Beat-Club — Season 8
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 (11)
1. Fanny / Slade / Redbone / Move
Aired 27 January 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --The Move (feat. Jeff Lynne) - ""Down on the Bay"" --Hardin & York - ""Like a Rolling Stone"" --Slade - ""Coz I Luv You"" --Fanny - ""Special Care"" & ""Blind Alley"" --Redbone - ""The Witch Queen of New Orleans"" --Man - ""Angle Easy"" --Hardin & York - ""Freedom"" 60 minutes / Aired 3:45pm - 4:45pm
2. Pink Floyd / Santana / Rory Gallagher
Aired 26 December 1971 • 60 min
Guests: --Rory Gallagher - ""Used To Be"" & ""In Your Town"" --Santana - ""Black Magic Woman"" --Alexis Korner - ""Don't Drop that H-Bomb on Me"" --Pink Floyd --King Biscuit Boy - ""Hoy Hoy Hoy"" --Stone the Crows - ""Goin' Down"" 60 minutes / Aired 6:00pm - 7:00pm, Sunday
3. Curtis Mayfield / Billy Preston / Poco
Aired 29 January 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --Curtis Mayfield - ""Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey),"" ""We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue,"" ""We're A Winner"" and ""Move On Up"" --Billy Preston - ""Them Changes"" and ""The Bus"" --Poco - ""C'mon"" --Canned Heat - ""Refried Boogie"" --Brother Jack - unknown --Epitaph - ""Early Morning"" --Mountain - unknown --Heads Hand & Feet - ""Country Boy"" From this show? --Chuck Berry - ""Let It Rock,"" ""Johnny B. Goode"" and ""Wee Wee Hours"" (and possibly ""Roll Over Beethoven"") 45 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 4:45pm
4. Nazareth / Mouth & MacNeal / Earth & Fire
Aired 26 February 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --Nazareth - ""Morning Dew"" --Mouth & MacNeal - ""How Do You Do?"" --Earth & Fire - ""Storm & Thunder"" --Livin' Blues - ""L. B. Boogie"" and ""Hitch-Hikin'""/""Hitchhiker"" --Bell & Arc - ""So Long Marianne"" --Atomic Rooster - ""Breakthrough"" Additional guest? --Brother Jack 45 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 4:45pm
5. MC5 / Jeff Beck Group / Steve Miller Band
Aired 25 March 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --MC5 - ""Kick Out the Jams"" --Jeff Beck Group - ""Definitely Maybe"" --Steve Miller Band - ""Jackson-Kent Blues,"" ""Nothing Lasts"" and ""Living In The U.S.A."" --Stephen Stills Manassas - ""It Doesn't Matter"" & ""Hide It So Deep"" --Heaven - ""Crazy World"" --Guru Guru - ""Oxymoron"" --Edwin Starr - ""Family Affair"" 45 minutes / Aired 3:15pm - 4:00pm
6. Grateful Dead / Kinks / Chuck Berry / Rolling Stones (on film)
Aired 27 May 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --Grateful Dead - ""One More Saturday Night"" --Chuck Berry - ""Let It Rock,"" ""Johnny B. Goode"" and ""Wee Wee Hours"" --The Kinks - ""Muswell Hillbillies"" --Pacific Gas & Electric - ""Are You Ready?"" --The Doors (post-Jim Morrison) - ""Light My Fire"" & ""Tightrope Ride"" --The Rolling Stones (taped at the Rialto Theatre, Montreux on 21-May-1972) - ""Tumbling Dice,"" ""Bluesberry Jam,"" ""Shake Your Hips,"" ""John's Jam"" & ""Loving Cup"" 45 minutes / Aired 3:15pm - 4:00pm
7. Captain Beefheart / Deep Purple / Don McLean
Aired 24 June 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --Deep Purple - ""Highway Star"" --Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby"" (""Booglerize You"") --Frumpy (feat. Inga Rumpf) - ""Going To The Country"" --Don McLean - ""Vincent"" --Tucky Buzzard - ""Fast Bluesy Woman"" --New Riders of the Purple Sage - ""Hello Mary Lou"" --Ashman Reynolds - ""Taking Off"" --Rory Gallagher - ""Pistol Slapper Blues"" 45 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 4:45pm
8. Johnny Cash
Aired 30 September 1972 • 60 min
Johnny Cash - ""Help Me Make It Through The Night,"" ""Rock Island Line,"" ""Tennessee Flat Top Box,"" ""Folsom Prison Blues,"" ""If I Had A Hammer,"" ""A Boy Named Sue,"" ""I Still Miss Someone,"" ""Sunday Morning Coming Down,"" ""A Thing Called Love"" and ""Me And Bobby McGee"" --Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - ""If I Were A Carpenter"" and ""Jackson"" Additional song? --Johnny Cash - ""I Walk The Line"" 45 minutes / Aired 3:15pm - 4:00pm
9. Ike & Tina Turner / Byrds / James Taylor
Aired 28 October 1972 • 60 min
Guests: --Ike & Tina Turner - ""Get Back"" --The Everly Brothers - ""Stories We Could Tell"" --The Byrds - ""So You Wanna Be a Rock'n Roll Star"" --Mick Abrahams Band - ""Not To Rearrange"" and ""Blue Suede Shoes Again"" --Three Dog Night - ""Try A Little Tenderness"" --James Taylor (with Carole King) - ""Come On Brother"" --The Grease Band - ""Wild Side Of Life"" --Manassas - ""Rock & Roll Crazies/ Cuban Bluegrass"" and ""Jet Set (Sigh)"" --Heads Hands & Feet - ""Tryin' To Put Me On"" (another source listed the songs ""Let's Get This Show on the Road"" and ""Safety in Numbers"" ) 45 minutes / Aired 3:15pm - 4:00pm
10. Fanny / Alice Cooper / King Crimson / Maggie Bell
Aired 25 November 1972
Guests: --Fanny - ""Borrowed Time"" & ""Summer Song"" --King Cromson - ""Lark's Tongue in Aspic"" --Alice Cooper - ""Public Animal #9"" & ""Eighteen"" (""I'm Eighteen"") --Maggie Bell - ""Good Time Girl"" --Phlorescent Leech & Eddie (a.k.a. Flo and Eddie) - ""Feel Older Now"" and ""Thoughts Have Turned"" --Mike Hugg - ""Blue Suede Shoes Again"" --Stone the Crows - ""Goodtime Girl"" --Maggie Bell - ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" 45 minutes / Aired 3:15pm - 4:00pm
11. Final show: The Osmonds
Aired 9 December 1972
The Osmonds - ""Crazy Horses,"" ""Hold Her Tight,"" ""One Bad Apple,"" ""Yo-Yo,"" ""We Got To Live Together,"" ""Shuckin' & Jivin'"" and ""Down By The Lazy River"" --Donny Osmond - ""Why,"" ""Too Young,"" ""Puppy Love"" and ""Sweet And Innocent"" --Jimmy Osmond - ""Heartbreak Hotel""/""Hound Dog"" medley 45 minutes / Aired 4:00pm - 4:45pm