They did a couple of these throwback shows as I recall. I was about 15 years old and couldn't get enough of it as I had missed all of these acts that they featured from the '60s and the 50s
@@AldousHuxleysCat it's just crazy for me to realize that, at 56, I could literally be Orbison's dad when he was on the midnight special! And I don't really feel old 😋
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I would catch Midnight Special at this certain babysitting job I had where the mom was a partier. Unfortunately I would ignore the stuff I didn't find interesting. NOW I love this music.
I’m gonna love Roy! Until the end of the line…💖 🎶 “Well it's all right, even when push comes to shove Well it's all right, if you got someone to love Well it's all right, everything'll work out fine Well it's all right, we're going to the end of the line” 🎶💗 R.I.P. Duane Eddy 🎸🤍🤍
Really well produced and presented. The most recent tunes here are Higher and Higher (fall 1967) and Jam Up Jelly Tight ( December 1969) Everyone still on top of their game. Amazing how much music changed between 1960 and 1970. I’m guessing that was Duane’s regular band at the time. Tight! I think Jackie left something in his front pocket…
at 40 years old that year, not long before an on stage heart attack would put him in a coma for 8 years before passing away from pneumonia at 49.... :(
@@rikvee The song Nightshift, by the Commodores was a tribute to Jackie and Marvin Gaye who died a few years after Jackie. Both had tragic deaths. Sad indeed...
I love this! In the '70's as a teen in High School I stay up for Saturday Night Live then force myself to stay up longer for 'The Midnight Special'! Sunday morning I wake up & watch "Soul Train"! Another great show! Who else remembers those day's in the '70's!
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I used to work second shift. Soon as i punched out , I took off running to catch the Midnight Special. They had some of the best groups and singers ever performing one right after the other. And then there was Wolfman Jack. Great times, great music.
What makes this show so great is that all these artists can actually sing, no echo, no reverb, no auto tune, no lip syncing ! Today’s artists can learn something and also real instruments, no synthesizers. No computer or drum machine !
There are synthesisers being played. Runaway featured a Clavioline which is an analogue synthesiser. There is obviously nothing digital going on but synths are used. Not sure why people have an issue with synthesisers. They still require human input and expand the sounds available to artists.
@@JamieAndersonMusicOne of the London shows (David Essex, ELO etc.)had a lot of mimed, outdoor performances but the episode featuring Humble Pie and Procol Harum was true live. That show is one of my favourites mainly due to Steve Marriot's amazing, raw performance.😊
Runaway was the first hit song to feature a synthesizer, which his keyboard player at the time built as a do-it-yourself project. Not sure if this is the same keyboard player.
I loved that song sung/written by Jessi Colter in 1975 it was her most successful hit, what a beautiful voice and lady! “I'm Not Lisa" was written by Colter and describes the pain that comes with dating someone who has not gotten over a previous lover.”
He had a habit of taking salt tablets and drinking a lot of water before going on stage so he'd sweat during his performance, telling Elvis Presley 'the chicks love it,' and it's likely that caused his heart attack.
Interesting that Tommy Roe actually performed a song that was not truly an oldie, “jam up and jelly tight” was a hit three years earlier in 1971, his last very big hit, and one of my favorites of his
I'm in tears seeing Jackie Wilson perform. A little more than a year after this at the Dick Clark Rock and Roll Revue, Jackie would suffer a massive heart attack and be in and out of a coma for the rest of his life. Apparently, Elvis personally paid all of Jackie's medical bills because Jackie was essentially destitute and after passing, would be buried in an unmarked grave. What a horrible outcome for one of the founding father's of Rock & Roll.
I loved Duane Eddy's music right from the first. His combining twangy guitar with wailing sax was magic on wax. His best song in my mind was KOMMOTION.
I wonder if The show had a band to back solo acts? When this show came out I was 12. Our town had one channel. Off air at midnight. 😢 This show is awesome ❤️🇨🇦🤠👍
Runaway is SUCH a banger! I believe Del was targeted to take Roys place in the Travelin' Wilburys as Tom Petty had just produced his last album. Nbut, sadly, no.
Bizarrely, The Drifters were massively successful and popular in the UK at that time on the back of an amazing run of UK top 40 hits starting in 72 and ending in 76, and were based in England making a fortune, but I'm not sure that any of the 4 in this 'version' of The Drifters were involved.
This lineup of Drifters is Charlie Thomas (1958-1967 recording member), Elsbeary Hobbs (1958-1961 member), Dock Green (1958-1962 member) and Al Banks, original lead of the Turbans singing lead. Out of camera range on guitar is their longtime musical director Abdul Samad. Charlie and Elsbeary remained performing Drifters until their deaths. The UK group was led by Johnny Moore, who first joined in 1955 (Adorable, Ruby Baby) and returned in 1963 (Under The Boardwalk, Saturday Night At The Movies).
Interesting how during this time Roy orbison's career was in a slump and notice how he's not playing his usual guitar nor is he wearing his usual black outfits but it's still awesome though
Thank you so much for uploading these episodes!! When the show was on originally, I couldn't stay up late enough to watch the entire show, I'd watch maybe half an hour and go to bed, (it came on at midnight). I missed a lot of music back then.
Sad to think they're all gone... *Tommy Roe is still with us tho, thankfully... What an ALL STAR LINE UP!!! Randy A Carlisle // DJ // The Real Oldies Show // KSGV
Cool, I'm not the only one who felt like these tunes were sped up. I wonder if it's to avoid RU-vid copyright shenanigans. Or, they tried to cram so many songs in a 60 minute format, either way, it does make these songs sound...different.
I read a lot of comments abought some of the songs are @ a fast tempo. I think it's the backing band. The drummer keeps time. I think the dude took a hit of speed before the show. It sounds like Roy Orbison 's drummer to me. The drums keep pace and time for the band. A good example of slow and then fast. Is Bloodstone's Natural High. I play drums. I've been told I play Lyin' Eyes to fast.
Great show! Good to see a hometown boy, Duane Eddy (may he rest in peace). I was fortunate enough to go to church with Roy Orbison's first cousin and some of the rest of the family, many of them gone now. Wow, and could they sing.
What's great about this television show, is that is all singing, no lip syncing no auto-tune no overdubs none of those, there are also no synthesizers, no drum machines, none of those, just real singers and bands, that's what today's singers and bands can learn these.
