Watch the New York Dolls Perform 'Personality Crisis' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1973

Watch Gladys Knight and the Pips Perform 'Midnight Train to Georgia' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1973

Watch the Beach Boys Perform 'Here Comes the Night' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1979

Video Find: 'Stop Flicking Your Bic'

Watch Billy Preston Perform 'All Spaced Out' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1973

Watch the Searchers Perform 'Sweets for My Sweet' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1973

Watch John Denver and 'Mama' Cass Elliott Sing 'Leavin' on a Jet Plane' on 'The Midnight Special,' 1972

Video Find: Paper Lace Performs 'Billy Don't Be a Hero,' January 1974

50 years ago. We used to sing the hell out of this on the playground.

 

Watch 'Top of the Pops,' Christmas Day 1973

Watch the Faces Perform 'Pool Hall Richard' on 'Top of the Pops,' Dec. 20, 1973

Watch Elton John Perform 'Step into Christmas,' 1973

Watch the 'Steptoe & Son -Christmas Special,' 1973

Video Find: Denny Laine Performs 'Say You Don't Mind,' 1967

Video Find: Dudley Moore and Peter Cook Perform "L.S. Bumblebee"

Pete and Dud's psychedelic sendup, which turned up on several Beatles bootlegs in the 1970s billed as a Fabs outtake, fooling virtually no one.

 

Watch Mike Oldfield Perform 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC, Nov. 30, 1973

Watch The Who in Los Angeles Nov. 22, 1973

 50 years ago tonight.

Watch Roxy Music Perform 'Street Life' on 'Top of the Pops,' Nov. 22, 1973

50 years ago today.

Video Find: James Brown & Sammy Davis, Jr. Dancing to “There Was A Time,” 1969

Watch The Who in San Francisco, Nov. 20,1973

50 years ago tonight. 

Watch Genesis Perform on 'The Midnight Special,' Dec. 20, 1973