God bless him. He had a few songs...they don't exactly come to mind.

@@pauldalnoky6055 He was more of a songwriter than singer. Wrote some of the greats

@@gabriallefleming7611 I'll Google him

@@pauldalnoky6055 Here's a few: hits for Three Dog Night ("An Old Fashioned Love Song", "The Family of Man" and "Out in the Country"), Helen Reddy ("You and Me Against the World"), and the Carpenters, most notably "Rainy Days and Mondays", "I Won't Last a Day Without You", and "We've Only Just Begun", originally a song for a Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds, and which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings "Evergreen" co-wrote with Barbra Streisand. and more....

And he’s the president of ASCAP, the songwriters governing body.

And thank YOU for the music!

"Dancing..." shows up on the local juke box just about every night. It's one of those songs you can recognize in the first 2 or 3 notes. :)

don’t forget the best ... Joni Mitchell

Minnie Ripperton

I feel the same way. And to think we had this show and American Bandstand, Soul Train on Saturday afternoons and SNL live back when it was funny and had great music as well. There was plenty of music on TV back then. Thank God for KZfaq so I can see this again. Now there’s nothing.

Yep, miss it. Such simpler times.

love the song, but once you know its origins, you'll never look at it the same way

Everybawdy

Ha I hate this song!! No offense meant but I cringe when I hear it.

@@JQ127-c4e Your mother sure wasn’t cringing when I did her last night.

@@JQ127-c4e With a moniker like yours…we’re gonna take you really seriously, Cringe Crinkle. 🤡

Amen

@P51 Me as well. I agree. Great performance by the band of both their songs in this episode.

Loved them too!

Thanks!

Me Too!! I have Always LOVED King Harvest! Always So Good!!!❤️🎼🎤🥰

Thanks a lot!

I had the 45 record, loved it too

Thanks for watching!

Yeah that was the best performance of them all.

Me too, I miss the diversity and discovery of youth. All these bans are so much better than anything from the last 20 years.

I think we all experience the regret of youth lost. I do and I also miss my hair! 😄

Yeah I want it back.

I recommend reading Proust In Search of Lost Time - it takes nostalgia to another level through literature

He seemed like such an unlikely celebrity, but he was all over TV in the 1970s...acting in shows, hosting them, performing.

I'm still amazed at how many great tunes I've known for years turned out to be yours! Thanks 🎉

even better than mine!!

I agree!

Yes I also agree! This TV show and Soul Train were (and always will be) really nice. The 1970s are the best!!

I wish Don Kirshner's Rock concert had a KZfaq channel.

Kris & Rita were such a gorgeous couple. ❤

I love Kris Kristofferson. Even as a little guy, I knew there was something special about him. 🙏

@@Mankind_- It was ‘magical’ the man is smart and so very talented. Don’t know how many songs he’s written exactly but many people have covered them.

@@KittyGrizGriz I was, like 10 ,11 years old, and as many homes, albums seemed to just appear, and that was the case with Kristofferson's albums. I would sit and listen to songs like, Sunday morning coming down, not sure what they were about, but one thing was certain, he is one of the artists that has been a constant throughout my life. His songs come from his soul. 👍✌️

Obrigado pelas ótimas informações .

I saw David Lindley there. 😀

With the great Bev Bevan on drums, who later actually briefly played with Black Sabbath!

He is still alive. He is 87 yrs. old.

He was a great songwriter & sang a lot of his songs. He did some acting, but mainly a singer/songwriter.

Again thanks!!! You are our super fan of the week. 😀

Holy crap, I couldn’t have said it better! Was the summer between 3rd and 4th grade for me as well. My family had just moved into a house that my dad built on the lake in the country. Spent my childhood fishing, swimming, skiing, and riding dirt bikes. Summer vacation started on Memorial Day and ended until Labor day, and seemed to last forever! This music was the soundtrack of my youth. Plus Elton John, Eagles, Chicago, Rod Stewart, etc. All could be found for a dime on the jukebox at the campground rec room up the road. Would take our allowance and walk barefoot up the road to play pinball, buy candy, and play their jukebox. Damn those were beautiful, simpler times! Wish there was a way to go back in time and warn the childhood me to appreciate and savor every minute, cause it goes so fast.

I was between 7th and8th grade - a very formative time for me - smoked too much weed but Really enjoyed the music of that era - I think it sounds even better now !

I would have been in the summer between fourth and fifth grade. Loved THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. I think I saw just about all these episodes until the show really decayed. It became music videos (which was okay but I was interested in seeing people really play) and eventually a few people sitting around in armchairs just rapping about stuff. Horrendously boring.

For people who may not know, Rita was Leon Russell's girlfriend in the late 60s. Leon's song 'Delta Lady' was written about her.

I was not disappointed. Kris and Rita did great, as well as ELO (great original tune), Commander Cody, and all the rest! Thanks so much, Midnight Special!💜

@@Dan_Morrison Rita also was involved with Joe Cocker, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. She and Kris were married 1973 to 1980.

Rita and Kris were married 1973 to 1980.

Stephanie, Kris K. solo was one of the very best concerts I’ve seen (been to many). He played solo acoustic~sang for 1 1/2 hours @ 80yrs young. Felt the audience disappeared & he was singing directly to me, Omg, he’s a masterful story weaver, I was in love 🥰

It’s his song brainiac.🙄

@@tproudboomer5965 be nice 😊

Cars won't be on the midnight special till 78

@@markdeviney7307 Really? I thought there was another presentation of them. Someone uploaded a couple of live videos that according to the description were from The Midnight Special in '79! Thanks for the information!

@@jossyknight2083 yea 78,79,80 Cars were on M.S.

It will be forever until we see the complete episodes but there are the clips though.

@@gregoryduncan3067 Yes, in fact there are their presentations from '78, I'm just still waiting for their other performances to be uploaded!

Maybe because he wrote such great songs, and was generally likeable. I mean, I was a kid, so I don't know for sure. He did have a sad quality in his voice. But, like you, I look forward to this, too! ✌️

@@StephanieJeanne yes there was definitely a sad quality to Paul. But if you ever seen any of his Tonight show clips they're just laughing and couldn't be any happier. There were a lot of singing artists at this time who I always thought were somewhat mediocre and yet were huge stars. If you ever run across any of his interviews done over the last few years they're fascinating

@@AldousHuxleysCatThey probably had cocktails before those shows, too, and Carson was goofy anyway. lol I'll look for those interviews.

@@StephanieJeanne I believe they cut way down on preshow drinks after the George Gobels incident. Long as you made Carson laugh,you were golden

I just love everything about him, but the voice is unique, genuine and disarming. Not to everyone's taste, I know.

Or maybe both!😃👍🏼