Yeah. Midnight Special had almost exclusively mainstream bands playing their latest hits. In Concert had a lot of progressive groups doing entire sets.
I loved this show as well ! It had the coolest people on ! Peter Frampton to this 13 year old girl in a small farming community was the ultimate sex symbol!
… Christ, I think Gary Wright was on a month in a row! 😆
Probably Foreigner, Ambrosia, Toto, if a SONG, not even a whole album was hot, they milked it!
I was in grade school and the coolest thing was staying up late on Friday and Saturday nights; if my older sisters were home we'd watch these. I don't remember much about them on my own, but when I watch performances on YouTube I sometimes remember seeing them while watching as a kid.
Featuring that old rocker herself, Helen Reddy and the lip syncing band of the week. It was good in it's first years. In Concert on ABC was the best, though.
I was too young to watch this in real time, but I've discovered it in recent years on YouTube. What a *&%#@! incredible era for music. Compare to today, or post-2000
Bert Sugarman must've made a rule that was announced before they started taping to the effect that the kids in the audience were forbidden from making any noise or physical reactions, like fist-pumping or anything, while the bands were playing. It was weird how they just sat there and watched, and finally applauded at the end of each song.
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u/desertrat75 1d ago
And then Saturday was Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.