Gala-Abend der Schallplatte 1969 (Evening Gala of Discs 1969)           

The show was also broadcast to Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia and Hungary - but probably in an edited and more international format.

16 March 1969, KRO, The Netherlands
16 March 1969, Belgium

In Germany the series of shows were broadcast again in the '90s on 3Sat **
Repeated: 25 July 1970, ARD at 8:15pm, Germany

The programme was presented by married couple Vivi Bach and Dietmar Schönherr.  Vivi Bach was very popular in Germany at that time.

Click here for a magazine article (opens in New Window).  It mentions that it originally was an ARD production for Eurovision.  It could be therefore that because of Eurovision countries like Austria (ORF) and Switzerland (SRG) might be involved in the rights and might have own copies. The magazine article lists the running order for the show:

Internationale Starparade - broadcast 15th March 1969
1. Shmuel Rodensky - Wenn ich einmal reich wär
2. Sylvie Vartan - Comme Un Garçon
3. Los Paraguayos - A Banda
4. Rita Pavone - Arrivederci Hans / Bene bene bene
5. Bailett - Help yourslf
6. Dalida - Le temps des fleurs & Ciao amore ciao
7. Vico Torriani - Azzurro
8. Mantovani - Medley (a) True Love, (b) Moulin Rouge, (c) Around The World
9. The Sandpipers - Guantanamera
10. Bailett - All you need is love
11. Richard Anthony - Les ballons
12. Nina & Frederik - Baby, it's cold
13. Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata / I shall be released
14. Bailett - Taste of honey
15. The Hollies - Blowin` in the wind (with Orchestra) and Sorry, Susan
16. Dusty Springfield - Son-of-a Preacher Man / I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten / Come Back To Me *
17. Ray Conniff - Mame
18. Adamo - Es geht eine Träne auf Reisen
19. Mireille Mathieu - Medley ihrer Erfolgsmelodien 'Martin' oder 'Hinter den Kulissen von Paris'
20. finale

* released on Dusty in Deutcshland DVD in 2010

Uraufführung Deutscher Schlager - broadcast 22nd March 1969
1. opening scene
2. Agnetha - "Concerto d'Amore" (the German version of "Det handlar om kärlek")
3. Dorthe - Seine Hoheit, der Herr Kronprinz
4. France Gall - die Playboys bei den Eskimos
5. Heino - Wenn die Kraniche zieh'n
6. Jacob Sisters - So Schnell Geht Die Liebe Vorbei
7. Renate-Kern - Lass-doch-den-Sonnenschein
8. Petra Pascal - Fliege tart, Lord Loneliness
9. Bailett - Romeo and Julia

Click here for a cutting about the programme from the "Hamburger Abendblatt" dated 13 February 1969.
(Can anyone confirm if there is any new information on this cutting please?)

The show usually started with German singers and only later on the other TV stations would join the (live) broadcast and then it would get more international.

Apparently the programme belongs to SFB (Sender Freies Berlin*), part of the ARD (Allgemeine Rundfunkanstalten Deutschland) network which consisted of regional Radio/TV stations all providing programmes to one and the same nationwide TV channel. (That is they all provided broadcasting services exclusively to their respective federal states and at the same time contributed to this nation wide TV channel). Radio Bremen (Musikladen) is also part of this network.

Apparently they do not supply copies of this show due to "unresolved licence-related issues" which indicates that the clip might exist if only these "issues" could be resolved. Would be interesting to see it.

NB. Footage of the hosts was broadcast in Denmark in January 2006 which hopefully means that the footage of Agnetha still exists in German TV archives somewhere.  Even more, performance no. 17 of the International Starparade, Ray Conniff's "Mame" is currently on YouTube again, hopefully increasing the chances of seeing Agnetha's performance some time in the future.

** 3Sat is a channel established as a co-operation between ZDF and Swiss and Austrian TV stations. ARD and/or SFB are not involved in this. So we would guess that even though the show was produced by ZDF, it  was recorded in the concert hall of SFB, which could lead to the assumption that SFB might have rights to the show, when in fact they probably haven't ***. 3Sat might have a copy in their archive, if they have an archive of their own. But ZDF should definitely have a copy.  (Since 1993 ARD has been a partner of 3sat (which might explain why a Musikladen clip is included in the "Kultnacht" programme)).


* SFB belonged to the ARD (Allgemeine Rundfunkanstalten Deutschland), which consisted of several stations from all the German federal states.  All SFB material should have been transferred to the new station RBB in 1991 (Radio Berlin-Brandenburg, formerly two stations SFB and ORB))
 

*** this conflicts with other information supplied stating that "SFB was initiated after the war in the British sector and it no longer exists".

On one Flemish site, it states that "in the same year ('69), she takes part on Gala abend der Schallplatte with "Der Fest der Pompadour" but nobody takes any notice of it".

This promo LP (cover is here; back cover is here) included the following songs:

Side A                                                                        Side B
1. Telstar / SFB-Tanzorchester                                  1. Guantanamera / The Sandpipers
2. Wenn ich einmal reich wär / Shmuel Rodensky     2. Les Ballons / Richard Anthony
3. Comme Un Garçon / Sylvie Vartan                         3. Baby, It's Cold Outside / Nina & Frederik
4. A Banda / Los Paraguayos                                    4. Pata Pata / Miriam Makeba
5. Arrivederci, Hans / Rita Pavone                             5. Blowin' In The Wind / The Hollies
6. Le Temps De Fleurs / Dalida                                  6. I Close My Eyes / Dusty Springfield
7. Azzurro / Vico Torriani                                           7. Mame / Ray Conniff
8. Medley / Mantovani                                               8. Es geht eine Träne auf Reisen / Adamo
a) True Love                                                              9. Hinter den Kulissen von Paris / Mireille Mathieu
b) Moulin Rouge                                                       10. Telestar / SFB-Tanzorchester
c) Around The World
                                                                                        

Thanks to Filip Jensen c/o ABBAMAIL and Susanne Breul, Joachim, Melinda, Henk, Jozsef and Guido for information. Extra thanks to Jan Bach and Elmar Winterberg.