He did have an actual TV show like he mentioned but I don't know if it was before or after this airing. I actually don't know anything about it but I searched it out and clips are here on RUclips
00:00:00 Intro 00:01:05 Marty Robbins - Gotta Travel On 00:03:44 Tanya Tucker - Jamestown Ferry 00:07:45 Johnny Rodriguez - Pass Me By 00:11:35 Doug Kershaw - Mama's Got the Know How 00:14:03 Marty Robbins - 20th Century Drifter 00:18:40 Barbara Mandrell - Show Me 00:21:52 Bobby Bare - Detroit City 00:25:25 Marty Robbins - (Take Me Home) Country Roads 00:28:00 Tanya Tucker - What's Your Mama's Name? 00:31:07 Charlie Rich - Break-Up 00:34:06 Doug Kershaw - Cajun Joe (Bully Of The Bayou) 00:36:57 Barbara Mandrell - The Midnight Oil 00:40:10 Barbi Benton - Top Of The World 00:42:45 Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors 00:46:57 Marty Robbins - Beyond The Reef 00:49:33 Marty Robbins & Barbi Benton - Help Me Make It Through The Night 00:52:05 Johnny Rodriguez - Bosier City Backyard Blues 00:54:54 Bobby Bare - The Mermaid 00:58:09 Marty Robbins - Cool Water, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, El Paso & My Woman My Woman My Wife
Thank you Midnight Special! Edit: the musicianship of the country themed episodes is just outstanding and so great to see and hear. I just love it, getting lost in the music. Nothing nowadays even comes close.
Great show, I love western music, growing up in Tulsa I listened to a lot of gunfighter, cowboy, rodeo, and lonesome songs about a world without fences. Marty Robbins, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Sons of the pioneers, all so evocative of the wild west.
Sons of the Pioneers rings a bell, think my older brother or dad had their album(s). Being from Wyoming I feel the same way it’s “home” to me & where I feel the freest especially on the back of a horse, love to ride! I like western movies/shows too, Clint Eastwood, Lonesome Dove, John Wayne, my mom had Alzheimers & that was our “thing” to do together. DVD collection is well stocked, the Virginian, Big Valley, Gunsmoke, etc…
@@janicetrimmell6897 He had a wonderful tenor voice. He would dress as a sofisticated gentleman when not in character, people wouldn't recognize him, so he could carry on his singing career
As a kid growing up in Belfast during the troubles only 2 types of acts would play here. Hard rock or country and western. Marty Robbins was one such artist.
Hello 🇮🇪! Did you ever see Rory Gallagher? He played for his fans during that time on the 1974 tour. He’s one of my favorites that I sadly, discovered way too late.
@@KittyGrizGriz No Kitty missed the chance in the early 1980s when he played the Ulster Hall Belfast. We were moving house that day so the gig wasn't on the agenda. There's video of that gig online. Brilliant show. Been kicking myself ever since.
Barbi Benton aka Barbara Lynn Klein was a Playboy Bunny, retired model, actress, television personality and singer who recorded several successful albums in the 70’s. She appeared on the television show Hee Haw, hmm I now know why my dad loved to watch it regularly haha. We’d view it and laugh together he died of cancer when I was only 32, we had the same zany sense of humor, great memories, his favorite musician was Jim Reeves & many others. I know “someone” (not me) who has every issue of Playboy Magazine from ‘86 through ‘94, stacked away. Well, that is “most” issues until my teenage son-drummer formed a garage band above my shop-garage & he and his friends “found the goods”. When I discovered this I could have died! 😂 yes, some of them had already disappeared.
I sure enjoyed Johnny Rodriguez “Pass Me By” song, haven’t seen him perform before. 🥰 He’s very handsome. 32:48 love Charlie Rich’s guitarists part he’s so young, his whole band was sure a barn burner on “Break Up” song Whew!!
During this period my mom would play Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors” album over and over on Saturdays as she did her cleaning routine. Later I discovered his Sun Records recordings. Monster talent. “Detroit City” with its twangy riff, and melancholy refrain always haunted me as a child. It seemed like the saddest song ever.
I'll always remember when Behind Closed Doors came out I was working at a Ralphs grocery store and we were getting ready to open when this song came on the intercom, when it was over someone got on the intercom and said "I know what goes on behind closed doors"!
The amount of amazing talent The Midnight Special would pack into one show still amazes. It is a wonderful time capsule of popular music that is an extremely important document of music for history. Thanks Mr. Sugarman for making these wonderful shows available for all to enjoy and be inspired by. BTW, who is playing the Telecaster in Bobby Bare's band?
The difference between this one and the previous show was that Marty was joined by Loretta Lynn on the first show he hosted. Charlie Rich appeared on both shows. P.S. Johnny Rodriguez also appeared on both shows as did Tanya Tucker.
Looks like the first episode they had of a new year is a series of clips from the previous one. The show from January 4, 1974, is a Million Sellers episode, hosted by Wolfman Jack. The clips in it include ones featuring Loggins & Messina, Billy Preston, Stories, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Edgar Winter Group, The Spinners, Curtis Mayfield, Eric Weissberg and Deliverance, Jim Croce, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Al Green, Charlie Rich, The O'Jays, Dobie Gray, and Edward Bear.
Well I do understand what a gorgeous hunk of singing man he is 😊😊. I obsessed about getting every album I could get hands on. There were so many good songs, but "Rest Your Love on Me" always makes me stop and listen.
@@KittyGrizGriz Did you make sure to get some Cajun cooking? Kitty you have to join us on Fridays live chat, so we can tell people how awesome Tulsa's counterculture was in the 70s, better than Austin Texas's.
@@robmatlock7675 Ok, yes, I really need to join the chat! Remember Liquor By the Wink laws 😉 🤭?? My ex mother-in-law (from Alexandria) would bring up fresh crawfish when she’d come visit, we’d peel & devein them for Crawfish Etouffee, she made the best Roux & Gumbo…yummy, a great cook but a mean woman haha. I had 3 mother-in-laws at one point (lord help me), she was the worst but lived the farthest away. Did/do you live in Bossier City?
Didn't Tom T. Hall have a show called Pop! Goes the Country back then? Love this episode, my parents were huge country fans back in these days- I grew up listening to all this music. Tanya Tucker was just a teenager here in this episode- would have been really cool to see Dolly Pardon on this episode, or Waylon Jennings.......but hey, I'll take Bobby Bare and Marty Robbins any day🙂
Is The Million Sellers Show coming up next Friday a collection of clips from the previous year, or were they new return appearances by the same artists ?
IMDB answered my question : Wolfman Jack hosts and presents taped clips of performers from past shows: --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"
I hope they don't present this one! I'd rather see a totally "new" show, but maybe Wolfman Jack did some comedy too...... Hard to believe that "Dueling Banjos" sold a million records though! Some people had no taste even back then.
Reminds me of a quip from a late 70's quip from Steve Martin: We're recording the show tonight, and later, we're going to take the tape back to Warner Brothers... ...and we're going to erase it!
A while ago on a Face Book page, I saw a cartoon with a beautiful photo in the field with a stream running by and the phrase: "This is beautiful...until you hear a banjo". lol
😮 You’ve got to be kidding me, right? MeToo movement shed light on what most of if not ALL women/girls have to put up with. It’s very “personal” for me I could tell some stories-truths that would make your hair curl. Give It A Rest. Peace Out.
ruclips.net/video/FyTXkhDI3vQ/видео.html You know it's the middle of the OPEC oil crisis when "I'd give you gas for your cars" gets 10x more applause than "I'd give you all the money you needed"
Tanya Tucker killed it. Hard to believe she was only 14 or 15 here.
what a lovely duet by MARTY and BARBI "Help Me Make It Through The Night"
Marty singing El Paso with his full band, and the great guitarist playing all the fill in riffs was my favorite part of the show.
Marty Robbins is quite a character! He doesn’t take himself very serious...and it works!
the best are those who refuse to take themselves seriously.
He did have an actual TV show like he mentioned but I don't know if it was before or after this airing. I actually don't know anything about it but I searched it out and clips are here on RUclips
I saw Marty at the Ryman the summer before this episode aired. He did a spectacular set.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:05 Marty Robbins - Gotta Travel On
00:03:44 Tanya Tucker - Jamestown Ferry
00:07:45 Johnny Rodriguez - Pass Me By
00:11:35 Doug Kershaw - Mama's Got the Know How
00:14:03 Marty Robbins - 20th Century Drifter
00:18:40 Barbara Mandrell - Show Me
00:21:52 Bobby Bare - Detroit City
00:25:25 Marty Robbins - (Take Me Home) Country Roads
00:28:00 Tanya Tucker - What's Your Mama's Name?
00:31:07 Charlie Rich - Break-Up
00:34:06 Doug Kershaw - Cajun Joe (Bully Of The Bayou)
00:36:57 Barbara Mandrell - The Midnight Oil
00:40:10 Barbi Benton - Top Of The World
00:42:45 Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors
00:46:57 Marty Robbins - Beyond The Reef
00:49:33 Marty Robbins & Barbi Benton - Help Me Make It Through The Night
00:52:05 Johnny Rodriguez - Bosier City Backyard Blues
00:54:54 Bobby Bare - The Mermaid
00:58:09 Marty Robbins - Cool Water, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, El Paso & My Woman My Woman My Wife
Danke! ❤
thanks for doin what this channel should have done
Thank you!
Tanya Tucker had just turned 15 a couple of months before this. What a voice!
Fantastic Tanya!
Thank you Midnight Special!
Edit: the musicianship of the country themed episodes is just outstanding and so great to see and hear. I just love it, getting lost in the music. Nothing nowadays even comes close.
I especially enjoyed Rich's band. Not only is he a great piano player but his guitar player was amazing.
Yes it does. Get out and listen to live bands
Country cia mockingbird psyop? Yup
Here I am 59 in 2024. Watching this. First time since it aired in the 70’s. Great memories!
100%
Marty Robbins is so great...
Great show, I love western music, growing up in Tulsa I listened to a lot of gunfighter, cowboy, rodeo, and lonesome songs about a world without fences. Marty Robbins, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Sons of the pioneers, all so evocative of the wild west.
Sons of the Pioneers rings a bell, think my older brother or dad had their album(s). Being from Wyoming I feel the same way it’s “home” to me & where I feel the freest especially on the back of a horse, love to ride! I like western movies/shows too, Clint Eastwood, Lonesome Dove, John Wayne, my mom had Alzheimers & that was our “thing” to do together. DVD collection is well stocked, the Virginian, Big Valley, Gunsmoke, etc…
I think you mentioned Ken Curtis singing with the Sons of the Pioneers last night. All I could think of was Festus. LOL
@@KittyGrizGriz Mine were Big Valley and High Chaparral.
@@janicetrimmell6897Who’d you like the best; Heath, Nick or Jarrod? My crush was Nick but it’s a hard decision ha!
@@janicetrimmell6897 He had a wonderful tenor voice. He would dress as a sofisticated gentleman when not in character, people wouldn't recognize him, so he could carry on his singing career
As a kid growing up in Belfast during the troubles only 2 types of acts would play here. Hard rock or country and western. Marty Robbins was one such artist.
Hello 🇮🇪! Did you ever see Rory Gallagher? He played for his fans during that time on the 1974 tour. He’s one of my favorites that I sadly, discovered way too late.
@@KittyGrizGriz No Kitty missed the chance in the early 1980s when he played the Ulster Hall Belfast. We were moving house that day so the gig wasn't on the agenda. There's video of that gig online. Brilliant show. Been kicking myself ever since.
Wow this is a Midnight Special Marathon for 3 days, 10 hrs per day sight and sounds . Time travel back to 70s.
Charlie Rich and Tanya Tucker sound as good live as recorded. Nice to see a young Barbara Mandrell. I was 7 when it aired.
Marty had an incredible voice. Always love to see anything on Charlie Rich and Doug Kershaw as well. Thanks for the video.
Every episode showed me a world different than what was happening in my living room.
Thanks !!
Such grand memories of way back when… Big thank you to TMS for making this possible! Incredible work and deeply appreciated!
Barbi Benton aka Barbara Lynn Klein was a Playboy Bunny, retired model, actress, television personality and singer who recorded several successful albums in the 70’s. She appeared on the television show Hee Haw, hmm I now know why my dad loved to watch it regularly haha. We’d view it and laugh together he died of cancer when I was only 32, we had the same zany sense of humor, great memories, his favorite musician was Jim Reeves & many others. I know “someone” (not me) who has every issue of Playboy Magazine from ‘86 through ‘94, stacked away. Well, that is “most” issues until my teenage son-drummer formed a garage band above my shop-garage & he and his friends “found the goods”. When I discovered this I could have died! 😂 yes, some of them had already disappeared.
My hero, Marty Robbins. I saw him live when I was 8, and he died the next year. Country Music has never been the same since his passing.
Great!!
This show was simply gorgeous! The quality of all the participants simply awesome! Thank you sooo much Midnight Special Organizers!❤
The Silver Fox was a special talent and so GREAT live!
Love all these tunes what a set of classics! Tyvm
Charlie Rich is the man
Love these Country shows!
Enjoyed!
Fantastic! Country music is the best music
One of my siblings saw Marty Robbins live, shortly before he passed away. That must have been a great concert. Cheers! ✌️
That was IMPRESSIVE.
Great episode. Looking forward to more of the classic country shows.
Starting to realize that Charlie Rich was a killer piano player
Wow, Barbara Mandrell! I didn't know Barbi sang! I remember her from TV shows. Should be a good show with Tanya, Charlie, and of course, Marty!🎉☺️
Are you kidding? Her show was a variety show with her sisters who also sang. Barbara Mandrel had country hits!!!!
@@eastdallasalice I'm talking about Barbi Benton. She's on here, too. Yes, I know about Barbara Mandrell.😊
Barbi Benton was one of the Hee Haw Honeys.
@@tgrum3316 oh yeah! I remember now! Thanks!
Ya be brain dead takin too much drugz gurl
Thank you so much! Enjoyed this so much🥰🤗🙏
Can't wait, The Midnight Special!
Hi LJ, the Midnight Special guys posted "I Don't Wanna Be the One" this morning. Wanted to make sure you saw it.
Thanks, J3, for the heads-up.
I love Doug Kershaw!
I sure enjoyed Johnny Rodriguez “Pass Me By” song, haven’t seen him perform before. 🥰
He’s very handsome.
32:48 love Charlie Rich’s guitarists part he’s so young, his whole band was sure a barn burner on “Break Up” song Whew!!
🤠 It's almost all the same people that were in the last one. No Loretta but Barbara Mandrell is in it. Yee-haw!
🤠 No Conway Twitty though 😢.
Bravo!
During this period my mom would play Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors” album over and over on Saturdays as she did her cleaning routine. Later I discovered his Sun Records recordings. Monster talent.
“Detroit City” with its twangy riff, and melancholy refrain always haunted me as a child. It seemed like the saddest song ever.
I'll always remember when Behind Closed Doors came out I was working at a Ralphs grocery store and we were getting ready to open when this song came on the intercom, when it was over someone got on the intercom and said "I know what goes on behind closed doors"!
Classic Spot ON, Pure Entertainment
The amount of amazing talent The Midnight Special would pack into one show still amazes. It is a wonderful time capsule of popular music that is an extremely important document of music for history. Thanks Mr. Sugarman for making these wonderful shows available for all to enjoy and be inspired by. BTW, who is playing the Telecaster in Bobby Bare's band?
Great show!! 🤠
The difference between this one and the previous show was that Marty was joined by Loretta Lynn on the first show he hosted. Charlie Rich appeared on both shows.
P.S. Johnny Rodriguez also appeared on both shows as did Tanya Tucker.
This was the era of of guys in country music who really dropped the burns.
Looks like the first episode they had of a new year is a series of clips from the previous one. The show from January 4, 1974, is a Million Sellers episode, hosted by Wolfman Jack. The clips in it include ones featuring Loggins & Messina, Billy Preston, Stories, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Edgar Winter Group, The Spinners, Curtis Mayfield, Eric Weissberg and Deliverance, Jim Croce, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Al Green, Charlie Rich, The O'Jays, Dobie Gray, and Edward Bear.
If you like Classic Country, then this one should be checked out. great episode.
please don't abandon the time stamps in the description. Thank you!
Looking forward to, Monday. On the MEMBERS PAGE, part 2 of the Million Sellers show.
Never knew Barbi could sing!
Johnny Rodriguez - “Bosier City Backyard Blues”, if you live here you understand this song! 😆😆
Well I do understand what a gorgeous hunk of singing man he is 😊😊. I obsessed about getting every album I could get hands on. There were so many good songs, but "Rest Your Love on Me" always makes me stop and listen.
@@janicetrimmell6897Whew!! You’re not a kidding me, Johnny’s so handsome here, my 1st time seeing him perform. 😅
I’ve visited New Iberia & Alexandria, LA, but never Bossier City, think I’ll take your word for it! 😂
@@KittyGrizGriz Did you make sure to get some Cajun cooking? Kitty you have to join us on Fridays live chat, so we can tell people how awesome Tulsa's counterculture was in the 70s, better than Austin Texas's.
@@robmatlock7675 Ok, yes, I really need to join the chat! Remember Liquor By the Wink laws 😉 🤭?? My ex mother-in-law (from Alexandria) would bring up fresh crawfish when she’d come visit, we’d peel & devein them for Crawfish Etouffee, she made the best Roux & Gumbo…yummy, a great cook but a mean woman haha. I had 3 mother-in-laws at one point (lord help me), she was the worst but lived the farthest away.
Did/do you live in Bossier City?
A young Tanya Tucker
Marty Robbins; part Italian, part Native American, all talent.
Didn't Tom T. Hall have a show called Pop! Goes the Country back then? Love this episode, my parents were huge country fans back in these days- I grew up listening to all this music. Tanya Tucker was just a teenager here in this episode- would have been really cool to see Dolly Pardon on this episode, or Waylon Jennings.......but hey, I'll take Bobby Bare and Marty Robbins any day🙂
I was 21 when this originally aired. It was shameful to admit you liked or listened to country music at the time. But that has certainly changed.
Loved Barbara Mandrell. Was that her sister Irlene on drums? I remember seeing her play on Barbara's TV show.
Tight guitar work on that final song. Clean and crisp.
Barbie Benton can carry a tune, but bless her heart - she's playing the guitar chords a fret low. Good thing we can't hear it.
Ill admit I bought the Barbie Benton album!
Ill also admit I don't remember the songs from it, lol!
She's quite the dream tho.
lol was hoping someone else noticed. she even crossed the nut a couple times
Is The Million Sellers Show coming up next Friday a collection of clips from the previous year, or were they new return appearances by the same artists ?
IMDB answered my question : Wolfman Jack hosts and presents taped clips of performers from past shows: --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"
I hope they don't present this one! I'd rather see a totally "new" show, but maybe Wolfman Jack did some comedy too...... Hard to believe that "Dueling Banjos" sold a million records though! Some people had no taste even back then.
@@executivedecision6141 Well to be honest, I love “Dueling Banjos” song from the movie-Deliverance . That scene in particular “made” the movie great.
fun to watch not my style of music but still fun to watch
A potpourri of fantastic country artists.
…
Matthew McConaughey will play Marty Robbins in the biopic.
Reminds me of a quip from a late 70's quip from Steve Martin: We're recording the show tonight, and later, we're going to take the tape back to Warner Brothers...
...and we're going to erase it!
Marty Robbins NASCAR leg and...
Who's playing lead for Marty? That dude is smoking!
A while ago on a Face Book page, I saw a cartoon with a beautiful photo in the field with a stream running by and the phrase: "This is beautiful...until you hear a banjo". lol
you can see burt sugarman and his wife mary hart at l a dodgers homegames in the seats right behind home plate
Back when you could compliment a pretty girl for being pretty 49:38. Now you'll be arrested for assault.
😮 You’ve got to be kidding me, right? MeToo movement shed light on what most of if not ALL women/girls have to put up with. It’s very “personal” for me I could tell some stories-truths that would make your hair curl. Give It A Rest. Peace Out.
@@KittyGrizGriz My hair is still curly from a few of my own...
Why sure, Mr. Bare.
Them Arkies was stokin' my dad gum Jaundice Bed.
thats a very purple marty...
Marty had one of the greatest singing voices, but not so much a broadcasting voice. As host, he just keeps stumbling.
Barbie Benton should have stuck with bikinis
Country Edition
Is Marty ....tipsy?
That's just Marty!
Channel change
Kershaw Sucks!
What a crappy episode!
I concur. Just click forward to each song and quickly move on.
Your opinion only
I'm not necessarily a country fan but I rather enjoyed the 2 full country episodes.
ruclips.net/video/FyTXkhDI3vQ/видео.html You know it's the middle of the OPEC oil crisis when "I'd give you gas for your cars" gets 10x more applause than "I'd give you all the money you needed"
Richie's geetarist turned aturd into a jewel
So many wigs..male and female!..shoosh
Wigs were hip back then. 😂
Lub Wolf's TinanTurner, Cher..wigs
So few real country folks..cia?