List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special

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

1972 (pilot)

First aired: 8/19/1972
*John Denver (guest host) - "(Take Me Home) Country Roads" & "Goodbye Again"
*Cass Elliot - "Leaving on a Jet Plane" duet w/John Denver
*Argent- "Hold Your Head Up" & "Tragedy"
*Harry Chapin - "Taxi"
*David Clayton-Thomas (singer from Blood, Sweat & Tears) - "Yesterday's Music" & "Nobody Calls Me Prophet"
*The Everly Brothers - "All I Have to Do Is Dream" & "Stories We Could Tell"
*The Isley Brothers - "Pop That Thang"
*Helen Reddy - "I Don't Know How to Love Him"
*Linda Ronstadt - "Long Long Time" & "The Fast One"
*War - "Slippin' into Darkness"

1973

*Al Green (guest host)
*Albert Hammond
*Albert King
*Anne Murray (guest host)
*Aretha Franklin
*Argent
*The Association
*Barbara Fairchild
*Badfinger
*The Bee Gees (guest hosts)
*Ben E. King
*Bill Cosby (guest host)
*Billy Paul
*Billy Preston
*Black Oak Arkansas
*Blood, Sweat & Tears
*Bloodstone
*Bo Diddley
*Bobby Day
*Bobby Darin]
*Bobby Womack
*Bonnie Bramlett
*Brewer & Shipley
*Bud Brisbois
*Buddy Miles
*The Byrds
*Canned Heat
*Carol Burnett
*Charlie Rich
*Chi Coltrane
*Chubby Checker (guest host)
*The Coasters
*Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
*The Committee
*Conway Twitty
*Country Joe McDonald
*The Crusaders
*Curtis Mayfield (guest host)
*Danny & the Juniors
*David Brenner
*Del Shannon
*The Del-Vikings
*Dionne Warwick (guest host)
*Dobie Gray
*Doc Severinsen (guest host)
*The Doobie Brothers
*Don Gibson
*Don McLean
*Doug Kershaw
*Dr. John
*Earl Scruggs
*Edward Bear
*Edwin Hawkins Singers
*Electric Light Orchestra
*Eric Weissberg
*Fanny
*Foghat
*Freddy Cannon
*Gary Mule Deer
*George Burns
*George Carlin
*George Jones
*Gladys Knight & the Pips (guest hosts)
*The Grass Roots
*Gunhill Road
*Harry Chapin (guest host)
*Helen Reddy (guest host)
*Henry Mancini
*The Hollies
*Honey Cone
*Hoyt Axton
*The Incredible String Band
*Ike & Tina Turner
*The Impressions
*Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (guest hosts)
*Jerry Butler
*Jerry Lee Lewis (guest host)
*Jim Croce (guest host)
*Jim Weatherly
*Jimmie Spheeris
*Jimmy Clanton
*Joan Baez (guest host)
*Joan Rivers
*Joe Walsh
*John Kay
*John Stewart
*Johnny Rivers (guest host)
*Johnny Mathis
*Johnny Nash (guest host)
*Johnny Paycheck
*Johnny Rodriguez
*Johnny Winter
*Jonathan Winters
*Jose Feliciano (guest host)
*Kenny Rankin
*Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
*King Crimson - "Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part 2" & "Easy Money"
*King Harvest
*Kris Kristofferson
*Lakshmi Shankar
*Leo Kottke
*Leroy Hutson
*Little Anthony & The Imperials
*Livingston Taylor
*Lloyd Price
*Lou Rawls (guest host)
*Loretta Lynn (guest host)
*Mac Davis (guest host)
*Marty Robbins (guest host)
*Malo
*Melissa Manchester
*Merrilee Rush
*Mimi Fariña
*The Miracles
*Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
*The O'Jays
*Paul Anka (guest host)
*Paul Williams (guest host)
*Rare Earth
*The Penguins
*Ramblin' Jack Elliott

*The Raspberries
*Ravi Shankar
*Ray Charles (guest host)
*Richard Pryor (guest host)
*Rita Coolidge
*Robert Klein
*Ronnie Dyson
*Savoy Brown
*Seals & Crofts
*The Searchers
*Sha Na Na
*Shawn Phillips
*The Shirelles
*Skeeter Davis
*Skylark
*The Skyliners
*Slade
*Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
*The Spinners
*Smokey Robinson (guest host)
*The Staple Singers
*The Statler Brothers
*Steely Dan
*Steve Goodman
*Steve Martin
*Steve Miller Band
*Stories
*The Stylistics
*Tanya Tucker
*Taj Mahal
*Tammy Wynette
*Timmy Thomas
*Tom T. Hall
*Tower of Power
*Waylon Jennings
*Wilson Pickett
*Wishbone Ash
*Vicki Lawrence

1974

*Aerosmith - "The Train Kept A-Rollin'"
*Ann Peebles
*Barry White - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe"
*Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"
*Brownsville Station
*David Essex - "Rock On"
*Eddie Kendricks
*Edwin Starr
*El Chicano
*Genesis
*Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone"
*Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
*Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown"
*Humble Pie - "Oh La-De-Da" and "30 Days in the Hole"
*Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"
*James Brown - "The Payback"
*Jo Jo Gunne
*Jobriath
*Leo Sayer
*Lynn Anderson
*Maria Muldaur - "Midnight at the Oasis"
*Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"
*Neil Sedaka - "Laughter in the Rain"
*The New York Dolls
*The O'Jays - "Love Train"
*Phil Ochs and Jim Glover - "The Power and the Glory" and "Changes"
*Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
*Sly & the Family Stone - "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"
*Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?" & "A Dream Goes On Forever"

1975

*ABBA - "SOS" and "I do, I do, I do"
*PFM - "Celebration" and "Alta Loma Nine Till Five"'
*The Bee Gees - "Nights On Broadway"
*Fleetwood Mac - "Rhiannon"
*Earth Wind and Fire - "Shining Star"
*Kiss - "Black Diamond"
*KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's The Way I Like It"
*Rod Stewart - "You Wear it Well"
*Peter Frampton - "Show Me The Way"
*Helen Reddy - "I am Woman"
*Olivia Newton John - "Have You Ever Been Mellow"
*Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
*Barry Manilow - "Could It Be Magic?"
*Minnie Riperton - "Lovin You"
*Orleans - "Dance With Me"
*Natalie Cole - "This Will Be"
*Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
*Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "It Takes Two to Tango"
*Electric Light Orchestra (guest hosts) - "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Great Balls of Fire", "Can't Get It Out of My Head", "Orange Blossom Special", "Laredo Tornado", "Flight of the Bumble Bee" & "Roll Over Beethoven"
*Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"

1976

*Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Nightrider" & "Strange Magic"
*Elton John - "Your Song"
*Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", "World Turning"
*Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
*Heart - "Magic Man," "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
*Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"
*Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
*Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
*George Benson - "This Masquerade"
*Michael Murphey - "Wildfire"
*Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"
*Eric Carmen - "All By Myself"
*Tom Jones - "Delilah"
*Donna Summers - "Love to Love You Baby"
*England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
*Janis Ian - "At Seventeen"
*Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind"

1977

*Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
*Andy Kaufman - "I Trusted You"
*Bonnie Raitt - "Runaway"
*Little Feat - "Dixie Chicken"
*Weather Report - "Birdland"
*Bread - "Make It With You"
*Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
*Electric Light Orchestra (hosts) - "Livin' Thing", "Do Ya", "Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing" -- ELO (on tape) - "Rockaria!" music video
*The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
*Heart - "Crazy on You"
*James Brown - "Get Up Offa That Thing"
*Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'"
*Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
*Lou Rawls - "You'll Never Find Another Man Like Me"
*Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Blinded By The Light"
*Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. - "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)"
*Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On"
*Sanford & Townsend - "Smoke From A Distant Fire"
*Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
*Van Morrison - "Domino"

1978

*AC/DC - "Sin City"
*Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
*The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
*Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
*Chic - "Le Freak"
*Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"
*Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
*Eddie Money - "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise"
*Exile - "Kiss You All Over"
*Four Tops - "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)"
*Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
*Nick Lowe- "So It Goes"
*Reo Speedwagon - "Roll With The Changes"
*Rick James - "You and I" & "Mary Jane"
*Robert Palmer - "Every Kinda People"
*Starland Vocal Band - "Afternoon Delight"
*Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever", "Need You Bad", "Free For All" (Hosted this Show)
*Aerosmith - "Come Together"
*Todd Rundgren - "Can We Still Be Friends" & "Bread" (with the Hello People)
*Todd Rundgren's Utopia - (guest host) "Real Man", "You Cried Wolf", "Love in Action", "Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel" & "Just One Victory"
*Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl," "I Need to Know"
*The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"
*Yvonne Elliman - "If I Can't Have You"

1979

*Alice Cooper - "Billion Dollar Babies"
*Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood"
*The Babys - "Everytime I Think of You"
*The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
*Blondie - "One Way or Another," "Dreaming," "Heart of Glass"
*The Cars - "Let's Go," "Just What I Needed," "Dangerous Type"
*The Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
*Commodores - "Three Times a Lady"
*Crystal Gayle - "Cry Me a River"
*Dolly Parton - "I Will Always Love You"
*Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive," "Never Can Say Good-bye"
*Grace Jones - "Below the Belt"
*Journey - "Lovin', Touchin'. Squeezin'," "Wheel in the Sky," "City of Angels"
*Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You" (memorial replay of her 1975 appearance)
*Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"
*Peaches & Herb - "Reunited"
*The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
*Rick James - "You and I"
*Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
*The Three Degrees - "Giving Up Giving In & The Runner"

1980

*Eddie Rabbit - "Driving My Life Away"
*Frankie Valli & The Commodores - "Grease"
*Olivia Newton-John - "Magic"
*REO Speedwagon - "Keep On Loving You"
*Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
*America - "Sister Golden Hair"

1981

*707 - "Tonite's Your Night"