The Temptations - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-27-1975

Here's another album from the motherlode of "Midnight Special" TV show episodes I recently discovered. This is a concert by the Temptations in 1975.

As I explained in my previous Sly and the Family Stone post, each episode of this TV lasted an hour and a half, and typically featured a handful of different musical acts. For each episode, one of those acts was considered the host, and got to play more songs than the other acts. The Temptations were the host of this episode. The other acts were Ace, Jessi Colter, Leo Sayer, and Rose Banks. I've stripped the episode down to just the Temptations parts, and connected songs by adding more audience cheering between them, to make it sound as if it was one continuous concert by just this one act.

I'm happy to post this, because concert recordings of the Temptations from their peak years in the 1960s and early 1970s are very rare. 1975 is a particularly good time for a concert, because it turned out to be the last of their peak years. From 1964 to 1975, they had a steady stream of hit singles, and Gold rated albums (meaning sales of 500,000 or more in the U.S.). "Happy People" was a Number One hit on the U.S. R&B singles chart in 1974, and then "Shakey Ground" also was a Number One on that chart in 1975. But those would be the band's last number ones (although they occasionally would get close in later years). 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I converted a YouTube video to audio, then broke it into mp3s. 

This album is 29 minutes long. 

01 Midnight Special (Temptations)
02 Cloud Nine - My Girl - Get Ready [Instrumental Version] (Temptations)
03 Glasshouse (Temptations)
04 Welcome to Our Show (Temptations)
05 The Way You Do the Things You Do - Girl [Why You Wanna Make Me Blue] - My Girl - Get Ready (Temptations)
06 Ain't Too Proud to Beg - Cloud Nine - I Can't Get Next to You (Temptations)
07 Just My Imagination [Running Away with Me] - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Temptations)
08 Memories - Firefly (Temptations)
09 talk (Temptations)
10 A Song for You (Temptations)
11 Shakey Ground (Temptations)
12 Happy People (Temptations) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/mPWkSr8B

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/CPrTrCOgLyjCtkp/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. The image was rather blurry, but I used the Krea AI program to add detail.