The Music Scene

Season Premiere --Tom Jones introduces show --James Brown sings ""World"" --CSN&Y sing ""Down By The River"" --Buck Owens and The Buckaroos sing ""Tall Dark Stranger"" --Oliver sings ""Jean"" --Three Dog Night sing ""Easy To Be Hard"" --Tom Jones sings ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Music Scene Singers sing ""Sugar Sugar"" --Cast previews next week show with guests Eydie Gorme, Janis Joplin, Gary Pucket and Lou Rawls, Three dog Night and the Nation's #1 song, and ""The New People"", next on ABC.

--Gary Puckett sings ""This Girl Is A Woman Now"" --Eydie Gorme sings ""Tonight I'll Say A Prayer"" --Janis Joplin sings ""Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"" --Three Dog Night sings ""Easy To Be Hard"" --Lou Rawls sings ""Your Good Thing Is About To End"" --Plus ""Midnight Cowboy"" film clips and comedy skits

--The Rascals sing ""People Got To Be Free"" --The Dells sing ""Oh What A Night"" --Music Scene Flashback - Roger Miller sings ""King of The Road"" --Smokey Robinson & The Miracles sing ""Here I Go Again"" --The Rascals sing ""Carry Me Back"" --Roger Miller sings ""Where Have All The Average People Gone?"" --Bobby Sherman sings ""Little Woman"" while Chris Bokeno dances as a little woman --The Music Scene Singers sing a gospel-influenced version of ""Sugar Sugar"" --David Steinberg previews next week's guests, Tony Bennett, Jerry Butler, Judy Collins, Sonny James, Moms Mabley, and Smith

--Tony Bennett sings ""What The World Needs Now"" --Jerry Butler sings ""What's The Use Of Breaking Up?"" --Judy Collins sings ""Pretty Polly"" --Sonny James sings ""Since I Met You Baby"" --Smith sings ""Baby It's You"" --Moms Mabley sings ""It's Your Thing""

--Sly & The Family Stone sing ""Everyday People"" and ""Dance to the Music"" --Merle Haggard sings ""Okie from Muskogee"" --Pat Williams conducts The Music Scene Orchestra for ""The Music Scene Theme"" --Bobby Sherman sings ""Little Woman"" --Steve Lawrence sings ""The Drifter"" --Sly & The Family Stone sing ""Hot Fun in the Summertime"" and ""Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey"" --David and Tom do a phsychiatrist sketch --The Temptations sing the #1 song in the country ""I Can't Get Next To You"" --Larry Hankin previews next weeks guests Richie Havens, Isaac Hayes, Janis Joplin, Smith, Ten Years After, and Billboard's #1 song --Tom Smothers announces that next week's guest host will be Michael Cole from ABC's ""Mod Squad""

--Jerry Lee Lewis sings ""Great Balls of Fire"" --Ten Years After sings ""Bad Scene"" --Smith sing ""Baby It's You"" --Richie Havens sings ""Rocky Raccoon"" --Jerry Lee Lewis sings ""She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye"" --Janis Joplin sings ""Maybe"" --Michael Cole reads Rod McKuen Railroad Poetry --Isaac Hayes sings ""Walk On By"" --Christopher Ross announces that he will be back next week, and the special guest host will be Bobby Sherman --Paul Reid Roman previews next week's guests: Jerry Butler, Johnny Cash, Richie Havens, Lulu and Buffy Sainte-Marie --The Archies sing ""Sugar Sugar""

--Johnny Cash sings ""Blistered"" and ""Ruby"" --R.B. Greaves sings ""Take A Letter Maria"" --Lulu sings ""Oh Me Oh My"" --Della Reese sings ""MacArthur Park"" --Della Reese sings ""Wedding Bell Blues"" --Bobby Sherman sings ""La La La"" --Bobby Sherman sings ""I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"" --Bobby Sherman sings ""Sounds Along The Way"" --and comedy skits

--Announcer introduces tonights guests: Keith Barbour, James Brown, Joe Cocker, The Everly Brothers and Dusty Springfield, A song from Billboard's #1 album this week, and the Star David Steinberg --James Brown sings ""Mother Popcorn"" --Keith Barbour sings ""Echo Park"" --The Everly Brothers sing ""Bowling Green"" --Commercial Break --Dusty Springfield sings ""Brand New Me"" and ""The Look of Love"" --The Everly Brothers sing a medley including ""Cathy's Clown"", ""All I Have To Do Is Dream"", ""Wake Up Little Suzie"", ""Bird Dog"", and ""Bye Bye Love"" --Joe Cocker sings ""Something"" from the #1 best selling album in the nation, The Beatles' ""Abbey Road"" --David previews next week's guests: Paul Anka, Joe Cocker, The Cowsills, B.B. King, and John Mayall

--Paul Anka sings ""Happy"" --Paul Anka sings ""My Way"" --The Cowsills sing ""Silver Threads and Golden Needles"" --R.B. Greaves sings ""Take A Letter Maria"" --B.B. King sings ""Just A Little Love""

--Joe Cocker sings ""Delta Lady"" --Joe Cocker sings ""Something"" --Mary Hopkin sings ""No Business Like Show Business"" --Mary Hopkin sings ""In My Life"" --Three Dog Night sings ""Eli's Coming"" --Mary McCaslin sings ""Help!""

--Mama Cass Elliot sings ""New World Coming"" --Creedence Clearwater Revival sings ""Down On The Corner --Creedence Clearwater Revival sings ""The Night Time Is The Right Time"" --Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 sing ""Ye-Me-Le"" and ""Witichita Lineman"" --Neil Diamond sings ""Both Sides Now"" and ""Holly Holy""

--Tony Bennett sings ""I Gotta Be Me"" --Tony Bennett sings ""Smile"" --The Grass Roots sings ""Heaven Knows"" --Emmet Kelly, --Charlie Pride sings ""Louisiana Man"" --Buffy Sainte-Marie sings ""He's The Keeper Of The Fire"" --Stevie Wonder sings ""Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"" --Steve Allen sings ""Last Night Was A Bad Night"" and ""Go Fly A Kite""

--Lou Rawls sings ""Just Squeeze Me"" and ""I Can't Make It Alone"" --Spirit sings ""1984"" --Charley Pride sings ""I'm So Afraid Of Losing You"" --Little Richard sings ""Lucille"" and ""Tutti Frutti""