Thursday, November 6, 2025

Paul Williams with Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 6-29-1973

Here's another episode of Paul Williams on the "Midnight Special" TV show. This time, he was joined by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.

I already posted an album of Williams hosting this show in 1973. That episode aired at the start of June 1973. Remarkably, he was back to host the show again at the end of June. I've looked over a lot of these show episodes, and I have yet to see another case of the host being the same twice in one month.

Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were married from 1973 to 1980. During that time, they did a lot of musical collaboration, so it's not surprising they were both on the same episode of this show, even though they mostly did their own songs. I've included their songs because they joined Williams on a version of "Me and Bobby McGee," a song written by Kristofferson. In case you're curious, here are the other music acts on the June 29th show hosted by Williams: the Electric Light Orchestra, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, King Harvest, and Brewer and Shipley.

All the songs here are from the June 29, 1973 episode, except for the last two. Those two are from an episode aired on July 19, 1974. Williams also hosted another episode in 1976, so I'll probably post that once it becomes available. And he performed two other songs in 1974, but I plan to put that on a different album where he was a guest of the Righteous Brothers, and sang a song with them.

As usual for this show, everything is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. I started with the YouTube video, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. Then I added in audience noise between some songs to help link them together.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 Someday Man (Paul Williams)
02 talk (Paul Williams)
03 talk (Paul Williams)
04 Loving Her Was Easier [Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again] (Kris Kristofferson)
05 talk (Paul Williams)
06 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Rita Coolidge)
07 That's What Friends Are For (Paul Williams)
08 I Never Had It So Good (Rita Coolidge with Kris Kristofferson)
09 Out of Mind, Out of Sight (Kris Kristofferson)
10 My Crew (Rita Coolidge)
11 talk (Paul Williams & Kris Kristofferson)
12 Me and Bobby McGee (Paul Williams, Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge)
13 Look What I Found (Paul Williams)
14 You Know Me (Paul Williams)
15 Driftwood (Paul Williams)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NzzyfFbw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BrjeHxt1qzKC38b/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took during the one song done with Williams, Kristofferson, and Coolidge. Williams is in the middle, and Kristofferson is the one with the beard.

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