Beat-Club — Season 6
The show might be in German, but the music is still great!
About this season
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.
Episodes (12)
1. Yes / Delaney & Bonnie / Caravan / Champion Jack Dupree
9.0Aired 29 November 1969 • 60 min
Guests (final black & white show): --Man - ""2:30 Definitely"" --Yes - ""No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed"" --Champion Jack Dupree - ""Barrelhouse Blues"" and ""Calcutta"" --Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - ""Where There's A Will There's A Way"" & ""Poor Elijah"" (with Eric Clapton and others - see Notes below) --The Beatles (on film) - ""Something"" (probably the correct song) --Caravan - ""Place Of My Own"" or ""Magic Man"" --Babylon - ""Into the Promised Land"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm
2. Dave Dee & Co / Terry Reid / Chicago Transit Authority
Aired 31 December 1969 • 60 min
Eddie Hardin and Peter York - ""Tomorrow Today and The Pike"" --The Chicago Transit Authority - ""I'm A Man"" --Terry Reid - ""Rich Kid Blues"" --Dave Dee & Co. --Steamhammer - ""Lousiana Blues"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Wednesday
3. John Mayall / Canned Heat / Humble Pie / Free
9.0Aired 31 January 1970 • 60 min
Series now in COLOR: Guests: --Humble Pie - ""Shake and Jake"" --Free - ""Mr. Big"" --Renaissance - ""Island"" --Spirit - ""1984"" & 1 other song --John Mayall - ""I'm Gonna Fight For You GB""/""I'm Gonna Fight For You J. B."" --Canned Heat - ""Let's Work Together"" --Juicy Lucy - ""Chicago North-Western"" --Colosseum - ""Walking In The Park"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 5:00pm
4. Badfinger / Joe Cocker / Arlo Guthrie / Jethro Tull
Aired 28 February 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Badfinger - ""Come and Get It"" --Joe Cocker - ""Dear Landlord"" --Jethro Tull - ""The Witches Promise"" --Rory Gallagher - ""If The Day Was Any Longer"" & ""It's Happened Before - It'll Happen Again"" --Arlo Guthrie - ""Alice's Restaurant Massacree"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Louisiana Man"" --Taste (feat. Rory Gallagher) - ""If The Day Was Any Longer"" and ""It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again"" --Clouds - ""Big Noise from Winetka"" --Jackie Lomax - ""How The Web Was Woven"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
5. Led Zeppelin / Mott the Hoople / Marsha Hunt
Aired 28 March 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Ashton Gardner & Dyke - ""Rolling Home"" and ""Billy And His Piano Without"" --Marsha Hunt - ""One Step Ahead"" --Led Zeppelin - ""Whole Lotta Love"" --Beatles (on film) - ""Let It Be"" (charted 14Mar70 UK) --Mott the Hoople - ""At The Crossroads"" and ""You Really Got Me"" --Edgar Broughton Band (please see note below) 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
6. Johnny Winter / Taj Mahal / It's a Beautiful Day / Move
Aired 18 April 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Johnny Winter - ""Johnny B. Goode,"" ""Mean Town Blues"" & ""Roses from Rose"" --Taj Mahal - ""Sweet Mama Janis"" & ""Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day"" --It's a Beautiful Day - ""Soapstone Mountain"" --The Move - ""When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"" (and/or ""Brontosaurus"") --The Flock - ""Clown"" and ""Introduction"" --Marsha Hunt - ""Keep The Customer Satisfied"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
7. Black Sabbath / Canned Heat / Renaissance
Aired 30 May 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Black Sabbath - ""Iron Man"" and ""Black Sabbath"" --Rare Bird - ""Sympathy"" --Blodwyn Pig - ""See My Way"" --Canned Heat - ""In Future Blues"" --Renaissance - ""Kings And Queens"" --Jody Grind - ""Paint It Black"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:45pm - 5:45pm
8. Santana / Mungo Jerry / Family / Van der Graaf Generator
Aired 27 June 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Van der Graaf Generator - ""Whatever Would Robert Have Said?"" --Brinsley Schwarz - ""Ebury Down"" --Santana - ""Incident"" and "" Jingo-Lo-Ba"" --Mungo Jerry - ""In The Summertime"" and ""Mighty Man"" --Family - ""The Weavers Answer"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
9. Jethro Tull / Dr. John, The Night Tripper / Steamhammer
Aired 15 August 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Edgar Broughton Band --Jethro Tull - ""With You There to Help Me"" (and possibly ""Nothing Is Easy"") --Dr. John, the Nighttripper - ""Mardi Gras Day"" --Steamhammer - ""I Wouldn‘t Have Thought"" --Atomic Rooster - ""Save Me"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
10. Cat Stevens / Humble Pie / Pretty Things / Free
Aired 5 August 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Free - ""All Right Now"" --Cat Stevens - ""Lady D'arbanville"" --Humble Pie - ""For Your Love"" --Pretty Things - ""Cries From A Midnight Circus"" --Hard Meat - ""The Ballad Of Marmalade Emma & Teddy Grimes"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
11. Jimi Hendrix / Black Sabbath / Eric Burdon & War / Status Quo
Aired 26 September 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Black Sabbath - ""Paranoid"" --Eric Burdon & War - ""Paint it Black"" & ""Spill the Wine"" --Jimi Hendrix Experience - ""All Along the Watchtower"" --Status Quo - ""Spinning Wheel Blues"" & ""April, Summer, Spring and Wednesdays"" --Third Ear Band - ""Hyde Park"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm
12. Ginger Baker's Airforce / Incredible String Band / Amon DuuI
Aired 24 October 1970 • 60 min
Guests: --Ginger Baker's Airforce - ""12 Gates Of The City,"" ""Early in the Morning,"" ""Toad"" & ""Sunshine of Your Love"" --Incredible String Band - ""Everything's Fine Right Now"" --Amon DuuI - ""Between the Eyes"" and ""Eye-Shaking King"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm