New Midnight Special DVD Sets coming 9-9-14

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Midnight-Special-Collectors-Edition/20165

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Still no complete episodes and still no ABBA.

 

I hate it when they chop up old episodes of shows into compilations- I love the sets of Beatles Ed Sullivan Shows because they have EVERYTHING, plate spinners and all.

 

I own the originals ... lets see what might be different ?

 

Same here.

 

looking forward to these...as I do not have the other series.

 

yes, a nostalgic time machine especially for us who saw it in real time.

 

Nice, for me the Alice Cooper stuff is the most interesting.

 

Loved this show in HS. I'm in for this.

 

Would love to find the episode where guests were "oldies" acts. Jerry Lee Lewis hosted it. Guests included Freddy Cannon, Little Anthony & The Imperials, and Lloyd Price. Can't recall the others. I had this on cassette tape for many years, but haven't listened to it for over 30 years.

 

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I think there is no addition vintage clips. Just newly created interviews.

 

I have gone back to the original discs from a few years ago and compared track listings against these new discs. Barring typos or mistakes on my part, these are the tracks which are new to this set (music only):

DISC 1
Listen To Her Heart - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me - Mac Davis
DISC 2
Love Machine - The Miracles
Evil Woman - ELO
Strange Magic - ELO
Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Medley: Eighteen/Only Women/Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Coopee
My Best Friend’s Girl - The Cars
Inmates (We’re All Crazy) - Alice Cooper
DISC 3
Can’t Get It Out of My Head - ELO
Keep on Truckin’ - Eddie Kendricks
Dream On - Aerosmith
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Never Gonna Give You Up - Barry White
YMCA - Village People
Good Times - Chic
DISC 4
Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
Bad Case of Loving You - Robert Palmer
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
DISC 5
Angie Baby - Helen Reddy
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Neil Sedaka
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Devotion - Earth, Wind & Fire
DISC 6
Rocky Mountain Music - Eddie Rabbitt
You Make Me Crazy - Sammy Hagar
DISC 7
Mandy - Barry Manilow
Operator - Jim Croce
Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Moondance - George Benson, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Etta James, Dr John
I’d Rather Go Blind - Etta James & Dr John
Something He Can Feel - Aretha Franklin
DISC 8
It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond\
I’ll Be Around - The Spinners
I’ve Got Love on my Mind - Natalie Cole
Jolene - Dolly Parton

 

I bought the whole original series. Makes me kind of mad when they reissue stuff and then add a few clips you would have loved to have had. Not rebuying them again.,

 

A $99 for 11 DVDs sound reasonable.....but 1 DVD of comedians and 1 DVD of interviews.....ugghhh!

 

looks like another best of

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00L9OPJ5C/thedigitalbit-20

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/new-midnight-special-dvd-sets-coming-9-9-14.373810/

 

thanks ,how did I miss that post??

 

I have to imagine that when the shows were filmed, the producers didn't get clearances / sync licenses for all future formats. So we're stuck with whatever they can clear now.

Too bad. I agree that it would be preferable to have the unedited shows. Even better would be to have all the live footage that was filmed for the show. Presumably, they didn't have artists just film one or two songs...?

On the Time-Life page, it's odd that they pick some artists to be "featured artists" on each disc, and other artists are...what?...chopped liver?

 

DVDTalk review today :

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/65341/midnight-special-the/

 

Costco is selling a 6-DVD (plus a bonus DVD) for $30.

 

The 6-disc retail set contains discs 1-6 from the 11-disc set.

 

So here's the actual Midnight Special performances that you DON'T get on the 6-dvd version :

Disc #7 :
Mandy Barry Manilow
Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) Jim Croce
It’s a Miracle Barry Manilow
Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
Fooled Around and Fell in Love Elvin Bishop
Disco Duck Rick Dees
Saturday Night Bay City Rollers
Moondance George Benson, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Etta James, Dr. John
I’d Rather Go Blind Etta James and Dr. John
Breezin’ Carlos Santana and George Benson
You’re No Good Linda Ronstadt
Shining Star Earth, Wind and Fire
Something He Can Feel Aretha Franklin
Wildfire Michael Martin Murphy
Get Closer Seals & Crofts
Keep on Loving You REO Speedwagon
The Devil Went Down to Georgia The Charlie Daniels Band

Disc#8 :
Do It Again Steely Dan
Could It Be I’m Falling in Love The Spinners
It Never Rains in Southern California Albert Hammond
I’ll Be Around The Spinners
Reeling in the Years Steely Dan
Southern Nights Glen Campbell
I’ve Got Love on My Mind Natalie Cole
Torn Between Two Lovers Mary MacGregor
On and On Stephen Bishop
Crazy on You Heart
Jolene Dolly Parton
Grease Frankie Valli
If I Can’t Have You Yvonne Elliman
I Will Always Love You Dolly Parton
Love to Love You Baby Donna Summer
I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
Sailing Christopher Cross

These are the ONLY 2 dvds that have actual Midnight Special musical performances that are not included with the 6-dvd set. All the other discs in the 11 dvd set and the deluxe 20 dvd set are comedy, interviews and a lot of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame performances.

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Wow. Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't realized the track listings for each disc were available on the Time-Life site. I'm definitely going to get the 6-disc-plus-bonus-disc set at Costco - it would be nice to have discs 7 and 8 from the bigger sets, but there's no way I'm paying a $70 premium for those two discs, as I'm not real interested in the comedy or RRHOF stuff.

 

What's on the Costco bonus disc?

 

I haven't opened it up yet, but it appears from the packaging that it's interviews with Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, and Loggins & Messina -- and various featurettes...Wolfman at Midnight, Star-studded Stage Fashion, Helen Reddy as Host, The History of The Midnight Special, etc