Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 9: February to March 1970

Here's another volume of music I compiled from episodes of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. By this point, we're well into the second and final season of the show.

This volume starts with a medley of songs by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. It's a particularly interesting performance because it had stripped down instrumentation, with minimal drums. 

I especially psyched that this includes two songs by Evie Sands. I still am mystified that she never became a big star. She had a great voice and was ridiculously beautiful (just look at the cover image). She even played an impressive guitar solo on her appearance on the "Johnny Cash Show" around this time. But she was signed to a crappy record company in the 1960s, and repeatedly had hit singles stolen from her by other acts who would hear her songs, quickly record their own versions, and get proper promotion. I posted a "best of" a few years ago to help draw more attention to her underappreciated career, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/11/evie-sands-best-of-evie-sands-1965-1974.html

There's almost no live recordings of her from this era, other than this one and the "Johnny Cash Show" appearance I mentioned above. It's especially nice to see her play a cover of "Light My Fire" here, because she never released any version of that one.

The Grass Roots performed on this show a year earlier. Unfortunately, that performance was lip-synced. But they played live for some reason on this, their second appearance. I believe they never released a version of the Motown classic "Dancing in the Street."

If anyone knows the name of the instrumental performed by Les Mann, please let me know so I can fix the title. 

It's nice this ends with a performance by jazz legend Sarah Vaughan. I'm pretty sure she never recorded "Didn't We," a song by Jimmy Webb, but only played it in concert around this time period. Similarly, R.B. Greaves, who is best known for his hit "Take a Letter Maria," never released "Danny Boy" on record.

Note that three songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. Those are more cases of talking over the music, especially advertisements for the airline company T.W.A. on the last song of each episode. I got rid of that in the usual way, with the help of the MVSEP program. 

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

01 Yesterlove (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
02 My Girl Has Gone (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
03 The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage - Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
04 In My Time (Noel Harrison)
05 But You Know I Love You (Evie Sands)
06 Light My Fire [Edit] (Evie Sands)
07 Shame and Scandal in the Family (Lloyd Haynes)
08 She Believes in Me (John Stewart)
09 Shackles and Chains (John Stewart)
10 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Johnny Mathis)
11 Aquarius - Let the Sunshine In (Johnny Mathis)
12 The Lady and the Outlaw [Edit] (John Stewart)
13 Instrumental (Les Mann)
14 Compared to What (Les Mann)
15 Walkin' through the Country (Grass Roots)
16 Dancing in the Street (Grass Roots)
17 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (R. B. Greaves)
18 Danny Boy (R. B. Greaves)
19 Didn't We [Edit] (Sarah Vaughan)
20 There Will Never Be Another You (Sarah Vaughan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/38b4Z6iH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/ZHYbQSmqV5X0PS5/file

The cover is a screenshot of Evie Sands I took from a video of one of these episodes.