Beat Club Night Tonight 23:10-0500 !!

[Kev James]

For those missing 60s TOTP we still have Beat Club ...

Tonight German regional channels Radio Bremen TV and NDR (Astra 19.2) will be transmitting 6 hours of the best of the German 60s Beat Club TV shows.

See www.radiobremen.de/tv/beatclub/lange_nacht.html for details.

Thanks go to www.the-mausoleum-club.org.uk/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=16559 for alerting me!

Artists to be shown include The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Beach Boys, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Chris Andrews, Spencer Davies Group, David Garrick, Jacques Dutronc, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, Scott McKenzie, Traffic, Arthur Conley, Arthur Brown, Richie Havens, Troggs, Kinks, Yankees, Mushroams, Rattles, Lords, Chris Andrews, Graham Bonney, Sandie Shaw, Dave Dee & Co., Walker Brothers, Moody Blues, Sonny & Cher, Creation, Who, Santana, Deep Purple, Dave Clark 5, Equals, Lulu, Dave Davies, Herd, Bee Gees, Cat Stevens, P.P. Arnold, Nirvana, Procol Harum, Equals, Amen Corner, Gene Pitney, Easy Beats, Casuals, Beach Boys, Marmelade, Barry Ryan, Status Quo, Manfred Mann, Julie Driscoll, Steppenwolf, Donovan, Move, Humble Pie, Marsha Hunt, Steamhammer, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Move, Ike & Tina Turner, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, Slade, Chuck Berry and Nazareth.

[jonny]

blimey get that on tape some1 plz

[lpmoderator]

I'll be interested to know what they show of The Beatles and Stones as neither band appeared on the show! Can anyone who watches give us all a rundown of the content? Many thanks.

[garyjordanbrum]

Beat-Club 2 vom 30. Oktober 1965
mit den Phantoms, Ian and the Zodiacs, German Blue Flames und den Rolling Stones
www.radiobremen.de/tv/beatclub/sendungen_liste.html

Slade:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWGfdYxtpk
www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=168665

Musikladen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oGqylNdIT0

[Matthew North]

re Stones I have an episode where they show some b&W footage of hyde park 69 with a record of another track being played over the top of it.

[Kev James]

lpmoderator said:

... Can anyone who watches give us all a rundown of the content? ...

I captured it off the satellite - 6 hours of it 15GB file!

Ignoring the first section which was a full broadcast of the very first show from 1965 - all German artists.

The rest is ...

Gerry & the Pacemakers - Ferry across the Mersey
The Lords - Shakin All Over/Que Sera
Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
Dave Dee - Hold Tight
Graham Bonney - Supergirl
The Hollies - Look Through Any Window
Walker Bros - Land of 100 Dances
Sonny & Cher -Little Man
Easybeats - Friday On My Mind
The Who - Im a Boy
The Creation - Painter Man
Cream - I Feel Fine
Equals - I Wont be There
Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster
The Kinks - Mr Pleasant
PP Arnold - The First Cut is the Deepest
Marquis of Kensignton - The Changing of the Guard
Dave Davies - Death of a Clown
Manfred Nann - Ha Ha said the Clown
Keith West - Excerpt from a Teenage Opera
The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Flowerpot Men - lets go to san francisco
Scott McKenzie - san francisco
Procol Harum - Homburg
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
BB King - Heartbreaker
Georgie fame - Bonnie & Clyde
David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer
Gene Pitney - Somethings Gotten Hold of my Heart
The Move - Fire Brigade
Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger - This Wheels On Fire
The Nice - America
Status Quo - Ice in the Sun
Canned Heat - On the Road Again
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music A
The Move - Wild Tiger Woman
The Casuals - Jesamine
The Troggs - Hip Hip Hooray
Jimmy Cliff - Give A Little Take A Little
The Herd - I Can Fly
The Walker Brothers - The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore
Sonny & Cher - Then he Kissed Me
Bee Gees - To Love Somebody
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
Bee Gees - World
Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Long John Baldry - Let the Heartaches Begin (captioned as Let the Headache Begin !!!!)
The Herd - Paradise Lost
Dave Davies - Susannahs Still
Nirvana - Pentecost Hotel
Amen Corner - Bend Me Shape Me
Traffic - Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn
Procol Harum - Quite Right So
Hollies - Jennifer Eccles
The Herd - I dont want our Loving to Die
Manfred Mann - My Name is Jack
Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon
The Equals - Baby Come Back
Cupids Inspiration - Yesterday has Gone
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Dave Dee - Last Noght
The Who - Magic Bus
Easybeats - Good Times
Spooky Tooth - The Weight
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
Barry Ryan - Eloise
Simon Dupree & the Big Sound - Thinking About My Life
Tiny Tim - Tip Toe Thru the Tulips
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Im the Urban Spaceman
Manfred Mann - Fox on the run
Joe Cocker - With a little Help from my Friends
The Marmalade - Oba La Di
Beach Boys - Bluebird over the Mountain
The Flirtations - Nothing but a Heartache
Cream - Strange Brew
Amen Corner - Half as Nice
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Humble Pie - Natural Born Boogie
The Who - Pinball Wizard
Ten years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Chicago Transit Authority - Im a Man

Then the colour clips start - 1970 onwards ...

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Santana - Jingo
Free - All Right Now
Ginger Bakers Airforce - Sunshine of your Life
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High
Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels
MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Rolling Stones - Loving Cup
The Doors - Love Me Two Times
Kinks - Lola
Eric Burdon - Paint it Black
Steve Miller - Space Cowboy
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
MC5 - Motorcity is Burning
Slade - Hear Me Calling
Rolling Stones - Hipshake

Pristine picture quality - lucky the germans had 625 lines early on.

Offerred to upload this to a certain site - but their rules are UK only sourced progs.

[Sal Mohammed]

So they didn't show The Who special performing songs from Tommy.
I have a colour version of the Small Faces performing Itchycoo Park from Beat Club, I think it was somekind of trial broadcast.

[Kev James]

sm said:

So they didn't show The Who special performing songs from Tommy.
I have a colour version of the Small Faces performing Itchycoo Park from Beat Club, I think it was somekind of trial broadcast.

One song was featured ...



The colour thing got me thinking - maybe some of the later b&w clips shown are available in colour - evidence of lots of chromakey work. Can't remember if broadcasters really used chromakey mixing in b&w in the late 60s.

[John Fleming]

gussie said:

Offerred to upload this to a certain site - but their rules are UK only sourced progs.

My experience of that site is that it is particularly unfriendly, very difficult to join but easy as hell to get banned. Any chance this, and the TOTP stuff from that particular site, could be uploaded to somewhere nicer such as TBP, Stage6 or alt.binaries.tv? I could upload something rare, albeit poor quality, in return.

[lpmoderator]

Can't say i've ever seen the colour version of the Small Faces clip; although one episode was made in colour as a trial in '67, I never knew it survived in that form. There's an online ep guide that mentions this though. I think the first proper colour ep was Dec '69.

[Peter Elliott]

The first ever colour "Beat Club" episode was broadcast "live" on September 23rd 1967 as an experimental one off but I believe it was actually broadcast in black and white and videotaped in colour and this colour version was shown at a TV exhibition in Berlin on October 30th 1967. Of course only the black and white version has survived.

The show featured The Small Faces also performing "Green Circles" and performances by Manfred Mann, PP Arnold, Cat Stevens, Keith West, Truly Smith, The Bee Gees, Eddie Floyd and Anita Harris. The clip of the Manfreds performing "So Long Dad" has survived in colour albeit in the hands of a private collector.

I have seen the "Itchycoo Park" clip on some occasions and if one looks closely, there definitely is some colour information that can be seen in the picture so I guess it could possible be digitally restored into full colour. In fact when TOTP2 featured it, it looked to me like a colour picture not fully grayscaled into black and white with Marriott's face definitely having a slight fleshy colour...

[lpmoderator]

peterelliott said:

The first ever colour "Beat Club" episode was broadcast "live" on September 23rd 1967 as an experimental one off but I believe it was actually broadcast in black and white and videotaped in colour and this colour version was shown at a TV exhibition in Berlin on October 30th 1967. Of course only the black and white version has survived.

The show featured The Small Faces also performing "Green Circles" and performances by Manfred Mann, PP Arnold, Cat Stevens, Keith West, Truly Smith, The Bee Gees, Eddie Floyd and Anita Harris. The clip of the Manfreds performing "So Long Dad" has survived in colour albeit in the hands of a private collector.

I have seen the "Itchycoo Park" clip on some occasions and if one looks closely, there definitely is some colour information that can be seen in the picture so I guess it could possible be digitally restored into full colour. In fact when TOTP2 featured it, it looked to me like a colour picture not fully grayscaled into black and white with Marriott's face definitely having a slight fleshy colour...

Yes, the Sept '67 edition was the one I was referring to. You say it hasn't survived in colour though so I wonder what the clip is that seems to be in circulation?

[Sal Mohammed]

Small Faces on Beat Club in colour performing Green Circles and Itchycoo Park. Check out the clothes!

[lpmoderator]

Thanks for posting the photos! So we can take it that the whole show exists in colour after all then? Who else was on the show, just out of interest?

Surprising this colour version of the show hasn't been utilised in repeats before now. It's a real find.

[Paul Watkins]

This is the lineup for this episode.Although it seems incorrect because i does not list the Small Faces in colour.

23rd September 1967 :
Guests (in Black & White, from Bremen): --Small Faces - "Itchycoo Park" and "Green Circles" --Manfred Mann - "Ha! Ha! Said The Clown" and "So Long, Dad" --Alan David - "Completely Free" --Twice as Much - "Crystal Ball" --Anita Harris - "Just Loving You"

Guests (in colour, from the Berlin 'Funkausstellung'): --Cat Stevens - "Bad Nights" and "Come On and Dance." --Bee Gees - "To Love Somebody" --P.P. Arnold - "The Time Has Come" --Keith West - "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" --Eddie Floyd --Truly Smith - "I Wanna Go Back There Again"