The Guess Who - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 3-29-1974

I have a lot of new things I keep finding that distracts me from posting more of projects I've previously announced, but all those projects are still in progress. One of them is posting more from the "Midnight Special" TV show. When I posted a poll about this show, the Guess Who were one of the top vote getters. They were on the show a handful of times. I've turned that into two albums. Here's the first one.

The Guess Who didn't have any big hits in 1972 or 1973, after having more success from 1969 to 1971. But in 1974, they had another Top Ten hit in the U.S. with "Clap for the Wolfman," which was a tribute song for DJ Wolfman Jack. At the time, the Midnight Special was hosted by none other than Wolfman Jack, who naturally loved the song. He spoke some lines on the record. He repeated those here in this live version. (According to the Wikipedia article about the song, he even performed the song with the band sometimes while they were on tour in 1974.) I find it interesting that this episode aired at the end of March 1974, and probably was recorded a little earlier than that, but "Clap for the Wolfman" wasn't released on album until April 1974, and wasn't released as a single until June 1974. So this may have been the public debut of the song.

The Guess Who hosted this show on the date mentioned in this album title, March 29, 1974. Most of the songs here are from that date. But tracks 7 through 10 are from an episode that aired on December 14, 1973. And track 11 is from an episode that aired on February 22, 1974. They hosted the show again in 1975, but that will be the subject of a different album.

The first track has "[Edit]" in the title because I removed the theme song playing in the background and replaced it with crowd noise. And "Clap for the Wolfman" also has that in its title because there was a glitch in the song. Luckily, it happened during a chorus, so I was able to repair it by patching in a bit from a different chorus.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 40 minutes long. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack [Edit] (Guess Who)
02 American Woman (Guess Who)
03 talk (Guess Who)
04 Star Baby (Guess Who)
05 These Eyes (Guess Who)
06 Clap for the Wolfman [Edit] (Guess Who with Wolfman Jack)
07 Albert Flasher (Guess Who)
08 Undun (Guess Who)
09 Straighten Out (Guess Who)
10 Glamour Boy (Guess Who)
11 Share the Land (Guess Who)
12 talk (Guess Who)
13 Hand Me Down World (Guess Who)

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/xnDkn4NazWflbLF/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. I could have selected more of a close-up pic, but I liked this unusual perspective showing how the stage stuck out into the audience. That's lead singer Burton Cummings on the front edge of the stage.