32:38 to 39:03 Wow. The Crusaders - a perfect, tight rnb funk instrumental groove - into Incredible String Band - wide-eyed eclectic celtic psychedelia - what a musical transition!! Man the 70s was a monster music decade…
My hubby and I cannot wait to finally see the Incredible String Band on this show. This group influenced Page, Plant, The Beatles, The Stones, and countless others. The extremely talented Robin Williamson and Mike Heron could play a wide variety of musical instruments. We saw Mike Heron and Clive Palmer perform at Joe's Pub in 2004, it was an amazing performance. We never thought we would ever see this footage, thank you Burt Sugarman for making this possible!
In the early 1980's Robin would give concerts in his house in Los Angeles, usually for around 30-40 people. I went to a few of these --all solo, mainly playing Celtic harp as his vocal accompaniment. What a brilliant musician, poet, song-writer, ranconteur, performer. I was always go glad to see/hear him in such an intimate setting.
The Crusaders were tight. Chuck Rainey wasn't in the Crusaders for long, but he was during this era. He later played bass on every track on Steely Dan's Aja. Keyboard player Joe Sample also played on Aja as well as the follow up album Gaucho.
Looking forward to this! Interesting bit of trivia, Jack Burns went on to become a producer and was Co-Producer of another late night TV series, Fridays. He was also partly responsible for orchestrating the infamous "fight" he got into with Andy Kaufman on air.
He was also the voice of the Dale Gribble-like neighbor on the 70s evening syndicated cartoon, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. Avery Schreiber became the Doritos guy.
People usually don't mention most of the things he did. He's usually mentioned as just the person who had to follow Don Knotts on The Andy Griffith Show, which is really lopsided.@@tgrum3316
Always liked Avery Schreiber! 😆 Will be fun to see Steve Martin and The Hollies and O'Jays! I'm not too familiar with the other names, so will be cool to hear some old "new" music!
I also have to thank you for putting these back out like this... It takes me back to moments in time where it seemed that the answers of life were within our grasp. We had solved the civil rights and everything was getting more and more equal and fair every day... because we were working on it. It wasnt even close to perfect or finished... but it seemed we were trying to come out of that dark cloud of hatred and war and assassination... We need to get back to fixing the problems we have and not just pining a pretty picture.
I've been watching every Saturday afternoon since you began posting a new show every Friday night, This one makes me feel really happy. My dad was the spitting image of Avery Schreiber (to the point that people would stop us all the time to ask for his autograph - which wasn't so crazy, since we lived in NYC back then). Every time I see any old videos of Avery, all I see is my dad...who also had pretty much the same voice and DEFINITELY the same sense of humor.
Avery in those Doritos commercials!!! Jack Burns was in the short lived ABC TV series "Getting Together" (with Bobby Sherman & Wes Stern) in late 1971!!
Burns & Schreiber had a Summer replacement but short lived TV variety comedy show on ABC from June 30 till September 1, 1973. One of the musical guests were The Doobie Brothers performing "China Grove"!!
Loved seeing The Crusaders!! Interesting to see Steve Martin doing routunes later recorded for his comedy albums. He definitely perfected his delivery on those albums.
@@StephanieJeanne Seeing where he’s standing, the conductor is working mainly with the horn section which are most likely LA studio musicians who were brought together for this gig. Great sound!
Folks who grew up on the '80s Saturday morning TV era might recognize Jack Burns as one of the voices of the crash test dummies from the 'always wear your seatbelt' commercials.
Allen Clarke left the Hollies in 1973 and was replaced by a Swedish fella named Mikael Rickfors (he's playing guitar on the far right), who sang lead vocals on "Magic Woman Touch". Rickfors couldn't speak English well and if you listen closely to the song, you can tell he is singing phonetically. By 1974, Clarke was back for the LP simply entitled "Hollies" who's big hit was "The Air That I Breathe".
First time I've ever understood the lyrics! It's not "whiskey bottles by my side!" And, there is a "bootlegging boozer on the West Side," instead of "cruising and boozing on the West Side!" And not much later, "Charlie" appears! Haha!
Allan had left the band in ‘71; Long Cool Woman was on a’71 album but not released as a single until ‘72. Allan would rejoin the band in ‘73, but had not yet done so when this was taped. I guess the band thought Terry’s voice was the best suited for this song at the time.
You maybe living under a rock if you weren't watching the great live performances on Midnight Special. The 70's were never better and will never be repeated.
