The Bee Gees sure were on the Midnight Special show a lot. I am in the process of posting no less than five albums from them. Four of those are from 1973. I've already posted one of those. Then, after skipping the show in 1974, they were on it enough in 1975 to justify making this album. Unfortunately, they would not appear on the show again after that. In 1977, they would be the main stars on the "Saturday Night Fever" albums, which would go on to sell 40 million copies (the best selling album of all time until Michael Jackson's "Thriller") and turn them into global superstars. So, at that point, I think they became too big to appear on a mere very late night TV show like the Midnight Special.
The Bee Gees managed to have at least one hit single every year since becoming stars in 1967, but 1973 and 1974 were relative down years for them. However, they came back in a very big way in 1975. Their 1975 album "Main Course" contained two big hits, "Jive Talkin'" and "Nights on Broadway." "Jive Talkin'" in particular went all the way to Number One in the U.S. singles chart. More importantly, it gave the band a new musical direction, after they had mainly been known for ballads. Here's what the Wikipedia entry for the album says: "This album marked a great change for the Bee Gees as it was their first album to include mostly R&B, soul, disco and funk-influenced songs, and created the model for their output through the rest of the 1970s. It rejuvenated the group's career and public image, particularly in the US, after the commercial disappointment of their preceding albums."
This album has them in transition. It includes versions of "Jive Talkin'," "Nights on Broadway," and "Winds of Change" from their latest "Main Course" album. But pretty much everything else are versions of hits from their earlier style.
The reason Helen Reddy was included is because she did a duet with the Bee Gees on their song "To Love Somebody." For some reason I can't figure out, she was the host of the Midnight Special a remarkable number of times, including a majority of the 1975 shows. This is a combination of two episodes, both of them hosted by Reddy. The first nine tracks are from September 12, 1975, as mentioned in the title of this album, and the rest are from October 10, 1975.
This includes all the songs done by both the Bee Gees and Reddy from those two shows. The Bee Gees performed more of the music in these two episodes combined, 29 minutes, compared to 23 minutes for Reddy, despite the fact that Reddy was the host of both shows. That's because Reddy was more of a nominal host in 1975, since she was hosting practically every single show that year.
The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. As typical with this show, I did a lot of editing, smoothing transitions between songs by adding applause to hide commercial breaks.
This album is 47 minutes long.
01 talk (Helen Reddy)
02 Jive Talkin' (Bee Gees)
03 talk (Bee Gees)
04 Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady (Helen Reddy)
05 talk (Helen Reddy)
06 To Love Somebody (Bee Gees & Helen Reddy)
07 Mama (Helen Reddy)
08 Nights on Broadway (Bee Gees)
09 I Am Woman (Helen Reddy)
10 This Must Be Wrong (Helen Reddy)
11 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
12 Run to Me - World (Bee Gees)
13 Holiday (Bee Gees)
14 I Can't See Nobody (Bee Gees)
15 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
16 You're My Home (Helen Reddy)
17 Wind of Change (Bee Gees)
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The cover image is a screenshot of Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and Helen Reddy, taken from this exact concert. I used Photoshop to move them closer together. I also used Krea AI to improve the image detail.
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