The Midnight Special
(1972)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 8
Roy Orbison
Episode 25 - 5-16-1980
-Roy Orbison (host) - ""Oh Pretty Woman,"" ""Only the Lonely,"" ""Crying,"" ""Running Scared,"" ""Hound Dog Man"" & ""Blue Bayou"" --On film: Roy Orbison - ""The Eyes of Texas"" (from the movie ""Roadie"") --David Bowie - ""Fame"" (1970's clip) --Genesis - ""Turn It on Again"" music video --Patti LaBelle - ""I Don't Go Shopping,"" ""Give It Up"" & ""You Are My Friend"" --Billy Preston and Syreeta - ""With You I'm Born Again"" --The Rockets - ""Desire"" & ""Oh Well""
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Episode 13
1-11-1980
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The Cars
Episode 2 - 9-28-1979
The Cars - ""Let's Go,"" ""Moving in Stereo,"" ""Candy-O,"" ""The Dangerous Type,"" Got a Lot on My Head"" & ""Nightspots"" --Suicide - ""Dream, Baby Dream"" and ""Ghost Rider"" --The Records - ""Starry Eyes,"" ""Teenarama,"" ""Affection Rejected,"" ""All Messed Up and Ready to Go"" Music Videos (Promotional clips): --M - ""Pop Muzik"" --Iggy Pop - ""Five Foot One"" & ""I'm Bored"" --Lene Lovich - ""Lucky Number"" & ""Say When""
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Episode 1
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Season 7
Episode 25
5-04-1979
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Hosts: The Beach Boys
Episode 24 - 4-27-1979
The Beach Boys (hosts) - ""Good Vibrations,"" ""Here Comes the Night,"" ""Surfin' U.S.A.,"" ""Angel Come Home"" & ""Lady Lynda"" --The Beach Boys, Roger McGuinn & Wolfman Jack - ""Rock 'n' Roll Music"" --McGuinn, Clark and Hillman - ""Don't You Write Her Off,"" ""Surrender to Me,"" ""Backstage Pass"" --Blondie (clips from 19-Jan-1979) - ""Heart of Glass"" (lip-synch); ""One Way or Another"" (live) & ""Hanging on the Telephone"" (live) --Tavares - ""Straight from Your Heart,"" ""More Than a Woman"" & ""Never Had a Love Like This Before"" Music videos: --Bad Company - ""Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy"" & ""Can't Get Enough of Your Love"" (concert footage)
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Host: Blondie
Episode 1 - 1-19-1979
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Season 6
Hosts: The O'Jays
Episode 36 - 1-13-1978
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Host: Crystal Gayle
Episode 35 - 6-02-1978
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Host: Rick Nelson
Episode 23 - 3-03-1978
Rick Nelson (guest host) - ""I Wanna Move with You,"" ""Gimme a Little Sign,"" ""Something You Can't Buy,"" ""Garden Party"" & ""Mystery Train"" --George Benson - ""Here Comes the Sun"" --Paul Davis - ""I Go Crazy,"" ""Bad Dream"" & ""I Never Heard the Song At All"" --Sweet Inspirations - ""Dance"" & ""Sweet Inspiration"" --10cc (music videos) - ""The Things We Do for Love"" & ""Five O'Clock in the Morning"" --Midnight Special salute to the Captain and Tennille
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Episode 1
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Season 5
British Rock hosted by Wolfman Jack
Episode 27 - 4-29-1977
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) - ""Do Ya,"" ""Rock Aria"" & ""Telephone Line"" --Salute to Elton John (narrated by Wolfman Jack) - includes clips of Elton John performing ""Bennie and the Jets"" & ""Philadelphia Freedom"" on ""Soul Train"" --Salute to Rod Stewart (narrated by Wolfman Jack) Music Videos / Promotional clips: --Queen - ""Bohemian Rhapsody,"" ""Somebody to Love"" & ""Tie Your Mother Down"" --Fleetwood Mac - ""Go Your Own Way"" & ""You Make Lovin' Fun"" --Genesis - ""Assault and Battery""
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Host: Gabe Kaplan
Episode 25 - 4-08-1977
Gabe Kaplan (host) - does two comedy monologues. The first is about commercials for nose sprays; skin creams and a new deodorant for the ear. Second monologue is about the telephone, prank phone calls; blind dates --ABBA - ""Dancing Queen"" --James Darren & Hattie Winston - ""You Take My Heart Away"" --The Dirt Band - ""Fish Song"" & ""Disco Stomp"" --Rod Stewart - ""Tonight's the Night"" (taped in his home) & ""The First Cut Is the Deepest"" --Gary Wright - ""Water Sign"" & ""I'm Alright"" --Midnight Special salute to Judy Collins
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Hosts: Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
Episode 22 - 3-18-1977
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. (hosts) - ""You Don't Have to Be A Star,"" ""Your Love,"" ""I Hope We Get to Love in Time"" & ""Gone at Last"" --Themla Houston - ""Don't Leave Me This Way"" --Thelma Houston, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. - ""Proud Mary"" --Manfred Mann's Earth Band - ""Blinded by the Light"" & ""Spirit in the Night"" --Fleetwood Mac (in concert from the University of California) - ""Rhiannon,"" ""Say You Love Me,"" ""Go Your Own Way"" & ""So Afraid""
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Hosts: The Electric Light Orchestra
Episode 19 - 2-18-1977
Electric Light Orchestra (hosts) - "Livin' Thing," "Do Ya," "Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing" --Electric Light Orchestra (on tape) - "Rock Aria" music video --Mary MacGregor - "Torn Between Two Lovers" & "I Just Want to Love You" --Don McLean - "Magdalene Lane," "Mule Skinner Blues" & "Cripple Creek" --George Miller (comedy monologue) - jokes about his childhood, friends, career, etc. --Santana - "Let the Music Set You Free," "Carnaval," "Let the Children Play" & "Jugando" --Santana (on tape) - "Give Me Love" --On film: clips from movie "Car Wash" with Rose Royce singing the title song.
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Co-hosts: Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers
Episode 5 - 10-15-1976
Guests: --Jackie DeShannon (co-host) - ""Put a Little Love in Your Heart,"" ""When You Walk in the Room,"" ""Needles and Pins,"" ""What the World Needs Now"" & ""The Weight"" --Johnny Rivers (co-host) - ""Secret Agent Man,"" ""Seventh Son"", ""Poor Side of Town,"" ""Summer Rain"" & ""Tracks of My Tears."" --Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers close the show singing ""What the World Need Now"" --The Byrds (from 2-Feb-1973) - ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" & ""So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"" --Gerry and the Pacemakers - ""Ferry Cross the Mersey"" & ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying"" --Sam and Dave - ""Hold On I'm Coming"" & ""Soul Man"" --Steppenwolf - ""Born to be Wild"" --The Turtles - ""Happy Together"" --Midnight Special salute to Jan and Dean (features clips of their songs & interview with Dean)
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Hosts: Bread
Episode 1 - 6-03-1977
Bread (hosts) - "Lay Your Money Down" "The Chosen One" "She's the Only One" & "Lost Without Your Love" --England Dan and John Ford Coley - "It's Sad to Belong" & "Soldier in the Rain" --Andrew Gold - "Lonely Boy" & "Go Back Home Again" --Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi" --Eddie Rabbitt - "Rocky Mountain Music" --Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'" --Valentine - "Take You Back" & "I've Got It" --Salute to Kenny Rogers
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Season 4
Host: Jimmie Walker
Episode 42 - 8-27-1976
-Jimmie Walker (host) --Lynn Anderson - medley (""Rose Garden,"" ""Top of the World"" and ""Cry"") & ""Gone At Last"" --Elvin Bishop - ""Struttin' My Stuff"" --Cate Brothers - ""Union Man"" & ""Can't Change My Heart"" --1st National Rotagilla Band - ""Rotagilla Chorus"" & ""I Feel Like Singing"" --Henry Gross - ""Springtime Mama"" & ""Southern Band"" --Johnnie Taylor - ""Disco Lady"" & ""Somebody's Gettin' It"" --Midnight Special salute: Neil Sedaka
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Host: James Brown
Episode 39 - 8-06-1976
James Brown - ""Sex Machine,"" ""Get Up Offa That Thing,"" ""Try Me,"" ""A Man's World"" & ""Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time"" --Peter Frampton - ""Baby I Love Your Way"" --Rhythm Heritage - ""Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)"" --Seals & Crofts - ""Get Closer"" & ""Goodbye Old Buddies"" --J.D. Souther - ""Black Rose,"" ""Banging My Head Against the Moon"" & ""Silver Blue"" --Midnight Special salute to Alice Cooper (2-part tribute) --Music video: Elton John and Kiki Dee - ""Don't Go Breakin' My Heart""
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 31 - 6-11-1976
Helen Reddy (host) - ""You Are a Song,"" ""No One Told Me"" & ""I Am Woman"" --David Brenner (comedian) - comedy segment with Helen Reddy --Fleetwood Mac - ""Rhiannon,"" ""Why"" (1974 song) & ""Over My Head"" --Dorothy Moore - ""Misty Blue"" & ""Funny How Time Slips Away"" --Gary Wright - ""My Love Is Alive,"" ""Dream Weaver"" & ""Can't Find the Judge"" --Midnight Special tribute to Paul Anka (2-part salute with clips from past performances) --Plus, a demonstration of the latest disco dances
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Host: Paul Anka
Episode 29 - 5-21-1976
Paul Anka (host) - ""Put Your Head on My Shoulder"" --Joan Baez - ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"" & ""Simple Twist of Fate"" --The Beatles (on film) - ""Hey Jude"" --The Bee Gees - ""Run to Me"" --Chuck Berry - ""Maybellene"" & ""Sweet Little Sixteen"" --The Carpenters - ""Please Me. Postman"" --Chubby Checker - ""The Twist"" --Jim Croce - ""Big Bad Leroy Brown"" --Peter Frampton - ""Show Me the Way"" & ""Baby I Love Your Way"" --Bill Haley and the Comets - ""Rock Around the Clock"" & ""See You Later Alligator"" --Herman's Hermits - ""I'm Henry VIII I Am"" & ""Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"" --Elvis Presley (on film) - ""Don't Be Cruel"" --Helen Reddy - ""Delta Dawn""
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Janis Ian
Episode 27 - 4-23-1976
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 26 - 4-09-1976
-Helen Reddy (host) - ""This Masquerade"" & ""I Am Woman"" --Fleetwood Mac - ""Rhiannon"" & ""World Turning"" --Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - ""Winners and Losers"" & ""Everyday Without You"" --Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds with Helen Reddy - ""Fallin' in Love"" --Barry Manilow - ""Tryin' to Get the Feelin' Again"" & ""Something's Comin' Up"" --Queen - ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" (probably a music video) --Gary Wright - ""Dream Weaver,"" ""Are You Weeping"" & ""My Love Is Alive""
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Helen Reddy / Miracles / Tanya Tucker / ELO
Episode 22 - 3-05-1976
Helen Reddy (host) - ""Somewhere in the Night"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Venus"" --Frankie Avalon and Helen Reddy - ""Why"" --David Bowie - ""Fame"" (music video?) --Billy Braver (comedy segment with Helen Reddy) --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Evil Woman,"" ""Nightrider"" & ""Strange Magic"" --The Miracles - ""Love Machine,"" ""Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A."" & ""Do It Baby"" --Tanya Tucker - ""Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You"" & ""You've Got Me to Hold On To"" --Midnight Special salute to Little Richard
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Host: David Brenner
Episode 21 - 2-27-1976
David Brenner (guest host) - stand-up comedy segments throughout show --Fleetwood Mac - ""Over My Head"" & ""Rhiannon"" --Lesley Gore - ""Immortality"" & ""Can't Seem to Live Our Good Times Down"" --B.B. King - ""Breaking Up Somebody's Home"" & ""Reconsider Baby"" --Michael Murphy - ""Renegade"" & ""Wildflower"" --Anne Murray - ""Sunday Sunrise"" --Midnight Special salute to Dion
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 15 - 1-09-1976
--Helen Reddy (host) - ""Angie Baby"" --Joan Baez - ""Diamonds and Rust"" & ""Children and All That Jazz"" --Glen Campbell - ""Rhinestone Cowboy"" --Earth, Wind & Fire - ""Shining Star"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Can't Get It Out of My Head"" & ""Laredo Tornado"" --Freddy Fender - ""Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"" --Janis Ian - ""At Seventeen"" --LaBelle - ""Lady Marmalade"" --Minnie Riperton - ""Lovin' You"" --Neil Sedaka - medley of hits & ""Bad Blood""
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Helen Reddy / Frankie Valli / KISS / Barry Manilow
Episode 10 - 11-28-1976
Helen Reddy (host) - ""Birthday Song,"" ""Belle of the Blues"" & ""I Am Woman"" --David Brenner (comedy segment) --KISS - ""Deuce"" & ""She"" --Barry Manilow - ""Something's Comin' Up,"" ""Tryin' to Get That Feelin' Again"" & ""I Want to Be Somebody's Baby"" --Frankie Valli - ""My Eyes Adored You"" --Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - ""Who Loves You?"" Midnight Special tribute to Harry Nilsson
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 8 - 11-14-1975
-Helen Reddy (host) - ""Delta Dawn,"" ""Emotion"" & ""I Am Woman"" --Helen Reddy and Neil Sedaka - ""Sad Eyes"" --The Captain and Tennille - ""Natural Woman"" --The Captain and Tennille with Neil Sedaka - ""Love Will Keep Us Together"" --KC & the Sunshine Band - ""(That's the Way) I Like It"" & ""Get Down Tonight"" --Freddie Prinze (stand-up comedy) --Neil Sedaka - ""Bad Blood,"" ""Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,"" ""Lonely Night (Angel Face),"" ""When You Were Loving Me"" --""Hit of the Week"": The Rolling Stones' ""Brown Sugar""
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 4 - 10-10-1976
Helen Reddy (host) - ""This Must Be Wrong"" & ""You're My Home"" --The Bee Gees - ""Nights on Broadway,"" ""Wind of Change"" and a medley of hits. --Billy Joel - ""Travelin' Prayer"" & ""Ballad of Billy the Kid"" --Mel Tillis - ""Rainy Day Woman"" & ""Mental Revenge"" --Ike and Tina Turner - ""Sexy Ida"" & ""Baby Get It On"" --Midnight Special salute to Joan Baez (narrated by Wolfman Jack)
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Episode 1
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Season 3
Helen Reddy / The Bee Gees / Janis Ian
Episode 48 - 9-12-1975
Helen Reddy (host) - ""Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady,"" ""The Midnight Special,"" ""Mama"" & ""I Am Woman"" --BT Expess - ""Give It What You Got"" & ""Peace Pipe"" --The Bee Gees - ""Jive Talkin'"" & ""Nights on Broadway"" --The Bee Gees with Helen Reddy - ""To Love Somebody"" --The Eagles - ""One of These Nights"" (might be a music video) --Janis Ian - ""At Seventeen"" & ""When the Party's Over"" --Orleans - ""Dance with Me,"" ""Let There Be Music"" & ""Tongue Tied""
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Host: Frankie Valli
Episode 40 - 8-04-1975
Frankie Valli (guest host) - ""Swearin' to God,"" ""My Eyes Adored You,"" ""I Got Eyes for You Ruby"" & ""Can't Take My Eyes off of You"" --Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - ""Who Loves You"" & ""Silence Is Golden"" --The Four Seasons - ""Warsaw Concerto"" --Freddy Fender - ""Before the Next Teardrop Falls"" & ""Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"" --The Hollies - ""Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress,"" ""Another Night"" & ""Sandy"" --Orleans - ""Let There Be Music,"" ""Dance with Me"" & ""Tongue Tied"
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Host: Herb Alpert
Episode 38 - 6-20-1975
Herb Alpert (guest host) - ""Coney Island,"" ""Carmine,"" ""Never Never Land"" & ""Desert Dance"" --Herb Alpert - medley of hits (""Lonely Bull,"" ""Spanish Flea,"" ""This Guy's in Love with You,"" ""Taste of Honey"" and ""Zorba the Greek"") --The Captain and Tennille - ""Love Will Keep Us Together"" ""Cuddle Up"" --Billy Preston - ""Song of Joy"" --Phoebe Snow - ""Poetry Man"" & ""Harpo's Blues"" --Supertramp - ""Hide in Your Shell"" & ""Bloody Well Right"
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Hosts: Rod Stewart & The Faces
Episode 31 - 4-25-1975
Rod Stewart - ""Bring it On Home to Me,"" ""You Send Me,"" ""Take a Look at the Guy,"" ""Angel,"" ""I Can Feel the Fire,"" ""You Can Make Me Dance,"" ""You Wear it Well,"" ""Maggie May"" & ""We'll Meet Again"" --Rod Stewart and Keith Richards - ""Sweet Little Rock and Roller"" and ""Twisting the Night Away""
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Hosts: Earth, Wind & Fire
Episode 30 - 4-18-1975
Earth, Wind & Fire (guest hosts) - ""Shining Star,"" ""Mighty Mighty,"" ""Devotion"" & ""Yearning Learning"" --LaBelle - ""Lady Marmalade,"" ""What Can I Do For You?"" ""Are You Lonely"" & ""Happy Feelin'"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Just Too Many People,"" ""Party Music"" & ""Midnight Blue"" --Leo Sayer - ""Long Tall Glasses"" & ""In My Life"
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Helen Reddy / Jessi Colter / Janis Ian
Episode 25 - 7-25-1975
Helen Reddy (host) - ""Angie Baby,"" ""Bluebird,"" ""I Am Woman"" and a medley of hits (""Leave Me Alone,"" ""I Don't Know How to Love Him"" and ""Delta Dawn"") --Helen Reddy and Neil Sedaka - ""Don't Let It Mess Your Mind"" --Jessi Colter - ""I'm Not Lisa"" & ""You Ain't Never Been Loved"" --Janis Ian - ""At Seventeen"" & ""When the Party's Over"" --Kraftwerk - ""Autobahn"" --Neil Sedaka - ""That's When the Music Takes Me"" & ""Love Will Keep Us Together"" --Midnight Special tribute: The Bee Gees
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Host: Olivia Newton-John
Episode 24 - 3-07-1975
Olivia Newton-John (host) - ""If You Love Me (Let Me Know),"" ""Have You Never Been Mellow?"" ""You Ain't Got the Right,"" ""The Air That I Breathe"" & ""I Never Did Sing You a Love Song"" --Waylon Jennings - ""Honkey Tonk Heroes"" & ""You Ask Me To"" --Kenny Rankin - ""Silver Morning"" & ""Catfish"" --Ike and Tina Turner - ""Sexy Ida,"" ""Bayou Song"" and ""Baby Get It On"" --Salute to Leo Sayer. Leo is shown singing ""The Show Must Go On,"" ""Long Tall Glasses"" and ""It's Your Way"" --Leo Sayer - ""In My Life"" (or ""I've Got to Do Something with My Life"") and ""The Dancer""
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Host: Dave Mason
Episode 20 - 2-07-1975
Dave Mason (guest host) - ""World in Changes,"" ""Bring It On Home to Me,"" ""All Along the Watchtower,"" ""Every Woman,"" ""You Can't Take It When You Go,"" ""Only You Know and I Know,"" ""Lucille"" & ""Feelin' Alright"" --Average White Band - ""Got the Love,"" ""Work to Do"" & ""Nothing You Can Do"" --The Crusaders - ""Double Bubble"" & ""Stomp and Buck Dance"" --The Kiki Dee Band - ""You Need Help"" & ""Frozen One"
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Host: Helen Reddy (2nd Anniversary Show)
Episode 19 - 1-31-1975
Second Anniversary Show --Helen Reddy (guest host) - ""Angie Baby,"" ""Emotion,"" ""Raised on Rock,"" ""I'll be Your Audience"" & ""I Think I'll Write a Song"" --Bachman-Turner Overdrive - ""Hold Back the Water"" --Joan Baez - ""Love Song to a Stranger"" --David Bowie (from 16-Nov-1973) - ""Space Oddity"" & ""Time"" --The Byrds (from 2-Feb-1973) - ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" & ""So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star"" (with new intro by Roger McGuinn). --Bobby Darin (from 16-Mar-73) - medley: ""Splish Splash"" & ""If I Were A Carpenter"" (segment presented as a tribute to the late singer) --The Doobie Brothers - ""Listen to the Music"" & ""Jesus Is Just Alright"" --Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles (from 30-Mar-73) - ""Takes Two to Tango"" --Gladys Knight & B.B. King - ""The Thrill Is Gone""
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Hosts: Electric Light Orchestra
Episode 17 - 1-17-1975
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"" --The Ohio Players - ""Jive Turkey"" --Linda Ronstadt - ""When Will I Be Loved?"" --Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan - ""You Got the Love,"" ""I Am Woman,"" ""Packed My Bags"" & ""We Can Work It Out"
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Million Sellers (Part 1) - Host: Wolfman Jack
Episode 12 - 12-13-1974
Wolfman Jack (guest host) --Paul Anka - ""You're Having My Baby"" --Blue Magic - ""Sideshow"" --James Brown - ""The Payback"" --Gordon Lightfoot - ""Sundown"" --Love Unlimited Orchestra - ""Love's Theme"" --Olivia Newton-John - ""If You Love Me Let Me Know"" --Steve Miller - ""The Joker"" --Redbone - ""Come and Get Your Love"" --Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan - ""Tell Me Something Good"" --The Stylistics - ""You Make Me Feel Brand New"" --Barry White - ""Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"" & ""Never Gonna Give You Up"" --Bobby Womack - ""Looking for Love"
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Tom Jones
Episode 11 - 12-06-1974
Host: Tom Jones (host) - ""My Soul Is a Witness,"" ""Greenwood, Mississippi,"" ""I Guess You Know Me Girl,"" ""Pledging My Love,"" medley, ""It Never Hurts to Be Nice to Somebody,"" ""Danny Boy,"" ""One Night with You,"" ""Right Place, Wrong Time"" & ""Pledging My Love"" --Paul Anka and Tom Jones - ""My Way"" & ""She's a Lady"" --Chuck Berry - ""Johnny B. Goode"" --Chuck Berry and Tom Jones - ""School Days,"" ""Memphis"" & ""Roll Over Beethoven"" --The Kiki Dee Band - ""I've Got the Music in Me""
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Host: Paul Anka
Episode 4 - 10-18-1974
Paul Anka - ""You're Having My Baby,"" ""Jubilation,"" ""It Doesn't Matter Anymore,"" ""American Pie"" & ""Let Me Get to Know You"" --Odia Coates and Paul Anka - ""One Man Woman"" --James Brown - ""Papa Don't Take No Mess"" & ""Good Foot"" --Brownsville Station - ""Kings of the Party"" --The Guess Who with Wolfman Jack - ""Clap for the Wolfman"" --The Guess Who - ""American Woman"" --Ohio Players - ""Skin Tight"" --The Tymes - ""You Little Trustmaker""
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Host: Jose Feliciano
Episode 3 - 10-11-1974
Jose Feliciano (host) - ""My Sweet Lord,"" ""Chico and the Man,"" ""T.S.O.P.,"" ""Golden Lady"" & ""Love's Theme"" --Jesse Colin - ""Morning Sun"" & ""Light Shine"" --Hot Tuna - ""Hamar Promenade,"" ""Day to Day Out the Window Blues"" & ""I See the Light"" --The Main Ingredient - ""Everybody Plays the Fool,"" ""Happiness Is Just Around the Bend"" & ""Just Don't Want to Be Lonely"" --Buffy Sainte-Marie - ""I Can't Take It No More"" & ""That's the Way You Fall in Love""
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Host: Al Green
Episode 2 - 10-04-1974
Al Green (host) - ""Sweet Talk,"" ""Tired of Being Alone,"" ""Sha La La,"" ""Here I Am (Come and Take Me),"" ""I'm Still in Love with You"" & ""Love and Happiness."" --Al Green - medley: ""Funny How Time Slips Away,"" ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,"" ""For the Good Times"" and ""Let's Stay Together"" --Joe Cocker - ""Something"" & ""Delta Lady""
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Host: Randy Newman
Episode 1 - 9-27-1974
Randy Newman (host) - ""Mama Told Me Not to Come,"" ""Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear,"" ""Political Science,"" ""Davy and the Fat Boy,"" ""I Think It's Going to Rain Today,"" ""Rolling,"" ""All His Love"" & ""Louisiana 1927"" --Ry Cooder - ""Ditty Wah Ditty"" --Dr. John - ""Let's Make a Better World,"" ""Desitively Bonnaroo,"" ""Mos' Scocious"" & ""Mama Don't Allow"" --Dr. John and Maria Muldaur - ""Three Dollar Bill"" --Maria Muldaur - ""Sweetheart,"" Lover Man"" & ""Squeeze Me"" --The Turtles - ""Happy Together,"" ""Feel Older Now,"" ""Let Me Make Love to You"" & ""You Showed Me""
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Season 2
Hosts: The O'Jays
Episode 50 - 9-13-1974
The O'Jays (hosts) - ""For the Love of Money,"" ""Sunshine,"" ""Love Train"" and a medley (""Put Your Hands Together,"" ""People Keep Tellin' Me,"" ""Time to Get Down,"" ""This Air I Breathe"" and ""People Keep Tellin' Me"") --Elvin Bishop - ""Stealing Watermelons,"" ""Calling All Cows"" & ""Sunshine Special"" --James Brown - ""Payback,"" ""Cold Sweat,"" ""I Can't Stand to Live,"" ""Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,"" ""Hell,"" ""Papa Don't Take No Mess"" & ""My Thang"" --Mick Jagger (music videos) - ""Happy,"" ""Tumbling Dice"" & ""Midnight Rambler"
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Marvin Gaye
Episode 49 - 9-06-1974
Marvin Gaye concert taped August 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia. --Marvin Gaye performs ""Trouble Man,"" ""Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler),"" ""Come Get to This"" and ""Keep Gettin' It On"" --Marvin Gaye - medley of hits: ""I'll Be Doggone,"" ""Try It Baby,"" ""Can I Get a Witness,"" ""You're a Wonderful One,"" ""Stubborn Kind of Fellow,"" ""How Sweet It Is,"" ""Distant Lover,"" ""Let's Get It On,"" ""Jan"" and ""What's Going On"" The show included interview segments, filmed at Marvin Gaye's house in Washington D.C., of Marvin Gaye with his parents Mrs. Alberta Gaye and Marvin Gaye, Sr.
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Host: B.B. King
Episode 48 - 8-30-1974
B.B. King (host) - ""Why I Sing the Blues,"" ""I Like to Live the Love,"" ""The Thrill Is Gone,"" ""I Got Some Help I Don't Need"" & ""Why I Sing the Blues"" --B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Papa John Creach - ""Gettin' It Together"" --Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - ""Goin' Down Slow"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""Meet in the Bottom"" --Papa John Creach - ""John's Other"" --John Lee Hooker - ""Boogie with the Hook"" --Big Mama Thornton - ""Ball and Chain"" --Joe Williams - ""Who She Do"" & ""Tell Me Where to Scratch"" --Jimmy Witherspoon - ""Nothing's Changed"" & ""Love Is a Five Letter Word""
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Host: Little Richard
Episode 47 - 8-16-1974
Little Richard (host) - ""The Midnight Special,"" ""In the Name,"" ""Ooh Poo Pah Doo,"" ""Greenwood Miss"" & ""Freedom Blues"" --Aerosmith - ""The Train Kept A Rollin'"" & ""Dream On"" --David Clayton-Thomas - ""Anytime Babe"" & ""And When I Die"" --Golden Earring - ""Radar Love"" --Eddie Kendricks - ""Hooked on Your Love"" & ""Keep On Truckin'"" --Kool & the Gang - ""Funky Stuff"" & ""Who's Gonna Take the Weight""
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Hosts: Sly and the Family Stone
Episode 46 - 8-09-1974
Sly and the Family Stone (hosts) - ""Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),"" ""Time for Livin',"" ""Small Talk,"" ""Family Affair,"" ""Dance to the Music,"" ""Music Lover,"" ""I Want to Take You Higher,"" ""If You Want Me to Stay,"" ""Stand"" & ""Loose Booty"" --Elvin Bishop - ""Travelin' Shoes,"" ""Sunshine Special"" &""Groundhog"" --Henry Gross - ""Come On Say It"" & ""Simone"" --Little Feat - ""Tripe Face Boogie""& ""Willin'"" --Roger McGuinn - ""Gate of Horn"" & ""Peace on You"
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Host: Leon Russell
Episode 45 - 8-02-1974
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""
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Host: Leon Russell
Episode 44 - 7-26-1974
--Leon Russell - ""Queen of the Roller Derby,"" ""Roll Away the Stone,"" ""Ain't That Peculiar,"" ""Tight Rope"" & ""Delta Lady"" --Leon Russell with the Gap Band - ""Alcatraz,"" ""Going Back,"" ""Smashed"" & ""Streakers Ball"" --The Gap Band - ""Magician's Holiday,"" ""Tommy's Groove"" & ""You Can Always Count on Me"
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 43 - 7-19-1974
Helen Reddy - ""Keep on Singing,"" ""Pretty Pretty,"" ""Love Song for Jeffrey"" & ""You and Me Against the World"" --Peter Allen - ""More Than I Like You"" --Brownsville Station - ""I'm the Leader of the Gang"" & ""Kings of the Party"" --Janis Ian - ""Applause"" & ""The Man You Are In Me"" --Gabe Kaplan (comedian) - stand-up comedy segment --Dave Loggins - ""Please Come to Boston"" & ""Sunset Woman"" --Paul Williams - ""You Know Me"" & ""Driftwood""
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Host: Bobby Womack
Episode 42 - 7-12-1974
-Bobby Womack (host) - ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out"" ""Lookin' for Love,"" ""You Send Me,"" ""Fact of Life,"" He'll Get There When the Sun Goes Down"" & ""I Take It On Home"" --Bobby Womack and Wolfman Jack - ""Tired of Living in the Country"" --Chi Coltrane - ""Who Ever Told You"" & ""Let It Ride"" --David Essex - ""Lamplight"" & ""Streetfight"" --Kool & the Gang - ""Hollywood Swinging"" & ""Jungle Boogie"" --Elliott Murphy - ""How's the Family"" & ""Last of the Rock Stars"" --Tim Weisberg - ""Dreamspeaker"" & ""Streak-Out""
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Host: Anne Murray
Episode 41 - 7-05-1974
-Anne Murray (host) - ""You Won't See Me,"" ""A Love Song,"" ""Robbie's Song For Jesus,"" ""He Thinks I Still Care"" & ""Ease Your Pain"" --Golden Earring - ""Radar Love"" --Eddie Kendricks - ""Son of Sagittarius"" & ""Boogie Down"" --Country Joe McDonald - ""Jesse James"" & ""All My Love in Vain"" --Rufus - ""Tell Me Something Good"" & ""You Got the Love"" --Buffy Sainte-Marie - ""Sweet Fast Hooker Blues,"" ""Hey Baby Howdja Do Me This Way"" & ""That's the Way You Fall in Love"" --The Wet Willie Band - ""Keep On Smilin'"" & ""Trust in the Lord""
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Host: David Steinberg (All-Comedy show)
Episode 40 - 6-28-1974
David Steinberg (host) - appears in comedy segments throughout show, one segment with Wolfman Jack --The Ace Trucking Company (comedy troupe) --Franklin Ajaye - comedy segment --Kentucky Fried Theater - fashion show parody & ""Shaving Blindfolded"" --Freddie Prinze (comedy segment) --Monty Python's Flying Circus - comedy segment
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Hosts: The Kinks
Episode 39 - 6-07-1974
The Kinks - ""You Really Got Me,"" ""Money Talks,"" ""Here Comes Yet Another Day,"" ""Celluloid Heroes"" & ""Skin and Bone"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Showdown"" & ""Bluebird Is Dead"" --Rory Gallagher - ""Hands Off"" & ""Who's That Comin'"" --Buddy Miles - ""Life Is What You Make It"" --Alan Price - ""In Times Like These"" & ""Between Today and Yesterday"" --Suzi Quatro - ""All Shook Up"" & ""Glycerine Queen"
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Host: Marty Robbins
Episode 38 - 5-31-1974
-Marty Robbins (host) - ""I Couldn't Believe It Was True,"" ""Home on the Range,"" ""Down in the Little Green Valley,"" ""La Paloma,"" ""If I Were Howard Hughes,"" ""Don't You Think"" & ""Lord You Gave Me a Mountain"" --Bill Anderson - ""If You Can Live with It"" & ""My Life"" --Don Gibson - ""Touch the Morning"" --Freddie Hart - ""Easy Loving"" --George Jones - ""A Picture of Me"" --Charlie McCoy - ""Silver Threads and Golden Needles"" --Anne Murray - ""You Won't See Me"" & ""Children of My Mind"" --Tommy Overstreet - ""Gwen (Congratulations)"" --Johnny Rodriguez - ""Louisana Man"" & ""Something"" --Diana Trask - ""Lean It All on Me"" --Tammy Wynette - ""My Man""
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Host: Richard Pryor
Episode 37 - 5-24-1974
Richard Pryor (host) - appears in comedy segments throughout the show --Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - ""Ain't That Loving You"" & ""Gotta Get to Know You"" --Marvin Hamlisch - ""The Entertainer"" & ""The Way We Were"" --New Riders of the Purple Sage - ""Glendale Train"" & ""South American Man"" --Olivia Newton-John - ""Let Me Be There,"" ""If You Love Me Let Me Know"" & ""If Not for You"" --Melvin Van Peebles - ""Eyes on the Rabbit"" & ""A Birth Certificate Ain't Nothin' But a Death Warrant Anyway"" --Boz Scaggs - ""You Make It So Hard to Say No"" & ""Slow Dancer""
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Host: Frankie Avalon
Episode 36 - 5-17-1974
Frankie Avalon (host) - ""Why,"" ""Just Ask Your Heart,"" ""De De Dinah,"" ""Gingerbread,"" ""Bobby Sox to Stockings"" & ""Venus"" --Frankie Avalon and Fabian - ""Scrapbook"" & ""Fireball 500"" --Lou Christie - ""The Gypsy Cried"" & ""Lightnin' Strikes"" --Fabian - ""Rock Around the Clock,"" ""Turn Me Loose"" & ""Tiger"" --The Fleetwoods - ""Come Softly to Me"" & ""Mr. Blue"" --Frankie Ford - ""Sea Cruise"" --Jimmie Rodgers - ""Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,"" ""Honeycomb"" & ""Oh Oh I'm Falling in Love Again"" --The Royal Teens - ""Short Shorts"" & 'the Great Midnight Special Rock 'n' Roll Opera"" --Sam and Dave - ""Hold On I'm Comin'"" & ""Soul Man"" --Shirley and Lee - ""Let the Good Times Roll"
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Host: George Carlin
Episode 35 - 5-10-1974
George Carlin (host) --The Dramatics - ""Choosing Up on You"" & ""And I Panicked"" --Waylon Jennings - ""Good Hearted Woman"" & ""Louisiana Women"" --Puzzle - ""Everybody Wants to Be Somebody"" & ""My Love"" --Buffy Sainte-Marie - ""Sweet Little Vera"" & ""Generation"" --Leo Sayer - ""The Show Must Go On"" & ""Goodnight Old Friend"" --Livingston Taylor - ""Hallelujah I Love Her,"" ""Sit on Back"" & ""Cornbread and Buttermilk""
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Hosts: The Spinners
Episode 34 - 5-03-1974
The Spinners - ""One of a Kind Love Affair,"" ""Mighty Love,"" ""I'm Coming Home,"" ""It's a Shame"" & ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"" --Bedlam featuring Cozy Powell - ""Dance with the Devil"" & ""Set Me Free"" --Bloodstone - ""Outside Woman"" & ""Everybody Needs Love"" --Martha Reeves - ""Power of Love"" --Bobby Womack - ""Let It All Hang Out"" & ""Copper Kettle"" --Peter Yarrow - ""Isn't That So"" & ""That's Enough for Me
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Host: Charlie Rich
Episode 33 - 4-26-1974
--Charlie Rich (host) - ""Lonely Weekends,"" ""Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs,"" ""How I Became a Country Singer,"" ""Behind Closed Doors"" ""The Most Beautiful Girl,"" ""A Very Special Love Song,"" ""Big Boss Man"" & ""Dance of Love"" --Charlie Rich and Anne Murray - ""Break My Mind"" --Dobie Gray - ""Rockin' Chair,"" ""I Never Had it So Good"" & ""Drift Away"" --Anne Murray - ""You Won't See Me"" & ""A Love Song"" --The Staple Singers - ""I Ain't Raisin' No Sand"" ""Touch a Hand Make a Friend"" --The Treasures - ""The Right Combination""
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Host: Curtis Mayfield
Episode 32 - 4-19-1974
Curtis Mayfield (host) - ""If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go,"" ""To Be Invisible,"" ""Give Me Your Love"" & ""No Thing on Me"" --The Impressions - ""I'm a Changed Man"" & ""People Get Ready"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Best Thing That's Ever Happened to Me"" & ""On and On"" --Phil Ochs - ""The Power and the Glory"" & ""Changes"" --Status Quo - ""Big Fat Mama"" --Sugarloaf - ""Green Eyed Lady"" & ""I've Got a Song""
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Host: Roy Clark
Episode 31 - 4-12-1974
-Roy Clark (host) - ""Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms,"" ""Yesterday When I Was Young,"" ""Honeymoon Feelin',"" ""Thank God and the Greyhound,"" ""Riders in the Sky"" & ""Black Mountain Rag"" --Roy Clark & Buck Trent - ""Dueling Banjos"" --Lynn Anderson - ""Listen to a Country Song"" & ""Smile for Me"" --Tom T. Hall - ""I Love"" & ""The Year That Clayton Thomas Died"" --Charlie McCoy - ""Orange Blossom Special"" --Tommy Overstreet - ""(Jeannie Marie) You Were a Lady"" --Mel Tillis - ""Midnight Me and the Blues"" & ""Sawmill"" --Diana Trask - ""When I Get My Hands On You"" --Conway Twitty - ""You've Never Been This Far Before,"" ""It's Only Make Believe,"" ""There's a Honky Tonk Angel"" & ""I'm Not Through Loving You Yet""
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Hosts: The Righteous Brothers
Episode 30 - 4-05-1974
-The Righteous Brothers - ""Hello Rock 'n' Roll""; medley #1 (""Soul and Inspiration,"" ""Unchained Melody,"" ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" and ""Ebb Tide""); ""Roberto and Bill""; ""Lighten Up""; medley #2 (""Little Latin Lupe Lu,"" ""Koko Jo"" and ""My Babe""); medley #3 (""Swing Low Sweet Chariot,"" ""Swing Down Chariot,"" ""Down by the Riverside"" and ""Oh Happy Side"") & ""Rock 'n' Roll Loser."" --The Righteous Brothers and Paul Williams - ""Mr. Sandman"" --Bobby Hatfield - ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" --New Riders of the Purple Sage - ""Panama Red"" ""Sunday Susie"" --Rosemary - ""Wildflower"" --The Staple Singers - ""If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)"" & ""Touch a Hand Make a Friend"" --Paul Williams - ""You and Me Against the World"" & ""Nice to Be Around""
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Hosts: The Guess Who
Episode 29 - 3-29-1974
The Guess Who (guest hosts) - ""American Woman,"" ""Star Baby,"" ""These Eyes,"" ""Clap for the Wolfman"" & ""Hand Me Down World"" --David Essex - ""Lamplight,"" ""On and On"" & ""Rock On"" --Leo Kottke (folk singer) - ""Bean Time"" --Judi Pulver - ""Statler Hilton"" & ""Sing for Your Supper"" --Sha Na Na - ""Rock Around the Clock,"" ""Teenager in Love"" & ""Tell Laura I Love Her"" --Slade - ""My Friend Stan"" ""Do We Still Do It"" & ""Everyday"" --Wishbone Ash - ""Blowin' Free"" & ""Vas Dis""
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Host: Bill Withers
Episode 28 - 3-22-1974
Bill Withers (guest host) - ""Ain't No Sunshine,"" ""The Same Love That Made Me Laugh,"" ""Lean on Me"" & ""Green Grass"" --Bill Withers & Cliff de Young - ""Sunshine"" film clip --Bill Withers, Bobby Womack and Buddy Miles - ""Railroad Man"" --Rory Gallagher - ""Tattoo'd Lady"" & ""Cradle Rock"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Bright Eyes"" & ""He Is the One"" --Buddy Miles - ""You Really Got Me"" --Montrose - ""Rock the Nation"" & ""Good Rockin' Tonight"" --Bobby Womack - ""Lookin' for a Love"" & ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out"" --Cliff de Young - ""My Sweet Lady"" & ""Sunshine on My Shoulders""
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Hosts: The Pointer Sisters
Episode 27 - 3-15-1974
-The Pointer Sisters (guest hosts) - ""Yes We Can Can,"" ""Little Pony,"" ""Salt Peanuts"" (with Wolfman Jack), ""Bangin' on the Pipes,"" ""Steam Heat"" & ""Wang Dang Doodle"" --The Butts Band - ""Love Your Brother"" & ""Kansas City"" --The Crusaders - ""Lay It on the Line"" --Focus - ""Hocus Pocus"" & ""House of the King"" --Dan Hicks - ""There Ain't a Guy That Wouldn't Like to Be in My Shoes"" & ""Hummin' to Myself"" --Billy Paul - ""Thanks for Saving My Life"" & ""The Whole Town's Talking"" --Bonnie Pointer - ""Black Coffee"" --The Strawbs - ""Hero and Heroine"" & ""Round and Round"
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Hosts: Gladys Knight and the Pips
Episode 26 - 3-08-1974
Gladys Knight and the Pips (guest host) - ""I've Got to Use My Imagination,"" ""Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me,"" ""On and On"" & ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Freshflavor with Richie Havens - ""Prometheus Bound"" & ""Loser"" --Jobriath - ""I'm a Man"" & ""Rock of Ages"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Right On for the Darkness"" & ""To Be Invisible"" --Spooky Tooth - ""I Am the Walrus"" --Les Variations - ""Moroccan Roll"" & ""I Don't Know Why"" --Jim Weatherly - ""Loving You Is Just an Old Habit"" & ""Same Old Song and Dance""
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Hosts: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Episode 25 - 3-01-1974
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (guest hosts) - ""Ever Come"" (or ""Never Come""), ""The Yodel,"" ""Marie Lavaux"" & ""Cops and Robbers"" --Foghat - ""Home in My Hands"" & ""Honey Hush"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Never Never Land"" --The Stylistics - ""Rockin' Roll Baby"" & ""You Make Me Feel Brand New"" --Uncle Crusty - ""Badly Bent"" --Peter Yarrow - ""Old Father Time"" & ""Jelly Jelly"" --Al Wilson - ""Show and Tell"" & ""Touch and Go""
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Host: Gordon Lightfoot
Episode 24 - 2-22-1974
Gordon Lightfoot (guest host) - ""The List,"" ""If You Could Read My Mind,"" ""Don Quixote,"" ""Affair on Eighth Avenue,"" ""High and Dry"" & ""Sundown"" --The Guess Who - ""Share the Land"" & ""Star Baby"" --The James Gang - ""Standing in the Rain"" & ""The Devil Is Singing Our Song"" --Byron MacGregor - ""Americans"" --Maria Muldaur - ""Midnight at the Oasis"" & ""Don't You Feel My Leg"" --Redbone - ""Come and Get Your Love"" & ""Maggie"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Raga Jogiya""
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Host: Roy Orbison
Episode 23 - 2-15-1974
"Golden Oldies"" episode: --Roy Orbison (host) - ""Oh, Pretty Woman,"" ""Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream),"" Running Scared"" & ""Only the Lonely"" --The Drifters - ""Up on the Roof"" & ""Save the Last Dance for Me"" --Duane Eddy - ""Rebel Rouser"" & ""Ramrod"" --Lloyd Price - ""Personality"" & ""Stagger Lee"" --Tommy Roe - ""Sheila,"" ""Everybody"" & ""Jam Up Jelly Tight"" --Del Shannon - ""Runaway,"" ""Hats Off to Larry"" & ""Keep Searching (We'll Follow the Sun)"" --Bobby Vee - ""Take Good Care of My Baby,"" ""The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"" & ""Devil or Angel"" --Jackie Wilson - ""(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher,"" ""Lonely Teardrops"" & ""That's Why (I Love You So)""
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Hosts: Ike and Tina Turner
Episode 22 - 2-08-1974
Ike and Tina Turner (hosts) - ""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?"" & ""The Dream Goes On Forever""
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 21 - 2-01-1974
Helen Reddy (host) - ""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 and Tina Turner - ""Land of 1000 Dances"" & ""It's Gonna Work Out Fine""
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Host: Steve Miller Guests: Brownsville Station, Tim Buckley, The James Cotton Blues Band, Genesis, The James Gang
Episode 20 - 1-25-1974
Steve Miller Band (hosts) - ""The Joker,"" ""Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma,"" ""Fly Like an Eagle"" & ""Sugar Babe"" --Brownsville Station - ""Smokin' in the Boys Room"" --Tim Buckley - ""Dolphins"" & ""Honey Man"" --James Cotton Band - ""Rocket 88"" --James Cotton Band - ""Big Boss Man"" (with Steve Miller) --Genesis - ""Watcher of the Skies"" & ""The Musical Box"" (another source listed the songs as ""This Is Your Fate"" & ""This Is My Song"") --James Gang - ""It Must Be Love""
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Host: Smokey Robinson
Episode 19 - 1-18-1974
Smokey Robinson (host) - ""Show and Tell,"" ""Tracks of My Tears,"" ""Tears of a Clown,"" ""Mickey's Monkey,"" ""Baby Come Close"" and ""Just My Soul Responding"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""Take Your Pleasure Where You Can Find It"" & ""Down in the Bottom"" (or ""Meet Me in the Bar Room""??) --Grin - ""Beggar's Day,"" ""Believe"" & ""You're the Wait I've Been Waiting For"" --Eddie Kendricks - ""Keep On Truckin'"" & ""Boogie Down"" --Ann Peebles - ""I Can't Stand the Rain"" --Edwin Starr - ""Ain't It Hell up in Harlem"" & ""War"" --Johnny Taylor - ""It's Cheaper to Keep Her"" & ""We're Getting Careless with Our Love Affair"
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Hosts: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Episode 18 - 1-11-1974
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (hosts) - ""The Cover of 'Rolling Stone',"" ""Sylvia's Mother,"" ""Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie,"" ""Joe's Bar"" (or ""The Loneliest People in the World"") & ""The Soup Stone"" --Canned Heat - ""One More River to Cross"" --Canned Heat - Fats Domino medley (""We Remember Fats intro, ""The Fat Man,"" ""I'm in Love Again,"" ""I'm Walking,"" Whole Lotta Loving,"" ""Let the Four Winds Blow,"" ""I'm Ready"" & ""So Long"") --El Chicano - ""Tell Her She's Lovely"" and ""Viva Tirado Pt. II"" --Jo Jo Gunne - ""Run, Run, Run"" & ""I Wanna Love You"" --Leo Sayer - ""Tomorrow,"" ""Everything's Gonna Be Alright"" & ""The Show Must Go On"" --The Spinners - ""Ghetto Child,"" ""Life Ain't So Easy"" & ""How Could I Let You Get Away"" --Livingstone Taylor - ""Somewhere Over the Rainbow"" --Dr. Hook and cast sing a few bars of ""Happy Trails"" (finale)
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Million Sellers hosted by Wolfman Jack
Episode 17 - 1-04-1974
Wolfman Jack (host) Taped clips of performers: --Loggins & Messina - ""Your Mama Don't Dance"" --Billy Preston - ""Will It Go Round in Circles?"" --Stories - ""Brother Louie"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Edgar Winter Group - ""Frankenstein"" --The Spinners - ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love?"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Superfly"" --Eric Weissberg (on banjo) and Deliverance (Steve Mandel on guitar?) perform ""Dueling Banjos,"" a song from the movie ""Deliverance"" --Jim Croce - ""Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" --Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - ""The Cover of Rolling Stone"" --Gilbert O'Sullivan - ""Get Down"" --Al Green - ""Call Me (Come Back Home)"" --Charlie Rich - ""Behind Closed Doors"" --The O'Jays - ""Love Train"" --Dobie Gray - ""Drift Away"" --Edward Bear - ""Last Song""
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Host: Marty Robbins
Episode 16 - 12-28-1973
Country Music Show: --Marty Robbins (host) - ""Gotta Travel On,"" ""20th Century Drifter,"" ""(Take Me Home) Country Roads,"" ""Beyond the Reef,"" ""Cool Water,"" ""Tumbling Tumbleweeds,"" ""El Paso"" & ""My Woman My Woman My Wife"" --Marty Robbins and Barbi Benton - ""Help Me Make It Through the Night"" --Bobby Bare - ""Detroit City"" & ""The Mermaid"" --Barbi Benton - ""Top of the World"" --Doug Kershaw - ""Mama's Got the Know How"" & ""Cajun Joe (Bully of the Bayou)"" --Barbara Mandrell - ""Show Me"" & ""The Midnight Oil"" --Charlie Rich - ""Break-Up (medley)"" & ""Behind Closed Doors"" --Johnny Rodriguez - ""Pass Me By"" & ""Bosier City Backyard Blues"" --Tanya Tucker - ""Jamestown Ferry"" & ""What's Your Mama's Name?"
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Host: Jose Feliciano Guests: Clarence Carter, Roger McGuinn, Linda Ronstadt, Sha Na Na
Episode 15 - 12-21-1974
Jose Feliciano (host) - ""Purple Haze,"" ""I Like What You Give,"" ""I Want to Learn a Love Song"" and ""Susie-Q"" --Clarence Carter - ""I'm the Midnight Special"" & ""Slip Away"" --Freshflavor with Richie Havens - ""Prometheus Bound"" --Roger McGuinn - ""Mr. Spaceman"" & ""Sweet Mary"" --Linda Ronstadt - ""You're No Good"" & ""Love Has No Pride"" --Sha Na Na - ""Get a Job,"" ""Sh-Boom"" & ""Tossin' and Turnin'"" --Also: Sha Na Na
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Hosts: Loggins & Messina
Episode 14 - 12-14-1973
Loggins & Messina (hosts) - ""My Music,"" ""Danny's Song,"" ""Your Mama Don't Dance,"" ""You Need a Man,"" ""Coming to You"" & ""Sailin' the Wind"" --The Guess Who - ""Albert Flasher,"" ""Undun,"" ""Straighten Out,"" ""Star Baby"" & ""Glamour Boy"" --Leo Kottke - ""Vaseline Machine Gun #2"" --Martin Mull (comedy segment) - sings ""The Name Is Mull"" and ""Eggs"" --Billy Preston - ""Space Race,"" ""How Long Has the Train Been Gone"" & ""I'm So Tired"" --On film: clip from ""American Graffiti""
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Hosts: The Four Tops
Episode 13 - 12-07-1973
The Four Tops (hosts) - ""I Can't Help Myself,"" ""Love Music,"" ""Reach Out I'll Be There,"" ""Standing in the Shadows of Love,"" ""Sweet Understanding Love,"" ""Keeper of the Castle"" & ""One Woman Man"" --Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - ""The Cover of Rolling Stone,"" ""Life Ain't Easy"" & ""Insane Asylum"" --John Mayall - ""California Campground"" & ""Room to Move"" --Mott the Hoople - ""Drivin' Sister"" & ""Hymn for the Dudes"" --Shawn Phillips - ""Baby's Breakthrough"" --Todd Rundgren - ""Black Maria"" & ""Hello It's Me""
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Hosts: Procol Harum
Episode 12 - 11-30-1973
Show taped in London, England: --Procol Harum (hosts) - ""Conquistador,"" ""Whiter Shade of Pale,"" ""Grand Hotel,"" ""Fires Which Burn Brightly,"" ""Drunk Again,"" ""T.V. Caesar"" & ""Rule Brittania"" --Humble Pie - ""Oh La De Da,"" ""I Don't Need No Doctor"" & ""30 Days in the Hole"" --Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre - ""Rockin' Till the Sun Goes Down,"" ""Carry My Load"" & ""The World Is Changing"" --Steeleye Span - ""Cam Ye O-er Frae France"
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Host: Peter Noone
Episode 11 - 11-23-1973
Show taped in England: --Peter Noone (host) - ""Last Blues Song,"" ""Getting Over You"" & ""Oh You Pretty Thing"" --Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits - ""No Milk Today"" & ""There's a Kind of Hush"" --The Bee Gees - ""Bad Bad Dreams"" & ""Don't Wanna Be the One"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Showdown"" & ""Ma-Ma-Ma Belle"" --David Essex - ""Rock On"" & ""Lamplight"" --Manfred Mann's Earth Band - ""Joy Bringer"" & ""In the Beginning"" --Gilbert O'Sullivan - ""Ooh Baby,"" ""Get Down"" & ""Who Knows Perhaps Maybe"" --Robin Trower - ""Lady Love"" & ""Man of the World""
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The 1980 Floor Show starring David Bowie
Episode 10 - 11-16-1973
Opening credits: male dancers pose forming letters spelling out ""Bowie The 1980 Floor Show"" (dancers appear throughout show). --David Bowie - medley: ""1984,"" ""You Didn't Hear It from Me"" and ""1984"" reprise --David Bowie - ""Sorrow"" --Dooshenka (female impersonator) introduces Carmen --Carmen (band from Spain) - ""Bulerias"" --David Bowie - ""Everything's Alright"" & ""Space Oddity"" --David Bowie - ""I Can't Explain"" --Marianne Faithfull - ""As Tears Go By"" --David Bowie - ""Time"" --The Troggs - ""Wild Thing"" --Carmen - ""Bullfight"" --David Bowie - ""Jean Genie"" --Marianne Faithfull - ""20th Century Blues"" --David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull - ""I Got You, Babe"" --The Troggs - ""I Can't Control Myself"" & ""Strange Movies"" --Closing credits: David Bowie - ""You Didn't Hear It from Me"" and ""1984"" (same performance as earlier in sh
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Host: Jerry Lee Lewis
Episode 9 - 11-09-1973
Jerry Lee Lewis (host) - ""Breathless,"" ""Hold On I'm Coming,"" ""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 and Tina Turner - ""River Deep Mountain High"" & ""Nutbush City Limits""
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Chuck Berry
Episode 8 - 11-02-1973
Chuck Berry (host) - "Tulane," "School Days," "Johnny B. Good," "Got It and Gone" & "Rock and Roll Music" --Rick Derringer and the Edgar Winter Group - "Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo" --Fleetwood Mac - "Miles Away" & "Believe Me" --Shawn Phillips - "Technotronic Lad" & "Spaceman" --Johnny Taylor - "Who's Making Love" & "I Believe in You" --Muddy Waters - "Can't Get No Grindin'" & "Got My Mojo Working" --The Edgar Winter Group - "Free Ride" & "Dying to Live"
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Hosts: Sly and the Family Stone
Episode 7 - 10-26-1973
-Sly and the Family Stone (hosts) - ""Stand,"" ""Higher,"" ""Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),"" ""If You Want Me to Stay"" & ""Dance to the Music"" --Mark Almond - ""Get Yourself Together"" & ""The City"" --Little Sister - ""I'm the One You're the One"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Oh Heaven How You've Changed Me"" --Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - medley of hits & ""The Scalawag Song"" --Freddy Weller - ""The Perfect Stranger"" & ""The Roadmaster"" --Atlee Yeager - ""I Wanna Be Alone with You""
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Hosts: War
Episode 6 - 10-19-1973
War (hosts) - ""Cisco Kid,"" ""Me and Baby Brother,"" ""The World Is a Ghetto"" & ""City Country City"" --Bachman-Turner Overdrive - ""Hold Back the Water"" & ""Gimme Your Money Please"" --Climax Blues Band - ""Shake Your Love"" & ""Constant"" --Mott the Hoople - ""All the Way from Memphis"" & ""Rose"" --New York Dolls - ""Trash"" & ""Personality Crisis"" --Danny O'Keefe - ""Good Time's Charlie's Got the Blues"" & ""Angel Spread Your Wings"" --Piper - ""Bungle Rye"
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Host:The Bee Gees
Episode 5 - 10-12-1973
--The Bee Gees (hosts) - ""Massachusetts,"" ""Lay It on Me,"" ""Alive,"" ""Bye Bye Blackbird"" & ""Alone Again"" --The Bee Gees and Chuck Berry - ""Reelin' and Rockin'"" & ""Johnny B. Goode"" --Chuck Berry - ""Maybellene"" ""Sweet Little Sixteen"" --Apple and Appleberry - ""Landlord"" --King Crimson - ""Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part 2"" & ""Easy Money"" --Barbara Mason - ""Yes I'm Ready"" --Lee Michaels - ""Do You Know What I Mean,"" ""Barefootin'"" & ""Same Old Song""
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Hosts: Gladys Knight & the Pips
Episode 4 - 10-05-1973
Gladys Knight & the Pips (hosts) - ""Daddy Could Swear I Declare,"" ""Heavy Makes You Happy"" & ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Gladys Knight and B.B. King - ""The Thrill Is Gone"" --Earth, Wind & Fire - ""Evil"" & ""Power"" --Focus - ""Hocus Pocus,"" ""Sylvia,"" ""House of the King"" & ""Focus III"" --B.B. King - ""To Know You Is to Love You"" & ""How Blue Can You Get?"" --Chris Smither - ""Mail Order Mystics"" --Stories - ""Mammy Blue"" & ""Broken Love"" --Wolfman Jack and Monda - ""Ling Ting Tong""
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Hosts: Seals & Crofts
Episode 3 - 9-28-1973
-Seals & Crofts (hosts) - ""Diamond Girl,"" ""Dust On My Saddle,"" ""We May Never Pass This Way Again,"" ""Ruby Jean and Billie Lee"" & ""Pop Goes the Weasel"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""New Walkin' Blues"" & ""Broke My Baby's Heart"" --Ramblin' Jack Elliot - ""Talkin' Fishing Blues"" --Arlo Guthrie - ""Gypsy Davy"" ""Bling Blang"" --Leo Kottke - ""Bean Time"" --T. Rex - ""Hot Love"" & ""Bang a Gong (Get It On)"" --Uriah Heep - ""Stealin'"" & ""Sweet Freedom""
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Host: Wilson Pickett
Episode 2 - 9-21-1973
Wilson Pickett (host) - ""Land of 1000 Dances,"" ""Funky Broadway,"" ""Never My Love"" & ""In the Midnight Hour"" --Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - ""Whenever You're Ready"" & ""Listen Here"" --Canned Heat - ""Dust My Broom"" & ""Lookin' for My Rainbow"" --The Chi-Lites - ""Stoned Out of My Mind"" & Oh Girl"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Freddie's Dead"" --Brenda Patterson - ""Dance with Me Henry"" --Spooky Tooth - ""Cotton Growing Man"" --B.W. Stevenson - ""My Maria"" & ""Don't Go to Mexico"
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Host: Curtis Mayfield
Episode 1 - 9-14-1973
Curtis Mayfield (host) - ""Future Shock,"" ""Back to the World"" & ""Right On for the Darkness"" --The Bee Gees - ""Lonely Days"" & ""Run to Me"" --Jim Croce - ""I've Got a Name"" & ""Bad Bad Leroy Brown"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Where Peaceful Waters Flow"" --Natural Four - ""Can This Be Real"" --Wilson Pickett - ""Get Me Back on Time Engine 9"" & ""Don't Knock My Love"" --Helen Reddy - ""Delta Dawn"" --Sly & the Family Stone - ""Everybody Is a Star"" --War - ""Gypsy man""
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Host: Chuck Berry
Episode 40 - 11-02-1973
Chuck Berry (host) - ""Tulane,"" ""School Days,"" ""Johnny B. Good,"" ""Got It and Gone"" & ""Rock and Roll Music"" --Rick Derringer and the Edgar Winter Group - ""Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo"" --Fleetwood Mac - ""Miles Away"" & ""Believe Me"" --Shawn Phillips - ""Technotronic Lad"" & ""Spaceman"" --Johnny Taylor - ""Who's Making Love"" & ""I Believe in You"" --Muddy Waters - ""Can't Get No Grindin'"" & ""Got My Mojo Working"" --The Edgar Winter Group - ""Free Ride"" & ""Dying to Live""
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Host: War
Episode 39 - 10-19-1973
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Host: The Bee Gees
Episode 38 - 10-12-1973
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Host: Gladys Knight & The Pips
Episode 37 - 10-05-1973
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Host: Seals & Crofts
Episode 36 - 9-28-1973
Seals & Crofts (guest hosts) - "Diamond Girl," "Dust On My Saddle," " We Never Pass This Way Again," "Ruby Jean and Billie Lee" & "Pop Goes the Weasel." T. Rex - "Hot Love" & "Bang a Gong (Get It On)." Arlo Guthrie - "Gypsy Davy" & "Bling Blang." Uriah Heep - "Stealin'" & "Sweet Freedom." Paul Butterfield's Better Days - "New Walkin' Blues" & "Broke My Baby's Heart." Leo Kottke - "Bean Time."
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Host: Wilson Pickett
Episode 35 - 9-21-1973
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Host: Curtis Mayfield
Episode 34 - 9-14-1973
Curtis Mayfield (guest host) - "Future Shock," "Back to the World," Right On for the Darkness." Sly & The Family Stone - "Everybody is a Star." Helen Reddy - "Delta Dawn." Jim Croce - "I've Got A Name," "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." War - "Gypsy Man." Gladys Night & the Pips - When Peaceful Water Flows." Wilson Pickett - "Get Me Back on Time Engine 9," "Don't Knock My Love." The Bee Gees - "Lonely Days," "Run to Me." Natural Four - "Can This Be Real."
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Host: Mac Davis
Episode 33 - 9-07-1973
Mac Davis (guest host) - ""Something's Burning,"" ""I'll Paint You a Song,"" ""Naughty Girl,"" ""Lonesomest Lonesome"" & ""I Believe in Music"" --Mark Almond - ""Neighborhood Man"" & ""Get Yourself Together"" --Chuck Berry - ""Roll Over Beethoven,"" ""Bio"" & ""Carol"" --Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - ""The Love I Lost"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Sindhi Bhairavi"" --Edgar Winter Group - ""Keep Playing That Rock and Roll,"" ""Frankenstein"" ""Rock 'n' Roll Boogie Woogie Blues"" & ""Hanging Around""
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Host: Billy Preston
Episode 32 - 8-31-1973
-Billy Preston (guest host) - ""Will It Go Round in Circles,"" All Spaced Out,"" ""Music's My Life"""" & ""That's the Way God Planned It"" --Billy Preston and Buddy Miles - ""My Sweet Lord"" --Bo Diddley - ""Bo Diddley"" & ""Bo Diddley-Itis"" --Ned Doheny - ""I Can Dream"" --Gladstone - ""Natural Inclination"" --Maureen McGovern - ""The Morning After"" (theme song from ""The Poseidon Adventure"") --Buddy Miles - ""Them Changes"" & ""Thinking of You"" --Steely Dan - ""Reeling in the Years,"" ""Show Biz Kids"" & ""My Old School"
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Co-hosts: Loretta Lynn & Marty Robbins
Episode 31 - 8-24-1973
Loretta Lynn and Marty Robbins (Co-hosts) - ""The Midnight Special"" & ""Singin' the Blues"" --Loretta Lynn (Co-host) - ""One's on the Way"" & ""Love is the Foundation"" --Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty - ""Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"" --Marty Robbins (Co-host) - ""Don't Worry 'Bout Me,"" ""A White Sport Coat,"" ""Devil Woman,"" ""El Paso"""" --Don Gibson - ""Oh Lonesome Me"" --Tom T Hall - ""Spokane Motel Blues"" --George Jones - ""The Race Is On"" --George Jones and Tammy Wynette - ""We're Gonna Hold On"" --Johnny Paycheck - ""She's All I Got"" --Charlie Rich - ""Behind Closed Doors"" --Johnny Rodriguez - ""Bosier City Backyard Blues"" --The Earl Scruggs Revue - ""Caroline Boogie"" --Tanya Tucker - ""Blood Red and Goin' Down"" & ""Delta Dawn"" --Conway Twitty - ""You've Never Been So Far"" --Tammy Wynette - ""Stand by Your Man"
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Host: Richard Pryor
Episode 30 - 9-17-1973
Richard Pryor (guest host) --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Roll Over Beethoven"" --Joe Hicks - ""Train of Thought"" --Doug Kershaw - ""Fisherman's Luck,"" ""Diggy Diggy Lo"" & ""Louisiana Man"" --Albert King - ""Don't Burn Down the Bridge"" & ""I'll Play the Blues for You"" --Melissa Manchester - ""If It Feels Good"" & ""Easy"" --Joe Walsh - ""Tend My Garden"" & ""Rocky Mountain Way""
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Hosts: The Bee Gees
Episode 29 - 8-10-1973
Guest Hosts: The Bee Gees; guests: The Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, Gerry & the Pacemakers --The Bee Gees (guest hosts) - ""New York Mining Disaster 1941,"" ""Turn of the Century"" & ""I Can't See Nobody"" --The Hollies - ""Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"" & ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" --Herman's Hermits - ""I'm Henry the VIII I Am,"" ""Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"" & ""There's a Kind of Hush"" --Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders - ""Game of Love"" & ""A Groovy Kind of Love"" --The Searchers - ""Needles and Pins,"" ""Sweets for My Sweet"" & ""Love Potion #9"" --Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas - ""Little Children"" --Gerry and the Pacemakers - ""How Do You Do It,"" ""I Like It,"" ""Ferry Cross the Mersey"" & ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying.""
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Host: Al Green
Episode 28 - 8-03-1973
-Al Green (guest host) - ""Let's Stay Together,"" ""Tired of Being Alone,"" ""Call Me,"" ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"" & ""Here I Am"" --Ramblin' Jack Elliott - ""San Francisco Bay Blues"" --Foghat - ""She's Gone"" ""I Just Want to Make Love to You"" --The Stylistics - ""Point of No Return,"" ""I'm Stone in Love with You"" & ""Stop, Look and Listen"" --Livingston Taylor - ""Good Friends"" & ""Over the Rainbow"" --Bobby Womack - ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out"" & ""Harry Hippie""
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Host: Dionne Warwick
Episode 27 - 7-27-1973
Dionne Warwick (host) - ""I Say a Little Prayer"" and a medley of Burt Bachrach hits. --Dionne Warwick and Johnny Mathis - ""My Love"" --Johnny Mathis - ""Killing Me Softly with Her Song"" & ""To the Ends of the Earth"" --Bud Brisbois - ""Baby Hand Your Love on Me"" & ""Miss Ma-Tazz"" --Alan Bursky (comedian) - comedy segment --Leo Kottke - ""Vaseline Machine Gun #2"" --Malo - ""Momotombo"" & ""Hala"" --Kenny Rogers and the First Edition - ""Coming Through the Rye,"" ""Something's Burning"" & ""Lena Lookey"
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Host: Joan Baez
Episode 26 - 7-20-1973
-Joan Baez (host) - ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,"" ""Joe Hill,"" ""Love Song to a Stranger,"" ""Prison Trilogy"" & ""Rider Pass By"" --Joan Baez and Mimi Farina - ""Best of Friends"" --Black Oak Arkansas - ""Fever in My Mind,"" ""Dance to the Music Tonight"" & ""Hot and Nasty"" --Bloodstone - ""Natural High"" & ""Never Let You Go"" --Steve Goodman - ""Someone Else's Troubles"" & ""Would You Like to Learn to Dance?"" --Mimi Farina - ""In the Quiet Morning"" --Wilson Pickett - ""Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You"" & ""International Playboy"" --The Pointer Sisters - ""Cloudburst"
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Host: Smokey Robinson
Episode 25 - 7-13-1973
Smokey Robinson (guest host) - ""Want to Know My Mind,"" ""Sweet Harmony"" & ""You Are the Sunshine of My Life"" --The Miracles - ""What Is Heart Good For,"" ""Tears of a Clown"" & ""Don't Let It End (Till You Let It Begin)"" --Bonnie Bramlett - ""Good Vibrations"" & ""Celebrate Life"" --Martin and Finley - ""It's Another Sunder"" --Rare Earth - ""Hey Big Brother,"" ""Big John Is My Name"" & ""Hum Along and Dance"" --The Stylistics - ""You'll Never Get to Heaven"" & ""You Are Everything"
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Host: Jose Feliciano
Episode 24 - 7-06-1973
Jose Feliciano (guest host) - ""California Dreamin',"" ""Compartments"" & ""Papa Was a Rolling Stone"" --Savoy Brown - ""Shot in the Head"" & ""Jack the Toad"" --The Staple Singers - ""Oh La De Da"" & ""Be What You Are"" --Stories - ""Brother Louie"" & ""Top of the City"" --Tower of Power - ""So Very Hard to Go"" & ""What Is Hip?"" --Johnny Winter - ""Jumpin' Jack Flash,"" ""Johnny B. Goode"" & ""Rock and Roll"
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Host: Paul Williams
Episode 23 - 6-29-1973
Paul Williams (guest host) - ""Someday Man,"" ""That's What Friends Are For"" & ""Look What I Found"" --Paul Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Collidge - ""Me and Bobby McGee"" --Kris Kristofferson - ""Loving Her Was Easier"" & ""Out of Mind, Sout of Sight"" --Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge - ""I Never Had it So Good"" --Rita Coolidge - ""I'll Be Your Baby"" & ""My Crew"" --Brewer and Shipley - ""Black Sky"" & ""Yankee Lady"" --Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen - ""Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)"" & ""Jailhouse Rock"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Roll Over Beethoven"" & ""Kuiama"" --King Harvest - ""Dancing in the Moonlight"" & ""A Little Bit Like Magic""
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Host:The Bee Gees
Episode 22 - 6-22-1973
Hosts: The Bee Gees; guests: Wilson Pickett; Steve Miller Band; Jimmie Spheeris; Maxine Weldon
""I Gotta Get a Message to You,"" ""Alexander's Rag Time Band,"" ""Run to Me,"" ""Morning of My Life,"" ""Holiday,"" ""Let There Be Love,"" ""My World"" & ""Wouldn't I be Someone"" --The Bee Gees and Wilson Pickett - ""Hey Jude"" --Wilson Pickett - ""In the Midnight Hour"" & ""Mr. Magic Man"" --Steve Miller Band - ""Loving on the U.S.A."" & ""Shu ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma"" --John Kay - ""I'm Movin' On"" and ""Moonshine (Friend of Mine)"" --Jimmie Spheeris - ""The Original Tap Dancing Kid"" & ""Beautiful News"" --Maxine Weldon - ""Johnny One Time"" --The Muledeer and Moondoog Medicine Show
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Host: Jim Croce
Episode 21 - 6-15-1973
Jim Croce (guest host) - ""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"" --Barbara Fairchild - ""Teddy Bear"" --Shawn Phillips - ""Anello (Where Are You)"" & ""America"" --Wishbone Ash - ""Jailbait"" --Bobby Womack - ""It's All Over Now"" & ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out""
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Host: Curtis Mayfield
Episode 20 - 6-08-1973
Curtis Mayfield (guest host) - ""Superfly,"" ""If I Were Only a Child Again"" & ""Back to the World"" --Canned Heat - ""Let's Work Together,"" ""Harley Davidson Blues"" & ""Woodstock Boogie"" --Jose Feliciano - ""Simple Song,"" ""Compartments"" & ""Light My Fire"" --Leroy Hutson - ""Love Oh Love"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Ahir Bhairav"" --Lakshmi Shankar - ""A Bhajan"" --The Spinners - ""One of a Kind Love Affair,"" ""I'll Be Around"" & ""Could it Be I'm Falling in Love"" --Tufano-Giammarese - ""Music Everywhere"" & ""I'm a Loser"
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Host: Paul Williams
Episode 19 - 6-01-1973
Paul Williams (guest host) - ""My Love and I,"" ""Let Me Be the One,"" ""We've Only Just Begun,"" ""Rainy Days and Mondays"" & ""I Never Had It So Good"" --Argent - ""God Gave Rock and Roll to You,"" ""Hold Your Head Up"" & ""It's Only Money Part 2"" --Gunhill Road - ""Back When My Half Was Short"" & ""Mr. Keyboard"" --Sydney Jordan - ""Sunday Morning Sunrise"" --Slade - ""Goodbuy T'Jane"" & ""Cum On Feel the Noize"" --The Statler Brothers - ""Flowers on the Wall"" & ""The Class of '57"" --The Stylistics - ""Betcha By Golly, Wow,"" ""Break Up to Make Up"" & ""I'm Stone in Love with You"
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Hosts: Gladys Knight & the Pips
Episode 18 - 5-25-1973
Gladys Knight and the Pips (guest hosts) - ""Friendship Train,"" ""Daddy Could Swear I Declare,"" ""I Don't Want to Do Wrong"" & ""Neither One of Us"" --Dr. John - ""Right Place, Wrong Time"" & ""Such a Night"" --Robert Klein (comedy segment) --Skylark - ""Wildflower"" & ""Woodstock"" --The Staple Singers - ""Respect Yourself"" & ""We the People"" --John Stewart - ""Road Away"" & ""Chilly Winds""
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Host: Chubby Checker
Episode 17 - 5-18-1973
Chubby Checker - ""Let's Twist Again,"" ""Pony Time,"" Limbo Rock"" & ""Slow Twistin'"" --Jimmy Clanton - ""Just a Dream"" --Danny and the Juniors - ""At the Hop"" & ""Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay"" --Ben E. King - ""Spanish Harlem"" & ""Stand by Me"" --Little Anthony and the Imperials - ""Going Out of My Head"" & ""Two Kinds of People in the World"" --Lloyd Price - ""Personality"" --Lloyd Price and the Skyliners - ""I'm Gonna Get Married"" --The Ronettes - ""Baby I Love You"" & ""Do I Love You"" --The Shirelles - ""Baby It's You"" & ""Will You Love Me Tomorrow"" --The Skyliners - ""This I Swear"" & ""Since I Don't Have You"
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Hosts: Burns and Schreiber
Episode 16 - 5-11-1973
-Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team, guest hosts) --Mark Almond - ""What Am I Loving For,"" ""Just Another Road Song"" & ""The City"" --Kenny Colman - ""Last Tango in Paris"" --The Crusaders - ""Put It Where You Want It"" & ""Don't Let It Get You Down"" --Ronnie Dyson - ""One Man Band"" --The Hollies - ""Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"" --The Incredible String Band - ""Black Jack Davy"" & ""Old Buccaneer"" --Steve Martin (comedian, stand-up comedy segment) --The O'Jays - ""Love Train"
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Host: Johnny Nash
Episode 15 - 5-04-1973
Johnny Nash (guest host) - ""Stir It Up,"" ""Groovy Feeling,"" ""I Can See Clearly Now"" & ""Merry-Go-Round"" --Chi Coltrane - ""Thunder and Lightning"" & ""You Were My Friend"" --Freemen and Murray (comedy team) --Tom T. Hall - ""The Year That Clayton Delaney Died"" & ""Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon"" --Andrew Johnson (comedian) --Gladys Knight and the Pips - ""If I Were Your Woman"" & ""Neither One of Us"" --Kenny Rankin - ""You Are the Sunshine of My Life"" & ""In the Name of Love"" --The Raspberries - ""I Wanna Be with You"" & ""Let's Pretend"
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Host: Jerry Lee Lewis
Episode 14 - 4-27-1973
Jerry Lee Lewis (guest host) - ""Great Balls of Fire,"" ""High School Confidential,"" ""Drinking Wine Spo Dee O'Dee"" & ""Cold Cold Heart"" --Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis - ""Roll Over Beethoven"" --Freddie Cannon - ""Tallahassee Lassie"" & ""Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"" --Chubby Checker - ""The Twist"" & ""Huckle Buck"" --Bobby Day - ""Rockin' Robin"" --The Del Vikings - ""Come Go with Me"" --The Penguins - ""Earth Angel"" --Lloyd Price - ""Stagger Lee"" & ""Where Were You on My Wedding Day"" --Little Anthony - ""I'm Alright"" & ""Tears on My Pillow"" --The Ronettes - ""Be My Baby"" & ""Walkin' in the Rain"" --Del Shannon - ""Runaway"" & ""Keep Searchin'"" --The Shirelles - ""Soldier Boy"" & ""Tonight's the Night"
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Host: Doc Severinsen
Episode 13 - 4-20-1973
Doc Severinsen (guest host) - ""I Just Want to Celebrate,"" ""Last Tango in Paris,"" ""Does Anybody Know What Time It Is,"" ""Introduction,"" ""Twenty-Five or Six to Four"" & ""Beginnings"" --Doc Severinsen - ""Celebrate"" (with the Now Generation and Today's Children) --Doc Severinsen (on fluegelhorn) and Henry Mancini - ""Brothers Go to Mothers"" duet. Mancini introduces his group including his son Chris. --Hoyt Axton - ""Jambalaya"" & ""Less Than the Song"" --Jerry Butler - ""Western Union Man"" ""Only the Strong Survive"" & ""Ain't Understanding Mellow"" --Dobie Gray - ""Drift Away"" & ""The 'In' Crowd"" --Carol Burnett - introduces Vicki Lawrence --Vicki Lawrence - ""The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"" --Country Joe McDonald and his All-Star Band - ""Couleene Anne"" & ""Hold On It's Coming"" --Not Cut of Friends - ""Indian Warrior"" (another source listed the band as ""Hot Cup of Friends"
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Bill Cosby
Episode 12 - 4-13-1973
Bill Cosby (guest host, appearing with a band) - "Ursulena (With Your Washing Machina)," "I've Got to Be Strong" (sung by member of his group) & "I Lost My Baby At the Dance Last Night" --David Brenner (stand-up comedian) - jokes about airplanes; the moon shot; dating in New York City and King Kong --Ray Charles - "Early in the Morning" --Fanny - "All Mine" & "Last Night I Had a Dream" --Waylon Jennings - "Lovin' Her Was Easier," "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" & "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" --Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles" & "Outa-Space" --Steely Dan - "Reelin' in the Years" --Taj Mahal - talks about "Sounder," plays "Cheraw" on banjo & sings "Texas Woman Blues"
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Hosts: The Bee Gees
Episode 11 - 4-06-1973
The Bee Gees; guests: Jerry Lee Lewis; Gladys Knight; Johnny Nash; Skeeter Davis --The Bee Gees (guest hosts) - ""To Love Somebody,"" ""Lonely Days,"" ""I Saw a New Morning"" and a medley of hits (""New York Mining Disaster 1941,"" ""I Started a Joke,"" ""Massachusetts"" and ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"") --The Bee Gees and Jerry Lee Lewis - medley: ""Money,"" ""Good Golly Miss Molly,"" ""Long Tall Sally,"" ""Jenny Jenny,"" ""Tutti Frutti"" and ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" --Skeeter Davis - ""One Tin Soldier"" & ""End of the World"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Neither One of Us"" & ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" --Jerry Lee Lewis - ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" --Johnny Nash - ""Stir it Up"" & ""I Can See Clearly Now"" --Jim Weatherly - ""You Are a Song"" --Frank Welker (comedian) - does imitations of animals; Marlon Brando (""Godfather"" character); and other imitations.
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Host: Ray Charles
Episode 10 - 3-30-1973
-Ray Charles (guest host) - ""Eleanor Rigby,"" ""Georgia on My Mind"" & ""What'd I Say"" --Ray Charles with the Raelets (a.k.a. Raylettes) - ""I Can Make It Through the Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)"" --Bill Cosby talks with Ray Charles and dances while Charles sings ""Every Saturday Night"" --Carol Burnett talks with Ray Charles --Aretha Franklin - ""A Brand New Me"" --Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles - ""Takes Two to Tango"" --The Raelets - sing ""Shake"" (while Charles plays the piano) --The Earl Scruggs Revue - ""T for Texas"" & ""Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"" --Freeman and Murray (comedy team of Freeman King and Murray Langston) - team reenacts the boxing scene from ""Great White Hope"" in slow motion
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Host: Lou Rawls
Episode 9 - 3-23-1973
Lou Rawls (guest host) - ""A Natural Man"" & ""Dead End Street"" --Lou Rawls - medley: ""Memory Lane,"" ""It Was a Very Good Year"" & ""Old Folks"" --Brewer & Shipley - ""One Toke Over the Line"" --George Burns - ""Mr. Bojangles"" and ""You Made Me Love You"" (2nd song with the Honey Cone) --George Burns & Honey Cone - ""You Made Me Love You"" --The Committee (comedy segment) - routines about a surprise party; movies; an argument; a police station --The Grass Roots - ""Midnight Confession"" & ""Love Is What You Make It"" --Honey Cone - ""Want Ads"" --The O'Jays - ""Backstabbers"" & ""Love Train"" (2nd song with Lou Rawls) --Eric Weissberg and Deliverance - ""Dueling Banjos"" and ""I'm My Own Grandpa""
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Host: Paul Anka
Episode 8 - 3-16-1973
Paul Anka (host) - "Girl," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," "Hits Medley" and "Jubilation." Bobby Darin - "If I Were a Carpenter," "Splish Splash," and "Roll Over Beethoven." The Coasters - "Poison Ivy," "Charlie Brown" and "Yakety Yak." Tammy Wynette - "Kids Say the Darnedest Things." The Ace Trucking Company (comedy segment). The Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Oh, Happy Day" and "New World." Paul Anka and The Edwin Hawkins Singers - "Sweet Georgia Mine." The Doobie Brothers - "Natural Thing" and "Listen to the Music." George Jones - "What My Woman Can't Do."
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Host: Paul Williams
Episode 7 - 3-09-1973
Paul Williams (host) - ""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 (Ravi's sister) - sings ""Nata Nagara"" in praise of Krishna. --Ravi Shankar - ""Tilak Shyam"" --Jonathan Winters (cameo appearance, following Paul Williams' first song) --On film: the ""Dueling banjos"" segment from ""Deliverance""
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Host: Anne Murray
Episode 6 - 3-02-1973
Anne Murray (Host) - "Snowbird," "Danny's Song" and "I Know." Anne Murray, Steve Martin and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Shuckin' the Corn." The Association - "Along Comes Mary," "Crazy Songs and Looney Tunes" and "Names, Tags, Numbers and Labels." Badfinger - "No Matter What" and "Suitcase." Steve Martin (comedy segment) - routines on parts of the body, sound effects and plays the banjo. Don McLean - "Vincent," "Dreidel" and "If We Try." Sam Neely - "Loving You Just Crossed My Mind" and "Rosalie." Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Jambalaya." Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - "People Get Ready" and "Walkin' My Blues Away."
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Host: Harry Chapin
Episode 5 - 2-23-1973
Harry Chapin (Host) - "Sunday Morning Sunshine" "Sniper" and "Taxi." Kerrie Biddell - "Spirit in the Dark." Blood, Sweat and Tears - "Rosemary" "Hip Pickles" and "Snow Queen." The Committee (comedy segment). The Hollies - "Magic Woman Touch" and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." Curtis Mayfield - "Freddie's Dead" and "Superfly." Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together?"
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Host: Mac Davis
Episode 4 - 2-16-1973
Mac Davis (host) - ""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) --On film: the ""Dueling Banjos"" segment from ""Deliverance"
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Host: Johnny Rivers
Episode 3 - 2-08-1973
Johnny Rivers (host) - ""Blue Suede Shoes,"" ""Rockin' Pneumonia, Boogie Woogie Flu"" & ""Got My Mojo Workin'"" --The Ace Trucking Company (comedy troupe) - routines about an airplane flight; 2 old friends and a prayer meeting. --Albert Hammond - ""It Never Rains in Southern California"" and ""If You Gotta Break Another Heart"" --Merilee Rush - ""Start Again"" & ""Comfort and Please You"" --The Spinners - ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"" and ""I'll Be Around"" --Steely Dan - ""Do It Again"" and ""Reeling in the Years"" --Paul Williams (singer / songwriter) - ""Out in the Country"" and ""I Won't Last a Day Without You"" --Wolfman Jack - sings ""I Ain't Never Seen a White Man
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Host: Helen Reddy
Episode 2 - 2-02-1973
Helen Reddy (host) - ""I Am Woman,"" ""Peaceful"" & ""Come On John"" --Ed McMahon (walk-on cameo) - wishes the show sucess --Ike and Tina Turner Revue- ""I Can't Turn You Loose"" & ""With a Little Help from My Friends"" --George Carlin (comedian) - 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 and the Impressions - ""Amen""
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Pilot
Episode 1 - 8-19-1972
John Denver guest hosted Mama Cass, The Everly Brothers, The Isley Brothers, Harry Chapin, Linda Ronstadt, Argent and Helen Reddy. Among the musical highlights were Harry Chapin performing his hit "Taxi", Linda Ronstadt sang her popular ballad "Long Long Time", Helen Reddy sang "I Am Woman" and the Britsh group Argent performed their 1972 hit "Hold Tour Head High"
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Pilot
Episode 1 - 8-19-1972
John Denver guest hosted Mama Cass, The Everly Brothers, The Isley Brothers, Harry Chapin, Linda Ronstadt, Argent and Helen Reddy. Among the musical highlights were Harry Chapin performing his hit "Taxi", Linda Ronstadt sang her popular ballad "Long Long Time", Helen Reddy sang "I Am Woman" and the Britsh group Argent performed their 1972 hit "Hold Tour Head High"
8.9/10Haven't Seen
Host: Al Green
Episode 28 - 8-03-1973
-Al Green (guest host) - ""Let's Stay Together,"" ""Tired of Being Alone,"" ""Call Me,"" ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"" & ""Here I Am"" --Ramblin' Jack Elliott - ""San Francisco Bay Blues"" --Foghat - ""She's Gone"" ""I Just Want to Make Love to You"" --The Stylistics - ""Point of No Return,"" ""I'm Stone in Love with You"" & ""Stop, Look and Listen"" --Livingston Taylor - ""Good Friends"" & ""Over the Rainbow"" --Bobby Womack - ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out"" & ""Harry Hippie""
7.8/10Haven't Seen
Chuck Berry
Episode 8 - 11-02-1973
Chuck Berry (host) - "Tulane," "School Days," "Johnny B. Good," "Got It and Gone" & "Rock and Roll Music" --Rick Derringer and the Edgar Winter Group - "Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo" --Fleetwood Mac - "Miles Away" & "Believe Me" --Shawn Phillips - "Technotronic Lad" & "Spaceman" --Johnny Taylor - "Who's Making Love" & "I Believe in You" --Muddy Waters - "Can't Get No Grindin'" & "Got My Mojo Working" --The Edgar Winter Group - "Free Ride" & "Dying to Live"
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