Man, I'd love to hold a chill party like this, with all my other sophisticated nighthawk buddies. Have you heard the new Hi-Fi's with quadraphonic sound? ...
Nighthawks? Yeah I could dig it. I used to watch those old black and white tv land shows when I was 7-12. If someone took me, gave me a suit, told me to how do some professional work, and in a few years, I'd be hanging out with these guys having a drink. Everything all nice and professional. I mean when people party today it's like we're all apes compared to these guys. I can appreciate that too, but it has a nostalgia sort of charm, which is odd since I grew up in the 80s, but, I'd like to buy the guy who invented a way to make reality black and white.
if you walked into a pub on a friday night in 1959 youd see the same drunk apes youre complaining about right now. youre acting as if this television show represents how the entire population back then partied, and as if mtv represents the entire party culzure today. thats just ignorant, maybe youre going to the wrong partys.
That's what brought me here. I wasn't even born when this show was on. I think I figured out what the song was from hearing the melody on a pinball machine years later.
Looking back, it is hard to believe that Hef -- only six years after starting the magazine and only 33 years old -- could have handled the pressure of "live" TV with such skill. It is obvious to anyone watching that Hef was genuinely likeable. A great all around guy. And, he still had another 58 years to go!
Thanks American dad! Great episode and great music! it made me find this! And it made me think of Hugh Hefner again! Hadn't thought about him in years and that is sad. A very interesting person..what a life
Do you know who Chris Jericho is He's basically the wrestling version of this check him out and if you like some rock music check his fozzy band he's cool
I wouldn't say he was just about sophistication. I think his aim was to enlight people by employing some sort of 'higher standards', bringing culture, even to the sphere which was, at the time, understood as vulgar or taboo. Anyways, his effort has been wasted.
@@jeremijakrstic1968 Well maybe if he had kept wearing nice suits like the one he has on here, instead of switching to a bathrobe, things might've been different... 😉
Hefner didn't bring the sophistication to the era; it was already extent in 50's society. His show just reflected the times which were obviously more elegant and refined than the slothfulness of amerika today. No tats on women; no silicon boobies. A better time in every way.
@@MrJpartridge What do you expect him to do IN 1958? Set up rails of coke on the bar and get the women naked lickety-split (take that as you want it) to the grotto pronto whilst Cy Coleman plays "I'm in the Mood for Love" in 5/4 - without pants?
I knew the penthouse scene from " The marvelous Mrs maisel" looked familiar! 😅 I immediately had to look this up to show my husband and prove I wasn't making it up 😂
I use to watch this as a kid when i was 14 or 15 years old. Pretty risque then with all those beautiful ladies walking around. I remember one with singer fran jeffries i cant find. Great jazz on this show and others with very contemporary comedians, singers and musicians. Great posting!
This is great. 14 years after WW2 Hugh Hefner has his own provocative TV show that 99.9% of men watch openly and 99.9% of women watch secretly. This was great!!!
I think this was the first time "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet To Come" was ever played for an audience. Right here for Hef and the Playboy Penthouse show. Frank didn't even get to perform them for the first time live with audience even though it they became his signature tunes!
@ Richard, 1956ish Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. Today a nice one could fetch a million/four at auction, and I saw an article in Autoweek about a "barn find" all original one that hadn't been touched in 30 years and it went for 1.8, and that's million with an "M."
I wish I could find an entire nation that was like the US in 1959 (in the most positive ways). Australia and NZ were like that in the 1980's, and I traveled there whenever workloads allowed---But that scene has deteriorated, too. Now, ...... the idea of "class" has largely disappeared. Look at the life forms that waddle into your local Walmart Supercenter, and you will get my point.......
London in the late 1950s early 1960s was very classy and sophisticated too. I think it would have been really cool to divide your time between the US and London in the late 1950s early 1960s. I think thats where the idea for James Bond was born at this time. That cool era has almost completely disappeared in Both US and London, England.
This is history. Shame on all you who comment negativity about this man. An innovator of the time, imagine not even being able to blow your nose on television until this man came and changed everything. He did so much for women in the feminism movement that none of you know about. I suggest you educate yourselves. Hugh's movement of social freedom and openess ran hand in hand with the feminist movement. He advocated heavily for gay and black rights. Look into it and you will see. Don't even get me started how he changed the whole course of architecture with his features such as playboy penthouse. Read the early magazines 1950s-1970s and you will see it was so much more than photos of beautiful ladies. No one on this earth is a perfect person but he sure did a lot for society and women and I respect that. Rest in peace HMH.
What a dull personality. What a monster many people didn’t see. Wolf in wolfs clothing. I think he showed himself somewhat not totally in public. The poor girls saw it all.
RIP Hef....do you have wings on the back of your pajamas? Is there a smoking section up where you are now?.............or is it hot down there? Oh well, you've had a blast and I and billions of other men have envied your lifestyle ( not in a hateful way). I began reading Playboy (yes, I actually read your mag since the late 50s including your insufferably tedious "Playboy Philosophy". I liked your interviews though I wondered if you actually did the interviewing and/or came up with thoughtful questions. I bought my first Playboy mag in 1960 when I was a mere lad of 13. The clerk at the counter gave the fish eye and asked me those questions...but I got over the embarrassment of the moment and became a regular patron. By 1967 I no longer read your mag on a regular basis. The real world was more interesting. I enjoyed the cartoons (Sokol, Jules Feiffer, Gahan Wilson, Chas Addams being my favorites). I followed "Little Orphan Fannie" not for the dopey juvenile story but for the cartoon art by Kurtz and Elder And, oh, also for the tits and ass pictorials. I stopped reading your mag altogether when the women stopped looking like the "girls next door" type (the mid-1970s) and more like high-class callgirls with silicon boobs and cantilevered asses. Anyway, Hef,...R.I.P. But.... My guess is that you'll haunt your Playboy Mansion forever re-living your glory days cavorting with your bunnies. Stay out of the grotto. It's crawling with STDs.
Hey guys, anyone get a bad feeling from that last part... the song i mean toward the end? Even aside from Nighthawks Hideaway lol. The feeling and lyrics have an ominous double meaning. Think of the song in context of the playboy mansion, and all the attractive women at the party. The enchanting sights and hypnotic music... then think of real life/nighthawks hideaway lol.
I have to find that theme song somewhere. It's Mad Men era cool - even smut (by prudish standards) had class in those days. Bring back the 1950s, but leave out the sexism, racism and homophobia.
Welcome Nighthawks we've been...Expecting you.
You heard the new hifis?
They’re really the best for listening to jazz.
Do you think the country is become more.....feminized?
Undoubtedly
Grab a drink and listen to the jazz
Man, I'd love to hold a chill party like this, with all my other sophisticated nighthawk buddies.
Have you heard the new Hi-Fi's with quadraphonic sound?
...
They're really the best for listening to jazz.........
American Dad parodied the hell out of this.
I honestly don't think they could have done a better job. I am so impressed with Chris Pine now.
I was born in the wrong decade.
Look closely, ITS ME TUTTLE!
Came here to say the Same thing! 😁😁
Welcome nighthawks we’ve been expecting you
I watched the American dad parody baked and wondered if this was was a real thing 🤣🤣 not disappointed
nighthawks hideaway has completely shifted the mood of this to me XD
It really has. There’s an underlying feeling of unease to this whole thing…
@@westminsterabbey.6916 😂
@@westminsterabbey.6916 kinda prefer it
Its a forced party.
No wonder the episode is called "Rabbit Ears". Playboy. Get it? Blew my mind.
OH MY GOSH
And tv antennas were called rabbit ears.
I’m Alistair Covax,
your host for a sophisticated little soirée with jazz, stimulating conversation, beautiful ladies…and more jazz
*Plays those notes.*
This late night program made you feel like an adult, not like today when it's a juvenile frat party. We could use something like it now.
Man!! Even as a kid, I'd sneak and watch it late at night 🌃 ....man...so damn cool!
Nighthawks? Yeah I could dig it. I used to watch those old black and white tv land shows when I was 7-12. If someone took me, gave me a suit, told me to how do some professional work, and in a few years, I'd be hanging out with these guys having a drink. Everything all nice and professional. I mean when people party today it's like we're all apes compared to these guys. I can appreciate that too, but it has a nostalgia sort of charm, which is odd since I grew up in the 80s, but, I'd like to buy the guy who invented a way to make reality black and white.
if you walked into a pub on a friday night in 1959 youd see the same drunk apes youre complaining about right now. youre acting as if this television show represents how the entire population back then partied, and as if mtv represents the entire party culzure today. thats just ignorant, maybe youre going to the wrong partys.
Beautiful theme song, loved it even when I was a little kid
That's what brought me here. I wasn't even born when this show was on. I think I figured out what the song was from hearing the melody on a pinball machine years later.
the Odd Couple
Cy Coleman
Oh man, American Dad was spot on
Looking back, it is hard to believe that Hef -- only six years after starting the magazine and only 33 years old -- could have handled the pressure of "live" TV with such skill. It is obvious to anyone watching that Hef was genuinely likeable. A great all around guy. And, he still had another 58 years to go!
I wouldn’t describe him as being a good guy more morally questionable if anything
He was a pimp. This played into his skill set.
Thanks American dad! Great episode and great music! it made me find this! And it made me think of Hugh Hefner again! Hadn't thought about him in years and that is sad. A very interesting person..what a life
Do you know who Chris Jericho is He's basically the wrestling version of this check him out and if you like some rock music check his fozzy band he's cool
That's my favorite episode.
Hefner tried to bring sophistication to an era and was fought every step. We have still not made it.
Michael Tarnpoll I agree!
Yes!
I wouldn't say he was just about sophistication. I think his aim was to enlight people by employing some sort of 'higher standards', bringing culture, even to the sphere which was, at the time, understood as vulgar or taboo.
Anyways, his effort has been wasted.
@@jeremijakrstic1968 Well maybe if he had kept wearing nice suits like the one he has on here, instead of switching to a bathrobe, things might've been different... 😉
Hefner didn't bring the sophistication to the era; it was already extent in 50's society. His show just reflected the times which were obviously more elegant and refined than the slothfulness of amerika today. No tats on women; no silicon boobies. A better time in every way.
Cy Coleman is amazing on that piano. RIP sir
R.I.P Hugh as well.
I had to find out what real-life show that American Dad episode was parodying because I also saw it parodied in Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Welcome, nighthawks. We've been expecting you.
this is so cool very classy. what a top notch show I never knew this existed. thank you for posting this I really enjoyed it.
Now this is what you call a class party... we've lost something between then and now...
hefner is as stiff as a board and the so called sophistication is stuffy and stilted but the music was great although the "party" seems boring as hell
It had class and great interaction between adults. The discussions were witty and you are right, nowadays, television has lost something.
@@MrJpartridge What do you expect him to do IN 1958? Set up rails of coke on the bar and get the women naked lickety-split (take that as you want it) to the grotto pronto whilst Cy Coleman plays "I'm in the Mood for Love" in 5/4 - without pants?
@@musicom67 LOL!!!
@@musicom67 But of course that all changed in 1960 when the Twist became all the rage, and all inhibitions went out the window.
I came here because of American dad
Good jazz btw
Hells yeah.
I knew the penthouse scene from " The marvelous Mrs maisel" looked familiar! 😅 I immediately had to look this up to show my husband and prove I wasn't making it up 😂
I use to watch this as a kid when i was 14 or 15 years old. Pretty risque then with all those beautiful ladies walking around. I remember one with singer fran jeffries i cant find. Great jazz on this show and others with very contemporary comedians, singers and musicians. Great posting!
This jazz is so GOOD
This is great. 14 years after WW2 Hugh Hefner has his own provocative TV show that 99.9% of men watch openly and 99.9% of women watch secretly. This was great!!!
Hefner was a visionary genius way ahead of his time. ✨🌟🌜🌞🌛🌟✨
The 1950s. Despite its obvious problems, it was still one of the world’s best decades of the 20th century.
Wow super classy😋
I would watch this show I was in high school.. I loved the opening of the show
Man. I miss these types of reality tv shows.
Reality in the Penthouse, YES.
That car could have a value of $1.5 million today. Everything he touched turned to gold.
He was a super cool host. This was on the ABC network.
Hefner brought us some very cool television when TV was a hot new medium.
he was a great innovator
Wow !!! Cy Coleman Lenny Bruce. Great video
Alle sind elegant, eine tolle Zeit mit toller Musik .
respect to this OLD tv good show
I think this was the first time "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet To Come" was ever played for an audience. Right here for Hef and the Playboy Penthouse show. Frank didn't even get to perform them for the first time live with audience even though it they became his signature tunes!
Lenny Bruce! Serving drinks?? Amazing.
what a class song, what a class show
Julia, This is super-cool.....! Thank you so much for uploading this......What a gem!
I kept waiting for Don Draper to drop by. I guess he must've got stuck in traffic. 🥃🚬
@ Richard, 1956ish Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. Today a nice one could fetch a million/four at auction, and I saw an article in Autoweek about a "barn find" all original one that hadn't been touched in 30 years and it went for 1.8, and that's million with an "M."
Damn, now that's a car...
American Dad?
7:20 PM
6/9/2019
Desktop
American Dad.
12:09 AM
7/2/20
Where's Tuttle???
That's some style right there.
I wish I could find an entire nation that was like the US in 1959 (in the most positive ways). Australia and NZ were like that in the 1980's, and I traveled there whenever workloads allowed---But that scene has deteriorated, too. Now, ...... the idea of "class" has largely disappeared. Look at the life forms that waddle into your local Walmart Supercenter, and you will get my point.......
London in the late 1950s early 1960s was very classy and sophisticated too. I think it would have been really cool to divide your time between the US and London in the late 1950s early 1960s. I think thats where the idea for James Bond was born at this time. That cool era has almost completely disappeared in Both US and London, England.
I love how you worded that last part.
2020 seems so far from this comment...and far from 1959. lol This year has been an abortion.
This is amazing
One of most innovative television shows ever made.
Ohhh so this is Alister Covax lol
Hugh Hefner.
Simply gorgeous!
Welcome Nighthawks we’ve been expecting you.
One of my prized CDs is a PLAYBOY Jazz CD from ten years ago. It's better to listen to when you're spend the night with someone you love.
Charlie, play some of those notes you know I like.
here before everyone else :(, rip
Please I need a martini with a pack of Kent right now¡¡Thanks a lot¡¡
American Dad referenced this.
Welcome nighthawks
We've been expecting you.
Welcome back nighthawks, we’ve been expecting you
Top 5 non-union jazz stuff
This is history. Shame on all you who comment negativity about this man. An innovator of the time, imagine not even being able to blow your nose on television until this man came and changed everything. He did so much for women in the feminism movement that none of you know about. I suggest you educate yourselves. Hugh's movement of social freedom and openess ran hand in hand with the feminist movement. He advocated heavily for gay and black rights. Look into it and you will see. Don't even get me started how he changed the whole course of architecture with his features such as playboy penthouse. Read the early magazines 1950s-1970s and you will see it was so much more than photos of beautiful ladies. No one on this earth is a perfect person but he sure did a lot for society and women and I respect that. Rest in peace HMH.
So Hugh, what goes on after the taping?
We're clear to commercial.
Such class.
I came from American dad
Play those notes you know i like
Have you heard the new hi-fi's with the quadraphonic sound? They're really the best for listening to jazzzzzz.
The woman in the 50's and 60's were something else. Much sexier than today.
Anyone here from american dad
Who isn't?
In 1959 Hef’s girlfriend Barbi Benton was 9 years old and
Hef’s current wife wouldn’t be born until 28 years later.
He is dead now.
@@Maw0 ...Really?
@@Powertuber1000 Hugh? Yeah he died in '17.
@@Maw0 I was being sarcastic.
@@Powertuber1000 In my defense, it's kinda hard to tell sarcasm in a comment.
Am I the only one know notices that Lenny Bruce has had a few already.
That's pretty obvious.
The one thing Hef did that was of value was to feature great jazz singers and musicians on these shows.
😯 it's real 🤯
I need answers... TV answers!
How would you describe this jazz? I would assume it'd be cool jazz, the kind on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool. Maybe smooth jazz? Modal?
I wonder where Penthouse magazine got it's name from? Divine inspiration?
Cy was cute, Rest In Paradise Mr. Coleman
2:20 i thought he's gonna eat the guy up cuz he messed up his show!!
Is the whole series here on youtube?
Cheers, Hef. You had a good life. :-)
RIP Hef
What a dull personality. What a monster many people didn’t see. Wolf in wolfs clothing. I think he showed himself somewhat not totally in public. The poor girls saw it all.
Most of the people here are in their 20-30’s.
RIP, Mr. Playboy
Seems sophisticated for something that printed smut
Rip Hef 💛🔱🔝
RIP, Heff.
Loved.the.hi-fi.built.in.the.wall
Finally. My life in film version. Made it ma, top of the world.
R.I.P HEF.
99.99% of comments are related to American dad.
Just nod, and click along, you dig?
Hi do you have the Playboy Penthouse with Buddy Greco by any chance ?
That's life¡¡
RIP Hef....do you have wings on the back of your pajamas? Is there a smoking section up where you are now?.............or is it hot down there? Oh well, you've had a blast and I and billions of other men have envied your lifestyle ( not in a hateful way). I began reading Playboy (yes, I actually read your mag since the late 50s including your insufferably tedious "Playboy Philosophy". I liked your interviews though I wondered if you actually did the interviewing and/or came up with thoughtful questions. I bought my first Playboy mag in 1960 when I was a mere lad of 13. The clerk at the counter gave the fish eye and asked me those questions...but I got over the embarrassment of the moment and became a regular patron. By 1967 I no longer read your mag on a regular basis. The real world was more interesting. I enjoyed the cartoons (Sokol, Jules Feiffer, Gahan Wilson, Chas Addams being my favorites). I followed "Little Orphan Fannie" not for the dopey juvenile story but for the cartoon art by Kurtz and Elder And, oh, also for the tits and ass pictorials. I stopped reading your mag altogether when the women stopped looking like the "girls next door" type (the mid-1970s) and more like high-class callgirls with silicon boobs and cantilevered asses. Anyway, Hef,...R.I.P. But....
My guess is that you'll haunt your Playboy Mansion forever re-living your glory days cavorting with your bunnies. Stay out of the grotto. It's crawling with STDs.
R.I.P. Hef!
Grandma was 21 when this was filmed
My grandmom was 26
Hey guys, anyone get a bad feeling from that last part... the song i mean toward the end? Even aside from Nighthawks Hideaway lol. The feeling and lyrics have an ominous double meaning. Think of the song in context of the playboy mansion, and all the attractive women at the party. The enchanting sights and hypnotic music... then think of real life/nighthawks hideaway lol.
I have to find that theme song somewhere. It's Mad Men era cool - even smut (by prudish standards) had class in those days. Bring back the 1950s, but leave out the sexism, racism and homophobia.
Bring back the sexism and homophobia, but leave out the racism. No-one likes racism, but a good case can be made for sexism lmfao.
Omg Gordon ... What are you doing ???
The car in the first minute, is that a early model corvette?
I believe it to be Hefner's Sport Edsel.
Mercedes Benz 300 SL
Benz 300
The theme to The Odd Couple was a takeoff from the Playboy theme here
hefner is a fucking baller
You mean "ALL THAT CLASS AND NO COLOR". :D
CY was a definite HOTTIE!!!
In both ways