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)

Season 3 (1974–1975)

• 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
• David Essex - "Rock On"
• Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
• Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'"
• Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
• Edwin Starr
• El Chicano
• Freddie Prinze
• Genesis
• Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone"
• 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"
• 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 - "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"
• 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 - "Come and Get Your Love"
• 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)"
• 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 - "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
• Dolly Parton
• 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"
• The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"
• Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber
• KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"
• KISS - "Black Diamond", "Deuce", & "She"
• Kraftwerk - "Autobahn" (S03E43 July 25, 1975)
• Labelle - "Lady Marmalade", “What Can I Do for You?”
• Leo Sayer
• Linda Ronstadt
• Minnie Riperton - "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 - "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)
• Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"
• 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"
• 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", "Why"
• Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive"
• George Benson - "This Masquerade"
• Heart - "Magic Man", "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
• Helen Reddy
• 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
• 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
• 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 -
• 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"
• 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
• 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"
• 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 "Nothing From Nothing"
• The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
• Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
• Chic - "Le Freak," "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 - "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
• 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 - "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 - "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"
• Dan Hartman - "Instant Replay"
• 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 The Angels"
• KC and the Sunshine Band
• Minnie Riperton - "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
• Rick James - "You and I"
• Robert Fripp - "Frippertronics"
• Robert Palmer - "Bad Case Of Lovin' You (Doctor, Doctor)"
• 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 - "Sister Golden Hair"
• Benny Mardones - "Into the Night"
• Billy Preston
• Christopher Cross
• David Bowie
• Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
• Frankie Valli & Commodores - "Grease"
• Gladys Knight & the Pips
• Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
• Isaac Hayes - "Don't Let Go"
• John Mellencamp - "This Time" & "Ain't Even Done With The Night"
• Leo Sayer
• Olivia Newton-John - "Magic", "Dancin'"
• Randy Jones
• 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
• Dr. Hook
• Prince - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" & "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad ?"

1981

• 707 - "Tonite's Your Night"
• Andy Kaufman
• David Bowie
• Freddy Cannon - "Tallahassee Lassie"
• Slim Whitman - "I Remember You"
• The Spinners
• Tony Clifton

References

External links

• The Midnight Special
• Episode guide at thetvdb.com