Various Artist - The Story of The Beat Club II (1971)

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Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It was broadcast from Bremen, Germany on Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen, the national public TV channel of the ARD, and produced by one of its members, Radio Bremen, later co-produced by WDR following the 38th episode. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as 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 and Kraftwerk in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.

Performances from the show can now be seen on VH1 Classic, and reruns air in several European countries. Several DVD collections have also been released.

In early 2008, the first free Video on demand web portal for Beat-Club and Musikladen was launched at Mybeatclub.com, featuring the most popular songs and artists of both shows. In 2010, mybeatclub.com was replaced by www.youtube.de/beatclub

Beat-Club was co-created by Gerhard Augustin and Mike Leckebusch. The show premiered on 25 September 1965 with Augustin and Uschi Nerke hosting. German TV personality Wilhelm Wieben opened the first show with a short speech. After eight episodes, Augustin stepped down from his hosting role and was replaced by DJ Dave Lee Travis.

The show's earlier episodes featured live performances, and was set in front of a plain brick wall. It underwent a revamp in 1967, when a more professional look was adapted with large cards in the background displaying the names of the performers. Around this time, a troupe of young women billed the "Go-Go-Girls," were introduced to dance to songs when their performers couldn't appear.

In early 1969, Travis was replaced by Dave Dee, of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. On 31 December 1969, "Beat-Club" switched to color and again featured live performances. Dee departed in 1970, leaving Nerke as the lone host.

The former TV show is now a weekly radio programme on Radio Bremen 1 and on a webchannel offered by the radio station. Interestingly it is again hosted by Uschi Nerke who did it in the 60s and early 70s on TV. The link to the show can be found in the external link section.

Youtube Link for Beat-Club: Link 

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Set 1
Beat-Club 63 - 30.01.1971
01. Patto - San Antone
02. Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Mister Freako
03. Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Resurrection shuffle
04. Iron Butterfly - Easy rider
05. Iron Butterfly - Butterfly blue Pt.1
06. Iron Butterfly - Butterfly blue Pt.2

Beat-Club 64 - 27.02.1971
07. Ike & Tina Turner - I want to take you higher
08. Golden Earring - Holy holy life
09. Atomic Rooster - Tomorow night
10. John Mayall - My pretty girl
11. T.Rex - Ride a white swan
12. T.Rex - Jewel
13. Tom Paxton - Talking Vietnam pot luck Blues
14. Ike & Tina Turner - River deep, mountain high
15. Ike & Tina Turner - Honky tonk woman
16. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

Beat-Club 65 - 27.03.1971
17. Curved Air - It happened today
18. Skid Row - An awful lot of woman
19. Skid Row - Uncoop show-band blues
20. The Soft Machine - Composition based on three tunes
21. Curved Air - Propositions
22. Curved Air - Vivaldi

Set 2
Beat-Club 66 - 24.04.1971
01. Yes - All good people
02. Man - Daughter of the fireplace
03. Popol Vuh - Bettina
04. Man - Would the Christians wait five minutes, the lions are having a draw
05. Santana - Jungle strut (singing winds, crying beasts)
06. Yes - Yours is no disgrace

Beat-Club 67 - 22.05.1971
07. Rory Gallagher - Laundromat
08. The Byrds - chestnut mare
09. Rory Gallagher - Sinner boy
10. Kraftwerk - RuckstoRgondoliere
11. The ByrdS - Eight miles high

Beat-Club 68 - 26.06.1971
12. Lucifer's Friend - Ride the sky
13. Warhorse - Ritual
14. Fleetwood Mac - Dragonfly
15. Bremer StudiO-OrcheSter - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony 40 d-moll
16. Mountain - Don't look around

Set 3
Beat-Club 69 - 27.03.1971
01. Mick Abrahams Band - Greyhound bus
02. Caravan - Golf girl
03. Osibisa - Phallus ?
04. The Grease Band - Let it be gone
05. Et Cetera - Raga / Lady blue / Thursday morning sunrise
06. James Gang - Walk away
07. Mick Abrahams Band - Why do you do me this way

Beat-Club 70 - 07.08.1971
08. Emergency - Times passed by
09. Can - Paperhouse
10. Weather Report - Waterfall
11. Beggars Opera - Raymond's road

Beat-Club 71 - 25.09.1971
12. Birth Control - Give me shelter (The work is done)
13. Canned Heat - Long way from L.A.
14. If - Forgotten roads
15. Family - Holding the compass
15. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet hitch hiker
17. Curved Air - Back street luv
18. Canned Heat - Big City
19. Deep Purple - No no no

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