Ep 64 - The Midnight Special

Ep 64 - The Midnight Special | April 19, 1974

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Hosted by Curtis Mayfield with special guest appearances by The Impressions, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Phil Ochs, Status Quo, Sugarloaf, and Wolfman Jack.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:06 - Curtis Mayfield - If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
00:05:28 - Gladys Knight & the Pips - Best Thing That's Ever Happened to Me
00:09:39 - Status Quo - Big Fat Mama
00:15:26 - Phil Ochs - The Power and the Glory
00:18:55 - Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady
00:24:06 - The Impressions - I'm a Changed Man
00:30:03 - Gladys Knight & the Pips - On and On
00:34:25 - Curtis Mayfield - To Be Invisible
00:37:55 - Sugarloaf - I've Got a Song
00:42:13 - Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love
00:51:05 - The Impressions - People Get Ready
00:56:06 - Phil Ochs - Changes
00:59:23 - Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me
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@DannyHaralson-ol1io 26 күн бұрын

Thank you Burt Sugarman, for sharing full episodes of your Midnight Special with us. I look forward to every Friday night premiere. Seven more years of premieres. 👍

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

What's the name of the guy playing with Phil Oches ?

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

@@DannyHaralson-ol1io I'm asking about one guy standing next to Ochs... I dont see or hear all these you mention

@charmerci 21 күн бұрын

@@AMEER-114- why are you asking a commenter? Phil says who right at the beginning of his second song at 55:35.

@AMEER-114- 21 күн бұрын

@@charmerci I guess I screwed up by not listening from the very beginning... I now understand how I would appear oblivious and unattentive... I appreciate you for being attentive... And I thank you because I'm reminded to more thoroughly look and listen before posing unnecessary questions.. May GOD have mercy and send you Revelation of HIMSELF

@chocolatecaramel4447 16 күн бұрын

Curtis was spitting knowledge back in the day. Not much has changed since then, in these United States. RIP💯💯💯💯

@daniellamm1498 4 күн бұрын

Sugarloaf just killed it! Organ is awesome!

@donnieodom7844 25 күн бұрын

Gladys and Pips jamming with Curtis Mayfield Band is 🔥, historical moment in music!

@lauriebarnes2999 27 күн бұрын

Can't wait, The Midnight Special! Just love Sugarloaf's "Green Eyed Lady"!

@JamieAndersonMusic 25 күн бұрын

Great to hear them play it live. Jerry Corbetta played the hell out of those keyboards.

@DannyHaralson-ol1io 25 күн бұрын

The seventies was a good decade for music.

@no834 25 күн бұрын

the best imho

@RonaldWilliams-lp3bg 25 күн бұрын

Mid 60s and early 70s where the best music made specially with the classic rock 🤘🥁🥁

@psychedelic.dreamer 4 күн бұрын

@@RonaldWilliams-lp3bg couldn't agree more! The prog rock, the classic rock, the folk music, all of it during that time was amazing. Music has never been all that good since then, in my opinion, and I'm 26.

@shyman99 25 күн бұрын

Two wishes: 1. That there would be a video of Sugarloaf singing "Green-Eyed Lady" from 1970. 2. Jerry Corbetta would be with us today to celebrate this show being aired.

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 25 күн бұрын

I waited 50 years to see this mid special with Green Eyed lady video its its the only video of this song from the 70's. .. now you want video of them from 1970 ..cant satisfy some people lol

@shyman99 25 күн бұрын

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink - There are different levels of satisfaction. If you are telling me that you are so satisfied with this video from the mid-70s that if one appears from the early 1970s with all of the original members involved with their first two albums that you won't watch it, then you may have a point. But if you would watch an early 1970s video, then apparently you are also not completely satisfied with seeing the video from 1974. Otherwise, you would have no need to look further. See how you can be thrilled about the 1974 video but even more thrilled with a 1970 or even a 1971 video with the original members? Like how cool would it be to see their appearance on American Bandstand?

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 25 күн бұрын

They Lip Synched on Am bandstand just as all bands did back then.. this is the only live video of this song that exists. Yes-i get your point--to see all the orig members in a video fromj 70 or 71.

@shyman99 25 күн бұрын

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink - Exactly.

@gregggoins1103 25 күн бұрын

I met Jerry Corbetta in 2003 while he was with The Classic Rock Allstars , he was a cool dude

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 27 күн бұрын

Can't wait for this one-- Sugarloaf and Phil Ochs!! This hasnt been seen since 1974!

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

What's the name of the guy playing with Phil Oches ?

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 25 күн бұрын

@@AMEER-114- His name is Jim Glover

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Thank you

@ProggaWoggga 7 күн бұрын

Was there another Midnight Special that featured Sugarloaf? I seem to remember an episode in which the entire band wore heavy make up and did some very extended jamming.

@Piggy-Oink-Oink 7 күн бұрын

@@ProggaWoggga You are correct! They also appeared on the M.S. in 1975- I believe they played 2 songs--One of which is on youtube titled "Don't Call us We'll Call You".

@CoCotheTurtle 24 күн бұрын

This was such a great episode, jam-packed with hitmakers! And Status Quo and Phil Ochs. Best for me was Coitus doing two tracks from the _Superfly_ soundtrack. Outstanding!

@DannyHaralson-ol1io 25 күн бұрын

I want to thank The Midnight Special, for creating the Membership page. I'm enjoying seeing two episodes a week. Thanks, TMS ! 👍I will be watching them again when they premiere. 👍👍

@groovedohg 24 күн бұрын

Who's on the Members episode in Monday. I would have watched the Friday premiere live, but Status Quo was the only interest for me, and their performance had already been uploaded a while ago

@DannyHaralson-ol1io 23 күн бұрын

@@groovedohg Charlie Daniels Ep. 115

@groovedohg 23 күн бұрын

@DannyHaralson-ol1io that's not the Sept 79 show is it? With Gerry Rafferty.?

@groovedohg 23 күн бұрын

@DannyHaralson-ol1io I don't understand the numbered episodes. I follow the imdb that goes season 1 episode 33 then goes season2 number 1

@groovedohg 23 күн бұрын

@DannyHaralson-ol1io I also see that Charlie. Daniels co hosted on April 11 1975 with Wet Willie. Must be that one

@derekjensen4680 24 күн бұрын

I wonder is it something to do with the 50 year publishing rights that these were able to be rolled out again

@parmahmac6073 25 күн бұрын

Listennn. Curtis Mayfield singing To Be Invisible has my eyes watering. The message. So good. Tears to you, The Midnight Special.

@OWR0406 24 күн бұрын

Gk & the P = a class act

@StephanieJeanne 27 күн бұрын

Cool! More Curtis Mayfield! Sugarloaf should be cool, too, as well as Gladys and the Pips, and The Impressions! 😎💜

@Le_Serviette_Noir 25 күн бұрын

Hi Stephanie. This is going to be another great episode. I loves me some Gladys and the rest of the entertainment, with Curtis as host... Solid programming. Look for the new mystery username. Not at all Zappa related this week.

@StephanieJeanne 25 күн бұрын

@@Le_Serviette_Noir Yeah, should be good!...Okay, will do.

@Hank_Yarbo 25 күн бұрын

@@StephanieJeanne Next week I may appear as Shaun Cassidy. Maybe Sam Data. You'll know anyway.

@StephanieJeanne 25 күн бұрын

@@Hank_Yarbo 🤣 You really love change, don't you? Or, you always wanted to be an undercover agent. FBI or something. Lol.

@Royale_with_Cheeze 25 күн бұрын

@@StephanieJeanne Just whimsical

@inwoodliver 25 күн бұрын

Thank you God for Gladys and the Pips

@paulj0557tonehead 24 күн бұрын

27:44 The movie is on KZfaq- *Claudine Movie 1974 with Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones*

@johnned4848 18 күн бұрын

Holy shit! Phil Ochs!!!

@AldousHuxleysCat 25 күн бұрын

Greeneyed Lady, during the day a 3 minute hit, after dark a 7 minute experience

@JamieAndersonMusic 25 күн бұрын

I especially enjoyed Phil Ochs. I certainly know his songs but this is the first time I've seen him on stage. Would've loved to hear "I Ain't Marching Anymore" but he wrote it in the sixties, maybe he wanted to do newer songs. His comment about "the singing socialists" cracked me up. And how the heck did he play with a cast on his arm?

@StooGP 4 күн бұрын

@@JamieAndersonMusic He wrote both the songs he performed in the 60s too.

@fueledbylove 26 күн бұрын

Only one song from Status Quo? thats sad, they were huge in England.

@garyhenson117 25 күн бұрын

Like Johny Hallyday was in France, the Quo are a national rock 'n' roll institution in the UK.

@deweygill1973 25 күн бұрын

No frills, balls to the wall rock and roll

@jeremyc9593 11 күн бұрын

I've never heard of them until now, but man did they crush it. I'm definitely intrigued.

@mkehammond7277 25 күн бұрын

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful time.

@joshuablum2527 25 күн бұрын

Have the six or seven DVD collection. Love it so much.

@robmatlock7675 25 күн бұрын

Quite a variety this week, like my favorite AM radio station KAKC in Tulsa. This will be a wonderful trip in the Way Back Machine! Curtis Mayfield, always entertaining. Gladys Knight singing the song my wife loves me to sing to her, always makes me 😭😭. Phil Ochs 🚨 Spoiler Alert! Sugar Loaf a group who's songs are a part of the soundtrack of me misspent youth, can't wait to see them (They also were the house band at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion for the summer of 1988, so they are also my eldest's daughters' favorite band). Status Quo, very big in Europe, never had a big following here, I wish they would play "Pictures of Matchstick Men", I love that song, but they will be good whatever they play (Fun fact, they have been and still are, touring as Status Quo since August 1967). A strong line up, can't wait! 😁😁

@brotzmannsax 22 күн бұрын

Say goodbye to Brother Wayne Kramer and what do you think about that guitar? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbNkZ8-avq3Rd6s.htmlsi=QDZmyALSpvhYnPr4

@ghanasoul 25 күн бұрын

Was GREAT to see Mr. Curtis Mayfield doing “Give Me Your Love” and “Hell Below” live on the Midnight Special. He was truly a gifted artist. Also, Ms. Gladys knight and the Pips were great as usual. “On and On” killed, they had to cut it. Ha. Big shout to the Impressions for holding it down without Curtis at the helm and still doing it. Thanks for posting!

@unique74muzik 25 күн бұрын

The Gentle Giant and King Of Chi-Soul

@superorangeish 25 күн бұрын

Wow Phil Ochs was special

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

What's the name of the guy playing with Phil Oches ?

@nyxaerospace4319 25 күн бұрын

@@AMEER-114-Jim Glover, the guy that taught Phil guitar

@JamieAndersonMusic 25 күн бұрын

@@nyxaerospace4319 Not only could he play well but that voice!

@AMEER-114- 25 күн бұрын

@@nyxaerospace4319 Thank you

@gearjamor 25 күн бұрын

Poor Curtis, was paralyzed from the neck down by falling lighting equipment during a live show in Brooklyn NY on August 13th 1990. He died nine years later at age 57 from complications of being paralyzed and diabetes.

@John60s70s 25 күн бұрын

I saw Curtis Mayfield for my first and only time earlier in the same month before the tragic accident happened😢. I saw him in LA. The last song he performed there was the first song he performed here: Don't Worry( If There is a Hell Below).

@garyyarago2096 25 күн бұрын

bad things happen in August-- Jerry Garcia, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WW1 and so on, Curtis Mayfield invented a whole style of guitar playing, little florid licks around his unique voice that everybody copped, Jimi included.

@pifflepockle 18 күн бұрын

Burt is taking the piss out of him during that interview

@matthewhutchinson7366 25 күн бұрын

Thanks for this release. These Curtis Mayfield performances are absolute gold. I love when he added keyboards to his core live band. Does anyone know who the players are? I wonder if the Rhodes player is Rich Tufo who played keys on some later Curtis records and also did some arranging for him.

@crlaw75 25 күн бұрын

Looks like an interesting episode.

@waynejohanson1083 25 күн бұрын

Curtis Mayfield to me was so underrated. The guy was a great composer, singer and musician, he could do it all.

@brutusalwaysminded 25 күн бұрын

Underrated? Dude's a legend, dude. 😁

@waynejohanson1083 25 күн бұрын

@@brutusalwaysminded That is what I mean. I don't think he has gotten the credit he deserves. Yes he is a legend.

@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 24 күн бұрын

In music history he is credited with so many inspirations and arrangements. His guitar playing influence was felt for decades from Hendrix to Jazz. I lived the Mayfield era, and he actually was the sound of the deep city in the late 60s to early 70s . The polarization of racial demographics in the music industry made him a underground ICON in Great Britain where his talents were immediately recognized for as a ALTERNATIVE genre of R&B. The music was TOO DEEP for all but the aficionados and connoisseurs of the smoothest music.

@waynejohanson1083 24 күн бұрын

@@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921 I agree with you 100%

@TheHuckster100 23 күн бұрын

You think one of the greatest soul / R&B singers of a generation is "underrated"? Wow.

@tennesseeridgerunner5992 25 күн бұрын

Ah Gladys Knight & The Pips- does it really get any better. No freakin auto tune or any horse crap like the "artists" of today employ.

@MrDoneboy 25 күн бұрын

Cool SG!

@folginator 25 күн бұрын

Rick from Quo has been burning the candle methinks….

@JayBird911 25 күн бұрын

Thank you Midnight Special!

@ruddle17 25 күн бұрын

epic episode

@blackcatcentralmusic 22 күн бұрын

The version of "Green Eyed Lady" is better than the studio version.

@floydshambles 25 күн бұрын

Gladys' band smokin'

@John60s70s 25 күн бұрын

Gladys💃 also🔥singing On and On.

@JamieAndersonMusic 25 күн бұрын

I agree although the horns were a bit too loud.

@no834 25 күн бұрын

Curtis Mayfield is a legend

@henryhoward8341 25 күн бұрын

Status Quo!

@Ibrian8888 25 күн бұрын

🤗🙏☕️cheers Burt!

@CPiz321 25 күн бұрын

I love some more Phil Ochs content

@charmgravesandy6754 25 күн бұрын

A time when music was music for the soul.❤❤❤

@MrDoneboy 25 күн бұрын

Why wasn't Status Quo a bigger band back then!!!

@thevoid99 25 күн бұрын

there's a strange thing in the way some bands are bigger in the u.k. and why some bands are bigger in america. take suede who are one of the premier bands of brit-pop. they're massive in britain and have a devoted following all over europe and japan. they were barely played in the u.s. bush for some reason was BIG in the u.s. but didn't do well in the u.k. until their 2nd album yet they're now doing the nostalgia circuit in the u.s. while barely being played in the u.k. while suede is still doing well in europe and japan and only have a small following here in the u.s.

@paulj0557tonehead 24 күн бұрын

I just wish AC/DC could have made the cut for the Midnight Special. A bill with The Stylistics and AC/DC would have been one for the books.

@margaretbeard6564 24 күн бұрын

Came for the classic and beautiful Gladys Knight

@TheMisterGriswold 25 күн бұрын

Jerry Corbetta on Hammond. Wow. 🎹

@DS-oi4wl 25 күн бұрын

"On And On" by Gladys and the Pips -- never heard it before, and it was so great...in the extreme.

@fumanchu1977 23 күн бұрын

WOW !! Phil Ochs performing Changes brings tears to my eyes... RIP Phil!

@dalemullins4562 25 күн бұрын

I bought the whole series on dvd...one late night....maybe drunk. And now we have KZfaq. yay. anyone wanna buy 18 DVDs? lol

@HunterHouser-qk7gj 24 күн бұрын

I've been waiting so long to see the phil ochs clips, it's everything I hoped it would be.

@StooGP 18 күн бұрын

Finally, the Phil Ochs appearance is available on KZfaq, thank you so much for this. :)

@donnieodom7844 25 күн бұрын

😮 the musical prophet the mighty Curtis

@curtisphilumalee1447 25 күн бұрын

I’m partial to Curtis Mayfield music. I don’t know why. I know I’m not SuperFly. Maybe because it’s his first name. Anybody else with the first name Curtis is alright in my book. We are far and few between. Took me 53 years to run into another Curtis and he carded me as I tried to purchase a 5th of Jack. Found out Florida state law requires id not matter what your age. I dig me some Sugarloaf too. Good Gawd. Now if we could just get some Head East on the Midnight Special.

@markvonwisco7369 25 күн бұрын

That Fender thinline Tele Curtis is playing looks pretty sweet! 🤤

@deweygill1973 25 күн бұрын

Was hoping Curtis would do one with his old group on People Get Ready…. Oh well.. good anyway

@paulofernando8512 25 күн бұрын

Mr Rick Parfitt RIP rest easy rest well One of my most beloved guitar heros ever Status Quo was so brilliant particulary in the 70's maybe the finest boogie band in rock history,my opinion for sure.

@timbrown8038 24 күн бұрын

Superfly.

@matthewbaduria 25 күн бұрын

People lost interest because of the change in format, including Disco, Punk, and New Wave. And ratings fell off badly.

@JamieAndersonMusic 25 күн бұрын

Gladys Knight and the Pips have been on a lot but I don't mind. Love them. They don't just sing, it's a SHOW.

@wtaylorg 25 күн бұрын

Curtis Mayfield’s guitar playing is so influential. He was so unique. One of the best.

@donnieodom7844 25 күн бұрын

He influenced the great Jimi Hendrix

@SteveKraus 24 күн бұрын

What lineup. Gladys Knight and Pips, Curtis Mayfield, Sugarloaf and more. The 70's had the greatest music.

@maxjohanse8652 23 күн бұрын

The midnight special is for sigmas who are ao cool abd skibidi

@matthedlund502 24 күн бұрын

Curtis Mayfield is awesome!

@stevenphillips400 25 күн бұрын

Sadly Phil Ochs committed suicide 2 years later. His music will live on.

@funknflow 22 күн бұрын

absolutely insane episode!!

@leahrockstar 25 күн бұрын

How Status Quo never made it in the USA is mind boggling

@cmd1958 24 күн бұрын

Huge in Europe and hardly known in the US.

@vincentdavis3453 25 күн бұрын

Sugarloaf - I've Got a Song. What an uplifting, feel-good song! Mayfield and Knight what legends! What a line-up on a smooth, cool Midnight Special!!

@bluebear1985 25 күн бұрын

The following week's show from April 26, 1974 sounds like a pretty good one too. It was hosted by Charlie Rich, and also features appearances from Anne Murray, Dobie Gray, The Staple Singers, and The Treasures.

@donnieodom7844 25 күн бұрын

Man the empress of soul Gladys Knight and the Pips !!

@TheMisterGriswold 25 күн бұрын

Curtis, Gladys, so special.

@michaelrochester48 25 күн бұрын

I never knew Status Quo had an American appearance on TV. They only had one hit in America in 1968, Pictures of Matchstick Men.

@MisterBeauJanGels 25 күн бұрын

1:05:55 Did she say "heron"? A bird species is a hard drug?

@juniorbramble7760 23 күн бұрын

...❤🔥.Thanks ...

@Bassverous 20 күн бұрын

Love Curtis mayfield amazing

@Le_Serviette_Noir 26 күн бұрын

I don't know that we'll hear (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go uncensored. If anybody knows that great song, it begins with racial slurs on three races. 50 years later, I don't expect we'd hear it on network TV today.

@robmatlock7675 25 күн бұрын

My Pisces bro, the master of disguise, how are you!

@Royale_with_Cheeze 25 күн бұрын

@@robmatlock7675 Get your butt over to the chat and find the "new guy"