Throwback Thursday: "The Midnight Special" debuts on NBC today in 1975 | 98.7 The River : vimarsana.com

If a group or singer wanted national exposure, this was the only place to go: the show featured the biggest stars of the era coming on to perform their songs at a show that aired at 1am on a Friday night on network TV

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