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This is a partial list of guests who appeared on The Midnight Special .
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This is a partial list of guests who appeared on The Midnight Special .
| 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 | |
| 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 | Jim Croce - Operator, Roller Derby Queen, You Don't Mess With Jim, Speedball Tucker, Big Bad Leroy Brown, Careful Man Little Anthony and the Imperials - Dance To The Music, La La La At The End Savoy Brown - Tell Mama, Coming Down Your Way Bobby Womack - It's All Over Now, Nobody Wants You When You're Down And Out Shawn Phillips - Anello (Where Are You), America Barbara Fairchild - Teddy Bear Wishbone Ash - Jailbait [3] | June 15, 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 | |
| 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 [4] | 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" | 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 [5] | 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 [6] | 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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