As a kid we had what was called the generation gap.
It was bullshit but it did make a few things more difficult for us to enjoy.
One of those things was music.
On Saturday nights they had a few hours of concert type shows on TV, this started at 11:00 PM with Burt Sugarman’s Midnight Special , next there was another concert series (name escapes me but not as good as the others) and then at 1:00 there was Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.
For me to watch these I had to take the shittiest TV outside and put it on a picnic table and power it off an extension cord. I wasn’t allowed to have it up too loud and it didn’t matter if it was a hot summer night or snowing out in December, that was the only way for me to watch it and I did it that way the first couple of years.
Somehow though even though I knew I was missing a lot I also knew I was missing nothing, because eventually I knew I’d see everything I missed seeing over all that bullshit anyway.
I can’t find much Don Kirshners Rock Concert, but here’s some of the best parts of Midnight Special.
The best of Midnight Special 1973..
00:00 Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music
04:13 Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
08:11 Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
11:11 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Neither One Of Us
15:37 T-Rex - Bang a Gong
23:46 Loggins & Messina - Your Momma Dont Dance
26:19 Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time
29:40 Argent - Hold Your Head Up
34:08 Helen Reddy - Delta Dawn
37:42 Steely Dan - Reelin In the Years
41:45 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly
44:44 Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
48:08 Helen Reddy - Danny's Song
51:16War - The Cisco Kid
56:00 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
The Best of Midnight Special 1974…
00:00 Ike & Tina Turner – Proud Mary
06:34 Barry White – Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
10:01 Sly & The Family Stone – Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
15:40 Essex – Rock On
18:32 The O’Jays – Love Train
21:58 Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
26:54 Golden Earring – Radar Love
32:02 Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
34:54 James Brown – The Payback-Part 1
39:12 Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
42:22 Gladys Knight & B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
45:34 Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis
49:24 Neil Sedaka - Laughter in The Rain
52:47 Redbone - Come And Get Your Love
57:36 Aerosmith - The Train Kept A Rollin'
The Best of Midnight Special 1975…
00:22 Bee Gees – Nights On Broadway
05:07 Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way
09:39 Helen Reddy – I Am Woman
12:51 KC & The Sunshine Band – That’s The Way I Like It
12:47 Rod Stewart – You Wear It Well
19:47 Earth, Wind & Fire – Shining Star
23:05 Orleans – Dance With Me
26:46 Natalie Cole – This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
30:10 Barry Manilow – Could It Be Magic
36:25 Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
41:25 Olivia Newton-John – Have You Never Been Mellow
45:06 Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
48:07 Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles – It Takes Two To Tango
51:30 Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You
55:30 Kiss – Black Diamond
The Best of Midnight Special 1976…
00:25 Elton John – Your Song
04:30 Fleetwood Mac – Over My Head
07:20 Spinners – Rubberband Man
12:09 Heart – Magic Man
15:06 Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
19:28 Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
25:09 George Benson – This Masquerade
28:56 Michael Martin Murphy
33:15 Diana Ross – Love Hangover
40:15 Eric Carmen – All By Myself
47:20 Tom Jones – Delilah
50:48 Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby
57:47 England Dan & John Ford Coley – I’d Really Love To See You Tonight
1:01:01 Janis Ian – At Seventeen
1:05:58 Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind
The Best of Midnight Special 1977…
00:04 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Blinded By The Light
07:22 Heart – Crazy On You
12:12 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
17:50 Dave Mason – We Just Disagree
21:11 Sanford Townsend Band – Smoke From A Distant Fire
25:00 Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
28:22 Bread – Make It With You
31:46 Andy Gibb – I Just Want To Be Your Everything
36:28 Bonnie Raitt – Runaway
40:36 Johnny Rivers – Slow Dancin’
45:07 The Emotions – Best Of My Love
49:33 Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
53:07 Van Morrison – Domino
59:33 Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
1:04:49 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr – You Don’t Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)
The Best of Midnight Special 1978…
(Sadly enough Rock kinda died that year when along came Disco.)
00:03 Hall & Oats – Rich Girl
02:40 Eddie Money – Baby Hold On
06:01 Robert Palmer – Every Kinda People
10:00 The Cars – Just What I Needed
13:27 Exile – Kiss You All Over
18:37 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – American Girl
23:17 Chic – Le Freak
28:05 The Four Tops – “Ain’t No Woman Like The One I’ve Got”
31:55 REO Speedwagon - Roll With The Changes
37:34 Ambrosia - How Much I Feel
42:29 AC/DC - Sin City
47:34 Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
50:46 Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
56:00 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
59:46 The Trammps - Disco Inferno
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