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.
Showing Season 5 of 10
Season 5
1968
No overview available.
01. Blue Cheer / The Who / Bee Gees / Spooky Tooth
1968-11-16
Guests: --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
02. Beach Boys / Joe Cocker / Manfred Mann / Gene Pitney / Tiny Tim
1968-12-31
Guests: --The Equals - ""Softly Softly"" --Manfred Mann - ""Fox on the Run"" --Joe Cocker - ""With A Little Help from My Friends"" --Marmalade - ""Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"" (released 4Dec68 UK) --The Beach Boys - ""Bluebirds Over The Mountain"" --Gene Pitney - ""She's A Heartbreaker"" (charted 15Jul68 US) --The Bee Gees - ""I Gotta Get a Message to You"" --Tiny Tim - ""Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips"" --Foundations - ""Build Me Up Buttercup"" --Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - ""Thinking About My Life"" --Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - ""I`m The Urban Spaceman"" --Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band - ""Bring It To Me Baby"" --Billie Davis - ""Feelin'"" (""Make The Feeling Go Away"") --The Flirtations - ""Nothing But A Heartache"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm, Tuesday
03. Donovan / Status Quo / Beach Boys / 1910 Fruitgum Co. / Tremeloes
1969-01-25
Guests: --The Move - ""Blackberry Way"" (and possibly ""Wild Tiger Woman"") --Status Quo - ""Technicolour Dreams"" --The Beach Boys - ""Do It Again"" --Gun - ""Race with the Devil"" --Barry St. John - ""Cry Like A Baby"" --Donovan - ""Atlantis"" --Tremeloes - ""My Little Lady"" --Satus Quo - ""Ice in the Sun"" --1910 Fruitgum Co. - ""Goody Goody Gumdrops"" --Ohio Express - ""Chewy, Chewy"" --Raymond Frogatt - ""Rolly"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:50pm - 4:50pm
04. Canned Heat / Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity / Billie Davis / Tremeloes
1969-02-22
Guests: --Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - ""Canyons Of Your Mind"" --Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity - ""Road To Cairo"" --Amen Corner - ""(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice"" --Billie Davis - ""Make The Feeling Go Away"" --The Tremeloes - ""I Shall Be Released"" --Barry Ryan - ""Love Is Love"" --Canned Heat - ""Going Up the Country"" --Leapy Lee - ""Here Comes The Rain"" --Harmony Grass - ""Move A Little Closer""/""Move In A Little Closer Baby"" --Love Sculpture - ""Sabre Dance"" --Root & Jenny Jackson - ""Lean On Me"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm
05. Sly & the Family Stone / Creedance Clearwater Revival / Melanie / Hollies
1969-03-29
Guests: --The Searchers - ""Umbrella Man"" --Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity - ""Indian Rope Man"" --The Rascals - ""Heaven"" --Marv Johnson - ""I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose"" --Melanie - ""Animal Crackers"" --The Hollies - ""Sorry Suzanne"" --Peter Sarstedt - ""Where Do You Go To My Lovely"" --Sly & the Family Stone - ""Everyday People"" --Creedance Clearwater Revival - ""Proud Mary"" --The Beach Boys - probably ""Do It Again"" --Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - ""Broken Hearted Pirates"" --Foundations - ""In the Bad Old Days"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
06. The Kinks / Melanie / Manfred Mann / Clodagh Rodgers
1969-04-26
Guests: --U.K. Jones - ""Let Me Tell Ya"" --On film: Cliff Richard talks about his song ""Don't Forget To Catch Me"" with concert footage. (Note: The Cliff Richard details need to be verified). --Feature on the Paris music scene --Les Reed - ""Don't Linger with Your Finger on the Trigger"" --Go-Go Girls segment: women dance to Moby Grape's ""Truckin' Man"" --Grisby Dyke - ""The Adventures Of Miss Rosemary La Page"" --Paul Williams Set - ""My Sly Sadie"" --David McWilliams - ""The Stranger"" --Melanie - ""Bobo's Party"" --Trifle - ""All Together Now"" --Manfred Mann - ""Ragamuffin Man"" --Beat Club News featuring Paul Jones Aquarius film and interview and Janis Joplin preparing for a concert --Scott Walker interview --Clodagh Rodgers - ""Come Back and Shake Me"" --Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - ""Don Juan"" --The Kinks - ""Plastic Man"" --The Beatles (on film) - ""Get Back"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
07. Fleetwood Mac / Beach Boys / Steppenwolf
1969-06-07
Guests: --Status Quo -""Are You Growing Tired of My Love?"" --Collosseum - ""Walking In The Park"" --Fleetwood Mac - ""Man of the World"" --Spooky Tooth - ""That Was Only Yesterday"" --Steppenwolf - ""Born to Be Wild"" --The Beach Boys - ""Breakaway"" --Joe South - ""Games People Play"" --Chris Andrews - ""Pretty Belinda"" --Paul Revere & the Raiders - ""Let Me"" and/or ""Out On The Road"" --Jimmy James & The Vagabonds - ""Close The Door"" --Dave Clark Five 65 minutes / Aired 4:10pm - 5:15pm
08. Richie Havens / Procol Harum / 3 Dog Night / Searchers / Ohio Express
1969-06-28
Guests: --Three Dog Night - ""One"" --Amen Corner - ""Hello Susie"" --Richie Havens - ""Lady Madonna"" --Ohio Express - ""Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"" (and possibly ""Chewy Chewy"") --Procol Harum - ""A Salty Dog"" --The Searchers - ""Shoot 'Em Up Baby"" (and possibly ""The Other Man"") --Caravan - ""Place Of My Own"" or ""Magic Man"" --Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich - ""Snake In The Grass"" --Brian Poole & the Seychelles - ""Send Her to Me"" --The Flirtations - ""What's Good About Goodbye My Love"" --Marsha Hunt - ""Walk On Gilded Splinters"" --Family Dogg - ""A Way of Life"" --Keef Hartley Band - ""Waiting Around"" (other sources list the songs ""Leave It til the Morning"" and ""Don't Leave Me In The Shade"") 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
09. Paul Revere & the Raiders / Dave Clark 5 / Steppenwolf
1969-08-02
Guests: --Dave Clark 5 - ""Live in the Sky"" --Steppenwolf - ""Sookie, Sookie"" --Marmalade - ""Baby Make It Soon"" --On film: The Rolling Stones - footage from tribute to Brian Jones --Zager & Evans - ""In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"" --Clodagh Rodgers - ""Goodnight Midnight"" --The Beach Boys - ""Surfin' U.S.A."" --Thunderclap Newman - ""Something In The Air"" --Paul Revere and the Raiders - ""Let Me"" (charted 14Jun69 US) and/or ""Out On The Road"" --Dave Clark 5 - ""Maulberry Tree"" --Robin Gibb - ""Saved by the Bell"" --Beatles (on film) - ""Get Back"" (charted 23Apr69 UK) or ""Something"" (charted 18Oct69 US) --Plastic Ono Band (probably on film) - ""Give Peace A Chance"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
10. Deep Purple / Humble Pie / 3 Dog Night / Procol Harum
1969-08-30
Guests 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
11. The Who / Fat Mattress
1969-09-27
Guests: --The Who (songs from ""Tommy"") - ""Overture,"" ""Pinball Wizard,"" ""Smash The Mirror,"" ""Sally Simpson,"" ""Tommy, Can You Hear Me?"" ""I'm Free,"" ""Tommy's Holiday Camp"" and ""We're Not Gonna Take It"" (All songs mimed / lip-synched). --Fat Mattress - ""Mr. Moonshine,"" ""Magic Forrest"" & ""Naturally"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm
12. Joe Cocker / Vanilla Fudge / Ten Years After
1969-10-25
Guests: --Ten Years After - ""Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"" --The Nice - ""Hang On To A Dream"" --Joe Cocker - ""Delta Lady"" --Chicken Shack - ""Tears in the Wind"" --Marsha Hunt - ""Desdemona"" --Vanilla Fudge - ""Shotgun"" --Blodwyn Pig - ""See My Way"" and ""Modern Alchemist"" --Tea & Symphony - ""Burdon"" --Barry Ryan - ""The Hunt"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
