I'm completely serious when I say this: what you are doing by preserving and uploading these old episodes is so important. More and more these artists (true artists!) are lost and forgotten, and anything that keeps them relevant for a new generation, however few people may appreciate it, is so vital. THANK YOU for you work on this!
Absolutely agree we will never see the likes of Such great artists, and tremendously miss the Wolf man, thanks for letting us go back to better times, and the great music.
The Bobby Darin segment brought tears to my eyes. I knew he was a great singer but I was blown away by how accomplished he was on the piano and harmonica. This was filmed mere months before he passed away. 😢
As a teenager in the 70's I didn't give much thought to 50's/early 60's artists. Well, wow, Bobby Darin (RIP) was just fabulous on this episode, and Paul Anka was a great host. I did love "Jubilation" when it came out. That's the thing about the Midnight Special. Whether I was watching in 1973 or (thankfully) now, there was such diversity in each episode, always something for everyone. Thanks to everybody working to post all of these episodes and clips, and especially to Burt Sugarman for having the foresight to protect the treasures.
We all thank Burt Sugarman for all of these amazing episodes and clips. So many different genres of music in one show through the years, from John Denver, Paul Anka, Loretta Lynn to King Crimson, Genesis and SPARKS. 🙂
Another nice blast from the past moments with all artists on this video. Glad we got to see Bobby Darin immortalized here shortly before he died. He didn’t show any signs of serious illness. I once sent Paul Anka a poem I wrote when I was 14 years old as a business English project a couple years later to see what his reaction would be. It wasn’t a romantic poem. It was more of a current events type poem of a more serious nature during the turbulent late 60’s era. Well his secretary sent it back to me and thanked me for sending the poem and to continue my endeavors in poetry. Well many years later I sent in that same poem to a contest in the 1990’s and it is now in the National Library of poetry in Washington to my surprise. I was also offered a job later on from RCA records (the label Paul Anka used to record his music at the time) after graduating from High school but I would have to take 3 buses to the studio at the time. I still wonder to this day if he had anything to do with RCA contacting me during that time. Anyway thanks for making these videos available. ❤️🙏🏻🎼🌹
I am blown away again and awestruck how music crosses time and generations: In 1973 my Dads favorite artist was Bobby Darin ( he would name my brother to be born in 74 after his last name with same spelling); today, in 2023, my 27 year old son’s favorite singer is George Jones. What a gift these shows are to the memory bank. And to have Loretta and Tammy on back to back shows! Giants walked the earth back then.
Waiting for the Doobie Bros, I honestly enjoyed this lineup more than I thought I would. Great music and writing is just that. Great stuff. I loved (still love) this Series. These episodes are a real historical treat. Thank you!
Sad...he's really putting in great work this night. talented, Entertaining, and Gracious introducing the backing band. Maybe his health issues made him look a bit older than 36 years years old that he was on the date of the show...
How great is that classic chunka-chunka guitar riff from The Doobie Brothers' Tom Johnston at 44:00!! After years of watching the lip-synched performances on "American Bandstand," it was a genuine thrill to watch these artists play absolutely live every Friday night on "The Midnight Special."
Oh man. Bobby Darin six months before his unexpected death. He sounded lovely but I know his health was absolutely terrible at the time. He looks a heckuva lot older than 37. It's nice that Paul Anka hosted this broadcast; he was great friend of Darin's and ended up being the person to posthumously induct Darin in the rock and roll hall of fame in 1990 (it seems crazy it took 30 more years for the Doobie Brothers to make it in).
Unfortunately this was when Paul Anka was in a lull in his career. His comeback would begin the next year with “(You’re) Having My Baby”. Great seeing the late great Bobby Darin. He is truly missed to this day.
this show is awesome. you get a reminder of why music from the 50s/60s were important and what made the 70s so fun. i wasn't born in those times but i love all of that music. i love the fact that the show even would have something weird like king crimson, sparks, and genesis on the show.
I was blessed to be born in the 50's. For me the musical ride was fantastic all the way thru the late 80's. The variety particularly good from the 50's through the 70's. Great music is never out of style and Midnight Special was its cultural cornucopia.
Thank you for another phenomenal full-length episode of "The Midnight Special." I loved the black & white concert clip that Paul Anka shared. The girls were screaming and swooning over Paul, and there was a cop standing there who was just as mesmerized as the girls. My favorite Paul Anka is "The Times of Your Life" which became a jingle for Kodak camera commercial. I think we can all remember back when we had film cameras, flash cubes, and the birth of Polaroids, films projectors with film reels, slide projectors with slides, 8 tracks and cassettes, rotary phones, party lines, pagers, and payphones. Now, we live in a digital world, streaming, computers and cell phones. I would go back to those simple care free days as a young girl sitting in my parent's living room watching TV with an antenna. There was no cable. Happy Friday... thank you for sharing! 💖
sure make me tear up at 64.lol. the Times of your life is the best. The 60's and 70's were my times of my life for sure. I was blessed to grow up then and I enjoyed it immensely even at the time because I knew as a kid it was special.
@@themidnightspecialtvshow Waiting for some of my favorites Guess Who, Dr. Hook, Edgar Winter, Slade, and a bunch of others. Even the Country and R&B was great back then.
@@themidnightspecialtvshow I bought the 20 (or so) DVD set back in the early 2000s but this is so much better. I hope more shows follow suit (Don Kirshner, ABC In Concert, etc) and release entire episodes of their series,
I love the memories of these shows. Friday night and the midnight special is on again.Takes me back to my early teen years watching on my 📺 🖥 theold days
Only took 50 years, but I finally get to see who sang Oh Happy Day. Believe it or not, for short time in 1973 those pants Anka wears were actually in style.
I keep asking myself how come I never knew about the Midnight Special?? I'm 54, and I have older siblings! I've been watching all the episodes on TH-cam! I love it! So glad I found it!!
This aired exactly one year before I was born. My mom was into Paul Anka when she was a teen - I wonder if she watched this episode. I love the music from this era too. Bobby Darin was great in this episode, so sad he tragically passed later that year -too young!
I like how you pull certain clips from these shows and post them separately. I would love it if Bobby Darins if I were a carpenter song was one of them. I’ve been playing it over and over. I watched all of these shows when they first came out but don’t recall his performances on this one. Brilliant
Thank you SO much for uploading these! The dark haired girl in the front row SAW THE LIGHT during Edwin Hawkins Singers! Thought she might jump up there.😁 🤘😎🤘
I saw Natural Thing listed on a best of the Doobies boot dvd years ago and figured it was a typo,I'm sooooooooo glad that actually exists,can't wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@themidnightspecialtvshow - As you might have seen from my comments, I am the #1 fan of the show. I hesitate to ask this favor, but there is a performance I have been dying to see again. It is "Midnight Show" by Ron Dante on June 13th, 1975 show. Many special things surrounding this song. It was a pseudo dedication to your program, it was one of the few times an artist only performed one song on an episode, it was a giant hit in my area of the country, and Ron and myself may not make it long enough to see it when it appears in a couple of years. Thanks for your consideration.
Im 51 so this is just a little before my time watching live, but I remember seeing reruns. Music was so real back then. Had a genuine quality about it. Everyone could play an instrument or actually sing or at least had amazing charisma. These traits are missing from today's modern, lets call it Pop music or top 40
Looking forward to seeing performances by The Grass Roots and Honey Cone next week in the March 23, 1973 episode premiere. This Midnight Special channel is awesome!
It appears they thought "Natural Thing" was going to be the leadoff single from the new Doobies album. But the label decided "Long Train Runnin" was the better choice, with "China Grove" to follow. I think the label made the right choice, although "Natural Thing" is still quite good.
I still don't think they were convinced - I remember that the 45 single as used in jukeboxes had Long Train on one side and China Grove on the other (I can't remember which was the A side).
@@Fredman2410 - Those two titles have never been released on the same 45 in America (promotional or commercial). But there was a 33 1/3 rpm jukebox album released in 1973 that contained 5 songs from "The Captain & Me" album. Those two titles were on side A and "Natural Thing" was on side B.
It would seem thee are not entire and complete shows. This episode cut the George Jones & Tammy Wynette duet of “Let’s All Go Down To The River” unless I somehow missed it.
I'm completely serious when I say this: what you are doing by preserving and uploading these old episodes is so important. More and more these artists (true artists!) are lost and forgotten, and anything that keeps them relevant for a new generation, however few people may appreciate it, is so vital. THANK YOU for you work on this!
Couldn't agree more. I'm not THAT old, but I only listen to '70s/early '80s music. Nothing compares.
Absolutely agree we will never see the likes of Such great artists, and tremendously miss the Wolf man, thanks for letting us go back to better times, and the great music.
Wholesome music that quenches the soul.
Here here ✌️☮️well said
I totally agree
The Bobby Darin segment brought tears to my eyes. I knew he was a great singer but I was blown away by how accomplished he was on the piano and harmonica. This was filmed mere months before he passed away. 😢
the Jews killed him for Simple song of freedom
he was unbelievably great
As a teenager in the 70's I didn't give much thought to 50's/early 60's artists. Well, wow, Bobby Darin (RIP) was just fabulous on this episode, and Paul Anka was a great host. I did love "Jubilation" when it came out. That's the thing about the Midnight Special. Whether I was watching in 1973 or (thankfully) now, there was such diversity in each episode, always something for everyone. Thanks to everybody working to post all of these episodes and clips, and especially to Burt Sugarman for having the foresight to protect the treasures.
bobby darin stole the freakin show hands down ...outstanding bobby. you were in that special class of dude like Elvis and sinatra RIP brother.
We all thank Burt Sugarman for all of these amazing episodes and clips. So many different genres of music in one show through the years, from John Denver, Paul Anka, Loretta Lynn to King Crimson, Genesis and SPARKS. 🙂
Damn Bobby Darin is awesome here..that first song made my heart ache
show stealer
@The Midnight Special Its so cool that he gave credit to Tim Hardin who wrote the song. Tim should be a household name.
@@BIZARBIESTotally agree. Writing AND singing, Tim Hardin was brilliant!
Ok, so I have to totally recalibrate my appreciation of Bobby Darin. Way up.
Bobby Darin was a huge talent. He died nine months after this. Godspeed, Bobby.
That’s unfortunate
Who knew Bobby Darin could rock the harmonica?
he could rock any instrument
And he died just a few months later.
We had it so good back then. Where did it all go wrong? This program was my weekly entertainment back then.
Join us every Friday when we premiere new episodes and make it part of your routine again.
Anyone else notice Fred Willard? A great comic actor, one of the funniest in everything he was in!
yep.
GREAT BOBBY DARIN
Another nice blast from the past moments with all artists on this video. Glad we got to see Bobby Darin immortalized here shortly before he died. He didn’t show any signs of serious illness. I once sent Paul Anka a poem I wrote when I was 14 years old as a business English project a couple years later to see what his reaction would be. It wasn’t a romantic poem. It was more of a current events type poem of a more serious nature during the turbulent late 60’s era. Well his secretary sent it back to me and thanked me for sending the poem and to continue my endeavors in poetry. Well many years later I sent in that same poem to a contest in the 1990’s and it is now in the National Library of poetry in Washington to my surprise. I was also offered a job later on from RCA records (the label Paul Anka used to record his music at the time) after graduating from High school but I would have to take 3 buses to the studio at the time. I still wonder to this day if he had anything to do with RCA contacting me during that time. Anyway thanks for making these videos available. ❤️🙏🏻🎼🌹
He was breathless when he was introducing Paul Anka
what a story!
It was so weird. No mention of him in the intro and suddenly BAM! a set from Bobby Darin!
God Bless Bobby Darin. Gone way too soon. Great talent. 😢❤
I am blown away again and awestruck how music crosses time and generations: In 1973 my Dads favorite artist was Bobby Darin ( he would name my brother to be born in 74 after his last name with same spelling); today, in 2023, my 27 year old son’s favorite singer is George Jones. What a gift these shows are to the memory bank. And to have Loretta and Tammy on back to back shows! Giants walked the earth back then.
Bobby Darin: one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th Century
The one & only Bobby Darin.........
doobees stole the show. thx for the gem. much love.
Everybody else in the episode is what Rock was trying to get away from...
All these acts are forever young here, and I become young again when I watch.
Waiting for the Doobie Bros, I honestly enjoyed this lineup more than I thought I would. Great music and writing is just that. Great stuff.
I loved (still love) this Series. These episodes are a real historical treat. Thank you!
One of Bobby Darin's last ever TV Performances before he died 9 months later.
Sad...he's really putting in great work this night. talented, Entertaining, and Gracious introducing the backing band.
Maybe his health issues made him look a bit older than 36 years years old that he was on the date of the show...
@@romelovesdanI agree, he did look older than 36
How great is that classic chunka-chunka guitar riff from The Doobie Brothers' Tom Johnston at 44:00!! After years of watching the lip-synched performances on "American Bandstand," it was a genuine thrill to watch these artists play absolutely live every Friday night on "The Midnight Special."
7:45 engrossing performance of "If I Were A Carpenter" by Bobby Darin.
Oh man. Bobby Darin six months before his unexpected death. He sounded lovely but I know his health was absolutely terrible at the time. He looks a heckuva lot older than 37. It's nice that Paul Anka hosted this broadcast; he was great friend of Darin's and ended up being the person to posthumously induct Darin in the rock and roll hall of fame in 1990 (it seems crazy it took 30 more years for the Doobie Brothers to make it in).
Bobby darin I wished he was still alive what a loss 1973
Could you imagine this today? That was a magical time know one new would end.
Bobby Darin died 7 months later, December 1973. He was 37.
Wow he looked older than that here
@@93seronicaHe had congestive heart failure.
Doobie vocalist is on fire.
Every episode is a treat. Can’t wait for the next! There’s no equivalent today. So appreciative.
I really enjoy these full episodes. Remember quite a few
Doobie Bros listen to the music rocked and rolled this episode with their live performance.
Bobby Darin was cool
Thanks to Mr. Sugarman for sharing these gems. Takes me back to a better time.
Glad you enjoyed it
Bobby Darin rocking out in the 70s..Cool..Too bad he passed a few months later..He'd be kicking ass today
this looks amazing. Funny to think that this picture far exceeds what I would have seen on a television set when it aired.
Bobby Darin passed away nine months after this amazing performance.
That’s unfortunate
The Edwin Hawkins Singers' Percussionist is fabulous....killing it.
With the classic grip and everything
Awesome show!!! Bobby Darin!!! 🙌
Unfortunately this was when Paul Anka was in a lull in his career. His comeback would begin the next year with “(You’re) Having My Baby”. Great seeing the late great Bobby Darin. He is truly missed to this day.
I didn’t realize that was the guy that sang put your head on my shoulders, that song was a TikTok trend last year
this show is awesome. you get a reminder of why music from the 50s/60s were important and what made the 70s so fun. i wasn't born in those times but i love all of that music. i love the fact that the show even would have something weird like king crimson, sparks, and genesis on the show.
I was only three. But totally appreciate how real, talented and more sincere the music was compared to today.
This was filmed 20 years before I was born, I love music from this decade
I was blessed to be born in the 50's. For me the musical ride was fantastic all the way thru the late 80's. The variety particularly good from the 50's through the 70's. Great music is never out of style and Midnight Special was its cultural cornucopia.
Wow. Bobby Darin passed away later that year. Tremendous loss.
Thank you for another phenomenal full-length episode of "The Midnight Special." I loved the black & white concert clip that Paul Anka shared. The girls were screaming and swooning over Paul, and there was a cop standing there who was just as mesmerized as the girls. My favorite Paul Anka is "The Times of Your Life" which became a jingle for Kodak camera commercial. I think we can all remember back when we had film cameras, flash cubes, and the birth of Polaroids, films projectors with film reels, slide projectors with slides, 8 tracks and cassettes, rotary phones, party lines, pagers, and payphones. Now, we live in a digital world, streaming, computers and cell phones. I would go back to those simple care free days as a young girl sitting in my parent's living room watching TV with an antenna. There was no cable.
Happy Friday... thank you for sharing! 💖
I didn’t realize that was the guy that sang put your head on my shoulders, that song was a TikTok trend last year
sure make me tear up at 64.lol. the Times of your life is the best. The 60's and 70's were my times of my life for sure. I was blessed to grow up then and I enjoyed it immensely even at the time because I knew as a kid it was special.
I remember how happy I was that my parents were square dancers who came home laye enough for me to watch. 65 yrs.
This was an episode I would have skipped in 1973 but I can listen to them now.
Can't wait. Love that you are putting these out in order. What a collection! Anticipating every one of them!
More to come!
@@themidnightspecialtvshow Waiting for some of my favorites Guess Who, Dr. Hook, Edgar Winter, Slade, and a bunch of others. Even the Country and R&B was great back then.
@@themidnightspecialtvshow I bought the 20 (or so) DVD set back in the early 2000s but this is so much better. I hope more shows follow suit (Don Kirshner, ABC In Concert, etc) and release entire episodes of their series,
I absolutely LOVE that these entire episodes are in order!!! It's giving me such a great feeling for the chronology of the music of the times!!👏🏼👏🏼
I love the memories of these shows. Friday night and the midnight special is on again.Takes me back to my early teen years watching on my 📺 🖥 theold days
Can't thank you all enough for uploading these episodes! It's wonderful to see this show.
Glad you are enjoying them.
Only took 50 years, but I finally get to see who sang Oh Happy Day. Believe it or not, for short time in 1973 those pants Anka wears were actually in style.
Yes I had a pair (not quite so red) at the age of14 in 73, with a 3 in. Cuff on the bottom.
Loved the closing song "Jubilation" and the Edwin Hawkins singers.
Thanks for this stunning episode. Love to see the great Dean Parks live on guitar in Paul Ankas's Band...
Cuts like a hammer!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Always a lovely trip down memory lane! Thank you so very much.
Ace Truckers, cutting edge comedy for the early 70's
In the right-front seat: Is that Raymond J. Johnson Jr?
just in case nobody else noticed, ',Big Freddie' be Fred Willard.
You are giving so much enjoyment with your uploads. Many thanks
Thanks Burt for sharing these MS full episodes!!!
I keep asking myself how come I never knew about the Midnight Special?? I'm 54, and I have older siblings! I've been watching all the episodes on TH-cam! I love it! So glad I found it!!
Glad you did now. Thanks for sharing!!
50 years ago ❤❤! It's hard to believe 😊❤
The song oh happy day gave me a very happy day 😂! Thank you 🎉
🙌🏼🙌🏼 The Coasters!! Wow wow wow what an amazing lineup!!
Amazing. I have to track down that Paul Anka album.
Great "Guitar mix" during these performances. Love it! Crank it up!
This aired exactly one year before I was born. My mom was into Paul Anka when she was a teen - I wonder if she watched this episode. I love the music from this era too. Bobby Darin was great in this episode, so sad he tragically passed later that year -too young!
I didn’t realize that was the guy that sang put your head on my shoulders, that song was a TikTok trend last year
how did I miss this ? !!! Paul Anka my favorite singer ! 🥰 thank you !!
Great show from the 70’s!
Thank-you Mr. Sugarman for these wonderful memories! Words cannot express what you have done for music preservation.
Thank you. SO great! you are kindly sharing such treasures. Makes my day ❤
So glad!
Wow! These bring back awesome memories! Thanks!
Our pleasure!
Paul Anka looks like he was kinda jacked backed in the day. Man, that opener was awesome
I didn’t realize that was the guy that sang put your head on my shoulders, that song was a TikTok trend last year
Wow how great to see bobby darrin and paul anka again. Thanks
Kudos to the persons that upload these vids. Absolutely classic TV one wishes should air today.
As a gen that is born in the 2000s, I highly look forward to the iconic performance of legendary bands and artists in the 70s and 80s.
I’m a millennial born 20 years after this episode aired and I love music from that decade
Rick those red plaid pants😊fun to see the different fashion back then.
I like how you pull certain clips from these shows and post them separately. I would love it if Bobby Darins if I were a carpenter song was one of them. I’ve been playing it over and over. I watched all of these shows when they first came out but don’t recall his performances on this one. Brilliant
I know, it’s annoying having to keep skipping to that part
Absolutely love these brings back a lot of memories from when I was a kid
Hey everyone! I'm so excited to see this!😊
Am so appreciative that we can see these shows again!
We didn’t have 200 channels back then but we didn’t need them with shows like this.
I had just turned 11 in March 1 1973 in Miami.
That was 20 years before I was born
Thank you SO much for uploading these!
The dark haired girl in the front row SAW THE LIGHT during Edwin Hawkins Singers!
Thought she might jump up there.😁
🤘😎🤘
These are great! Thank you so much. Brings back a lot of memories. I am watching Ep7 now. Great. Can't wait for more.
Great show, as always! Thanks, Midnight Special! ✌️😀
Our pleasure!
I saw Natural Thing listed on a best of the Doobies boot dvd years ago and figured it was a typo,I'm sooooooooo glad that actually exists,can't wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, Bobby Darin was only 36 here, and passed later this very year at 37
The way you are uploading should be a lesson to everyone else on TH-cam with this kind of content to share. Assuming there are any. Thanks again!!
The folks who own the rights to The Ed Sullivan Show should post the entire programs like this and not just clips.
So so good. Been waiting to see these.
Great stuff. I got caught up on the episodes, can't wait for the next one. Thanks for putting these on TH-cam. Lots of good music and memories.
Glad you like them!
@@themidnightspecialtvshow - As you might have seen from my comments, I am the #1 fan of the show. I hesitate to ask this favor, but there is a performance I have been dying to see again. It is "Midnight Show" by Ron Dante on June 13th, 1975 show. Many special things surrounding this song. It was a pseudo dedication to your program, it was one of the few times an artist only performed one song on an episode, it was a giant hit in my area of the country, and Ron and myself may not make it long enough to see it when it appears in a couple of years. Thanks for your consideration.
@@shyman99 Ron Dante "Mr. Sugar, Sugar" of The Archies!
Love these so much and please keep the full episodes coming. Always a highlight of my week.
Love to hear that!
Im 51 so this is just a little before my time watching live, but I remember seeing reruns. Music was so real back then. Had a genuine quality about it. Everyone could play an instrument or actually sing or at least had amazing charisma. These traits are missing from today's modern, lets call it Pop music or top 40
Thanks for confirming. I noticed Bob Edmonson in the first song. Cool.
Wonderful ❤
Thank you 😄
these full episodes are incredible!!!
Lol Poison Ivy always makes me think of Tom Hanks in Big. He did a great cover!😂
Looking forward to seeing performances by The Grass Roots and Honey Cone next week in the March 23, 1973 episode premiere. This Midnight Special channel is awesome!
Great!!!!!!!
You can feel the pain in Tammy Wynette's voice, the pain she lived in her life.
Tammy !!!!
Judging by the year I feel like The Doobie Brothers might be in the first Southern Rock groups. Incredible performance!
The Doobie Bros were from San Jose, CA. Not a Southern Rock band.
It appears they thought "Natural Thing" was going to be the leadoff single from the new Doobies album. But the label decided "Long Train Runnin" was the better choice, with "China Grove" to follow. I think the label made the right choice, although "Natural Thing" is still quite good.
I still don't think they were convinced - I remember that the 45 single as used in jukeboxes had Long Train on one side and China Grove on the other (I can't remember which was the A side).
@@Fredman2410 - Those two titles have never been released on the same 45 in America (promotional or commercial). But there was a 33 1/3 rpm jukebox album released in 1973 that contained 5 songs from "The Captain & Me" album. Those two titles were on side A and "Natural Thing" was on side B.
@shyman99 This was in Canada, and definitely a 45. I knew the bar owners, and watched them change the disk a couple of times. I should have kept one!
It would seem thee are not entire and complete shows. This episode cut the George Jones & Tammy Wynette duet of “Let’s All Go Down To The River” unless I somehow missed it.