Al Green Update, and More

I've been posting music from the treasure trove of Midnight Special TV episodes I discovered the other day. After finding that, I checked to see if I had already posted any music from that show, and I discovered just two: albums for Marvin Gaye and Al Green. For the Gaye one, the music didn't need any changing. However, I did just redo the cover art, so the fonts and such will be consistent with the other albums I'm posting from that show. Here's the link, if you want the revised version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/09/marvin-gaye-midnight-special-atlanta.html

It's a different story with the Al Green album though. It turns out the source I used when I posted it in 2020 had lots of flaws, such as incomplete songs and missing songs. So I just redid that album from scratch, using a much better source (again, taken from this new "treasure trove" I've found). So if you downloaded that one previously, I highly recommend you redownload it. Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/05/al-green-midnight-special-nbc-studios.html

Also, in case you're curious, here's the "trove," if you want to take a look yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdQ3g_i8Nrs48a4TcCDU01Zw-7Qh4kukm

Currently, as I write this in late October 2025, there are 131 available there, with more coming all the time. In fact, a new one was just released in the last 24 hours. All of those are from 1973 to 1975 so far (plus the 1972 pilot episode). There were about 350 episodes in total, as the show ran all the way to 1981. So we can look forward to a steady stream of more music in the coming years.

You might want to take a look at what's on the different episodes, and see what interests you. I'm certainly not going to post everything, or even a majority of the music. I want to put together coherent albums from a single artist. Sometimes, there's enough from one album. But other times, there might be four songs from one episode, three songs from another, and two more from yet another. That kind of thing. Putting that all together would make at least a half hour long album from just one musical act. I'm open to suggestions regarding which albums to make from all this material.

(As an aside, sadly, some other similar musical TV shows from that era are not sharing their music on YouTube, or anywhere else. For instance, "Soul Train," "ABC In Concert," and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." I'll keep my eyes open, but there are only a few bootlegs of that material here and there. So we're very lucky Midnight Special is opening up their archive and sharing.