Beat-Club Season 8

January. 27,1971

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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 8 Full Episode Guide

Episode 11 - Final show: The Osmonds

First Aired: December. 09,1972

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

Episode 10 - Fanny / Alice Cooper / King Crimson / Maggie Bell

First Aired: November. 25,1972

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

Episode 9 - Ike & Tina Turner / Byrds / James Taylor

First Aired: October. 28,1972

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

Episode 8 - Johnny Cash

First Aired: September. 30,1972

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

Episode 7 - Captain Beefheart / Deep Purple / Don McLean

First Aired: June. 24,1972

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

Episode 6 - Grateful Dead / Kinks / Chuck Berry / Rolling Stones (on film)

First Aired: May. 27,1972

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

Episode 5 - MC5 / Jeff Beck Group / Steve Miller Band

First Aired: March. 25,1972

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

Episode 4 - Nazareth / Mouth & MacNeal / Earth & Fire

First Aired: February. 26,1972

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

Episode 3 - Curtis Mayfield / Billy Preston / Poco

First Aired: January. 29,1972

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

Episode 2 - Pink Floyd / Santana / Rory Gallagher

First Aired: December. 26,1971

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

Episode 1 - Fanny / Slade / Redbone / Move

First Aired: January. 27,1971

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