LINDA RONSTADT on Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy After Dark' (Apr 16, 1970) Evensong!?

 

Again from 'Colouring The Past' on Facebook comes this of a barefoot Linda Ronstadt singing Dylan’s Walking Down The Line at Playboy After Dark . . . . . .check out the band too!

 

Colouring The Past says:

NOTE: I've upscaled and improved the color of this clip of Linda perfroming Bob Dylan's WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE. The song was first recorded by Dylan in November 1962 for Broadside magazine. The lyrics recount the troubles of a hobo walking down the railroad tracks. 

From 1969-70, Hugh Hefner hosted a TV show called Playboy After Dark, which basically furnished a penthouse apartment with attractive young people while Hef hung out with various cultural luminaries, shooting the breeze with Sonny & Cher or James Brown. 

On one episode, a shy-looking 23-year-old Linda Ronstadt sang Bob Dylan’s “Walkin’ Down the Line,” and it’s a knockout performance — if you can stop yourself from rolling your eyes at Hef’s burgundy velvet tux and his pipe-smoking, anyway. 

Ronstadt could switch from a church-choir purity to a full-throated growl so easily, it’s breathtaking — especially when you hear how nervous she sounds chatting to Hefner afterward.