dream of a octofish of the like

Not since Salvador Dali was on What's My Line?, had television been so surreal.

And she kept talking to Don on the phone...awesome hehe.

1:02 I think he just asked her to lick his decals off...baby.

lol, it's definitely Zappa!

This is just fantastic,it truly is something from another age.Cheers for sharing.

Beyond surreal. They should have kept that sound for a longer portion of their career.

Yeah.. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band on American Bandstand! This is what the world needs. I will play this over and over and over and over... until the stain of Ratt, Poisin and the awful mousey, shrieking of Axel Rose are washed away forever. I LOVE that sound, yes I realize that Don V.V. hated "commercialized" music and as the creator of such he is entitled to turn away from his own creations. Despite that, I think this is great and am now going to create an alternative musical history for the 1960s and '70s..(alas the '80s cant be saved from evil hairbands, Ronald Reagan and the after effect of Madonna) Just imagine..Dick Clark gives the thumbs up to Capt. Beefhearts' tunes, has he and Zappa, Laura Nyro, Janis Ian, Pharoah Sanders, Richie Havens, Billy Preston,The Dead, John Lee Hooker and the like back as regular guests and teenagers start to junk their Bobby Sherman records and the next thing you know The Partridge Family never existed..Sonny and Cher only do Hamburger Helper commercials...Jim Morrison quits the Doors (mind you, I like the Doors ok?) mid Bull Frog Blues, sobers up, retreats to the mts of North Carolina and becomes a pioneering organic farmer..David Gates tears up his notes and becomes a carpet salesman...and all the while..Zappa, Tom Waits and Beefheart saturate the airwaves..ahhh yes! the awful sounds of Journey, Night Ranger and Phil Collins is starting to fade..starting to fade away forever, in its place a musical treasure trove of gutsy blues, grinding bass jams, musicians with imperfect faces and truly imaginative lyrics. Thank you Dick Clark and Don Van Vliet Now I just have to rendevouz with Dr Who to make this all a reality! Cheers

By the time Trout Mask came out she was probably trippin pretty heavily so it sounded just fine to her.

I like how youthful Don sounds 🤣

Infuckincredible!!!

Beefheart being played on Bandstand! Whodathunkit!?

"How's yer hair hive hole been you crazy little thing?"

Making the Internet GREAT one song at a time!!!

Thank you for uploading this .

Released the day I graduated from high school in L.A./1966. I had just been on Lloyd Thaxton and Beefheart was on the show. This tune was an instant hit. Clothing and dance moved in this video blow my deja vu mind.

Holy cow! I never knew about this one. Good for Dick Clark.

that song was such a hit in southern california. good times: khj, krla, the captain, the doors, steppenwolf, spirit, beach boys, the mothers of invention,...plus motown, british invasion - all part of a great decade.

had this 45 since it came out loved it

"Thats the great sound of the Magic Band with Captian Beefheart and if you want to keep your breath and your teeth clean and fresh......." Never ever thought Id hear sumoin like that

This is awesome.

Oh Don. Such an awesome dude. :] I love this song! It's fast and bulbous! It would have been cool if they had released an entire album like this, although Safe as Milk is an AMAZING debut, I think. LONG LIVE THE BEEF!

O...M....G!! This is AMAZING. RIP Dick Clark...

I use the audio of this clip on my radio show but instead of Diddy Wah Diddy, I follow the dialogue with a track from Trout Mask Replica. I'll repeat it this Friday (Oct. 26, 2018, 8a-10a) on my "jazz" show on WRIU 90.3 FM including a lengthy Trout Mask set along with an excerpt from that great jazz track, Steve Reich's Come Out.

What an interesting document! At that time I was lucky to know groups like the Bluesbreakers or the Spencer Davis Group - but knowing Cptn. Beefheart? No way! Thanx so much 4 upping this!

A gift! Thank you! Love it!

Love the old lady @1:39.

Was für eine großartige Schau! So muß dit! Schöne Menschen, die zu hartem Bluesrock abstampfen, hamma! Schon einige Male gesehen dit Sma, wird nicht langweilig!!

the eternal king beefheart...

saw this band in 1969 at ludlow garage in cincinnati I HAVE NEVER BEEN THE SAME

The Captain was the captain of music. Still love his stuff. Great post.

WOW I never knew this even existed. ty.

I'm not sure how"sweet" the Captain's comments would be!!

haha, wonderful footage!

The whole crowd would clear away if Bat chain puller or Ashtray heart was playing, although those songs weren't recorded back then.

Dear mikeisamovie. Lived in southern cal back then. Saw the captian in 66. I was a teen girl dj at Fullerton JC. I saw so much music. Went to see the Turtles tons of times. went to Digati's and the Hullaballoo club on Sunset and the list is huge. Tell me more.

The Captain is the BEST! F. Zappa produced his best work (Trout Mask Replica). Frank would ask for 2-3 cuts of the same song. he'd return to the recording booth to discover every take was perfectly identical to the first. This --supposedly-- blew Frank away. He was thoroughly impressed. Trout Mask has it's flaws, but a gem to be discovered. Beware: Captain Beefheart is an acquired taste. I have many musician friends who have little use for his style of music. I'll keep workin' on them for us! JC

I haven't heard this one since I was a little boy!

I'd like to see them dance to Electricity.!

This is so iconic lol and its just a phone call

Imagine if Ice Cream For Crow had been written at this time and they played that. Those nerdy folks would really be popping.

It's Beaver Cleaver at 1:31!

Haha that girl had NO IDEA of the crazyness and the freakish albums that would follow up with the band...the 60s where so mindblowing!. I can see Frank and Don joking about this girl afterwards like: "Suzyyyy?....Suzy Creamcheese? " Hehe

Saw him in 66 in L.A. He brought an actual beefheart in a plexiglass kind of thing right on to the show. Memorable because very bizarre back then.

Captain on AB! and they say he wasn't commercial enough. Clark obviously thought otherwise.

BOSS!

All Beefheart is so good.

Another time, another planet. So cool. The hippest time for American culture.

I like it man! You should be writing books!

Love ❤️ the Capitan!

Long live the captain!!!!! RIP DVV

@IonSpringfield SERIOUSLY!!! That's exactly what I was thinking. Dancing to "Pena," suuuure! "That's the raspberries!" LOL

WHAAAT?!?!

1:30 Beaver Cleaver?

Who knew Ol' Trouty was so danceable! Or could lead to a Dentine commercial!

"Dick, I'll give it a 3 because you can't self-medicate to it!" Thanks BigDave--this is the most surreal video on KZfaq!!!

trippy, but Beefheart had that broken cadence probably more than Zappa, and listen at 0:29 or so, I can just hear 81' Poop Hatch there, I dunno, tough call man! Cause I can totally see what you're talking about, Zappa there on the phone, Beefheart loving it

LOL I was thinking the same thing

Check out the Altec Lansing Voice of the Theater speaker at 1:49!

Well, folks, those were the days ...

Lol! Very true.

It's pretty obvious this phone call was recorded and edited before it went live. The Captain must've been given the questions in advance, then they recorded him while answering. All it took then was Dick Clark and that young girl to play along like they were talking with him.

Can someone pleaaaaaaaase invent a time machine. I wanna go back !!

@hejafish Love the threads. Nowadays, it's quite sloven.

Oi, what happened to the commercial at the end? My teeth are like stained urinals and I wanted some tips!!!!

Listening to this makes me want to learn guitar faster!

...the captain was cool...real cool....

nah, man. that's totally beefheart. listen to the beefheart segment on zappa's Lost Episodes disc "i'm a band leader". same exact voice. zappa sounds nothing like that.

They both grew up in the same location and could quite probably have a similar cadence to their voices... and being familiar with both their speaking voices from years of fandom, yeah, i hear the similarities but that's Don, not Frank

... 1966 hahaHa CooL

he said who named the band, not how they came up with it 😀

Hippest time. Am bored today with a lot.

This is beyond hilarious! Orders from Dick: Whatever you do, keep dancing. Please don't walk out.

He sounds like Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver".

Diddy Wah...brought to you by Dentyne!

Is that Beaver Cleaver making a cameo appearance?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gawd

Never was Don so lucid.Compare with his last interviews!! What happened to his mind??

Little hoodoo zebra strong🎉❤🎉

At the time this was the most bad ass bottom end ever cut to disc. I think Derek Taylor (Apple, The Beatles) was doing publicity for him when this record was released - which may be why it got on the show. Don't think Dick would've had the same enthusiasm with anything off of Trout Mask Replica. Pity. O Captain, my Captain....

They don’t let the old soul shamans sing on the mainstream no more.

zappa is just too damn silly. Beef is king

That is Zappa lowering his voice. I know this cause that is exactly like Zappa speaks. Zappa and Don do not sound alike when they speak either.

Classic, but it's shame he didn't mention this was a Bo Diddley cover, especially in explaining why he thinks his band was becoming so popular...

@6motion6 He must have snuck onto the set!

You kidding? That IS Zappa.

Is this for real?What a find!

@joeshowallme I thought that too.

Haha

At 1:29 Beaver Cleaver gits down!!

they used phones with cords by then

Yeah, that's Frank Zappa talking on the phone. Dick Clark's mic looks like a stiff foot-long weener.

TELEPHONE TELEPHONE TELEPHONE

well sweetheart...its fast and bulbous

It's even better if you mute the audio and play "Ashtray Heart" from Doc At The Radar Station instead....

@ 2:15, can anyone, please, identify the type of shoe wear? They look like Wallabees, but they're not. I would love to wear those types of shoes the young gent is sporting.

Dancing with The Magic Band? Captain Beefheart later on didn't like, so he called, "the mama heartbeat" anymore but the music of the band still stands...