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  • I love this song but I like "odin" better I heard it 1 time on the radio in the late 70's early 80"s and looked for it for soooo long and found it last year. It was worth the wait. Just like this one ty for posting it

  • He was one of my favorites - largely unknown - too bad - he wrote some amazing songs - this is the most commercial one but is a good example of how talented he was. RIP John Stewart - did anybody know he became a professor of music?

  • transcendental...I actually owned this album in 1979...I lost more than can be imagined

  • the late 70s, in my opinion, had some of the best music-- not only in rock... but pop and country as well..a lot of people don't know this song at all, and consider John Stewart a one-hit wonder with his only really big hit- Gold.

  • THIS SONG IS THE BEST THERE EVERY WAS!!!! SIT BACK AND LISTEN!!!! AW

    ESOME!!!!!!!!!!1

  • John was good as a member of The Kingston Trio , but better as a solo artist .

  • If only there was a video to go along with it.

  • I only wish there was a vdeo and it would be used in a movie.

  • RIP, John.

  • For some reason it would not let me post the link, but just type in "John Stewart NIGHT MAN" and it should come up. It's a great song with similar sound to it like Midnight Wind. Check it out, you won't be disappointed. The great John Stewart. He was an incredible musician. RIP John.

  • Here is a link to John's song called "NIGHT MAN" which was produced and recorded at the same time as "Midnight Wind" and also "GOLD" along with Stevie Nicks. "Night Man" is an incredible tune as well, although as history has it, only GOLD went on to stardom. Midnight Wind and Night Man too were incredible songs that, had they had more air time and play from the disc jockey's of the day, they too would most assuredly had went on to gold records themselves, especially Midnight Wind. Thanks!

  • Incredible song. I'll never forgot when I discovered this incredible song when I purchased a double CD of John's "Greatest Hit's", mainly for his hit "GOLD" but I was blown away by several other songs on the CD and came to love the CD's. His song "NIGHT MAN" is also very good and has a very similar tone and sound to Midnight Wind and features Stevie on backing vocals too. "Midnight Wind", "GOLD", and "Night Man" were all recorded and produced by John Stewart around the end of the 1970's.

  • One of the best from a great songwriter/vocalist ... adding Stevie Nicks sends it skyward ... unforgettable.

  • Great song and album. He looks like Garry Shandling in that picture.

  • I loved that whole Album. Brings back so many memories. One song from that Album I haven't seen posted is "Lost her in the Sun." Could you post that one as well??? Thanks for posting!!!

  • Have the original vynil record and love it

  • Wow - love John Stewart and am grateful at least some of his music is on You Tube. I love his earlier albums from the 70s, especially the one with "Crazy Lives in Tempe" If anybody has the album, please post. He was such a great songwriter and singer. Not quite country and not quite rock, but some of both. Mostly he was soulful...wrote about horses and long empty roads and crazy women.

  • written on the wind

    never going back again

    first yt music post I ever came across that has no dislikes

  • Thanks for posting ,perhaps the best song John Stewart did, but also Stevie Nicks. This has always been one of my favorites, one that really shows off the talents of John and Stevie.This was released when I was in my prime and was better than any of the Fleetwood Mac songs that followed. Thank you for posting.

  • A truly spooky song! Stevie is enthralling!

  • MoonbaseEagle, I agree with you, a very chilling & awesome song. Stevie Nicks is superb on this one. I also agree with @disaliter - reminds me of a good time, however brief, with a wonderful woman in October, 1979. I'd go back there in a heartbeat, just to hear that song with her one more time.

  • John hit #28 in Billboard, 10-20-79. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! RIP, John.

  • thank you

    but it is

    too late for me

    the loss was too much

    for a human to sustain

  • This has always been my FAVORITE song by him... Such talent. A lot of people not familiar with his music are surprised when they hear this... its so awesome, and Stevie Nicks on backup.. well, it does this song so much good. :) You are missed, John....

  • patricia I am lost

    you are with me forever

    guilt shame loss whateverelsese there is

    I face myself

    you will never leave me

  • @disalitervisum - gosh "Disalit..." that's depressing....brings back memories of my ex-girflfriend....life's too short, try your best to move on...

  • Despite this peaking at #30 I remember it well. It doesn't get much airplay anymore but still a great song.

  • i would like more please...especially one like this for the entire album...California Gold

  • This is sooooo good. Up there with Stewart's GOLD. I'm really surprised this didn't chart like GOLD did. Of course with the backing vocals of Stevie Nick's, it makes this song perfect. Those two sounded so good together. They should have done more music together. Pure magic!

  • Hauntingly timeless classic

  • I saw John in the late 70's or early 80's at the Roxy in Hollywood. It took some effort to find some of CD's but worth the effort

  • does anyone have the followup/sequel album. dream babies go to hollywood.

  • Thank you vanillacoker! Please post Bolinas and Swift Lizard too! And if anyone has the concert at Chuck's Cellar in 1979 post that too! John's son was there playing with him. He was about 16 at the time.

  • FANTASTIC!

  • First time I heard this song on the radio my wife was confined to bed 24-7 with complications during last trimester of our first pregnancy. When our daughter was born we named her Miranda. John came to Moses Lake for a one-nighter in the park. I told the base player about Miranda, and John dedicated Midnight Wind to her that night. We met John after the show and got his autograph. I'll never forget John or that night. This song still moves me. John is gone, but not forgotten. Thanks, John.

  • Luv this album....lots of memories.....would luv to hear Lost her in the sun, from the same album.....he sure was at his peak here....great melodies and guitars!

  • @spitz79d

    I just found Lost Her in the Sun on mediafire d o t c o m with a suffix of /?fikdnxzdy32 . You don't have to have an account.

    Or you can g o o g l e this: "lost her in the sun" stewart and that mediafire selection will be the first non-video choice.

  • Wasn't a hit but in my view the better of the two (gold) love the way it cranks up towards the end. For the poster who mentioned Casey & AT40 the 70s, one of the local stations where I am is replaying it and it's just like I remembered, the other night they had a week in 76, Andy Gibb I just want to be your everything was #1, I was transported back 35 years, I actually remembered hearing that exact same one back then, quite thrilling.

  • It's sooo great. I thought I was the only person who remembered it. I could never find it anywhere before this. It was all the same summer when Stevie was doing, "Stop Dagging My Heart Around"  and "Leather and Lace" along with "Gold", which sometimes lists Stevie Nicks as the artist on internet jukeboxes. Midnight Wind is soo good to hear again.

  • R.I.P. John.

  • While this album was his most successful, commercially, he was well known in folk music circles as a member of the Kingston Trio. He also wrote Daydream Believer which was one of the Monkees biggest and most enduring hits.

    Great voice and excellent style. Buckingham and Nicks were integral to this album's sound, but John made it his own. He will be missed.

  • I love the little hissing sounds... i can tell u recorded this off the LP. Memories! I wish they would re-release this with remastered sound quality. "Gold" was the big hit but this one is so Stevie Nicks, her fans really would love to hear it again but better sound. Thanks for posting it !!!

  • @beijoso It was re-released on CD a few years ago, but is now VERY hard to find and expensive when you do find it. Great album, every song.

  • Did FMac ever use Gold or this?

  • I was about 20 when this awesome effort came out and remember it didn't get as high on the Top 40 charts as his other hit "Gold" did. It was a great song with Stevie Nicks adding the intense enchanting vocal ambiance. Still surprised it didn't reach the top 10 & it barely reached the Top 30, peaking at #28 back in '79.

  • 1979,a great year for music. This is one of the best along with Ian Gomm.s "Hold On" and Sniff n The Tears "Drivers Seat".

  • @ronjontigerfan drivers seat is one of my favorite songs rvrr!

  • @ronjontigerfan I just got the fickle heart cd for Drivers Seat-coooool song

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  • this song now on I-Tunes finally too, thank you for posting, one of the all time greatest duets.

  • he was the best. r.i.p. john. thanks

  • I actually liked this song better than his top 10 single "Gold." This song had a darker feel. At age 16, I was into darker songs. Thanks for allowing me to relive my teenage years!

  • One of my very favourite Stevie harmony parts...bewitching!!!

  • one of the best Stevie collaborations

  • So amazing! I'm only 15 and I'm in love with all of the songs from back then!

  • I have alway's loved this song, It should have been a bigger hit than it was!

  • This was the beginning of the "Witchy" aura for Stevie. Black Chiffon, lyrics and songs like souls that fly in the midnight wind, Rhiannon, Sisters of the Moon, I'm so Afraid, Like a Ghost thru the fog, Angels, Crystal Visions, Dreams, Black Widow Spiders, running in shadows, the sound of my voice will haunt you, listen to the wind blow, ............she hated this image, but this is why she got it.

  • Always loved this song - havn't heard it in ages - thanks for posting!

  • Många tack...many thanks! John Stewart will not be forgotten!

  • Great song.R.I.P. John Stewart.

  • horrible...

  • This is actually where my name came from!

  • Had to say THANX twice for this one-you deserve it Vanillacoker!!!!!!!

  • LOVE this song!!!!!! One of my favorites-still have the 45 but nothing to play it on-GREAT memories of midnight trists-THANX for the post!!! A real gem

  • Bought this LP while in high school when I would have bought anything that Stevie Nicks had even thought about singing on. The entire LP is great - Runaway Fool of Love, Gold, Lost Her in the Sun. I heard a song today that I swear rips off Runaway Fool of Love (and a little of Bruce Springsteens' 'Badlands') but cant remember the name of the new one!

  • my only dauther, holly maranda.born may 31st.1983 is named after this song

  • @rotoclip John Stewart, underated and almost unknown but GREAT music on all of his tracks. He is sadly missed amongst the crap that is called music these days... Mike

  • I love this song

  • I was really happy to find this.

  • Great lyrics!

  • i bought this 45 in 79 when i was a teen i still have it somewhere! i think!

    love it thanku for putting it up! stevie nicks in the background makes it HAUNTING! love her love him and love it!1

  • one of john's best songs in my opinion

  • ok, soI HATED Californie, but THIS MAN made it all worthwile! RIP John..

  • I love this song even more than Gold

  • I think this one of John Stewart's best songs! In addition to GOLD, you can also hear Stevie Nicks singing background vocals on this song as well. The pair had great voices together. RIP John. Thank you for the fantastic music over the years. Your missed.

  • sounds like a song for Rockford Files.

  • Hit #28 pop, #42 AC in Billboard RIP, John. God bless!

  • Queen Stephanie, Sir John, & L. Buckingham

  • There is a reason why John Stewart teamed up with Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham. Lindsay Buckingham as a young musician was a fan of the Kingston Trio. John Struggled for years as a solo artist to get a hit song on the radio and with Lindsays help produced the hit single Gold which was his biggest hit. Thi is my first time heaering his follow up song. Should've been bigger.

  • Oh wow, I haven't heard this fantastic song for thirty years. It's great to hear again. Just love it!

  • What a great memory from my senior year in high school. I really loved this song- it had an eerie, forboding tone to it. Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John Stewart- what an awesome pairing. Great rare memory- thank you for this post.. It meant a lot to hear this song again.

  • What a great combination of voices,AWESOME SONG!!!Had not heard this in 30 years.

  • Great great collaboration. Midas Queen Stevie leaves her gold mark on everything she touches :) Had no idea guitar solo belongs to Lindsey B !. A pitty this doesn't seem to ever have been made available on cd by RSO.

  • Thanks for posting the song. That whole album is amazing,

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  • So the only line i had was come on down miranda and it is my name so i looked for it and hey here it is thankyou

  • This is the high-definition of Westcoast-Music. Undefined great!

  • Thanks to everyone for all of the positive feedback. I'm glad to have been able to share the song (and trust me, it took some internet searching to find it!) I was actually introduced to the song a few months back on Sirius/XM during a replay of the Casey Kasem Weekly Top 40 rebroadcast from late 1979 when this song debuted. The album was a little before my time although I was already familiar with "Gold." This song has to be considered timeless, as I think it could even chart today.

  • @vanillacoker1 Yes i agree with your comments, and to update, this song should be rereleased it has great elements in it, it puzzles me how songs are not released time and again just for their flavour.

  • @vanillacoker1 WOW, I would have loved to hear AT40 again from the 70's! Those were the best AT40'S ever!!!!

  • @vanillacoker1. Not sure if this will work but I will give it a go. My daughter is named after the young lady in this song. She is 21 now and I am as proud as punch. I heard this 1 night in the late 70s or thereabouts and decided my first born daughter would be named Miranda, and she is. Very lucky too; a lovely girl. The story is longer. If anybody wants to hear just let me know.

  • @vanillacoker1 This is one hellacool song! Keep 'em comin'! YAY!!

  • I bought this LP album in 1979 when it first came out, and remember that it was known as a "Fleetwood Mac album with a different lead singer." Unfortunately, I threw this album out along with all my other LP's when cassettes and CD's took over. What a mistake that was!! this is my favorite song from the album. John Stewart did a remake of this song in 1994 but not as good as the original.

  • You have NO IDEA how long I've tried to find this song. A long time ago I heard this song in a store while shopping and couldn't get it out of my head, but couldn't remember who sang it. I looked the title up on You Tube a few months ago, but nothing came up. Then yesterday I found it . It's a Christmas miracle!!!! Thank you.

  • Don't know why this song is so hard to get. Can't get it on itunes.

  • The awesome guitar at the end of the song is Lindsey Buckingham. If a voice can sound like midnight wind its Stevie's.

  • Always loved this song and thank you for posting.

  • ...This was a VERY chilling & awesome song...!!

  • thank you, vanillacoker.

  • I started poking around this stuff when I noticed that "Uprising" (by Muse) sounded a lot like "Gold". "Gold" wasn't bad, but this really should have been the bigger hit, what a killer song!

  • I named my daughter after this song,still haunts me to this day,hard to find..

  • i have this 45 ! i got in high school back in the day- i love this song! u try to buy this LP used on amazone u pay bookoo bucks. i hope i still have my 45! lol i love stevie haunting voice in this!

  • my names miranda and i was named after this song

  • one of big johns finest and stevie nicks vocals amazing i had a chance to meet him such a wonderful man, he's so missed R.I.P.

  • Loved this song back in high school in the late 70's. Haven't heard it since then until now. Great song and album. Thank

    You, John! R.I.P.

  • Thank you for posting this--I always loved this song and it was because of this song I named my daughter Miranda!

  • moonsister, I have always loved this song, too. ;-)

  • It was on Youtube a couple months ago, then removed. Thanks so much for putting it back on. One of my absolute all time favourites....

  • Thanks for the post! I have been checking for this song.... it was on, but removed... this song is absolutely haunting in a very soulful way. Diehard Stevie fan. Souls that cry in the midnight wind... WOW!

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