Excellent show starts off with Jackie DeShannon lip syncing a couple of songs from her newly released album Laurel Canyon. Live or syncing, Jackie was great and unbelievably she is backed up by a young, nerdy Barry White on vocals. Marty Engels does a comedy routine, Jim Brown pontificates quite eloquently on race relations, movies and projects for the ghetto while Bill Cosby wanders through the entire program wearing a bathrobe. Taj Mahal steals the show with a truly live set. The legendary Jessie Ed Davis backs him on lead guitar. Taj and the band play out an instrumental over the closing credits.
—TC