Beat-Club Season 6

November. 29,1969

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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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Beat-Club Season 6 Full Episode Guide

Episode 12 - Ginger Baker's Airforce / Incredible String Band / Amon DuuI

First Aired: October. 24,1970

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

Episode 11 - Jimi Hendrix / Black Sabbath / Eric Burdon & War / Status Quo

First Aired: September. 26,1970

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

Episode 10 - Cat Stevens / Humble Pie / Pretty Things / Free

First Aired: August. 05,1970

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

Episode 9 - Jethro Tull / Dr. John, The Night Tripper / Steamhammer

First Aired: August. 15,1970

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 Wouldnâ€˜t Have Thought"" --Atomic Rooster - ""Save Me"" 60 minutes / Aired 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Episode 8 - Santana / Mungo Jerry / Family / Van der Graaf Generator

First Aired: June. 27,1970

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

Episode 7 - Black Sabbath / Canned Heat / Renaissance

First Aired: May. 30,1970

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

Episode 6 - Johnny Winter / Taj Mahal / It's a Beautiful Day / Move

First Aired: April. 18,1970

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

Episode 5 - Led Zeppelin / Mott the Hoople / Marsha Hunt

First Aired: March. 28,1970

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

Episode 4 - Badfinger / Joe Cocker / Arlo Guthrie / Jethro Tull

First Aired: February. 28,1970

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

Episode 3 - John Mayall / Canned Heat / Humble Pie / Free

First Aired: January. 31,1970

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

Episode 2 - Dave Dee & Co / Terry Reid / Chicago Transit Authority

First Aired: December. 31,1969

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

Episode 1 - Yes / Delaney & Bonnie / Caravan / Champion Jack Dupree

First Aired: November. 29,1969

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