Folklore bunt gemischt (BENNY)

Broadcast: Tuesday 25 March 1969, 6.40-7.10pm, ZDF, Germany

Release status: This programme has not been included on any officially released video or DVD

Duration: 30 mins

Shown in: Germany

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Folklore bunt gemischt = Folklore mixed colors

Aired in colour.  The Hep Stars appear at the 22 minute mark.  Benny can't stop laughing at the antics of fellow Hep Star Christer Pettersson.

The guests were: Die Anderen, The Hep Stars, Belina, Knut Kiesewetter, Don Paulin, Eva Vargas and frantic whistler Roger Whittaker.
Director: Klaus Christian Wiebelitz.

Note that the Hep Stars song in the video is blocked in Japan and has been muted in territories where EMI Sweden have made a copyright claim.

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Click here for TV listing - Rogalands Avis - 28 January 1969, p70 (translation: The Hep Stars have made their first colour TV recording in Germany. The group sang Malaika, a song that eventually became hugely popular with the Germans.

Thanks to Jozsef and Jörg Mechela.

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