Gregg Allman & Cher - Midnight Rider Live

Wearing sexy, bare midriff outfits, Cher duets with Gregg Allman on "Don't Mess Up A Good Thing" followed by "Midnight Rider" (3:44) on Cher Season One. The May 11, 1975 show was at the beginning of their friendship which led to a short-lived marriage. Cher TV Series variety show premiered on February 16 1975 from Television City in Hollywood, CA. Originally recorded by The Allman Brothers Band, Midnight Rider became a Billboard Top 20 single for Gregg Allman. Don't Mess Up A Good Thing was a 1965 Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure single, then later covered by Gregg Allman. Both songs are from Gregg Allman's 1973 solo album Laid Back. Gregg Allman's newest album is Southern Blood, released in January 2017. Gregg is mourning the death of Butch Trucks. The Allman Brothers Band drummer recently committed suicide by gunfire on January 24, 2017. --- Update May 27, 2017: Gregg Allman died of liver cancer Saturday at 69. A statement posted on his official website said Allman, who had a successful liver transplant in 2010 and had canceled concerts in recent years as he battled a variety of health issues, “passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Ga. -- Update July, 2019: Deluxe, expanded edition of 1973 solo album Laid Back set for release on August 30th. The first step in shoring up Allman’s legacy, two years after his death of complications from liver cancer, is a deluxe, expanded edition of Laid Back, the solo record he released in 1973. Awash in choirs, strings, and horns, its moody songs touching on gospel and folk, Laid Back was released mere months after the Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters, which introduced the band to a massive new audience by way of its Top 40 hit “Ramblin’ Man.”