List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special

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This is a partial list of guests who appeared on The Midnight Special.

Series overview[edit]

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Season Episodes Originally aired
Premiere Finale
1 33 August 19, 1972 September 8, 1973
2 50 September 15, 1973 September 14, 1974
3 48 September 28, 1974 September 13, 1975
4 43 September 20, 1975 September 11, 1976
5 38 September 18, 1976 August 13, 1977
6 44 September 10, 1977 September 8, 1978
7 35 September 16, 1978 September 15, 1979
8 34 September 22, 1979 August 2 1980
9 25 September 6, 1980 March 27, 1981

Season 1 (1972–1973)[edit]

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Episode Host Performers Original airdate
1 (Pilot) John Denver John Denver - "Take Me Home, Country Roads" / "Goodbye Again"
John Denver and 'Mama' Cass Elliott - "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
Argent - "Hold Your Head Up" / "Tragedy"
Harry Chapin - "Taxi"
David Clayton-Thomas - "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"
Linda Ronstadt - "Long Long Time" / "The Fast One"
War - "Slippin' into Darkness"
August 19, 1972
2 Helen Reddy Helen Reddy - "I Am Woman" / "Peaceful" / "Come On John"
Ike & Tina Turner - "I Can't Turn You Loose" / "With a Little Help from My Friends"
George Carlin - Stand-up comedy monologue
Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"
Don McLean - "Dreidel" / "If We Try"
Rare Earth - "We're Gonna Have a Good Time" / "I Just Want to Celebrate"
Kenny Rankin - "Comin' Down"
The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man" / "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"
The Impressions - "Preacher Man"
Helen Reddy, Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions - "Amen"
February 3, 1973
3 Johnny Rivers Johnny Rivers - "Blue Suede Shoes" / "Rockin' Pneumonia, Boogie Woogie Flu" / "Got My Mojo Workin'"
Ace Trucking Company - Comedy routine
Albert Hammond - "It Never Rains in Southern California" / "If You Gotta Break Another Heart"
Merilee Rush - "Start Again" / "Comfort and Please You"
The Spinners - "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" / "I'll Be Around"
Steely Dan - "Do It Again" / "Reeling in the Years"
Paul Williams - "Out in the Country" / "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
Wolfman Jack - "I Ain't Never Seen a White Man"
February 10, 1973
4 Mac Davis Mac Davis - "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" / "I Believe in Music" / "Dream Me Home" / "Home" / "Half and Half (Song for Sara)"
The Doobie Brothers - "Jesus Is Just Alright" / "Listen to the Music"
Waylon Jennings - "You Can Have Her"
Billy Paul - "Me and Mrs. Jones" / "Brown Baby"
Billy Preston - "Blackbird" / "Georgia on My Mind" / "That's the Way God Planned It"
Joan Rivers - Comedy segment
February 17, 1973
5 Harry Chapin Harry Chapin - "Sunday Morning Sunshine" / "Sniper" / "Taxi"
Kerrie Biddell - "Spirit in the Dark"
Blood, Sweat & Tears - "Rosemary" / "Hip Pickles" / "Snow Queen"
The Committee - Comedy segment
The Hollies - "Magic Woman Touch" / "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead" / "Superfly"
Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together"
February 24, 1973
6 Anne Murray Anne Murray - "Snowbird" / "Danny's Song" / "I Know"
Anne Murray, Steve Martin and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Shuckin' the Corn"The Association - "Along Comes Mary" / "Crazy Songs and Loony Tunes" / "Names, Tags, Numbers and Labels"
Badfinger - "No Matter What" / "Suitcase"
Steve Martin - Comedy segment
Don McLean - "Vincent" / "Dreidel" / "If We Try"
Sam Neely - "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" & "Rosalie"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - "People Get Ready" / "Walkin' My Blues Away"
March 3, 1973
7 Paul Williams Paul Williams - (Just An) Old Fashioned Love Song" / "Drift Away" / "That's Enough for Me"
Edward Bear - "Last Song" / "Close Your Eyes"
Loretta Lynn - "One's on the Way" / "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Seals & Crofts - "Hummingbird" / "Summer Breeze"
Sha Na Na - "Hound Dog" / "Yakety Yak" / "I Wonder Why"
Lakshmi Shankar - "Nata Nagara"
Ravi Shankar - "Tilak Shyam"
March 10, 1973
8 Paul Anka[2] Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, The Coasters, Ace Trucking Company, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Doobie Brothers, George Jones, Tammy Wynette March 17, 1973
9 Lou Rawls Lou Rawls, Brewer & Shipley, George Burns, Honey Cone, The Committee, The Grass Roots, The O'Jays, Eric Weissberg, Deliverance March 24, 1973
10 Ray Charles Ray Charles, The Raelettes, Bill Cosby, Carol Burnett, Aretha Franklin, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Freeman & Murray March 31, 1973
11 The Bee Gees The Bee Gees, Jerry Lee Lewis, Skeeter Davis, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Johnny Nash, Jim Weatherly, Frank Welker April 7, 1973
12 Bill Cosby Bill Cosby, David Brenner, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Billy Preston, Steely Dan, Taj Mahal April 14, 1973
13 Doc Severinsen Doc Severinsen, Henry Mancini, Hoyt Axton, Jerry Butler, Dobie Gray, Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Country Joe McDonald and his All-Star Band, Hot Cup of Friends April 21, 1973
14 Jerry Lee Lewis April 28, 1973
15 Johnny Nash May 5, 1972
16 Burns and Schreiber May 12, 1973
17 Chubby Checker May 19, 1973
18 Gladys Knight & the Pips May 26, 1973
19 Paul Williams June 2, 1973
20 Curtis Mayfield June 9, 1973
21 Jim Croce June 16, 1973
22 Bee Gees June 23, 1973
23 Paul Williams June 30, 1973
24 Jose Feliciano July 7, 1973
25 Smokey Robinson July 14, 1973
26 Joan Baez July 21, 1973
27 Dionne Warwick July 28, 1973
28 Al Green August 4, 1973
29 Bee Gees August 11, 1973
30 Richard Pryor August 18, 1973
31 Loretta Lynn & Marty Robbins August 25, 1973
32 Billy Preston September 1, 1973
33 Mac Davis September 8, 1973

Season 2 (1973–1974)[edit]

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Episode Host Performers Original airdate
1 Curtis Mayfield September 15, 1973
2 Wilson Pickett September 22, 1973
3 Seals & Crofts Seals & Crofts - "Diamond Girl" / "Dust On My Saddle" / "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" / "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" / "Pop Goes the Weasel"(instrumental)
T. Rex "Hot Love" / "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
Arlo Guthrie - "Gypsy Davy" / "Bling Blang"
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - "Talkin' Fishing Blues"
Uriah Heep - "Stealin'" / "Sweet Freedom"
Leo Kottke - "Bean Time"(instramental)
Paul Butterfield's Better Days - "New Walkin' Blues" / "Broke My Baby's Heart"
September 29, 1973
4 Gladys Knight & the Pips October 6, 1973
5 The Bee Gees October 13, 1973
6 War War - "The Cisco Kid" / "Me and Baby Brother" / "The World Is a Ghetto" / "City Country City"
New York Dolls – "Trash" / "Personality Crisis"
Mott the Hoople - "All the Way from Memphis" / "Rose"
Danny O'Keefe - "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" / "Angel Spread Your Wings"
Climax Blues Band - "Shake Your Love" / "Constant"
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "Hold Back the Water" / "Gimme Your Money Please"
Piper - "Bungle Rye"
October 20, 1973
7 Sly and the Family Stone October 27, 1973
8 Chuck Berry November 3, 1973
9 Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis - "Breathless" / "Hold On, I'm Comin'" / "Chantilly Lace" / "Lonely Weekends" / "Silver Threads Among the Gold" / "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis - "Jackson"
Ballin' Jack - "This Song"
Dalton and Dubarri - "Any Other Man But Me" / "Take a Change"
Flash - "Dead Ahead" / "Psychosync"
B.B. King - "Hummingbird" / "Why I Sing the Blues"
Ike & Tina Turner - "River Deep Mountain High" / "Nutbush City Limits"
November 10, 1973
10 The 1980 Floor Show starring David Bowie[3] November 17, 1973
11 Peter Noone November 24, 1973
12 Procol Harum Procol Harum – "Conquistador" / "Whiter Shade of Pale" / "Grand Hotel" / "Fires Which Burn Brightly" / "Drunk Again" / " T.V. Caesar"

Humble Pie with The Blackberries - "Oh La De Da" / "I Don't Need No Doctor" / "30 Days in the Hole"
Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre - "Rockin' Till the Sun Goes Down" / "Carry My Load" / "The World Is Changing"
Steeleye Span - "Cam Ye O-er Frae France"

December 1, 1973
13 The Four Tops December 8, 1973
14 Loggins & Messina December 15, 1973
15 Jose Feliciano December 22, 1973
16 Marty Robbins December 29, 1973
17 Wolfman Jack "Million Sellers" clip show January 5, 1974
18 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show January 12, 1974
19 Smokey Robinson January 19, 1974
20 Steve Miller January 26, 1974
21 Helen Reddy[4] Helen Reddy - "Leave Me Alone" / "Delta Dawn" / "Don't Mess with a Woman" / "Time" & "I Am Woman"
Franklin Ajaye - "Spot"
The Impressions - "Preacher Man"
Curtis Mayfield - "If I Were a Child Again"
Kenny Rankin - "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" / "Haven't We Met"
Rare Earth - "Big John Is My Name" / "Born to Wander" / "Don't Fight It"
Ike & Tina Turner - "Land of 1000 Dances" / "It's Gonna Work Out Fine"
February 2, 1974
22 Ike & Tina Turner[5] Ike & Tina Turner - "City Girl, Country Boy" / "With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Proud Mary" / "I Smell Trouble"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Showdown" / "Bluebird Is Dead"
David Essex - "Rock On" / "Streetfight"
Jose Feliciano - "I Like What You Give" / "Blame It On the Sun"
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids - "Dancin' on a Saturday Night" & "Muleskinner Blues"
Mandrill - "Git It All"
Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You" / "A Dream Goes On Forever"
February 9, 1974
23 Roy Orbison February 16, 1974
24 Gordon Lightfoot February 23, 1974
25 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show March 2, 1974
26 Gladys Knight & the Pips March 9, 1974
27 The Pointer Sisters March 16, 1974
28 Bill Withers March 23, 1974
29 The Guess Who March 30, 1974
30 The Righteous Brothers April 6, 1974
31 Roy Clark April 13, 1974
32 Curtis Mayfield April 20, 1974
33 Charlie Rich April 27, 1974
34 The Spinners May 4, 1974
35 George Carlin May 11, 1974
36 Frankie Avalon May 18, 1974
37 Richard Pryor May 25, 1974
38 Marty Robbins June 1, 1974
39 The Kinks June 8, 1974
40 David Steinberg June 29, 1974
41 Anne Murray July 6, 1974
42 Bobby Womack July 13, 1974
43 Helen Reddy July 19, 1974
44 Leon Russell July 27, 1974
45 Leon Russell Leon Russell - "Jambalaya" &\/ "Goodnight, Irene"
Bobby Bare - "Marie Lavaux"
David Carradine - "A Country Mile"
John Hartford - "Turn Your Radio On"
Waylon Jennings - "Pick Up the Tempo" / "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me" / "Can You Save Her"
Doug Kershaw - "Louisiana Man" / "Cajun Joe"
Michael Murphy - "The South Canadian River Song"
Rick Nelson - "Someone to Love" / "Garden Party"
Willie Nelson - "Stay All Night a Little Longer"
August 3, 1974
46 Sly & the Family Stone August 10, 1974
47 Little Richard August 17, 1974
48 B.B. King August 31 1974
49 Marvin Gaye September 7, 1974
50 The O'Jays September 14, 1974

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References[edit]

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  2. ^ "Paul Anka Hosts Midnight Special". Palladium-Item. March 10, 1973. p. 27.
  3. ^ "'Midnight Special' Shines With David Bowie & Choreography". Billboard. December 1, 1973. p. 12.
  4. ^ "Helen Reddy Hosts Show". The Daily Herald. January 28, 1974. pp. TV-8.
  5. ^ Peoples, Kathi (January 26, 1974). "A Special At Midnight". Santa Maria Times. pp. 7-B.
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  9. ^ a b c "Leo Sayer Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  10. ^ a b "The O'Jays Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  11. ^ a b c "Olivia Newton-John Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
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  13. ^ a b c d "Todd Rundgren Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  14. ^ a b Midnight Special 1975 DVD cover artwork
  15. ^ a b c "Dolly Parton Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Helen Reddy Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  17. ^ a b c "KC and the Sunshine Band Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  18. ^ "Linda Ronstadt Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  19. ^ a b "Donna Summer Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
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  21. ^ Fleetwood Mac (January 26, 1976). Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon (The Midnight Special 1976) (YouTube). Warner Music Group. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  22. ^ Fleetwood Mac - "World Turning" - Midnight Special (Audio Upgrade), retrieved 2021-02-17
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  26. ^ "Billy Davis & Mariyln McCoo Midnight Special Appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  27. ^ a b "Billy Preston Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  28. ^ a b c "David Bowie Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  29. ^ a b "Peaches & Herb Midnight Special Appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  30. ^ a b c d "Village People/Randy Jones Midnight Special appearances". IMDB. Retrieved December 15, 2013.

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