Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 11: April to May 1970

Sadly, this is the eleventh and final volume of my compilation of "Playboy After Dark" T.V. show episodes. There's a lot of excellent music here, but the show got cancelled after just two seasons.

This last volume mostly consists of performers from earlier episodes coming back. Perhaps Playboy head Hugh Hefner already known the show was going to be cancelled so he wanted to have a last hurrah with some of his favorite acts. I think Spanky Wilson and Sue Raney are the only ones who weren't repeat guests. The Cowsills performed another time, but lip-synced their performance then, so I didn't include that. But they played live here.

The first act here, Bill Medley, was half of the Righteous Brothers duo. He didn't have much success with his solo career in this era, but in 1987 he would have a Number One hit in the U.S. with "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" in a duet with Jennifer Warnes.

Like most of the volumes for the second season, there are some songs with "[Edit]" in their titles. As I explained in previous volumes, that's mostly from talking over the music during the last songs of each episode, especially thanks to a voice-over advertisement for the airline company T.W.A. 

There are a number of songs here that weren't put on record, similar to earlier volumes. That's especially true for the duets and other collaborations. For instance, I couldn't find any evidence of Billy Preston performing "It's Your Thing" on any record - a big hit for the Isley Brothers around this time - much less doing it with Joanne Vent, Bill Medley, and Blinky!  

I hope you enjoyed all the volumes in this series. And I hope now that I've done this, the music from this show will be appreciated by a wider audience. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 Hold On, I'm Coming (Bill Medley)
02 You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' (Bill Medley & Sammy Davis, Jr.)
03 Here's That Rainy Day - My Funny Valentine (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
04 For Once in My Life (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
05 It's Your Thing [Edit] (Billy Preston, Joanne Vent, Bill Medley & Blinky)
06 Them Changes [Edit] (Buddy Miles)
07 Dreams (Buddy Miles)
08 Alfie (Spanky Wilson)
09 Bring Me Sunshine (Spanky Wilson)
10 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Lou Rawls)
11 All God's Children Got Soul (Lou Rawls)
12 Where Is Love (Cowsills)
13 Two by Two (Cowsills)
14 Games People Play (Sue Raney)
15 Whoever You Are, I Love You (Sue Raney)
16 Poor Boy [Edit] (Cowsills)
17 A Lot of Livin' to Do (Hal Frazier with Buddy Rich)
18 Workout [Instrumental] (Buddy Rich)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/uvnZesz3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/omCInq9OR6LQQ0h/file

The cover image shows Lou Rawls. It's a screenshot I took from one of the videos of the episodes presented here. 

Various Artists - Playboy After Dark (CBS Television City, Los Angeles, CA), Volume 6: October to November 1969

Here's the sixth volume of the episodes I compiled of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. This also is the first album from the show's second (and final) season. Note the big time jump, between Volume 5 ending in January 1969 and this one starting in October 1969 - that's most of a year.

This show tended to have a lot of repeat guests. Consider the soul group Checkmates, Ltd. This already was their third episode. Many of the other guests on volume made or would make appearances on other volumes as well. I think it was especially common for a musical act to appear on an episode in the show's first season, and then another one in the second season.

There are more incidents of "[Edit]" - four - in this volume than in any previous ones. That's because there was more talking over the music in the second season. One particularly annoying aspect was that each episode of this season ended had a brief spoken advertisement for T.W.A. Airlines over the final song. In most cases, I was able to successfully wipe such talking while keeping the underlying music, thanks to the UVR5 audio editing program.

There's a surprising number of songs performed on this T.V. that were never officially released in any form. Consider the duet between Linda Ronstadt and Billy Eckstine. If you listen to the banter before the song started, it seems Ronstadt was very reluctant to sing it, and had to be coaxed into it. That could be prepared dialogue, but in the case, it seemed like a genuinely spontaneous performance to me. As far as I can tell, this was the one and only time Ronstadt performed that song in public.

The duet between Checkmates, Ltd. and Carla Thomas on "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is similarly unique to this TV show. I also couldn't find any release of "Soul Man" by Bill Medley (who was one half of the Righteous Brothers). Similarly, "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was never released by Sonny & Cher (or by solo Cher, for that matter). It also seems Carla Thomas never released any version of "Abraham, Martin and John." And it's a similar case with the other volumes.

If anyone knows the name of the instrumental performed by Canned Heat, please let me know so I can give it a proper name. 

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

01 Walkin' Down the Line (Linda Ronstadt)
02 Living like a Fool (Linda Ronstadt)
03 Hitchcock Railway [Edit] (Joe Cocker)
04 Something (Joe Cocker)
05 God Bless the Child [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt & Billy Eckstine)
06 Soul Man (Bill Medley)
07 What's Wrong (Sweetwater)
08 For Once in My Life (Bill Medley)
09 Why Oh Why - Hey Jude (Sweetwater)
10 Sweet Caroline (Checkmates, Ltd.)
11 Where Do I Go (Carla Thomas)
12 The Japanese Transistor (Biff Rose)
13 Molly (Biff Rose)
14 Abraham, Martin and John (Carla Thomas)
15 Proud Mary (Checkmates, Ltd.)
16 [Sittin' On] The Dock of the Bay [Edit] (Checkmates, Ltd. & Carla Thomas)
17 For Once in My Life [Edit] (Sonny & Cher)
18 Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Sonny & Cher)
19 Future Blues (Canned Heat)
20 My Time Ain't Long (Canned Heat)
21 Instrumental (Canned Heat)
22 Take Me for a Little While (Sonny & Cher)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aKqnxAQ1

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/6VNID5vPpmlP32t/file

For this series, it was hard for me to pick the cover art, because I could take screenshots of any of the musical acts, and there are always a few good ones to choose from. I didn't choose Linda Ronstadt because she gets a cover later in this series. A key reason I decided on a picture of Cher is because the screenshot I took shows comedian Bill Cosby playing bass in the background. (One can see some of his faced, with sunglasses and cigar, and a little bit of his hands on an upright bass.) 

At the time, Cosby was a widely beloved star. But nowadays, he has been revealed to be a serial rapist. So his appearance on this show can be seen in a whole new light. And he didn't appear just on this episode, he appeared on a LOT of them. I'd guess about a dozen, probably more than any other famous guest. A lot of the time, as in the episode shown on the cover here, he wasn't doing a stand-up routine, but instead was just kind of lurking around. In hindsight, it's super creepy to imagine what Crosby might have been doing behind the scenes with all the beautiful women there. It's symbolic of how the whole carefully constructed image of Playboy has also been torn down, now that we know more. Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that.