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Seasons: 8
Total Episodes: 111
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Networks: NBC
Status: Returning Series
First Air Date: Aug 19, 1972
Recent Air Date: May 16, 1980
Run Time: m
In Production: Yes
Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Production Companies: Burt Sugarman Productions , NBC
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Episodes
Episode 1
14 September 1973 - Host: Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield (host) - ""Future Shock,"" ""Back to the World"" & ""Right On for the Darkness"" --The Bee Gees - ""Lonely Days"" & ""Run to Me"" --Jim Croce - ""I've Got a Name"" & ""Bad Bad Leroy Brown"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Where Peaceful Waters Flow"" --Natural Four - ""Can This Be Real"" --Wilson Pickett - ""Get Me Back on Time Engine 9"" & ""Don't Knock My Love"" --Helen Reddy - ""Delta Dawn"" --Sly & the Family Stone - ""Everybody Is a Star"" --War - ""Gypsy man""
Episode 2
21 September 1973 - Host: Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (host) - ""Land of 1000 Dances,"" ""Funky Broadway,"" ""Never My Love"" & ""In the Midnight Hour"" --Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - ""Whenever You're Ready"" & ""Listen Here"" --Canned Heat - ""Dust My Broom"" & ""Lookin' for My Rainbow"" --The Chi-Lites - ""Stoned Out of My Mind"" & Oh Girl"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Freddie's Dead"" --Brenda Patterson - ""Dance with Me Henry"" --Spooky Tooth - ""Cotton Growing Man"" --B.W. Stevenson - ""My Maria"" & ""Don't Go to Mexico"
Episode 3
28 September 1973 - Hosts: Seals & Crofts
-Seals & Crofts (hosts) - ""Diamond Girl,"" ""Dust On My Saddle,"" ""We May Never Pass This Way Again,"" ""Ruby Jean and Billie Lee"" & ""Pop Goes the Weasel"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""New Walkin' Blues"" & ""Broke My Baby's Heart"" --Ramblin' Jack Elliot - ""Talkin' Fishing Blues"" --Arlo Guthrie - ""Gypsy Davy"" ""Bling Blang"" --Leo Kottke - ""Bean Time"" --T. Rex - ""Hot Love"" & ""Bang a Gong (Get It On)"" --Uriah Heep - ""Stealin'"" & ""Sweet Freedom""
Episode 4
05 October 1973 - Hosts: Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips (hosts) - ""Daddy Could Swear I Declare,"" ""Heavy Makes You Happy"" & ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Gladys Knight and B.B. King - ""The Thrill Is Gone"" --Earth, Wind & Fire - ""Evil"" & ""Power"" --Focus - ""Hocus Pocus,"" ""Sylvia,"" ""House of the King"" & ""Focus III"" --B.B. King - ""To Know You Is to Love You"" & ""How Blue Can You Get?"" --Chris Smither - ""Mail Order Mystics"" --Stories - ""Mammy Blue"" & ""Broken Love"" --Wolfman Jack and Monda - ""Ling Ting Tong""
Episode 5
12 October 1973 - Host:The Bee Gees
--The Bee Gees (hosts) - ""Massachusetts,"" ""Lay It on Me,"" ""Alive,"" ""Bye Bye Blackbird"" & ""Alone Again"" --The Bee Gees and Chuck Berry - ""Reelin' and Rockin'"" & ""Johnny B. Goode"" --Chuck Berry - ""Maybellene"" ""Sweet Little Sixteen"" --Apple and Appleberry - ""Landlord"" --King Crimson - ""Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part 2"" & ""Easy Money"" --Barbara Mason - ""Yes I'm Ready"" --Lee Michaels - ""Do You Know What I Mean,"" ""Barefootin'"" & ""Same Old Song""
Episode 6
19 October 1973 - Hosts: War
War (hosts) - ""Cisco Kid,"" ""Me and Baby Brother,"" ""The World Is a Ghetto"" & ""City Country City"" --Bachman-Turner Overdrive - ""Hold Back the Water"" & ""Gimme Your Money Please"" --Climax Blues Band - ""Shake Your Love"" & ""Constant"" --Mott the Hoople - ""All the Way from Memphis"" & ""Rose"" --New York Dolls - ""Trash"" & ""Personality Crisis"" --Danny O'Keefe - ""Good Time's Charlie's Got the Blues"" & ""Angel Spread Your Wings"" --Piper - ""Bungle Rye"
Episode 7
26 October 1973 - Hosts: Sly and the Family Stone
-Sly and the Family Stone (hosts) - ""Stand,"" ""Higher,"" ""Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),"" ""If You Want Me to Stay"" & ""Dance to the Music"" --Mark Almond - ""Get Yourself Together"" & ""The City"" --Little Sister - ""I'm the One You're the One"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Oh Heaven How You've Changed Me"" --Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - medley of hits & ""The Scalawag Song"" --Freddy Weller - ""The Perfect Stranger"" & ""The Roadmaster"" --Atlee Yeager - ""I Wanna Be Alone with You""
Episode 8
02 November 1973 - Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry (host) - "Tulane," "School Days," "Johnny B. Good," "Got It and Gone" & "Rock and Roll Music" --Rick Derringer and the Edgar Winter Group - "Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo" --Fleetwood Mac - "Miles Away" & "Believe Me" --Shawn Phillips - "Technotronic Lad" & "Spaceman" --Johnny Taylor - "Who's Making Love" & "I Believe in You" --Muddy Waters - "Can't Get No Grindin'" & "Got My Mojo Working" --The Edgar Winter Group - "Free Ride" & "Dying to Live"
Episode 9
09 November 1973 - Host: Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (host) - ""Breathless,"" ""Hold On I'm Coming,"" ""Chantilly Lace,"" Lonely Weekends,"" ""Silver Threads Among the Gold"" & ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" --Jerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis - ""Jackson"" --Ballin' Jack - ""This Song"" --Dalton and Dubarri - ""Any Other Man But Me"" & ""Take a Change"" --Flash - ""Dead Ahead"" & ""Psychosync"" --B.B. King - ""Hummingbird"" & ""Why I Sing the Blues"" --Ike and Tina Turner - ""River Deep Mountain High"" & ""Nutbush City Limits""
Episode 14
14 December 1973 - Hosts: Loggins & Messina
Loggins & Messina (hosts) - ""My Music,"" ""Danny's Song,"" ""Your Mama Don't Dance,"" ""You Need a Man,"" ""Coming to You"" & ""Sailin' the Wind"" --The Guess Who - ""Albert Flasher,"" ""Undun,"" ""Straighten Out,"" ""Star Baby"" & ""Glamour Boy"" --Leo Kottke - ""Vaseline Machine Gun #2"" --Martin Mull (comedy segment) - sings ""The Name Is Mull"" and ""Eggs"" --Billy Preston - ""Space Race,"" ""How Long Has the Train Been Gone"" & ""I'm So Tired"" --On film: clip from ""American Graffiti""
Episode 15
21 December 1974 - Host: Jose Feliciano
Jose Feliciano (host) - ""Purple Haze,"" ""I Like What You Give,"" ""I Want to Learn a Love Song"" and ""Susie-Q"" --Clarence Carter - ""I'm the Midnight Special"" & ""Slip Away"" --Freshflavor with Richie Havens - ""Prometheus Bound"" --Roger McGuinn - ""Mr. Spaceman"" & ""Sweet Mary"" --Linda Ronstadt - ""You're No Good"" & ""Love Has No Pride"" --Sha Na Na - ""Get a Job,"" ""Sh-Boom"" & ""Tossin' and Turnin'"" --Also: Sha Na Na
Episode 17
04 January 1974 - Million Sellers hosted by Wolfman Jack
Wolfman Jack (host) Taped clips of performers: --Loggins & Messina - ""Your Mama Don't Dance"" --Billy Preston - ""Will It Go Round in Circles?"" --Stories - ""Brother Louie"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Edgar Winter Group - ""Frankenstein"" --The Spinners - ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love?"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Superfly"" --Eric Weissberg (on banjo) and Deliverance (Steve Mandel on guitar?) perform ""Dueling Banjos,"" a song from the movie ""Deliverance"" --Jim Croce - ""Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" --Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - ""The Cover of Rolling Stone"" --Gilbert O'Sullivan - ""Get Down"" --Al Green - ""Call Me (Come Back Home)"" --Charlie Rich - ""Behind Closed Doors"" --The O'Jays - ""Love Train"" --Dobie Gray - ""Drift Away"" --Edward Bear - ""Last Song""
Episode 19
18 January 1974 - Host: Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson (host) - ""Show and Tell,"" ""Tracks of My Tears,"" ""Tears of a Clown,"" ""Mickey's Monkey,"" ""Baby Come Close"" and ""Just My Soul Responding"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""Take Your Pleasure Where You Can Find It"" & ""Down in the Bottom"" (or ""Meet Me in the Bar Room""??) --Grin - ""Beggar's Day,"" ""Believe"" & ""You're the Wait I've Been Waiting For"" --Eddie Kendricks - ""Keep On Truckin'"" & ""Boogie Down"" --Ann Peebles - ""I Can't Stand the Rain"" --Edwin Starr - ""Ain't It Hell up in Harlem"" & ""War"" --Johnny Taylor - ""It's Cheaper to Keep Her"" & ""We're Getting Careless with Our Love Affair"
Episode 20
25 January 1974 - Host: Steve Miller
Steve Miller Band (hosts) - ""The Joker,"" ""Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma,"" ""Fly Like an Eagle"" & ""Sugar Babe"" --Brownsville Station - ""Smokin' in the Boys Room"" --Tim Buckley - ""Dolphins"" & ""Honey Man"" --James Cotton Band - ""Rocket 88"" --James Cotton Band - ""Big Boss Man"" (with Steve Miller) --Genesis - ""Watcher of the Skies"" & ""The Musical Box"" (another source listed the songs as ""This Is Your Fate"" & ""This Is My Song"") --James Gang - ""It Must Be Love""
Episode 21
01 February 1974 - Host: Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (host) - ""Leave Me Alone,"" ""Delta Dawn,"" ""Don't Mess with a Woman,"" ""Time"" & ""I Am Woman"" --Franklin Ajaye - ""Spot"" --The Impressions - ""Preacher Man"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""If I Were a Child Again"" --Kenny Rankin - ""Why Do Fools Fall in Love"" & ""Haven't We Met"" --Rare Earth - ""Big John Is My Name,"" ""Born to Wander"" & ""Don't Fight It"" --Ike and Tina Turner - ""Land of 1000 Dances"" & ""It's Gonna Work Out Fine""
Episode 22
08 February 1974 - Hosts: Ike and Tina Turner
Ike and Tina Turner (hosts) - ""City Girl Country Boy,"" ""With a Little Help from My Friends,"" ""Proud Mary"" & ""I Smell Trouble"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Showdown"" & ""Bluebird Is Dead"" --David Essex - ""Rock On"" & ""Streetfight"" --Jose Feliciano - ""I Like What You Give"" & ""Blame It On the Sun"" --Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids - ""Dancin' on a Saturday Night"" & ""Muleskinner Blues"" --Mandrill - ""Git It All"" --Todd Rundgren - ""Couldn't I Just Tell You?"" & ""The Dream Goes On Forever""
Episode 24
22 February 1974 - Host: Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot (guest host) - ""The List,"" ""If You Could Read My Mind,"" ""Don Quixote,"" ""Affair on Eighth Avenue,"" ""High and Dry"" & ""Sundown"" --The Guess Who - ""Share the Land"" & ""Star Baby"" --The James Gang - ""Standing in the Rain"" & ""The Devil Is Singing Our Song"" --Byron MacGregor - ""Americans"" --Maria Muldaur - ""Midnight at the Oasis"" & ""Don't You Feel My Leg"" --Redbone - ""Come and Get Your Love"" & ""Maggie"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Raga Jogiya""
Episode 26
08 March 1974 - Hosts: Gladys Knight and the Pips
Gladys Knight and the Pips (guest host) - ""I've Got to Use My Imagination,"" ""Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me,"" ""On and On"" & ""Midnight Train to Georgia"" --Freshflavor with Richie Havens - ""Prometheus Bound"" & ""Loser"" --Jobriath - ""I'm a Man"" & ""Rock of Ages"" --Curtis Mayfield - ""Right On for the Darkness"" & ""To Be Invisible"" --Spooky Tooth - ""I Am the Walrus"" --Les Variations - ""Moroccan Roll"" & ""I Don't Know Why"" --Jim Weatherly - ""Loving You Is Just an Old Habit"" & ""Same Old Song and Dance""
Episode 28
22 March 1974 - Host: Bill Withers
Bill Withers (guest host) - ""Ain't No Sunshine,"" ""The Same Love That Made Me Laugh,"" ""Lean on Me"" & ""Green Grass"" --Bill Withers & Cliff de Young - ""Sunshine"" film clip --Bill Withers, Bobby Womack and Buddy Miles - ""Railroad Man"" --Rory Gallagher - ""Tattoo'd Lady"" & ""Cradle Rock"" --Melissa Manchester - ""Bright Eyes"" & ""He Is the One"" --Buddy Miles - ""You Really Got Me"" --Montrose - ""Rock the Nation"" & ""Good Rockin' Tonight"" --Bobby Womack - ""Lookin' for a Love"" & ""Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out"" --Cliff de Young - ""My Sweet Lady"" & ""Sunshine on My Shoulders""
Episode 29
29 March 1974 - Hosts: The Guess Who
The Guess Who (guest hosts) - ""American Woman,"" ""Star Baby,"" ""These Eyes,"" ""Clap for the Wolfman"" & ""Hand Me Down World"" --David Essex - ""Lamplight,"" ""On and On"" & ""Rock On"" --Leo Kottke (folk singer) - ""Bean Time"" --Judi Pulver - ""Statler Hilton"" & ""Sing for Your Supper"" --Sha Na Na - ""Rock Around the Clock,"" ""Teenager in Love"" & ""Tell Laura I Love Her"" --Slade - ""My Friend Stan"" ""Do We Still Do It"" & ""Everyday"" --Wishbone Ash - ""Blowin' Free"" & ""Vas Dis""
Episode 36
17 May 1974 - Host: Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon (host) - ""Why,"" ""Just Ask Your Heart,"" ""De De Dinah,"" ""Gingerbread,"" ""Bobby Sox to Stockings"" & ""Venus"" --Frankie Avalon and Fabian - ""Scrapbook"" & ""Fireball 500"" --Lou Christie - ""The Gypsy Cried"" & ""Lightnin' Strikes"" --Fabian - ""Rock Around the Clock,"" ""Turn Me Loose"" & ""Tiger"" --The Fleetwoods - ""Come Softly to Me"" & ""Mr. Blue"" --Frankie Ford - ""Sea Cruise"" --Jimmie Rodgers - ""Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,"" ""Honeycomb"" & ""Oh Oh I'm Falling in Love Again"" --The Royal Teens - ""Short Shorts"" & 'the Great Midnight Special Rock 'n' Roll Opera"" --Sam and Dave - ""Hold On I'm Comin'"" & ""Soul Man"" --Shirley and Lee - ""Let the Good Times Roll"
Episode 39
07 June 1974 - Hosts: The Kinks
The Kinks - ""You Really Got Me,"" ""Money Talks,"" ""Here Comes Yet Another Day,"" ""Celluloid Heroes"" & ""Skin and Bone"" --Electric Light Orchestra - ""Showdown"" & ""Bluebird Is Dead"" --Rory Gallagher - ""Hands Off"" & ""Who's That Comin'"" --Buddy Miles - ""Life Is What You Make It"" --Alan Price - ""In Times Like These"" & ""Between Today and Yesterday"" --Suzi Quatro - ""All Shook Up"" & ""Glycerine Queen"
Episode 46
09 August 1974 - Hosts: Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone (hosts) - ""Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),"" ""Time for Livin',"" ""Small Talk,"" ""Family Affair,"" ""Dance to the Music,"" ""Music Lover,"" ""I Want to Take You Higher,"" ""If You Want Me to Stay,"" ""Stand"" & ""Loose Booty"" --Elvin Bishop - ""Travelin' Shoes,"" ""Sunshine Special"" &""Groundhog"" --Henry Gross - ""Come On Say It"" & ""Simone"" --Little Feat - ""Tripe Face Boogie""& ""Willin'"" --Roger McGuinn - ""Gate of Horn"" & ""Peace on You"
Episode 47
16 August 1974 - Host: Little Richard
Little Richard (host) - ""The Midnight Special,"" ""In the Name,"" ""Ooh Poo Pah Doo,"" ""Greenwood Miss"" & ""Freedom Blues"" --Aerosmith - ""The Train Kept A Rollin'"" & ""Dream On"" --David Clayton-Thomas - ""Anytime Babe"" & ""And When I Die"" --Golden Earring - ""Radar Love"" --Eddie Kendricks - ""Hooked on Your Love"" & ""Keep On Truckin'"" --Kool & the Gang - ""Funky Stuff"" & ""Who's Gonna Take the Weight""
Episode 48
30 August 1974 - Host: B.B. King
B.B. King (host) - ""Why I Sing the Blues,"" ""I Like to Live the Love,"" ""The Thrill Is Gone,"" ""I Got Some Help I Don't Need"" & ""Why I Sing the Blues"" --B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Papa John Creach - ""Gettin' It Together"" --Bobby ""Blue"" Bland - ""Goin' Down Slow"" --Paul Butterfield's Better Days - ""Meet in the Bottom"" --Papa John Creach - ""John's Other"" --John Lee Hooker - ""Boogie with the Hook"" --Big Mama Thornton - ""Ball and Chain"" --Joe Williams - ""Who She Do"" & ""Tell Me Where to Scratch"" --Jimmy Witherspoon - ""Nothing's Changed"" & ""Love Is a Five Letter Word""
Episode 49
06 September 1974 - Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye concert taped August 1974 in Atlanta, Georgia. --Marvin Gaye performs ""Trouble Man,"" ""Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler),"" ""Come Get to This"" and ""Keep Gettin' It On"" --Marvin Gaye - medley of hits: ""I'll Be Doggone,"" ""Try It Baby,"" ""Can I Get a Witness,"" ""You're a Wonderful One,"" ""Stubborn Kind of Fellow,"" ""How Sweet It Is,"" ""Distant Lover,"" ""Let's Get It On,"" ""Jan"" and ""What's Going On"" The show included interview segments, filmed at Marvin Gaye's house in Washington D.C., of Marvin Gaye with his parents Mrs. Alberta Gaye and Marvin Gaye, Sr.
Episode 50
13 September 1974 - Hosts: The O'Jays
The O'Jays (hosts) - ""For the Love of Money,"" ""Sunshine,"" ""Love Train"" and a medley (""Put Your Hands Together,"" ""People Keep Tellin' Me,"" ""Time to Get Down,"" ""This Air I Breathe"" and ""People Keep Tellin' Me"") --Elvin Bishop - ""Stealing Watermelons,"" ""Calling All Cows"" & ""Sunshine Special"" --James Brown - ""Payback,"" ""Cold Sweat,"" ""I Can't Stand to Live,"" ""Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,"" ""Hell,"" ""Papa Don't Take No Mess"" & ""My Thang"" --Mick Jagger (music videos) - ""Happy,"" ""Tumbling Dice"" & ""Midnight Rambler"
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