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The Bee Gees with Chuck Berry - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 10-12-1973

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Here's yet another album from the Bee Gees on the "Midnight Special" TV show. They hosted the show four times in 1973 and one time in 1975, and I've made albums of each of those episodes. This is the last one I'm posting from them. What makes this one stand out is they performed with one of the show's guests, Chuck Berry.

By the early 1970s, it seemed Berry's hit-making years were over, he had tons of hits from 1955 to 1964, but none since. But then, in 1972, he had a novelty hit called "My Ding-a-Ling" that didn't just do a little well - it went all the way to Number One on the U.S. and British singles charts. That made it the biggest hit of his career. As a result, his career was revived for a while, leading to TV appearances like this one, as well as a one-hour long concert on BBC TV. Luckily, he didn't actually play "My Ding-a-Ling" - it's a long song that gets old fast. Instead, he played some of his classics. And for two of those, he sang with the Bee Gees. 

However, more of the songs were performed by the Bee Gees on their own. They played some rather unexpected songs. For instance, "Lay It on Me" appeared on a 1970 album, but it wasn't a hit. And "Bye Bye Blackbird" is a cover of a song from 1926 that they never officially released in any form. 

In case you're curious, these are the other guests on the episode they hosted: Lee Michaels, King Crimson, Apple & Appleberry, and Barbara Mason.

The music here is unreleased, and the song quality is excellent. As usual with Midnight Special shows, I did a lot of extra editing, for instance adding applause to smooth over transitions between songs. I cut out some talking from the talking bits, for instance when performers for future episodes were discusssed, which is why some of those have "[Edit]" in their names. 

This album is 32 minutes long. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack [Edit] (Bee Gees)
02 Massachusetts (Bee Gees)
03 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
04 Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
05 Reelin' and Rockin' (Chuck Berry with the Bee Gees)
06 Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry with the Bee Gees)
07 talk (Bee Gees)
08 Lay It on Me (Bee Gees)
09 Alive (Bee Gees)
10 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
11 Bye Bye Blackbird (Bee Gees)
12 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
13 Alone Again (Bee Gees) 

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The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's rather blurry, but at least it shows all the main figures from this concert. From left to right: Robin Gibb, Chuck Berry, Maurice Gibb, and Barry Gibb.



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