Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 7: November to December 1969

Here's the seventh volume of the episodes I compiled of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. It's the second volume of the show's second season.

In this volume, one again we see the split between Hugh Hefner including acts from the easy listening pop style of music he preferred, such as Tony Bennett and Mitch Miller, and rock and soul music he allowed on the show "for the kids." (As I mentioned in a previous write-up in this series, he usually would explicitly say some acts were "for the kids" when introducing them, as if adults weren't going to like them.) 

This volume has an unusual number of collaborations, none of which have been officially released in any form: Tony Bennett with Mitch Miller, Tony Bennett and Joe Williams (twice),  Tony Bennett with Moe Kaufman, Lou Rawls and the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, and Ike & Tina Turner with Doug Kershaw. Plus, there was a version of "Flip, Flop and Fly" featuring everyone in that episode. I mentioned a few of the participants in the song title, including Steve Allen, the comedian, who sang one of the verses. But there were others too that I didn't mention, or the title would have been too long. Even Hugh Hefner, the head of Playboy, sang a verse!

This episode also continued the second season trend of having unwanted talking over the music sometimes, especially voice-over advertisements for T.W.A. Airlines on the last song of each episode. So that's why you'll see "[Edit]" on some songs. 

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 It Don't Mean a Thing [If It Ain't Got That Swing] (Tony Bennett)
02 Blue Velvet (Tony Bennett with Mitch Miller)
03 Watch What Happens (Tony Bennett)
04 Swinging Shepherd Blues [Instrumental] (Moe Koffman)
05 I've Gotta Be Me (Tony Bennett & Joe Williams)
06 The Song Is You (Joe Williams)
07 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Tony Bennett & Joe Williams)
08 I Can't Cry Anymore (Joe Williams)
09 The Shadow of Your Smile (George Kirby)
10 I Left My Heart in San Francisco - I Wanna Be Around (Tony Bennett with Moe Kaufman)
11 Hamba Nami [Instrumental] [Edit] (Cannonball Adderly Quintet)
12 Dead End Street (Lou Rawls)
13 Make the World Go Away (Lou Rawls)
14 The Country Preacher [Edit] (Cannonball Adderly Quintet)
15 My Baby Loves Me (Lou Rawls & the Cannonball Adderly Quintet)
16 I Want to Take You Higher (Ike & Tina Turner)
17 Come Together (Ike & Tina Turner)
18 Proud Mary (Ike & Tina Turner)
19 Honky Tonk Women [Edit] (Ike & Tina Turner with Doug Kershaw)
20 You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' (Blossoms)
21 Me and You (O. C. Smith)
22 The Learning Tree (O. C. Smith)
23 Flip, Flop and Fly (Blossoms, Steve Allen, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Everyone)
24 Goodnight My Love (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BaELQz7n

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/aOyyOnC6ukjmxkl/file

The cover photo shows Ike and Tina Turner, and some of their backing band. That's Tina in the middle of the front, and Ike right behind her. This is a screenshot I took from the video of one of the episodes here.

Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 4: November to December 1968

Here's the fourth volume of the episodes I compiled of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. 

Imagine having James Brown in his musical prime perform for you and a small circle of friends in your living room! As you can see from the cover art for this volume, that's exactly what happened on this T.V. show. Except instead of it being your living room, it was a duplicate of the living room of Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion in Chicago, redone to allow filming in ideal conditions in Los Angeles. But basically all the performances on all the volumes in this series are like that, with a couple dozen of people gathered around the musical act. And, also as you can see from the cover image, there was a suspiciously high number of very beautiful women there. Naturally, a lot of them were Playboy models.

It so happens there's a good number of soul music acts on this volume. If anyone knows the name of the instrumental performed by Buddy Miles, tell me so I can fix the song title.

By the way, Three Dog Night appeared on the show another time, but that performance was lip-synced. But luckily, this one was not. 

It seems Playboy head Hugh Hefner had a lot of say over which musical acts were included. He seems to have had a personal preference from pre-rock and roll crooners. So we got an unusually big spot here for Sammy Davis, Jr., who got to play six songs instead of the usual two or three. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Who Can I Turn To (Marva Whitney)
02 Celebrate (Three Dog Night)
03 Your Love (Marva Whitney)
04 Love Me So Hard (Three Dog Night)
05 If I Ruled the World (James Brown)
06 Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud (James Brown)
07 [Sittin' On] The Dock of the Bay (Checkmates, Ltd.)
08 I Can't Turn You Loose (Checkmates, Ltd.)
09 I Got You Babe (Buddy Miles)
10 Instrumental (Buddy Miles)
11 Tell Me All the Things (Joanie Sommers)
12 I Feel Fine (Joanie Sommers)
13 Just Squeeze Me [But Don't Tease Me] (Lou Rawls)
14 That's You (Lou Rawls)
15 Washington at Valley Forge (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
16 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
17 Alligator Man (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
18 Your Red Wagon (Lou Rawls)
19 I've Gotta Be Me (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
20 The Joker Is Me - I'm Feeling Good - In My Dreams (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
21 What Kind of Fool Am I (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
22 Who Can I Turn To (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
23 Once in My Lifetime (Sammy Davis, Jr. & Anthony Newley)
24 Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NDa7p1Cd

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/RayW1R6CnlrWuAa/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of James Brown from one of the episodes in this volume. 

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - WLIR Ultrasonic Concert Series, Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY, 11-5-1974

Here's a performance by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on the "Ultrasonic" radio show in 1974.

To be honest, I don't know much about this band, nor have I listened to much of their music, but I'm posting this because I'm trying to post all the Ultrasonic concerts I can find. I mostly know them for the fact that they had the hit with the song "Mr. Bojangles." But while that was their biggest pop hit, they've gone through many styles in a very long music career. For instance, they went through a soft rock phase around the end of the 1970s. Then, for most of the 1980s, they had many country hits.

At the time of this concert, they were definitely in country music mode. The had a big success with their 1972 album "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," which featured many famous country guest stars and helped make country music accessible for the "hippie crowd." Their next album was released in 1974, "Stars & Stripes Forever," and contained a minor hit, "The Battle of New Orleans."

As was typical for the radio show, there was a short interview in the middle of the concert. I've moved it to the end, as a bonus track, since it interrupts the flow of the concert (in my opinion). 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is very good, but not excellent. 

This album is an hour and one minute long, not including the bonus track.

01 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
02 The Moon Just Turned Blue (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
03 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
04 Cosmic Cowboy (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
05 Sally Goodin' - The Battle of New Orleans (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
06 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
07 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
08 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
09 Resign Yourself to Me (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
10 Way Downtown (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
11 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
12 Gentle on My Mind (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
13 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
14 Steamboat Whistle Blues (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
15 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
16 My Walking Shoes (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
17 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
18 Rocky Top (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
19 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
20 Old Joe Clark (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
21 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
22 Fish Song (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
23 Lost Highway (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
24 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
25 Dark as a Dungeon (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
26 Promised Land (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
27 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
28 talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

talk (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 

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alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/yeZQ7B7MSzfzW2I/file

The cover photo is from an appearance on the ABC TV show "In Concert" in August 1973.