Bluejeans & Moonbeams

Studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Released November 1974
Recorded August 1974
Stronghold Sound Recorders, North Hollywood, CA
Genre Rock
Length 36:50
Label Mercury (US), Virgin (UK)
Producer Andy DiMartino
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band chronology
Unconditionally Guaranteed
(1974) Bluejeans & Moonbeams
(1974) Bongo Fury
(1975)

Track listing
Side one 
No. Title Length 
1. "Party of Special Things to Do" (Don Van Vliet, Elliot Ingber) 2:48
2. "Same Old Blues" (J. J. Cale) 4:00
3. "Observatory Crest" (Van Vliet, E. Ingber) 3:32
4. "Pompadour Swamp" (Van Vliet) 3:32
5. "Captain's Holiday" (R. Feldman, W. Richmond, S. Hickerson, C. Blackwell) 5:43
Side two 
No. Title Length 
1. "Rock 'n Roll's Evil Doll" (Van Vliet, Mark Gibbons, Ira Ingber) 3:20
2. "Further Than We've Gone" (Van Vliet) 5:31
3. "Twist ah Luck" (Van Vliet, Gibbons, I. Ingber) 3:22
4. "Bluejeans & Moonbeams" (Van Vliet) 5:02
Personnel
The musicians in this version of the Magic Band appear on no other Beefheart album. Several of those who had played on Unconditionally Guaranteed and earlier albums had left to form Mallard.

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – vocals, harmonica
Dean Smith – guitar, bottleneck guitar
Micheal Smotherman – keyboards, backing vocals
Ty Grimes – percussion
Additional personnel
Ira Ingber – bass
Bob West – bass on "Observatory Crest"
Gene Pello – [bad word] 
Jimmy Caravan – keyboard, star machine
Mark Gibbons – keyboards
The personnel for the track "Captain's Holiday" is not known. The track was reportedly found on a discarded reel in the studio. The harmonica on the track is not played by Captain Beefheart (by his own admission).