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This is a partial list of guests who appeared on The Midnight Special.
1972 (pilot)
First aired: 8/19/1972[1]
- Andy Kaufman
- Argent- "Hold Your Head Up" & "Tragedy"
- John Denver (guest host) - "Take Me Home Country Roads" & "Goodbye Again"
- Cass Elliot - "Leaving on a Jet Plane" duet w/John Denver
- Harry Chapin - "Taxi"
- David Clayton-Thomas (singer from Blood, Sweat & Tears) - "Yesterday's Music" & "Nobody Calls Me Prophet"
- The Everly Brothers - "All I Have to Do Is Dream" & "Stories We Could Tell"
- The Isley Brothers - "Pop That Thang"
- Helen Reddy - "I Don't Know How to Love Him"[2]
- Linda Ronstadt - "Long, Long Time" & "The Fast One"[3]
- War - "Slippin' into Darkness"
1973
- Al Green (guest host)
- Albert Hammond
- Albert King
- Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre
- Anne Murray (guest host) - "Danny's Song"
- Aretha Franklin
- The Association
- B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone" - Duet with Gladys Knight
- Barbara Fairchild
- Badfinger
- The Bee Gees (guest host) - "Lonely Days"
- Ben E. King
- Bill Cosby (guest host)
- Billy Paul - "Me And Mrs. Jones"
- Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles"[4]
- Black Oak Arkansas
- Blood, Sweat & Tears
- Bloodstone
- Bo Diddley
- Bobby Day
- Bobby Darin
- Bobby Womack
- Bonnie Bramlett
- Brewer & Shipley - "One Toke Over The Line"
- Bud Brisbois
- Buddy Miles
- The Byrds
- Canned Heat
- Carol Burnett
- Charlie Rich
- Chi Coltrane
- Chubby Checker (guest host)
- The Coasters
- Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
- The Committee
- Conway Twitty
- Country Joe McDonald
- The Crusaders
- Curtis Mayfield (guest host)
- Danny & the Juniors
- David Bowie - "Space Oddity"[5]
- David Brenner
- Del Shannon
- The Del-Vikings
- Dionne Warwick (guest host)
- Dobie Gray
- Doc Severinsen (guest host)
- The Doobie Brothers - "Jesus Is Just Alright" and "Listen To The Music"
- Don Gibson
- Don McLean
- The Doobie Brothers - "Listen to the Music"
- Doug Kershaw
- Dr. John
- Earl Scruggs
- Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
- Edward Bear
- Edwin Hawkins Singers
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Eric Weissberg
- Fanny
- Flash featuring Peter Banks
- Fleetwood Mac - "Miles Away", & "Believe Me"
- Focus - "Hocus Pocus"
- Foghat
- Freddy Cannon
- Gary Mule Deer
- Genesis - "Watcher of the Skies", & "The Musical Box"
- George Burns
- George Carlin
- George Jones
- Gladys Knight & the Pips (guest hosts) - "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)"[6]
- The Grass Roots
- Gunhill Road
- Harry Chapin (guest host)
- Helen Reddy (guest host) - "Delta Dawn"[2]
- Henry Mancini
- Herman’s Hermits
- The Hollies
- The Honey Cone - "Want Ads"
- Hoyt Axton
- The Incredible String Band
- Ike & Tina Turner[7]
- The Impressions
- Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (guest hosts)
- Jerry Butler
- Jerry Lee Lewis (guest host)
- Jim Croce (guest host) - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)" and "I Got a Name"
- Jim Weatherly
- Jimmie Spheeris
- Jimmy Clanton
- Joan Baez (guest host)
- Joan Rivers
- Joe Walsh
- John Kay
- John Stewart
- Johnny Rivers (guest host)
- Johnny Mathis
- Johnny Nash (guest host) - "I Can See Clearly Now"
- Johnny Paycheck
- Johnny Rodriguez
- Johnny Winter
- Jonathan Winters
- Jose Feliciano (guest host)
- Kenny Rankin
- Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
- King Crimson - "Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part 2" & "Easy Money"
- King Harvest
- Kris Kristofferson
- Lakshmi Shankar
- Leo Kottke
- Leroy Hutson
- Little Anthony & The Imperials
- Linda Ronstadt - "Long, Long Time"[3]
- Livingston Taylor
- Lloyd Price
- Loggins & Messina - "Your Mama Don't Dance"
- Lou Rawls (guest host)[8]
- Loretta Lynn (guest host)
- Mac Davis (guest host) - "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me"
- Marty Robbins (guest host)
- Malo
- Melissa Manchester
- Merrilee Rush
- Mimi Fariña
- The Miracles
- Monty Python
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- The O'Jays[9] - "Back Stabbers" and "Love Train"
- Paul Anka (guest host)
- Paul Williams[10] (guest host)
- Rare Earth
- The Penguins
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- The Raspberries
- Ravi Shankar
- Ray Charles (guest host)
- Richard Pryor (guest host)
- Rita Coolidge
- Robert Klein
- Ronnie Dyson
- Savoy Brown
- Seals & Crofts - "Summer Breeze"
- The Searchers
- Sha Na Na
- Shawn Phillips
- The Shirelles
- Skeeter Davis
- Skylark
- The Skyliners
- Slade
- Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
- The Spinners[11]
- Smokey Robinson (guest host)
- The Staple Singers
- The Statler Brothers
- Steely Dan - "Reelin' In The Years"
- Steve Goodman
- Steve Martin
- Steve Miller Band
- Stories
- The Stylistics
- Tanya Tucker
- Taj Mahal
- Tammy Wynette
- Timmy Thomas
- Todd Rundgren - "Hello, It's Me"[12]
- Tom T. Hall
- Tower of Power
- T. Rex - "Bang-A-Gong (Get It On)"[13]
- War - "The Cisco Kid"
- Waylon Jennings
- Wilson Pickett
- Wishbone Ash
- Vicki Lawrence
1974
- Aerosmith - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and "Dream On"
- Ann Peebles
- Barry White - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up"
- Billy Joel
- Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"
- Bonnie Tyler - "It's a Heartache" (This must be an error—song was not released until 1977)
- Brownsville Station - "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
- Charlie Rich - "Behind Closed Doors"
- Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"
- David Brenner[14]
- David Essex - "Rock On"
- Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
- Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'"
- Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
- Edwin Starr
- El Chicano
- Freddie Prinze[14]
- Genesis
- Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone"[6]
- Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
- Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
- Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind"
- The Guess Who - "American Woman" and"Undun"
- Hot Tuna - "Hamar Promenade", "Day to Day Out the Window Blues" and "I See the Light"
- Humble Pie - "Oh La-De-Da" and "30 Days in the Hole"
- Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"[7]
- James Brown - "The Payback"
- Jo Jo Gunne
- Jobriath - "I'maman" and "Rock of Ages"
- Kool And The Gang - "Hollywood Swinging and Jungle Boogie"
- Leo Sayer[15]
- Loggins and Messina- "Your Mama Don't Dance"
- Lynn Anderson
- The Main Ingredient - "Just Don't Want To Be Lonely"
- Maria Muldaur - "Midnight at the Oasis"
- Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On and What's Going On"
- Montrose - "Paper Money" and "I Got the Fire"
- Neil Sedaka - "Laughter in the Rain"
- The New York Dolls
- The O'Jays - "Love Train"[9]
- Ohio Players - "Skin Tight"
- Olivia Newton-John[16] - "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"
- The Spinners[11]
- Phil Ochs and Jim Glover - "The Power and the Glory" and "Changes"
- Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
- Robert Palmer - "Bad Case Of Lovin' You (Doctor, Doctor)" (This must be an error—song was not released until 1979)
- Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - "Tell Me Something Good"
- Shirley & Lee - "Let the Good Times Roll"
- Sly & the Family Stone - "Everybody is a Star" and "Thank You (Falletin Me be Mice-Elf Again)[14]"
- Stories - "Brother Louie"
- The Stylistics - "You Make Me Feel Brand New"
- Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?" & "A Dream Goes On Forever"[12]
- War - "Cisco Kid"
1975
- ABBA - "SOS" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
- Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "It Takes Two to Tango"
- Barry Manilow - "Mandy" and "Could It Be Magic?"
- The Bee Gees - "Nights on Broadway", "Jive Talkin'" and "To Love Somebody" (Duet With Helen Reddy)
- Captain & Tennille - "Love Will Keep Us Together (Duet With Neil Sedaka)"
- David Steinberg[17]
- Dolly Parton[18]
- Earth Wind and Fire - "Shining Star"
- Electric Light Orchestra (guest hosts) - "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Great Balls of Fire", "Can't Get It Out of My Head", "Orange Blossom Special", "Laredo Tornado", "Flight of the Bumble Bee" & "Roll Over Beethoven"
- Frankie Valli (Guest Host) - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
- Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
- Helen Reddy - "I Am Woman", "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby" [2]
- The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"
- Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber[17]
- KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"[19]
- KISS - "Black Diamond", "Deuce", & "She"
- Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"
- Labelle - "Lady Marmalade", “What Can I Do for You?”
- Leo Sayer[15]
- Linda Ronstadt[3]
- Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
- Natalie Cole - "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
- Neil Sedaka - "Bad Blood and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
- Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
- Olivia Newton-John - "Have You Never Been Mellow"[16]
- Orleans - "Dance with Me"
- Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", "Baby, I Love Your Way"
- PFM - "Celebration" and "Alta Loma Nine Till Five"'
- Rod Stewart - "You Wear It Well"
- Roxy Music - "Out Of The Blue", "The Thrill Of It All", "A Really Good Time" (aired 05/09/1975, synched to the studio tracks from the Country Life album with live vocals from Bryan Ferry and John Wetton)
- Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"[12]
- The Whitney Family
1976
- Aretha Franklin - "Respect", "Something He Can Feel"
- Bill Haley & His Comets "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later Alligator" (archive footage from the movie Rock Around the Clock)
- Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"
- Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"[20]
- Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Nightrider" & "Strange Magic"
- Elton John - "Your Song"
- Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Can't Get It Out of My Head" and "Strange Magic"
- England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
- Eric Carmen - "All By Myself"
- Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", "World Turning",[21] "Why"
- Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive"
- George Benson - "This Masquerade"[22]
- Heart - "Magic Man", "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
- Helen Reddy[2]
- Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"
- Janis Ian - "At Seventeen"
- Joan Baez - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade"
- Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
- The Miracles - "Love Machine"
- Michael Murphey - "Wildfire"
- Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way"
- Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind"
- Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
- Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
- Tom Jones - "Delilah, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Lynn Anderson
- Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - "A Fifth of Beethoven"
- Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
1977
- Andrew Gold - "Lonely Boy"
- Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
- Andy Kaufman - "I Trusted You"
- Bonnie Raitt - "Runaway"
- Bread (hosts) - "Make It With You"
- Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
- Eddie Rabbitt - "Rocky Mountain Music"
- Electric Light Orchestra (hosts) - "Rockaria!", "Livin' Thing", "Do Ya", "Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing (reprise)"
- Emmylou Harris[23]
- The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
- Gino Vannelli - "Summers of My Life"
- James Brown - "Get Up Offa That Thing"
- Jennifer Warnes - "Right Time of the Night"
- Jesse Winchester -[23]
- Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'"
- Journey "Feeling That Way " "Anytime" "Wheel in the Sky"
- Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
- Little Feat - "Dixie Chicken"
- Lou Rawls - "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"[8]
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Blinded by the Light"
- Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. - "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)"[24]
- Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On", "Got to Give It Up"
- Player
- Renaissance - "Midas Man" & "Carpet of the Sun"
- Sanford-Townsend Band - "Smoke from a Distant Fire"
- Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
- Van Morrison - "Domino"
- Weather Report - "Birdland"
1978
- AC/DC - "Sin City"
- Aerosmith - "Come Together"
- Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
- Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
- Billy Preston[4] "Nothing From Nothing"
- The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
- Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
- Chic - "Le Freak"
- Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"
- Crystal Gayle - "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
- Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
- David Bowie[5]
- Dolly Parton[18]
- Donna Summer - "Last Dance", "I Feel Love", "Heaven Knows"[20]
- Eddie Money - "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise"
- Electric Light Orchestra - "Telephone Line"
- The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
- Evelyn Champagne King - "Shame", "I Don't Know If It's Right"
- Exile - "Kiss You All Over"
- Four Tops - "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)"
- George Benson[22]
- Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
- KC and the Sunshine Band[19]
- Leo Sayer - "When I Need You"
- Nick Lowe- "So It Goes"
- Peaches & Herb[25]
- Player
- REO Speedwagon - "Roll With The Changes"
- Rick James - "Mary Jane"
- Robert Palmer - "Every Kinda People"
- Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity & "My Little Mystery"
- Starland Vocal Band - "Afternoon Delight"
- Sylvester - "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", "Dance (Disco Heat)", and "Grateful"
- Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever", "Need You Bad", "Free For All" (Hosted this Show)
- The O'Jays[9] - "For The Love Of Money"
- Sammy Hagar - "You Make Me Crazy"
- Thin Lizzy - "The Cowboy Song", "Live From the Rainbow London"
- Todd Rundgren - "Can We Still Be Friends" & "Bread" (with the Hello People)[12]
- Todd Rundgren's Utopia - (guest host) "Real Man", "You Cried Wolf", "Love in Action", "Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel" & "Just One Victory"
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl", Listen To Her Heart and I Need to Know"
- The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"
- Village People[26]
- Yvonne Elliman - "If I Can't Have You"
1979
- Alice Cooper - "Medley: Eighteen/Only Women Bleed/Billion Dollar Babies," "Inmates (We're All Crazy)"
- Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood"
- The Babys - "Everytime I Think of You"
- The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
- Bonnie Pointer - "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
- Blondie - "One Way or Another," "Dreaming," "Heart of Glass"
- The Cars - "Let's Go," "Just What I Needed," "Dangerous Type, "My Best Friend's Girl"
- The Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
- The Commodores - "Three Times a Lady", "Brick House"
- Crystal Gayle - "Cry Me a River"
- Dolly Parton - "I Will Always Love You"[18]
- Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive," "Never Can Say Good-bye"
- Grace Jones - "Below the Belt", "Do or Die"
- Journey - "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'," "Wheel in the Sky," "City of The Angels"
- KC and the Sunshine Band[19]
- Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You" (memorial replay of her 1975 appearance)
- Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"
- Peaches & Herb - "Reunited," [25] "Shake Your Groove Thing"
- The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
- Randy Jones[26]
- Rick James - "You and I"
- Robert Fripp - "Frippertronics"
- Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
- The Three Degrees - "Giving Up Giving In", The Runner"
- The Jacksons - "Shake Your Body Down To The Ground"
- Tina Turner[7]
- Todd Rundgren[12]
- Village People[26]
1980
- America - "Sister Golden Hair"
- Benny Mardones - "Into the Night"
- Billy Preston[4]
- Christopher Cross[citation needed]
- David Bowie[5]
- Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
- Frankie Valli & Commodores - "Grease"
- Gladys Knight & the Pips[6]
- Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
- Leo Sayer[15]
- Olivia Newton-John - "Magic", "Dancin'"[16]
- Randy Jones[26]
- REO Speedwagon - "Keep on Loving You"
- Roy Orbison - (Host, Season 8, Episode 25) "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Only the Lonely", "Crying", "Running Scared", "Hound Dog Man", "Blue Bayou" & "The Eyes of Texas"
- The Oak Ridge Boys - "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"
- The Spinners[11]
- Dr. Hook
- Prince
1981
- 707 - "Tonite's Your Night"
- Andy Kaufman
- David Bowie[5]
- Freddy Cannon - "Tallahassee Lassie"
- Slim Whitman - "I Remember You"
- The Spinners[11]
- Tony Clifton
References
- ^ "Midnight Special pilot". IMDB. August 19, 1972. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Helen Reddy Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Linda Ronstadt Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Billy Preston Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "David Bowie Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Gladys Knight Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Tina Turner Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b "Lou Rawls Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "The O'Jays Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ "The Midnight Special Season 1 Episode 23". Online Video Guide. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "The Spinners Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e "Todd Rundgren Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ Midnight Special 1973 DVD cover artwork
- ^ a b c Midnight Special 1974 DVD cover artwork
- ^ a b c "Leo Sayer Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Olivia Newton-John Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b Midnight Special 1975 DVD cover artwork
- ^ a b c "Dolly Parton Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c "KC and the Sunshine Band Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b "Donna Summer Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ Fleetwood Mac - "World Turning" - Midnight Special (Audio Upgrade), retrieved 2021-02-17
- ^ a b "George Benson Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b https://www.facebook.com/guitarloves1/videos/282239498774481/[dead link][user-generated source]
- ^ "Billy Davis & Mariyln McCoo Midnight Special Appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b "Peaches & Herb Midnight Special Appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Village People/Randy Jones Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
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