{"id":360,"date":"2010-12-18T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/12\/american_bandstand_loved_capta\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:45","slug":"american_bandstand_loved_capta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/12\/american_bandstand_loved_capta.html","title":{"rendered":"American Bandstand loved Captain Beefheart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1966, long before the original&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hairspray\/dp\/B0030U3VR6\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Hairspray<\/a>,&nbsp;black and white teens danced&nbsp;together&nbsp;to the bass overdrive and deep croak of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beefheart.com\/\">Captain Beefheart<\/a> and His Magic Band. Today blues lovers, avant-gardists and fans of dada, surrealism and abstract expressionism mourn and celebrate the Captain, aka Don Van Vliet. If you don&#8217;t believe people jitterbuged to &#8220;Diddy Wah Diddy,&#8221; watch the clip. And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/lamentforastraightline.wordpress.com\/\">Jim Macnie<\/a> for bringing it to my attention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XFfKWfJ8Tc8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1966, long before the original&nbsp;Hairspray,&nbsp;black and white teens danced&nbsp;together&nbsp;to the bass overdrive and deep croak of Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Today blues lovers, avant-gardists and fans of dada, surrealism and abstract expressionism mourn and celebrate the Captain, aka Don Van Vliet. If you don&#8217;t believe people jitterbuged to &#8220;Diddy Wah Diddy,&#8221; watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1082,1081,1079,1080,1083,1086,1084,1085],"class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-diddy-wah-diddy","8":"tag-american-bandstand","9":"tag-captain-beefheart","10":"tag-dick-clark","11":"tag-don-von-vliet","12":"tag-hairspray","13":"tag-jim-macnie","14":"tag-jitterbug","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2007\/10\/singers_of_the_songs.html","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":0},"title":"Singers of the songs","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"October 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corrine Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza and Leonard Cohen are not voices necessarily dear to fans of serious jazz, but Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter don't alone make River: The Joni Letters a must-hear. 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