Artist	Song
	Jingle
Mood Mosaic	A Touch of Velvet, a Sting of Brass
Dobie Gray	The 'In' Crowd
Petula Clark	Downtown (German Version)
	Jingle
Shirley Bassey	Goldfinger
Jr. Walker & The All-Stars	Shotgun
The Animals	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
	Jingle
Lesley Gore	Look of Love
The Four Seasons	Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
The Four Tops	It's the Same Old Song
	Jingle
Michael Holm	Alle Wnnsche kann man nicht erfnllen
Chris Andrews	Yesterday Man
The Who	I Can't Explain
	Jingle
James Brown	Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
The Lords	Poor Boy
Roy Black	Du bist nicht allein
	Jingle
Gene Pitney	I Must Be Seeing Things
Dusty Springfield	Your Hurtin' Kinda Love
Gene Chandler	Nothing Can Stop Me
	Jingle
The Kinks	Tired of Waiting for You
The Ad Libs	The Boy from New York City
Roy Orbison	Goodnight

Comment:

40 years ago, on September 25, 1965, the first rock & roll show premiered on German television: the legendary ,Beat Club" started off with a blast and the Yankees playing their famous ,Halbstark" (included in Vol. 3). For seven years, BC remained the only youth-oriented music program on German TV and, much to the chagrin of the so-called ,establishment" (worried parents, conservative politicos and the press), promoted ,jungle music" and presented long-haired hippies doing their ,thing" (culminating in one 45-min show having only four bands play 10+-min songs), usually spiced up with acid-influenced graphics and the theatrics of heavily wigged and sometimes bare-breasted go-go dancers. It remains a landmark in German television and - lead by its director and mastermind, Mike Leckebusch - definitely revolutionized the way pop music was being presented for years to come. The opener of this mix, Mood Mosaic's ,A Touch of Velvet" served as its theme music and was even kept by its successor, the equally famous and notorious ,Musikladen" (Music Shop), which started in 1972 and remained on the air till 1984.
This collection was actually made for a friend's 40th birthday a couple of months ago and reworked a little bit for this occasion. As the title suggests, it consists of 65 songs released in 1965, taken from the British, American, French and German charts, held together by Radio London jingles (which I culled from Lenny Saaf's fabulous mix, ,Big L - A Pirate Radio Fantasy") that were actually used by ,Beat Club" as segues between songs or as background sounds for flashy little trailers. Enjoy.

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