Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert is an American television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and syndicated to television stations, initially through Viacom Enterprises, and later through Syndicast. It premiered on September 27, 1973, with a performance by The Rolling Stones and The Doobie Brothers; its last episode was in 1981.
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ABBA
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Andy Gibb
Angel
Argent
Average White Band
Bad Company
Badfinger
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Bar Kays
Joan Baez
Bee Gees
Pat Benatar
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Sabbath
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blue Öyster Cult
David Bowie
Brooklyn Dreams
Brownsville Station
Cameo
Eric Burdon
The Byrds
Irene Cara
Harry Chapin
Cheap Trick
Alice Cooper
Jim Croce
Sarah Dash
Devo
Dixie Dregs
The Doobie Brothers
Donna Summer
Dr. Hook
Dr. John
Eagles
Earth, Wind & Fire
Edgar Winter Group
Electric Light Orchestra
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Bryan Ferry
Fleetwood Mac
Flying Burrito Brothers
Focus
Foghat
Rory Gallagher
Genesis
Golden Earring
Grand Funk Railroad
The Guess Who
George Harrison
The Hollies
Herbie Hancock
Hot Tuna
James Gang
Rick James
Billy Joel
Journey
Waylon Jennings
Kansas
KC and the Sunshine Band
B. B. King
Kiss
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Patti LaBelle
Lake
Lenny Williams
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Mahogany Rush
Meat Loaf
Melissa Manchester
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Frank Marino
Don McLean
Molly Hatchet
Montrose
Mother's Finest
Maria Muldaur
Marshall Tucker Band
New Birth
New York Dolls
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Ted Nugent
Gary Numan
Ohio Players
Osibisa
Outlaws
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Robert Palmer
The Police
Billy Preston
Prince & The Revolution
Queen
The Ramones
Lou Rawls
Rainbow
Raspberries
Helen Reddy
Lou Reed
Martha Reeves
REO Speedwagon
Vicki Sue Robinson
The Rolling Stones
Linda Ronstadt
Todd Rundgren
Rush
Rose Royce
Santana
The Sex Pistols
Seals & Crofts
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Slade
Slave
Sly & the Family Stone
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Sparks
Jimmie Spheeris
The Spinners
The Stampeders
Starz
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Steve Miller Band
Stephanie Mills
Cat Stevens
The Sylvers
Sylvester
Switch
Bram Tchaikovsky
The Temptations
Tim Weisberg
Marc Bolan and T. Rex
Ike & Tina Turner
UFO
Uriah Heep
Village People
Joe Walsh
Bay City Rollers
Van Halen
Waylon Jennings
Walter Murphy
War
Weather Report
Wet Willie
Wild Cherry
Wishbone Ash
Stevie Wonder
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In popular culture[edit]
The TV series SCTV satirized Don Kirshner's Rock Concert as Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert in an episode of the same name; the premiere of season 3. Dave Thomas appeared as Lee Iacocca asking for government help to subsidize the costs of running the show, a satirical take on his asking the government to bail out Chrysler around the same time. The skit also mentions Paul Shaffer's satires of him on Saturday Night Live and also has a performance of the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" but sung as "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round a Dodge Omni" sung by him and Tony Orlando (Tony Rosato). The skit appears on the 'Best of the Early Years' DVD.
In the Blue Öyster Cult song "The Marshall Plan" from their 1980 album Cultösaurus Erectus, Don Kirshner makes a cameo as himself introducing Johnny (the subject of the song) as if Johnny were a guest on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.