Happy Birthday to You... Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday dear Captain Beefheart, Happy Birthday to You...

In honor of the sixty eighth anniversary of your birth, I have purchased you a replica trout mask... What's this? You already have one?

Oh well, happy birthday anyhow...

Posthumous birthday wishes also go out into the ether for Ronnie Van Zant. My dislike for Lynyrd Skynyrd not withstanding, without Ronnie, no one would ever have the opportunity to yell 'FREEBIRD!!!!' at a rock concert. Oh to have such a legacy...

Ronnie's bro Donnie also scored a hit with his band .38 Special (Not to be confused with Ronnie's bro Johnny who took over the vocals for Skynyrd's 2nd incarnation running from 1987 to the present day.)

Here's the original singin' Zan Vant, who would have turned sixty one today, performing a song that everyone on the planet other than me thinks is a Rock & Roll classic...