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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.

Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

Various

United States

230[1]

Don Kirshner

90 minutes

September 27, 1973 (1973-09-27)[2] –
1981 (1981)

10cc

A Taste of Honey

ABBA

The Allman Brothers Band

Ambrosia

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

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The Isley Brothers

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

with Vince Gill

Pure Prairie League

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

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Van Morrison

Waylon Jennings

Walter Murphy

War

Weather Report

Wet Willie

Wild Cherry

Wishbone Ash

Stevie Wonder

Zebra

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.

The Midnight Special

List of late night network TV programs

McNeil, Alexander M. (1980). Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, Ltd.  0-14-004911-8.

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Don Kirshner's Rock Concert