Harry Nilsson - Playboy After Dark

[saintcruzin]

Otto Preminger asked Graucho Marx to play God in the LSD movie Skidoo. Graucho said he heard the kids were doing it and would like to try it..so Nilsson,Otto went to Beverly Hills and dropped acid with Graucho! Fact can be stranger than fiction...Bizarre!!!

[TheShockBlockNews]

Having met Hugh Hefner with great conversation and being a Harry Nilsson fanatic, this video is a gold mine to me, thanks for posting!

[tsoc72]

Total fuck you ....

[tsoc72]

Total kuck you ....

[GoblinGirl]

Skidoo isn't that bad of a film, and Nillson's song for the credits is the best part of the film.

[falconhead67]

this is so cool, didn't know nilsson could be so suave

[DoctaDualist]

he's so adorable here. probably still an LSD virgin. If you think this is "real partying" as the trout mask replica below me says it is, then the Pusscats album must've been GENOCIDE!

[troutmask1970]

nice threads Harry. Kids, this is what real partying was about.

[juanunderground]

Harry Nilson is a legend who contributed to break some rules between an orchestrated clean pop idol and the counteculture poet hippy because he really caught the idea that really was shocked the conventional pop music.Together is a beautiful song . The only sad thing for me is that Harry died when he could come back and make interesting things.

[emwprops]

~ OMG. Otto Preminger. Blue Nehru jumpsuit―with beads. Solid.

[spotcase]

Thanks for posting this. Love finding things about Harry.

[jdonahue62]

I'm about 99% sure Harry was kidding about the God thing--it seems like the sly sort of thing he'd do.

[bathetcnow]

@jdonahue62 not at all

[jdonahue62]

@bathetcnow From The Harry Nilsson Web Pages:

"After I wrote the song," he told Goldmine, "somebody asked me what it was about and I said, 'I don't know.' Then I realized what the initials were." Viewers of the television show "Playboy After Dark" witnessed Nilsson tell Hugh Hefner, with a straight face, that the song's meaning was in its initials ... "God." Nilsson admitted to Goldmine, "I bullshitted him. I thought it was funny. Nobody else thought it was funny!"

[beckiiii626]

G.ood O.ld D.esk was really his song about 'god' if I understood the documentary right.

[Aristocob]

@beckiiii626 You don't even have to go that far out of your way to lean that little fact.  Harry mentions it at 3:20

[MsCatM]

Harry is the best. Do buy or rent the DVD "Who is Harry Nilsson...?" It is beautifully done and I know I'm going to watch it again and again.

[sgtpepper1138]

@MsCatM I HONESTLY didn't KNOW that much about Harry, I knew a few of his songs (all of which I loved) and watched the doc on NETFLIX STREAMING, and really enjoyed it. Such a loss, it's really sad that he had such a (said many times in the movie) destructive personality.

it's funny, he looks like a blonde Paul McCartney here.

[danversdon]

jeezus ...now i have to see this awfull film

[InjaRed]

He was a bit of a introvert and never sought out publicity. He just made his music and if you were lucky enough, you could run across it

[MsBkirk]

Thanks to Mojo magazine for pointing me to this link! Does anyone else think Otto Preminger here could be the prototype for Mike Myers as Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films?

[MsCatM]

@MsBkirk - Exactly my thoughts when I first saw this clip. I think Mike Myers captured the flavour of that era very well. People dressed like that back then! (Well, a few of them.)

[arfshesaid1]

Very good find, wish i could have partied with Nilsson (and, to a lesser extent, Hef)

[Hedgeweed]

This is fantastic! Skidoo is a great album as well (haven't seen the film).

[novostendhal]

Super!Otto looks so cool;-)Merci

[multineedia]

this is an amazing find. thanks for uploading.

[apeshitdig]

Hef looks so damn young! Was this on t.v.?

Nilsson and Lennon are the two best ever.

Best Vocals, Best music and both we're funny.

[sexymama1966]

oh yes! late 60s- early 1970

[sexymama1966]

@apeshitdig yes..playboy after dark ran in syndication from january 1969- summer 1970.

[apeshitdig]

@sexymama1966 Interviews and public performances are so rare for Nilsson. This is real treat to see.

[sexymama1966]

@apeshitdig yes it was:)

[jkoff76]

My favorite artist!!

[bdicat]

Bravo.

[hifithepanda]

What a treat for Skidoo fans as well as Nilsson/Preminger/Hefner fans! Thanks for uploading... I'm shocked it's been here for a year and this is the first time I've seen it.

[nicolasonnn]

vive la france!