List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special

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

Contents

1 1972 (pilot)
2 1973
3 1974
4 1975
5 1976
6 1977
7 1978
8 1979
9 1980
10 1981
11 References

1972 (pilot)

First aired: 8/19/1972

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 -
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"
Linda Ronstadt - "Long, Long Time" & "The Fast One"
War - "Slippin' into Darkness"

1973

1974

Aerosmith - "Train Kept A-Rollin'"
Ann Peebles
Barry White - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"
Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"
Brownsville Station
David Essex - "Rock On"
Eddie Kendricks
Edwin Starr
El Chicano
Genesis
Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone"
Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown"
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
Leo Sayer
Lynn Anderson
Maria Muldaur - "Midnight at the Oasis"
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"
Montrose - "Rock the Nation" and "Space Station #5"
Neil Sedaka - "Laughter in the Rain"
The New York Dolls
The O'Jays - "Love Train"
Phil Ochs and Jim Glover - "The Power and the Glory" and "Changes"
Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
Sly & the Family Stone - "Everybody is a Star"
Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?" & "A Dream Goes On Forever"

1975

ABBA - "SOS" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
PFM - "Celebration" and "Alta Loma Nine Till Five"'
The Bee Gees - "Nights on Broadway"
Fleetwood Mac - "Rhiannon"
Earth Wind and Fire - "Shining Star"
KISS - "Black Diamond", "Deuce", & "She"
KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"
Labelle - "Lady Marmalade"
Rod Stewart - "You Wear It Well"
Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", "Baby, I Love Your Way"
Helen Reddy - "I Am Woman"
Olivia Newton John - "Have You Ever Been Mellow"
Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
Barry Manilow - "Could It Be Magic?"
Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
Orleans - "Dance with Me"
Natalie Cole - "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "It Takes Two to Tango"
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"
Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"
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)

1976

Aretha Franklin - "Respect", "Something He Can Feel"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Nightrider" & "Strange Magic"
Elton John - "Your Song"
Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive"
Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", "World Turning", "Why"
Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
Heart - "Magic Man" "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing
Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
George Benson - "This Masquerade"
Michael Murphey - "Wildfire"
Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"
Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"
Eric Carmen - "All By Myself"
Tom Jones - "Delilah, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Lynn Anderson
Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"
England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
Janis Ian - "At Seventeen"
Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind"
Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - "A Fifth of Beethoven"

1977

Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
Andy Kaufman - "I Trusted You"
Bonnie Raitt - "Runaway"
Little Feat - "Dixie Chicken"
Weather Report - "Birdland"
Bread - "Make It With You"
Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
Electric Light Orchestra (hosts) - "Rockaria!", "Livin' Thing", "Do Ya", "Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing (reprise)"
The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
James Brown - "Get Up Offa That Thing"
Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'"
Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
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", "Got to Give It Up"
Player
Sanford-Townsend Band - "Smoke from a Distant Fire"
Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
Van Morrison - "Domino"

1978

AC/DC - "Sin City"
Aerosmith - "Come Together"
Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
Chic - "Le Freak"
Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"
Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
Donna Summer - "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"
Eddie Money - "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise"
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)"
Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
Nick Lowe- "So It Goes"
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"
Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever", "Need You Bad", "Free For All" (Hosted this Show)
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," "I Need to Know"
The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"
Yvonne Elliman - "If I Can't Have You"

1979

Alice Cooper - "Billion Dollar Babies"
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"
The Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
The Commodores - "Three Times a Lady"
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 - "Lovin', Touchin'. Squeezin'," "Wheel in the Sky," "City of Angels"
Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You" (memorial replay of her 1975 appearance)
Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"
Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
Rick James - "You and I"
Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
The Three Degrees - "Giving Up Giving In", The Runner"
The Jacksons - "Shake Your Body Down To The Ground"

1980

Eddie Rabbit - "Drivin' My Life Away"
Frankie Valli & Commodores - "Grease"
Olivia Newton-John - "Magic"
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"
Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
America - "Sister Golden Hair"

1981

Andy Kaufman
Freddie Cannon - "Tallahassee Lassie"
Slim Whitman - "I Remember You"
Tony Clifton
707 - "Tonite's Your Night"

References

^ "The Midnight Special Season 1 Episode 23". Online Video Guide. http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/the-midnight-special-season-1-episode-23-host-paul-williams-160603. Retrieved August 10, 2010.