Story Of Beat Club – Volume 3 (1970-1972)

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Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1986 to December 1972.  It was broadcast from Bremen, Germany on Erstes Deutsches Femsehen, the national public TV channel of the ARD, produced by one of it’s 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 featuring artists like Frank Zappa, the Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys and Kraftwerk in its seven-year run.  In 1972, it was updated and renamed “Musikladen”.

Performances from the show can now been seen occasionally on VH1 Classic with reruns also airing in several European countries.  Several DVD collections featuring highlights of the show have also been released in the past.  Now you can finally own virtually all of the episodes that ever aired with Volumes 1, 2 & 3 of “The Story of Beat Club”.  Note: Only a very few episodes are not included due to copyright restrictions, most notably the Beatles appearances.

Disc 1
Episode #59 – Airdate: September 26, 1970
Status Quo – Spinning Wheel Blues
Status Quo – (April) Spring, Summer & Wednesdays
Third Ear Band – Hyde Park
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Eric Burdon & War – Spill The Wine

Episode #60 – Airdate: Oct 24, 1970
Amon Duul II – Between The Eyes
Amon Duul II – Eye Shaking King
Incredible String Band – Everything’s Fine Right Now
Ginger Baker’s Airforce – Early In The Monring
Ginger Baker’s Airforce – Sunshine Of Your Love
Ginger Baker’s Airforce – Today

Disc 2
Episode #61 – Airdate: Nov 28, 1970
Stone The Crows – Danger Zone
Colosseum – Take Me Back To Doomsday
Fotheringay – Too Much Of Nothing
Muddy Waters – Blow Wind Blow
Colosseum – Tanglewood 63
Stone The Crows – Love 74

Episode #62 – Airdate: Dec 31, 1970
UFO – Boogie
The Move – When Alice Comes Back To The Farm
Warm Dust – Worm Dance (Part 1)
Warm Dust – Worm Dance (Part 20
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Take A Pebble
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge

Disc 3
Episode #63 – Airdate: Jan 30, 1971
Joe Cocker – Cry Me A River
Patto – Santone
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – Mister Freako
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke – Resurrection Shuffle
Iron Butterfly – Easy Rider
Iron Butterfly – Butterfly Blue

Episode #64 – Airdate: Feb 27, 1971
Ike & Tina Turner – I Wanna Take You Higher
Golden Earring – Holy, Holy Life
Atomic Rooster – Tomorrow Night
John Myall & USA Union Band – My Pretty Girl
T-Rex – Ride A White Swan
T-Rex – Jewel
Tom Paxton – Talking Vietname Pol Lucky Blue
Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep, Mountain High
Ike & Tina Turner – Honky Tonk Woman
Ike & Tina Turner – Proud Mary

Disc 4
Episode #65 – Airdate: March 27, 1971
Curved Air – It Happened Today
Skid Row – An Awful Lot Of Woman
Skid Row – Unco-op Showband Blue
The Soft Machine – Composition Based On Three Tunes
Curved Air – Propositions
Curved Air – Vivalid

Episode #66 – Airdate: April 24, 1971
Yes – All Good People
Man – Daughter Of The Fireplace
Popol Vuh – Bettina
Man – Would Christians Wait Five Minutes, The Lions Are Having A Draw
Santana – Jungle Strut (Singing Winds, Crying Beasts)
Yes – Yours Is No Disgrace

Disc 5
Episode #67 – Airdate: May 22, 1971
Rory Gallagher – Laundromat
The Byrds – Chestnut Mare
Rory Gallagher – Sinner Boy
Kraftwerk – Ruckstogondoliere
The Byrds – Eight Miles High

Episode #68 – Airdate: June 26, 1971
Lucifer’s Friend – Ride The Sky
Warhorse – Ritual
Frumpy – Take Care Of Illusion
Fleetwood Mac – Dragonfly
Bremer Studio Orchestra – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony 40 D-Moll
Mountain – Don’t Look Around

Disc 6
Episode #69 – Airdate: July 27, 1971
Mick Abrahams Band – Greyhound Bus
Caravan – Golf Girl
Osibsa – Phallus C
The Grease Band – Let It Be Gone
Et Cetera – Raga / Lady Blue / Thursday Morning Sunshine
James Gang – Walk Away
Mick Abrahams Band – Why Do You Do Me This Way? 

Episode #70 – Airdate: August 7, 1971
Emergency – Times Passed By
Can – Paperhouse
Weather Report – Waterfall
Beggars Opera – Raymond’s Road

Disc 7
Episode #71 – Airdate: September 25, 1971
Birth Control – Give Me Shelter (The Work Is Done)
Canned Heat – Long Way From L.A.
If – Forgotten Roads
Family – Holding The Compass
Creedence Clearwater Revivial – Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Curved Air – Back Street Luv
Canned Heat – Big City
Deep Purple – No, No, No

Episode #72 – Airdate: October, 31, 1971
Champion Jack Dupress – I’m Going To Bremen To Get On The Radio
Stoneground – Added Attraction
T-Rex – Jeepster
Ritchie Havens – Here Comes The Sun
Klaus Doldinger Passport – Uranus
Jethro Tull – Life Is A Long Song
Alice Cooper – Under My Wheels
Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan – One Too Many Mornings
Procol Harum – In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence

Disc 8
Episode #73 – Airdate: Nov 23, 1971
Fanny – Special Care
Man – Angel Easy
The Move – Down n The Bay
Hardin & York – Like A Rolling Stone / Freedom
Slade – Coz I Love You
Redbone – The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Fanny – Blind Alley

Episode #74 – Airdate: Dec 26, 1971
Rory Gallagher – Used To Be
King Biscuit Boy – Hoy, Hoy, Hoy
Stone The Crows – Going Down
Santana – Black Magic Woman
Alexis Korner & Friends – Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop The Atomic Bomb On Me
Rory Gallagher – In Your Town

Disc 9
Episode #75 – Airdate: Jan 29, 1972
Billy Preston – Them Changes
Poco – C’Mon
Epitaph – Early Morning
Mountain – Roll Over Beethoven
Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
Curtis Mayfield – Mighty, Might (Spade And Whitey)
Curtis Mayfield – We’re A Winner
Curtis Mayfield – We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Canned Heat – Refried Boogie
Heads, Hands & Feet – Country Boy
Billy Preston – The Bus

Episode #76 – Airdate: February 26, 1972
Livin’ Blues – L.B. Boogie
Nazareth – Morning Dew
Bell & Arc – So LongMarianne
Earth And Fire – Storm And Thunderr
Mouth And Macneal – How Do You Do
Livin’ Blues – Hitch-Hikin’
Bell & Arc
Atomic Rooster – Breakthrough

Episode #77 – Airdate: March 25, 1972
Heaven – Crazy World
Guru Guru – Oxymoron
Edwin Starr – It’s A Family Affair
Steve Miller Band – Jacksoon Ken Blues
Steve Miller Band – Nothing Lasts (acoustic)
Steve Miller Band – Living’ In The US.A.
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Jeff Beck Group – Definetly Maybe
Stephen Stills Manassas – Rock & Roll Crazies / Cuban Bluesgrass / Jet Set

Disc 10
Episode #78 – Airdate: May 27, 1972
Pacific Gas & Electric – Are You Ready?
The Kinks – Muswell Hillbilly
Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry – Wee, Wee Hous
Chuck Berry – Let It Rock
Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night
The Doors – Tightrope Ride
Rolling Stones – Shake Yours Hips
Rolling Stones – Tumbling Dice

Episode 79 – Airdate: June 24, 1972
Tucky Buzzard – Fast Bluesy Woman
Deep Purple – Highway Star
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby
Frumpy – Going To The Country
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Truck Drivin’ Man
Don McLean – Vincent
Ashman Reynold – Taking Off
Rory Gallagher – Pistol Slapper Blues
Rolling Stones – Jam Session
Rolling Stones – Loving Cup

Episode #80 – Airdate: September 30, 1972
Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash – Sunday Morning Coming Down
Johnny Cash – Tennesse Flat Top Box
Johnny Cash – I Still Miss Someone
Johnny Cash – Me And Bobby McGree
Anita Carter –  Lovin’ Him Was Easier Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again
Johnny Cash – Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson
Johnny Cash & June Carter – If I Were A Carpenter
Johnny Cash & June Carter – If I Had A Hammer
Johnny Cash – A Thing Called Love

Disc 11
Episode #81 – Airdate: October 28, 1972
Ike & Tina Turner – Get Back
Everly Brothers – Stories We Could Tell
The Grease Band – Wild Side Of Life
The Byrds – Black Mountain Rag
Mick Abrahams Band – Black Mountain Rag
Mick Abrahams Band – So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
Mick Abrahams Band – No To Rearrange
Stephen Stills Manassas – It Doesn’t Matter
Stephen Stills Manassas – Hide It So Deep
Heads Hands & Feet – Tryin’ To Put Me On
James Taylor – Come On Brother
Three Dog Night – Try A Little Tenderness

Episode #82 – Airdate: November 25, 1972
Fanny – Borrowed Time
Leech & Eddie _ Feel Older Now
King Crimson – Lark’s Tongue In Aspic
Alice Cooper – Public Animal No. 9
Alice Cooper – Elected
Alice Cooper – Eighteen
Mike Hugg – Blue Suede Shoes Again
Fanny – Summer Song
Stone The Crows – Palace Of The King
Stone The Crows – Good Time Girl

Episode #83 – Airdate: December 9, 1972
The Osmonds – Heartbeat
The Osmonds – One Bad Apple
The Osmonds –  – Yo You
The Osmonds –  Hold Her Tight
Donny Osmond – Too Young
Donny Osmond – Sweet And Innocent
Donny Osmond – Why
The Osmonds – Crazy Horses
The Osmonds – We Gotta Live Together
Jimmy Osmond – Heartbreak Hotel
Jimmy Osmond – Hound Dog
Donny Osmond – Puppy Love
The Osmonds – Down By The Lazy River
The Osmonds –  Shuckin’ And Jivin’

Disc 12
Best Of 1973 Compilation:
01 T-Rex – 20th Century Boy
02 Johnny Rivers – Memphis ’72
03 Traffic – Evening Blue
04 Earth And Fire – Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Tonight
05 Roxy Music – Do The Strand
06 Blood, Sweat & Tears – Sail Away
07 Albert Hammond – Everything I Want To Do
08 King Crimson – Larks Tongue In Aspic
09 Ekseption – Flight Of The Bumble Bee
10 Ramsey Lewis Trio – Hang On Sloopy
11 Billy Preston – In Outer Space
12 Donovan – Only The Blues

Plus 1970’s Bonus Songs From Musikladen*:
13 Jethro Tull – Witches Promise
14 Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar
15 New York Dolls – Lookin’ For A Kiss
16 Doobie Brothers – China Grove
17 10 C.C. – I’m Not In Love

* In 1973, the German TV Show “Beat Club” changed it’s name to “Musikladen”.  The format evolved over time to groups performing entire shows per episode as opposed to one or two songs each by various artists.  It also gravitated to actual live songs instead of previously lip synched performances.

Video Quality:  Excellent quality, about a 9.0-9.5, using our website Quality Rating Table found in our FAQ section.

Running Length:  1410 minutes (about 23 1/2 hours!) on 12 discs.

Disc Format:  12 NSTC DVD-R discs.