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 10: April 1970

Here's another volume of music I compiled from episodes of the "Playboy After Dark" TV show. This is the tenth. There's only one more after this.

There's a lot of variety on this album, with country, soul, jazz, and rock. Some highlights are B.B. King, Billy Preston, and Linda Ronstadt making her second appearance. 

A couple of songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. This is due to the usual problem with this series, of people talking over the music. (Especially the T.W.A. advertisements I keep mentioning.) So I fixed those in the usual way, with the help of the MVSEP program. 

By the way, Barbara McNair is a rare case of one of the performers for this show who also posed naked for Playboy Magazine. But it's not like she had to do that in order to get on the show. She'd had an established career starting in the late 1950s, as a singer and an actress for plays, T.V., and movies. She was signed to Motown Records from around 1966 to 1969. She even had her own T.V. show from 1969 to 1971, called "The Barbara McNair Show." 

Her career would take a hit in 1972, however, when she was arrested for heroin possession, because she signed for a package sent to her house containing heroin. However, charges against her were later dropped, and her husband was charged instead. It seems like her husband was a seriously bad dude. He was murdered in 1976. It was alleged he was involved in the Mafia, and was killed at the same time he was trying to put a hit out on someone else.

You can read her Wikipedia entry here:

Barbara McNair - Wikipedia 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 Nobody Knows (Dillards)
02 Hey Boys (Dillards)
03 My Shining Hour (Carmen McRae)
04 I Love You More than You'll Ever Know (Carmen McRae)
05 Bending the Strings [Instrumental] [Edit] (Dillards)
06 Stand by Your Man (Lola Falana)
07 It Takes a Little Longer (Sonny Charles)
08 Friendship Train (Sonny Charles)
09 Walk a Mile in My Shoes [Edit] (Sonny Charles & Lola Falana)
10 Until It's Time for You to Go (Barbara McNair)
11 Son of a Preacher Man (Barbara McNair)
12 So Excited (B. B. King)
13 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King)
14 Lovesick Blues (Linda Ronstadt)
15 Long, Long Time (Linda Ronstadt)
16 Sing, Sing, Sing (Country Joe & the Fish)
17 The 'Fish' Cheer - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag (Country Joe & the Fish)
18 Everything's All Right (Billy Preston)
19 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
20 God Bless the Child (Blinky)
21 Let's Get Together (Joanne Vent & Muscatel)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UK1WoH6B

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Ox0RbnXqeJIZP7N/file

The cover image of Linda Ronstadt is a screenshot I took from a video of one of these episodes. 

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.