The Bee Gees with Jerry Lee Lewis - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 4-6-1973

Here's another episode of the Bee Gees performing for the "Midnight Special" TV show. Each time they were on, they did a duet with another star. This time, that other star is 1950s rocker Jerry Lee Lewis.

The Bee Gees had a down year in 1973, compared to their usual hit-making ways in the late 1960s and all through the 1970s. They did have one song, "Saw a New Morning," just barely scrape the bottom of the Top 100 in the U.S. singles chart. It's a nice song though, and they performed it here.

I beefed up the Bee Gees performance by adding two songs they did for a different episode of the show. "Bad Bad Dreams" and "Don't Wanna Be the One" are from a November 23, 1973 episode.

Jerry Lee Lewis was one of a few artists who were big in the 1950s who kept having hits in the 1970s. His trick was switching from being a rock and roll star to being a country star. However, for this episode, he stuck solely to his 1950s rock and roll style, probably figuring, correctly, the show was more targeted towards rock music. 

A highlight of this album is Jerry Lee Lewis dueting with the Bee Gees on the Motown classic "Money (That's What I Want)." You can see them performing it together in the cover art.

A big thanks to GMan. He helped cut up the episode into mp3 files, and named them. Then I did some advanced work, adding applause at the ends of songs that got abruptly cut off for commercial breaks and such (which was most of them). I also edited some of the talk tracks. For instance, for the first track, I removed the theme song music and replace it with applause. And by the way, if anyone else wants to volunteer to help, I could get more of these episodes posted faster. There are dozens still to come.

In case you're curious, the other musical acts in this episode were Gladys Knight and the Pips, Frank Welker (doing comedy), Johnny Nash, Jim Weatherly, and Skeeter Davis. I've already posted the Gladys Knight songs elsewhere.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 To Love Somebody (Bee Gees)
03 talk (Bee Gees)
04 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Jerry Lee Lewis)
05 Lonely Days (Bee Gees)
06 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees)
07 Money [That's What I Want] (Jerry Lee Lewis & Bee Gees)
08 Good Golly, Miss Molly - Jenny Jenny - Tutti Frutti - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On (Jerry Lee Lewis)
09 Saw a New Morning (Bee Gees)
10 New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees)
11 I Started a Joke - Massachusetts (Bee Gees)
12 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Bee Gees)
13 Bad Bad Dreams (Bee Gees)
14 Don't Wanna Be the One (Bee Gees)
15 talk [Edit] (Bee Gees) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9KskVB1H

alternate:

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

The cover photo is from this exact concert.