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Great show UNTIL --

posted 14 years ago by Zriter59
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---- it went totally disco in the late 70s. Out of sheer disgust, I quit watching.

I'm still mad about it. I'd been a faithful "Midnight Special" fan from its inception until then (I was born in 1959). No matter how bad your junior-high or high-school week was going, no matter whether you were struggling with algebra or bullies, you could always look forward to Friday night and "TMS." Until its decline into disco, one could always count on fine musicians giving fine performances.

Among many memories, I especially recall Jim Croce's performance less than a month before his untimely death; David Bowie's first live performance on American TV (though I'm not much of a Bowie fan); many by the great Seals and Crofts; others by Elton John, Gordon Lightfoot, Randy Newman, Journey, America, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Ray Charles, Heart, Janis Ian, Billy Joel, B.B King, Doobie Brothers, The Spinners, Al Green, Fleetwood Mac -- so many more:)

[–] dsnyder1 14 years ago

I thought it was ruined when Helen Reddy,that needle nosed no talent pinko was made permanent host.Even though she was dropped after less than a year,I never thought it was as good afterwards.I tried to watch in about 1978 or 9,&I also hated the disco format.

[–] solex10 14 years ago

Excuse me, but why is she called a pinko, and why does she deserve that name?

[–] vbel 13 years ago

Didn't they surprise Jim Croce with a gold record after he performed? Sadly missing this on the DVD.

[–] dsnyder1 11 years ago

I called her a pinko because she was very far to the left in her political leanings.

[–] solex10 11 years ago

Actually, I don't really think that she was that far to the left, as you said-it may be to a person like you who's to the extreme right in the USA (Rush Limbaugh [Limpdick], Sean Hannity, Bill O'Riley [O'Liely], and all the rest,), she's a 'pinko'. But people who have progressive views that advance society aren't that at all. Time for you to turn off Faux Noise and Corporate News Network and read a little more before making big ASSumptions like that.

[–] dsnyder1 10 years ago

I heard her sing the praises of Marxism,that's pretty far left.You probably have an altar to Barack Hussein Obama(mmmm mmmm mmmm) in your house.CNN right wing?Compared to the Daily Worker,maybe.What Channel do you watch,MSNBC,where Chris Matthews has done everything but masturbate on the air over Obama?

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[–] liscarkat (16530) 2 years ago

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