Ravenwood - 06/30/04 07:30 AM
I fixed the William Shatner link on this post. So sorry for the HTML flub. If you've never heard this, you really should.
I first heard it in college, and I've had trouble sleeping ever since. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat and scream "Mr. Tambourine Man!"
This is truly disturbing. Shatner also did a version of Elton John's "Rocketman" in the late 1970s. He is wearing a velvet tux, smoking a cigarette, and trying to look meaningful. He sings it much lie "Tambourine Man." Scary.
Now for the ultimate mind-bending, never recover your sanity, video check out Leonard Nimoy singing the "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" at
http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html
OH MY GOD!
Posted by: Ravenwood at June 30, 2004 9:56 AMMy officemates and I have been trying to one up each other with practical jokes for a while now. The last time I went on vacation, I locked my office door, and put the Bilbo Baggins song on a loop on my PC at full volume.
It only took about an hour before the GM snapped and turned off power to my entire side of the office to get it to stop.
Posted by: Jeffro at June 30, 2004 4:43 PMIt's easy for us younguns to overlook, but Leonard Nimoy released a number of folk albums in the 1960s and 1970s, and Shat did his share.
I have three cassettes in the Golden Throats series (which depict celebrities who butcher standards) which include Nimoy doing "Proud Mary" and Shatner doing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
Which, oddly enough, is strangely appealing when recited in full frontal Kirk mode.
Posted by: Brian J. at June 30, 2004 9:54 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
