Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

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I must admit the tune is catchy though. Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins!

Hey. My missus gave me a hundred buck voucher at the record store and here's what I bought (replacing some that was stolen from mine own generous lending hand):

1) Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins! (joke)

1) Frank Zappa -- Hot Rats

2) Black Sabbath -- Paranoid

3) Mogwai -- Happy Music For Happy People

4) Beck -- Mellow Gold

5) Les Claypool -- Of Whales & Woe

Reviews on all relevant to follow. My ipod died last week, and my earphones snapped, and also my ute broke down and my dog ran away. MY missus is anti-music at late nights, when I finish work, so I will try to figure out a way to listen and review.

Mellow Gold is easily the best Beck album though, and Paraoid... hello!

Les sounds interesting.

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It is catchy...too catchy. After 20 or so views it got tattooed to my brain and I considered giving myself EST via the vacuum cleaner cord to get it out of my head. Mind you, I quite like it. The song not the vacuum cleaner.

So you scored a voucher. Sweet. Pity about the pod of eyes and the phone of heads though. I remember when mine gave up the ghost. It was a sad time. Condolences and "Best wishes."

Sound like some good purchases there. My last few purchases from the iTunes store have been.

1. Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson

2. Stranger on the Sofa - Barry Adamson

3. The Negro Inside Me - Barry Adamson

4. Lost Highway Soundtrack.

5. Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins - The special gold ring edition with ears. 

All are magnificent. Reviews will not follow as I am shit at them.

Good luck with the ute and the dog. I lost mine at the muster in a sea of Bundy stickers.

I remember hearing this song a long time ago .. first time I've seen the smash hit film clip with it though. 70s girls are hot!

But really, was this a shot at out doing William Shatners first album? If so then Shatner actually made a pretty damn decent second album in 2005' "Has Been", so really, it's your move now, Leonard.

a little known fact that Nimoy did a punk version of the song:

Leonard knew which way to go after Star Trek. Who would have thought he would do a punk version. Since I have been watching this song multiple times per day, I have noticed that the girls in the orange and yellow jumpers swap their jumpers during the song. I want to find out why.

The girl who is originally wearing the orange jumper then changes to the yellow one irks me, however I think the one who wears the orange jumper later on (during the shoulder shrug on left with pig tails) is hot. She is the one at the start with the yellow jumper on. The blonde shoulder shrugger is hot too.

Also, when they all look down to the camera, the last person to put their head into frame, headbutts Leonard.  Was this deliberate. Had Mr Nimoy been acting inapropriately? 

"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Bagginsand his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. The recording originally appeared on The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (Dot Records Cat. DLP 25835, 1968), the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028), backed with a "modern thought-image" folk song called "Cotton Candy".

A year before the recording was commercially released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording during a guest appearance on the July 28, 1967 episode ofMalibu U, a short-lived variety television series. This segment survives as a "music video" and shows Nimoy (wearing his Star Trek hairstyle as the series was in the midst of production of its second season at the time) and a group of color-coordinated young women, all wearing plastic elf (orVulcan) ears, singing and dancing on a beach. (One of the dancers on this series was Erin Gray who later gained fame in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century though it's not known if she participated in this particular musical number). Since its rediscovery on the BBC2 documentary Funk Me Up Scotty and propagation over the Internet, it has become a relatively well-known example of 1960s camp. An excerpt from the musical number is also included in the documentary Ringers: Lord of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fandom.

Leonard Nimoy in the music video

Fans of Nimoy were intrigued by the fact (revealed in interviews) that Nimoy had read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and been exceedingly impressed by it. From approximately 1968 to 1973, several Nimoy and Star Trekfanzine writers and editors (notably Regina Marvinny's Nimoyan Federation) discussed the idea of a live-actionThe Lord of the Rings film, with Nimoy playing Aragorn, and there was a brief letter-writing campaign. (wiki)

BUT WAS THE ONE IN THE ORANGE JUMPER ERIN GRAY?