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Post by Calidore on Jan 28, 2024 22:05:36 GMT -5
I've learned that The Midnight Special got its own YouTube channel last year, with individual performances and full episodes being uploaded.
I didn't know if this should go in the Classic TV or Music Notes thread, so I decided to make one, because there's certainly enough awesomeness to support one.
I especially like the comic-book-worthy team-ups of a pair of artists and a song that may or may not be associated with one of them. Some of these are a natural fit:
And some are...less intuitive.
Go have a look at the channel and post your favorites here.
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Post by GoldenAge Heroes! on Feb 2, 2024 17:46:01 GMT -5
Fantastic! I haven't seen them in ages. I remember back when in the early 90's I think, they reran them for a time. Great to see them again and very cool they got there own channel.
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Post by berkley on Feb 2, 2024 20:17:21 GMT -5
Great to know things like this are available for viewing - and for listening to!
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 2, 2024 22:18:12 GMT -5
This warms my New Wave heart......
Not sure about the "modern Apache Dance," though.
Thank you WLS Chicago for turning me onto these guys....
I had never heard of these guys or this song, until I was watching dvds of Steve Coogan's Saxondale tv series and it came on as the end credits song. My late wife came into the room to see, because she knew it immediately and just rattled off "Hocus Pocus by Focus!" To which I replied, "Whaaaaat?"
You don't get a lot of yodeling in rock music.
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Post by berkley on Feb 2, 2024 23:24:17 GMT -5
We didn't get Midnight Special or Soul Train in our part of Canada, that I remember. We did have Don Kirshner's Rock Concert for a year or two in the early '70s - I remember seeing the Stones do Silver Train so it would have been around the time that album was out, Goat's Head Soup.
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Post by Calidore on Feb 21, 2024 18:15:43 GMT -5
Another awesome team-up: Billy Preston and Buddy Miles turning George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" into a soul stomper that ends up running for 8 minutes because the audience won't let them stop.
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Post by Calidore on Apr 12, 2024 11:58:44 GMT -5
The eternal battle of artist vs. person. It's easy to complain about Ted Nugent the man, but hard to complain about eleven minutes of "Stranglehold" on television.
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Post by Doghouse Reilly on Apr 12, 2024 12:13:19 GMT -5
The eternal battle of artist vs. person. It's easy to complain about Ted Nugent the man, but hard to complain about eleven minutes of "Stranglehold" on television. Yeah, I was ignorant of Nugent's... personality as a teen. After I became unignorant, that didn't erase my enjoyment of his 70s work. I've heard plenty of liberals trash all of his artistic output when trashing the man, but you don't need to lump them together. |
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Post by Calidore on May 10, 2024 22:07:06 GMT -5
Looks like things went as expected, and the Midnight Special episode just posted does indeed have a couple of Duane Eddy performances ("Rebel Rouser" and "Ramrod"). Also quite a heavyweight lineup of, among others, The Drifters, Del Shannon, Jackie Wilson, plus host Roy Orbison.
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