Captain Beefheart’s first TV broadcasts

Film of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band performing Diddy Wah Diddy and Who Do You Think You’re Fooling was broadcast on Dick Clark’s television show Where The Action Is on 24th May 1966. Shot on location at a Californian beach Captain Beefheart’s sexy glowering beatsters played their music to an audience of gyrating valley girls and boys.

This film is a joy to watch, so now that it has been pulled from YouTube for being used without permission we can only hope that Dick Clark Productions, Inc., the copyright owners, have plans to let their film be more widely seen elsewhere.

Film of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band’s first television appearance may also still exist. They played on a programme called 9th Street West which broadcast live in Los Angeles on 28th April 1966, shortly after Diddy Wah Diddy was released. Tapes of this show were produced for syndication but none have yet resurfaced.

加里·马克讲述了这样的表现如何蜕变为唐凡弗利特和电视节目主持人山姆·里德尔之间非常凌乱打闹的故事（见下文加里的故事）。

A newly discovered contract relating to the 9th Street West TV show is currently being offered for sale by former Warner Bros executive Jeff Gold. This contract carries two different signatures by Don, one as Don Vliet and the other as Don Van Vliet. Because of this, Jeff considers it to be a unique document and prices it accordingly.

包括合同是颁发给唐收据，列出Beefheart船长用不同的化名在那个时候。雷竞技ios下载“雷竞技ios下载船长Beefheart（又名唐弗利特，凡弗利特，Velite）”

Velite? Don Velite? That is unique too, although it is almost certainly only a typo. Gary Marker wrote to me about the organisation which issued the receipt, “….my recollection of the office staff at AFTRA back then is, if their brains were dynamite their eardrums would be in no potential danger. They once cut a check (or “cheque”) to me as “Gerry” Marker.”

Jeff Gold’s Captain Beefheart contract and receipt are for sale atrecordmecca.com

A less well known Captain Beefheart appearance was on American Bandstand, another Dick Clark television show, which broadcast on 18th June 1966. The programme had performances by Love and Steve Alaimo plus a telephone interview with Don Van Vliet. This was somehow recorded, and has been seen listed on audio tape traders lists. If anyone can arrange for us to hear this interview we’d be very grateful.

Gary Marker’s Most Amusing Beefheart Moment

Diddy-Wah [wp_quote]的时候”-Diddy” was released, Don and the band did the mandatory lip-synch appearance on a local L.A. teen dance show called “9th Street West.” It was hosted by an annoying, smarmy, miniscule, super-hyper DJ named Sam Riddle. Riddle’s usual M.O. was to schmooze with the artist for a bit of time, either before or after their on-air performance–usually by asking a lot of inane questions. (He once actually asked Doug Sam, when “She’s About A Mover” was chart-bound, “How many of you are there in the Sir Douglas Quintet?”)

所以无论如何，当时没有人知道，试图采访Beefheart船长，在最好的，不稳定的命题。雷竞技ios下载发生了什么事是（记住，这是LIVE TV），魔术队已经完成了他们的假唱之后，萨姆·里德尔来到跳上来唐，携带的白色，蜡纸屠夫的一张巨大的一叠。“雷竞技ios下载船长Beefheart，Beefheart船长！”他在喊他一贯的氦普照超的声音。“看什么我已经得到了你！”有了这样的，他鞭子打开屠夫的纸，露出一个巨大的，湿，生牛肉正品心脏，他朝着唐吓了一跳凡弗利特的脸塞到了。“这是一个真正牛的心脏！那么，有什么觉得，船长Beefheart的？”雷竞技ios下载他尖叫。

如果没有hestitation的第二，现在非常生气DVV蛇他的手臂时，他用手抓起生牛肉心脏，拥有过来里德尔的头，此时的芒奇金般的主机启动快速后退了。但是不够快。“你觉得这是什么，山姆之谜的？”唐咆哮，给心脏大幅挤压。血淋淋的牛肉汁心脏鞘，滴料和运球遍布里德尔时尚柔和的西装，在他厚厚的脸部化妆有些过喷。“你得很多神经的坚持，在我的脸上丑陋的东西，”唐嘟囔着，同时里德尔微笑像一个低能儿，并宣布将breakway商业几分钟提前。[/ wp_quote]

不用说，Beefheart船长和他雷竞技ios下载的魔术队​​从未被邀请回来参加特定的电视节目中再次现身。

Gary wrote a caveat to the above story.

[wp_quote]The appearance I documented was a live, real time event, broadcast only to the LA area. They also taped the show for syndication across the country. When I told friends of mine in other cities to be sure and watch Beefheart’s antics on the show, most reported back that the pivotal moment wherein he douses Sam Riddle with beefheart juice wasn’t there; it had apparently been edited out. So, if any tapes of that particular show still exist, it’s a rather tame version and the best moments of the encounter are missing. But it really happened, I saw it with my own two eyes, and so did a lot of other people in Los Angeles.[/wp_quote]

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感谢杰夫黄金许可使用他的照片和加里·马克对他的慷慨帮助。