Beat-Club (1965)
Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.
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Episode 1 - Procol Harum / Dave Davies / Carla Thomas / Long John Baldry / Herd
Release Date: 1968-01-13Guests: --Billie Davis - ""Angel Of The Morning"" --Long John Baldry - ""Let The Heartaches Begin"" --The Herd - ""Paradise Lost"" --Dave Davies - ""Sussanna's Still Alive"" --Procol Harum - ""Homburg"" --Carla Thomas - ""B-A-B-Y"" (and/or ""Isn't It A Great Feelin'"") --Dave Justin - ""Everybody's Gone Home"" --Neil Christian - ""Let Me Hear You Laugh"" 30 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:15pm
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Episode 2 - Moody Blues / B.B. King / Traffic / Manfred Mann / Georgie Fame
Release Date: 1968-03-09Guests: --Moody Blues - ""Nights in White Satin"" --B.B. King - ""Heartbreaker"" --Nirvana - ""Pentecost Hotel"" --Sharon Tandy - ""The Fool on the Hill"" --Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - ""Legend Of Xanadu"" --Amen Corner - ""Bend Me Shape Me"" --Traffic - ""Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"" --Georgie Fame - ""The Ballad of Bonny & Clyde"" --Manfred Mann - ""The Mighty Quinn"" --Beatles (on film) - possibly ""Hello Goodbye"" & ""Lady Madonna"" --Rolling Stones (on film) --Paul & Barry Ryan - ""Pictures of Today"" 45 minutes / Aired 4:30pm - 5:15pm
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Episode 3 - Hollies / Gene Pitney / Manfred Mann / Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity
Release Date: 1968-04-06Equals - ""Baby Come Back"" --Procol Harum - ""Quite Rightly So"" --Bee Gees - ""Harry Braff"" --David McWilliams - ""The Days of Pearly Spencer"" --Arthur Conley - ""Sweet Soul Music"" --Gene Pitney - ""Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart"" --The Move - ""Firebrigade"" --Manfred Mann - ""The Mighty Quinn"" --Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity - ""Save Me"" --The Hollies - ""Jennifer Eccles"" 40 minutes / Aired 3:40pm - 4:20pm
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Episode 4 - Gene Pitney / Bee Gees / Small Faces / Reparata & the Delrons
Release Date: 1968-04-27Guests: --Gene Pitney - ""Somewhere in the Country"" --The Bee Gees - possibly ""Harry Braff"" --Small Faces - ""Lazy Sunday"" --Reparata & the Delrons - ""Captain of Your Ship"" --Arthur Conley - ""Funky Street"" --John Walker - ""I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"" --Big Boy Pete - ""Cold Turkey"" --Exception --Family Dogg - probably ""I Wear A Silly Grin"" 30 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:15pm
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Episode 5 - Manfred Mann / Small Faces / Driscoll & Auger / The Herd
Release Date: 1968-06-22Guests: --The Herd -""I Don't Want Our Love To Die"" --Madeline Bell - ""Picture Me Gone"" --Manfred Mann - ""My Name Is Jack"" --The Rolling Stones (on film) - ""Jumpin' Jack Flash"" --Tommy James and the Shondells (on film) - ""Mony Mony"" --Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger - ""This Wheel's On Fire"" --The Small Faces - ""Lazy Sunday"" --The Association - ""Time for Living"" --P.J. Proby - possibly ""Ling, Ting, Tong"" 30 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:15pm
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Episode 6 - P.P. Arnold / Gene Pitney / P.J. Proby / Unit 4 plus 2
Release Date: 1968-07-13Guests: --At Last The 1958 Rock 'n' Roll Show (feat. Ian Hunter) - ""Great Balls Of Fire"" --P.J. Proby - ""What's Wrong With My World"" --Unit 4 plus 2 - ""Easy Chair"" --Gene Pitney - ""She's A Heartbreaker"" --Unit 4 plus 2 - ""You Ain't Going Nowhere"" (""I Ain't Going Nowhere"") --P.P. Arnold - ""Angel Of The Morning"" --Raymond Frogatt - ""Carlo la Vita"" (or ""Callow-La-Vita"") --The World of Oz - ""The Muffin Man"" --Dave Justin - ""You Outside"" --The Rolling Stones (on film) From this show? --At Last The 1958 Rock 'n' Roll Show (feat. Ian Hunter) - ""I Can't Drive"" (according to one source, this song was performed in 1969) 30 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:15pm
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Episode 7 - Arthur Brown / The Equals / Bruce Channel
Release Date: 1968-08-31Guests: --Tim Rose - ""Long Haired Boy"" --Cupid's Inspiration - ""Yesterday Has Gone"" --The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - ""Fire"" --The Equals - ""Baby Come Back"" --Bruce Channel - ""Keep On"" --The Mirror - ""As Fast As You Can"" & ""Gingerbread Man"" --Ranee and Raj - ""Feel Like a Clown"" 30 minutes / Aired 4:30pm - 5:00pm
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Episode 8 - Ben E. King / Status Quo / The Hollies / Nice / Canned Heat
Release Date: 1968-09-14Guests: --Amen Corner - ""High In The Sky"" --Ben E. King - ""It's Amazing"" and ""What Is Soul"" --The Nice - ""America"" --Status Quo - ""Ice In The Sun"" --Canned Heat - ""On The Road Again"" --Arthur Conley - ""Sweet Soul Music"" --Leapy Lee - ""Little Arrows"" --The Hollies - ""Do The Best You Can"" --The Nice - ""Hang on to a Dream"" --Status Quo - ""Ice In The Sun"" --The Equals - possibly ""I Get So Excited"" --Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - ""Last Night In Soho"" --Arthur Conley - ""Shake, Rattle and Roll"" --John Walker - ""Kentucky Woman"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:05pm - 5:05pm
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Episode 9 - Who / Yardbirds / Troggs / Easybeats / Sandie Shaw
Release Date: 1968-10-12Guests: --Harry Nilsson - ""Everybody's Talkin'"" --The Who - ""Magic Bus"" --Sandie Shaw - ""Those Were the Days"" --The Easybeats - ""Hello How Are You"" --The Troggs - ""Hip Hip Hooray"" --Vanity Fare - ""I Live for the Sun"" --Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick And Tich - ""Still Life"" --The Casuals - ""Jasemine"" --The Merseys - ""Lovely Loretta"" --Love Affair - ""A Day without Love"" --Grapefruit - ""C'mon Marianne"" Additional guest? --The Yardbirds 55 minutes / Aired 4:35pm - 5:30pm Saturday
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Episode 10 - Blue Cheer / The Who / Bee Gees / Spooky Tooth
Release Date: 1968-11-16Guests: --The Who - ""Magic Bus"" --The Easybeats - ""Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight"" (title might be ""Good Times"") --Spooky Tooth - ""The Weight"" --Blue Cheer - ""Summertime Blues"" --Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - ""Wreck Of The Antoinette"" --Bee Gees - ""I Gotta Get a Message to You"" --The Hollies - ""Listen to Me"" --Barry Ryan - ""Eloise"" --Family Dogg - possibly ""Brown-Eyed Girl"" --The Beatles (on film) - possibly ""Lady Madonna"" (charted 20Mar68 UK) & ""Hey Jude"" (4Sep68 UK) From this episode? --Hedgehoppers Anonymous - ""lt's Good News Week"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:45pm
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Episode 11 - Who / Yardbirds / Troggs / Easybeats / Sandie Shaw
Release Date: 1968-10-12Guests: --Harry Nilsson - ""Everybody's Talkin'"" --The Who - ""Magic Bus"" --Sandie Shaw - ""Those Were the Days"" --The Easybeats - ""Hello How Are You"" --The Troggs - ""Hip Hip Hooray"" --Vanity Fare - ""I Live for the Sun"" --Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick And Tich - ""Still Life"" --The Casuals - ""Jasemine"" --The Merseys - ""Lovely Loretta"" --Love Affair - ""A Day without Love"" --Grapefruit - ""C'mon Marianne"" Additional guest? --The Yardbirds 55 minutes / Aired 4:35pm - 5:30pm Saturday
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Episode 12 - Deep Purple / Humble Pie / 3 Dog Night / Procol Harum
Release Date: 1969-08-30Guests include: --Deep Purple - ""Hallelujah"" --Three Dog Night - ""Try A Little Tenderness"" --Humble Pie - ""Natural Born Boogie"" --Procol Harum - ""Long Gone Geek"" & ""The Devil Came from Kansas"" --The Move - ""Curly"" --Steamhammer - ""Junior's Wailing"" --Tim Rose - ""Hey Joe"" --Interstate Roadshow - ""Grindy Grind"" --Jimmy Ruffin - ""I've Passed This Way Before"" --Windmill - ""Big Bertha"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm