List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special

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

1974

 * Aerosmith - "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and "Dream On"
 * Ann Peebles
 * Barry White - "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up"
 * Billy Joel
 * Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine"
 * Bonnie Tyler - "It's a Heartache" (This must be an error—song was not released until 1977)
 * Brownsville Station - "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
 * Charlie Rich - "Behind Closed Doors"
 * Curtis Mayfield - "Superfly"
 * David Brenner
 * David Essex - "Rock On"
 * Dobie Gray - "Drift Away"
 * Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin'"
 * Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"
 * Edwin Starr
 * El Chicano
 * Freddie Prinze
 * Genesis
 * Gladys Knight & B.B. King - "The Thrill is Gone"
 * Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"
 * Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
 * Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown" and "If You Could Read My Mind"
 * The Guess Who - "American Woman" and"Undun"
 * Hot Tuna - "Hamar Promenade", "Day to Day Out the Window Blues" and "I See the Light"
 * Humble Pie - "Oh La-De-Da" and "30 Days in the Hole"
 * Ike & Tina Turner - "Proud Mary"
 * James Brown - "The Payback"
 * Jo Jo Gunne
 * Jobriath - "I'maman" and "Rock of Ages"
 * Kool And The Gang - "Hollywood Swinging and Jungle Boogie"
 * Leo Sayer
 * Little Richard
 * Loggins and Messina- "Your Mama Don't Dance"
 * Lynn Anderson
 * The Main Ingredient - "Just Don't Want To Be Lonely"
 * Maria Muldaur - "Midnight at the Oasis"
 * Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On and What's Going On"
 * Montrose - "Paper Money" and "I Got the Fire"
 * Neil Sedaka - "Laughter in the Rain"
 * The New York Dolls
 * The O'Jays - "Love Train"
 * Ohio Players - "Skin Tight"
 * Olivia Newton-John - "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"
 * The Spinners
 * Phil Ochs and Jim Glover - "The Power and the Glory" and "Changes"
 * Redbone - "Come and Get Your Love"
 * Robert Palmer - "Bad Case Of Lovin' You (Doctor, Doctor)" (This must be an error—song was not released until 1979)
 * Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - "Tell Me Something Good"
 * Shirley & Lee - "Let the Good Times Roll"
 * Sly & the Family Stone - "Everybody is a Star" and "Thank You (Falletin Me be Mice-Elf Again) "
 * Stories - "Brother Louie"
 * The Stylistics - "You Make Me Feel Brand New"
 * Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You?" & "A Dream Goes On Forever"
 * War - "Cisco Kid"

1975

 * ABBA - "SOS" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
 * Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles - "It Takes Two to Tango"
 * Barry Manilow - "Mandy" and "Could It Be Magic?"
 * The Bee Gees - "Nights on Broadway", "Jive Talkin'" and "To Love Somebody" (Duet With Helen Reddy)
 * Captain & Tennille - "Love Will Keep Us Together (Duet With Neil Sedaka)"
 * David Steinberg
 * Dolly Parton
 * Earth Wind and Fire - "Shining Star"
 * Electric Light Orchestra (guest hosts) - "In the Hall of the Mountain King", "Great Balls of Fire", "Can't Get It Out of My Head", "Orange Blossom Special", "Laredo Tornado", "Flight of the Bumble Bee" & "Roll Over Beethoven"
 * Frankie Valli (Guest Host) - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
 * Glen Campbell - "Rhinestone Cowboy"
 * Helen Reddy - "I Am Woman", "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby"
 * The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"
 * Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber
 * KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"
 * KISS - "Black Diamond", "Deuce", & "She"
 * Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"
 * Labelle - "Lady Marmalade", “What Can I Do for You?”
 * Leo Sayer
 * Linda Ronstadt
 * Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
 * Natalie Cole - "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"
 * Neil Sedaka - "Bad Blood", "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"
 * Ohio Players - "Love Rollercoaster"
 * Olivia Newton-John - "Have You Never Been Mellow"
 * Orleans - "Dance with Me"
 * Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way", "Do You Feel Like We Do", "Baby, I Love Your Way"
 * PFM - "Celebration" and "Alta Loma Nine Till Five"'
 * Rod Stewart - "You Wear It Well"
 * Roxy Music - "Out Of The Blue", "The Thrill Of It All", "A Really Good Time" (aired 05/09/1975)
 * Todd Rundgren - "Real Man", "Freedom Fighters" & "Seven Rays"
 * The Whitney Family

1976

 * Aretha Franklin - "Respect", "Something He Can Feel"
 * Bill Haley & His Comets "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later Alligator" (archive footage from the movie Rock Around the Clock)
 * Diana Ross - "Love Hangover"
 * Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby"
 * Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Nightrider" & "Strange Magic"
 * Elton John - "Your Song"
 * Electric Light Orchestra - "Evil Woman", "Can't Get It Out of My Head" and "Strange Magic"
 * England Dan and John Ford Coley - "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
 * Eric Carmen - "All By Myself"
 * Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", "World Turning", "Why"
 * Gary Wright - "Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive"
 * George Benson - "This Masquerade"
 * Heart - "Magic Man", "Crazy On You", "Dreamboat Annie"
 * Helen Reddy
 * Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing"
 * Janis Ian - "At Seventeen"
 * Joan Baez - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
 * LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade"
 * Lynn Anderson - "Stand By Your Man", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Tom Jones
 * Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You"
 * The Miracles - "Love Machine"
 * Michael Murphey - "Wildfire"
 * Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way"
 * Ray Charles - "Georgia on My Mind"
 * Spinners - "The Rubberband Man"
 * Starbuck - "Moonlight Feels Right"
 * Tom Jones - "Delilah, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" w/Lynn Anderson
 * Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band - "A Fifth of Beethoven"
 * Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"

1977

 * Andrew Gold - "Lonely Boy"
 * Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
 * Andy Kaufman - "I Trusted You"
 * Bonnie Raitt - "Runaway"
 * Bread (hosts) - "Make It With You"
 * Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
 * Eddie Rabbitt - "Rocky Mountain Music"
 * Electric Light Orchestra (hosts) - "Rockaria!", "Livin' Thing", "Do Ya", "Telephone Line" & "Livin' Thing (reprise)"
 * Emmylou Harris
 * The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
 * Gino Vannelli - "Summers of My Life"
 * James Brown - "Get Up Offa That Thing"
 * Jennifer Warnes - "Right Time of the Night"
 * Jesse Winchester -
 * Johnny Rivers - "Slow Dancin'"
 * Journey "Feeling That Way " "Anytime" "Wheel in the Sky"
 * Leo Sayer - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
 * Little Feat - "Dixie Chicken"
 * Lou Rawls - "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
 * Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Blinded by the Light"
 * Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. - "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)"
 * Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On", "Got to Give It Up"
 * Player
 * Renaissance - "Midas Man" & "Carpet of the Sun"
 * Sanford-Townsend Band - "Smoke from a Distant Fire"
 * Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
 * Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song)"
 * Van Morrison - "Domino"
 * Weather Report - "Birdland"

1978

 * AC/DC - "Sin City"
 * Aerosmith - "Come Together"
 * Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
 * Andy Gibb - "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
 * Billy Preston "Nothing From Nothing"
 * The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
 * Cheap Trick - "Surrender"
 * Chic - "Le Freak," "Everybody Dance"
 * Chuck Mangione - "Feels So Good"
 * Crystal Gayle - "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
 * Dan Hill - "Sometimes When We Touch"
 * David Bowie
 * Dolly Parton
 * Donna Summer - "Last Dance", "I Feel Love", "Heaven Knows"
 * Eddie Money - "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise"
 * Electric Light Orchestra - "Telephone Line"
 * The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
 * Evelyn Champagne King - "Shame", "I Don't Know If It's Right"
 * Exile - "Kiss You All Over"
 * Four Tops - "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)"
 * George Benson
 * Golden Earring - "Grab It for a Second", "Against the Grain"
 * Hall & Oates - "Rich Girl"
 * KC and the Sunshine Band
 * Leo Sayer - "When I Need You"
 * Nick Lowe- "So It Goes"
 * Peaches & Herb
 * Player
 * REO Speedwagon - "Roll With The Changes"
 * Rick James - "Mary Jane"
 * Robert Palmer - "Every Kinda People"
 * Ronnie Montrose - Town Without Pity & "My Little Mystery"
 * Starland Vocal Band - "Afternoon Delight"
 * Sylvester - "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", "Dance (Disco Heat)", and "Grateful"
 * Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever", "Need You Bad", "Free For All" (Hosted this Show)
 * The O'Jays - "For The Love Of Money"
 * Sammy Hagar - "You Make Me Crazy"
 * Thin Lizzy - "The Cowboy Song", "Live From the Rainbow London"
 * Todd Rundgren - "Can We Still Be Friends" & "Bread" (with the Hello People)
 * Todd Rundgren's Utopia - (guest host) "Real Man", "You Cried Wolf", "Love in Action", "Sometimes I Don't Know What to Feel" & "Just One Victory"
 * Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl", Listen To Her Heart and I Need to Know"
 * The Trammps - "Disco Inferno"
 * Village People
 * Yvonne Elliman - "If I Can't Have You"

1979

 * Alice Cooper - "Medley: Eighteen/Only Women Bleed/Billion Dollar Babies," "Inmates (We're All Crazy)"
 * Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood"
 * The Babys - "Everytime I Think of You"
 * The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
 * Bonnie Pointer - "Heaven Must Have Sent You"
 * Blondie - "One Way or Another," "Dreaming," "Heart of Glass"
 * The Cars - "Let's Go," "Just What I Needed," "Dangerous Type, "My Best Friend's Girl"
 * The Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
 * The Commodores - "Three Times a Lady", "Brick House"
 * Crystal Gayle - "Cry Me a River"
 * Dolly Parton - "I Will Always Love You"
 * Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive," "Never Can Say Good-bye"
 * Grace Jones - "Below the Belt", "Do or Die"
 * Journey - "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'," "Wheel in the Sky," "City of The Angels"
 * KC and the Sunshine Band
 * Minnie Riperton - "Lovin' You" (memorial replay of her 1975 appearance)
 * Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"
 * Peaches & Herb - "Reunited," "Shake Your Groove Thing"
 * The Pointer Sisters - "Fire"
 * Randy Jones
 * Rick James - "You and I"
 * Robert Fripp - "Frippertronics"
 * Rupert Holmes - "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
 * The Three Degrees - "Giving Up Giving In", The Runner"
 * The Jacksons - "Shake Your Body Down To The Ground"
 * Tina Turner
 * Todd Rundgren
 * Village People

1980

 * America - "Sister Golden Hair"
 * Benny Mardones - "Into the Night"
 * Billy Preston
 * Christopher Cross
 * David Bowie
 * Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
 * Frankie Valli & Commodores - "Grease"
 * Gladys Knight & the Pips
 * Hall & Oates - "Kiss on My List"
 * Isaac Hayes - "Don't Let Go"
 * John Mellencamp - "This Time" & "Ain't Even Done With The Night"
 * Leo Sayer
 * Olivia Newton-John - "Magic", "Dancin'"
 * Randy Jones
 * REO Speedwagon - "Keep on Loving You"
 * Roy Orbison - (Host, Season 8, Episode 25) "Oh, Pretty Woman", "Only the Lonely", "Crying", "Running Scared", "Hound Dog Man", "Blue Bayou" & "The Eyes of Texas"
 * The Oak Ridge Boys - "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"
 * The Spinners
 * Dr. Hook
 * Prince - "I Wanna Be Your Lover" & "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad ?"

1981

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