List Of Guests Appearing On The Midnight Special

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

Series overview

Season 1 (1972–1973)

Season 2 (1973–1974)

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 Ya Up, 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 (band), Brownsville Station - "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
*Charlie Rich - "Behind Closed Doors"
*Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"
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*David Essex - "Rock On (David Essex song), Rock On"
*Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
*Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'"
*Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
*Edwin Starr
*El Chicano
*Freddie Prinze
*Genesis (band), Genesis
*Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill Is Gone (1951 song), The Thrill is Gone"
*Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
*Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
*Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot song), Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind"
*The Guess Who - "American Woman" and"Undun (song), Undun"
*Hot Tuna - "Hamar Promenade", "Day to Day Out the Window Blues" and "I See the Light"
*Humble Pie (band), Humble Pie - "Oh La-De-Da" and "30 Days in the Hole"
*Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"
*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
*Little Richard
*Loggins and Messina- "Your Mama Don't Dance"
*Lynn Anderson
*The Main Ingredient (band), 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 (band), Montrose - "Paper Money" and "I Got the Fire"
*Neil Sedaka - "Laughter in the Rain"
*The New York Dolls
*The O'Jays - "Love Train"
*Ohio Players - "Skin Tight"
*Olivia Newton-John - "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"
* The Spinners
*Phil Ochs and Jim Glover - "The Power and the Glory" and "Changes"
*Redbone (band), Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
*Robert Palmer (singer), 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 Goodman, Shirley & Lee - "Let the Good Times Roll (Shirley and Lee song), Let the Good Times Roll"
*Sly & the Family Stone - "Everybody is a Star" and "Thank You (Falletin Me be Mice-Elf Again)"
*Stories (band), Stories - "Brother Louie"
*The Stylistics - "You Make Me Feel Brand New"
*Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?" & "A Dream Goes On Forever"
*War (U.S. band), War - "Cisco Kid"

1975

*ABBA - "SOS (ABBA song), SOS" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
*Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "It Takes Two to Tango"
*Barry Manilow - "Brandy (Scott English song), Mandy" and "Could It Be Magic?"
*The Bee Gees - "Nights on Broadway", "Jive Talkin'" and "To Love Somebody (song), To Love Somebody" (Duet With Helen Reddy)
*Captain & Tennille - "Love Will Keep Us Together (Duet With Neil Sedaka)"
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*Dolly Parton
*Earth Wind and Fire - "Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire song), 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 (song), Orange Blossom Special", "Laredo Tornado", "Flight of the Bumble Bee" & "Roll Over Beethoven#Electric Light Orchestra, 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"
*The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"
*Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber
*KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"
*Kiss (band), KISS - "Black Diamond (Kiss song), Black Diamond", "Deuce (song), Deuce", & "She (Kiss song), She"
*Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"
*Labelle - "Lady Marmalade", “What Can I Do for You?”
* Leo Sayer
* Linda Ronstadt
*Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton song), Lovin' You"
*Natalie Cole - "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
*Neil Sedaka - "Bad Blood", "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
*Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
*Olivia Newton-John - "Have You Never Been Mellow"
*Orleans (band), Orleans - "Dance with Me (Orleans song), Dance with Me"
*Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton song), Show Me the Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", "Baby, I Love Your Way"
*Premiata Forneria Marconi, 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)
*Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters (song), Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"
*The Whitney Family

1976

*Aretha Franklin - "Respect (song), 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 (film), Rock Around the Clock'')
*Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"
*Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby (song), Love to Love You Baby"
*Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman (Electric Light Orchestra song), Evil Woman", "Nightrider (song), Nightrider" & "Strange Magic (song), 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 (Fleetwood Mac song), Over My Head", "Rhiannon (song), Rhiannon", "World Turning", "Why"
*Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver (song), Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive (Gary Wright song), Love Is Alive"
*George Benson - "This Masquerade"
*Heart (band), Heart - "Magic Man", "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
* Helen Reddy
*Hot Chocolate (band), Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"
*Janis Ian - "At Seventeen"
*Joan Baez - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
*LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade"
*Lynn Anderson - "Stand By Your Man", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones
*Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
*The Miracles - "Love Machine (The Miracles song), Love Machine"
*Michael Murphey - "Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphey song), Wildfire"
*Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton song), Show Me the Way"
*Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind"
*The Spinners (American band), Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
*Starbuck (band), Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
*Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones - "Delilah (Tom Jones song), Delilah, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Lynn Anderson
*Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - "A Fifth of Beethoven"
*Wild Cherry (band), 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 (Del Shannon song), Runaway"
*Bread (band), 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 (The Move song), Do Ya", "Telephone Line (song), Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing (reprise)"
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*The Emotions - "Best of My Love (The Emotions song), 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 -
*Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'"
*Journey (band), 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"
*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)"
*Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On (song), What's Going On", "Got to Give It Up"
*Player (band), Player
*Renaissance (band), Renaissance - "Midas Man" & "Carpet of the Sun"
*Sanford-Townsend Band - "Smoke from a Distant Fire"
*Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
*Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song)"
*Van Morrison - "Domino (Van Morrison song), Domino"
*Weather Report - "Birdland (composition), Birdland"

1978

*AC/DC - "Sin City"
*Aerosmith - "Come Together"
*Ambrosia (band), Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
*Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
* Billy Preston "Nothing From Nothing"
*The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
*Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
*Chic (band), Chic - "Le Freak," "Everybody Dance (Chic song), Everybody Dance"
*Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"
*Crystal Gayle - "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
*Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
* David Bowie
* Dolly Parton
*Donna Summer - "Last Dance", "I Feel Love", "Heaven Knows"
*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 (American band), Exile - "Kiss You All Over"
*Four Tops - "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)"
* George Benson
*Golden Earring - "Grab It for a Second", "Against the Grain"
*Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
* KC and the Sunshine Band
*Leo Sayer - "When I Need You"
*Nick Lowe- "So It Goes"
* Peaches & Herb
*Player (band), Player
*REO Speedwagon - "Roll With The Changes"
*Rick James - "Mary Jane"
*Robert Palmer (singer), Robert Palmer - "Every Kinda People"
*Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity & "My Little Mystery"
*Starland Vocal Band - "Afternoon Delight"
*Sylvester (singer), 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 - "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)
*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
*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 (band), 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"
*Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive," "Never Can Say Good-bye"
*Grace Jones - "Below the Belt", "Do or Die"
*Journey (band), Journey - "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'," "Wheel in the Sky," "City of The Angels"
* KC and the Sunshine Band
*Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton song), Lovin' You" (memorial replay of her 1975 appearance)
*Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"
*Peaches & Herb - "Reunited," "Shake Your Groove Thing"
*The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
*Randy Jones (singer), Randy Jones
*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
* Todd Rundgren
* Village People

1980

*America (band), America - "Sister Golden Hair"
*Benny Mardones - "Into the Night (Benny Mardones song), Into the Night"
* Billy Preston
* Christopher Cross
* David Bowie
*Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
*Frankie Valli & Commodores - "Grease (song), Grease"
* Gladys Knight & the Pips
*Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
*Isaac Hayes - "Don't Let Go (Jesse Stone song), Don't Let Go"
*John Mellencamp - "This Time" & "Ain't Even Done With The Night"
* Leo Sayer
*Olivia Newton-John - "Magic (Olivia Newton-John song), Magic", "Dancin'"
* Randy Jones
*REO Speedwagon - "Keep on Loving You (song), Keep on Loving You"
*Roy Orbison - (Host, Season 8, Episode 25) "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Only the Lonely", "Crying (Roy Orbison song), Crying", "Running Scared (Roy Orbison song), Running Scared", "Hound Dog Man", "Blue Bayou" & "The Eyes of Texas"
*The Oak Ridge Boys - "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"
* The Spinners
*Dr. Hook
*Prince (musician), Prince

1981

*707 (band), 707 - "Tonite's Your Night"
*Andy Kaufman
* David Bowie
*Freddy Cannon - "Tallahassee Lassie"
*Slim Whitman - "I Remember You (1941 song), I Remember You"
* The Spinners
*Tony Clifton

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