A New Poll

As I've been mentioning in recent days, I recently discovered an amazing amount of music I'd previously missed, in the form of episodes of the 1970s "Midnight Special" TV show on YouTube. So far, all the episodes from the start of the show in 1973 to late 1975 have been posted, in chronological order. I've already turned a few of these into albums, and I have a few more on the way. (The "few more on the way" ones won't be included in this poll.) But aside from those, there are many, many more I possibly could make. I've just compiled a list of all the musical acts who have appeared on that show enough so that I could make a viable live album from them (meaning one that's at least half an hour long), though often I would have to compile appearances from more than one episode to get that much. Some acts (with the Kinks and Gordon Lightfoot being two that come to mind) don't have enough material yet, but eventually will if more episodes keep getting posted in chronological order. The show goes all the way to 1981, so there's a lot to come, including many acts that haven't appeared on the show yet. This poll is just about what I can do with the material that has been posted already.

So here's a list. I don't want to make albums out of all of these. That would be way too much. But some, for sure. To decide which ones, it will help me to see how great the popular demand is. So I would ask you to vote for the ones you're the most interested in. Each person should vote no more than ten times. If you do vote more, I'll only count the first ten. 

Keep in mind that one interesting thing about this show is how it gives us live music from musical acts that haven't put out much, or any, live music at all, be it official albums or bootlegs. (As an example, if I look ahead to the acts on the show in the late 1970s, there will eventually be enough material for me to post a Jackie DeShannon album, which I'm psyched about because there's almost no live recordings from her whatsoever.) So you might want to keep the rarity factor in mind as well when voting. Another thing worth mentioning is that some of these acts were on the show multiple times during this time period, enough for me to make multiple albums from them. But I've have to look closer to figure that out. 

This time, I'm not necessarily going to just post the ones that get the most votes. But I will keep these vote results in mind in determining which ones to do. There are 53 options in all. Thanks!

And by the way, if you want to see more detail of what was performed on each of the shows, I just found a very good webpage for that. Note the existing shows that are the subject of this poll only go up until September 1975. At their current posting pace, it'll probably take two or three more years until all the other episodes get posted as well. 

The Midnight Special - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.com 

Paul Anka
Hoyt Axton
Joan Baez
Bee Gees
Chuck Berry
Blood, Sweat & Tears / David Clayton-Thomas
James Brown
Byrds / Roger McGuinn
Canned Heat
Ray Charles
Mac Davis
Fats Domino
Jose Feliciano
Dr. Hook
Earth, Wind & Fire
ELO
Faces
Four Tops
Golden Earring
Guess Who
Waylon Jennings
B.B. King
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Anthony & the Imperials
Curtis Mayfield
Steve Miller Band
Anne Murray
Randy Newman
Ohio Players
Olivia Newton-John
Wilson Pickett
Pointer Sisters
Billy Preston
Helen Reddy
Righteous Brothers
Marty Robbins
Smokey Robinson
Linda Ronstadt
Rufus / Chaka Khan
Todd Rundgren
Leon Russell
Leo Sayer
Seals & Crofts
Neil Sedaka
Spinners
Stylistics 
Ike & Tina Turner
Barry White
Paul Williams
Edgar Winter Group
Bill Withers
Bobby Womack
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons