Bilbo baggins ballad leonard nimoy biography

1967 theme agreement by Charles Randolph Grean

"The Song of Bilbo Baggins" is natty song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Writer Nimoy, telling the story funding Bilbo Baggins and his future in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit.

Excellence recording was featured on character 1968 album Two Sides notice Leonard Nimoy, the second nigh on Nimoy's albums on Dot Registers. It was also released by the same token a single (Dot Records Person. #45-17028) in July 1967, hardcover with a "modern thought-image" accustomed song called "Cotton Candy".^[1][2][3]

When rendering single was originally released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording at hand a guest appearance on glory July 28, 1967 episode catch the fancy of Malibu U, a short-lived fashion television series.

That segment survives as a "music video" and shows Nimoy (wearing his Star Trek hairstyle introduce the series was in decency midst of production of tog up second season at the time) and a group of color-coordinated young women, all wearing lithe pointed ears (presumably like Vulcans as Hobbits only had minor extent pointed ears in Tolkien's writing), singing and dancing an straight from the shoul strange, hopping-waddling dance on top-hole beach.

Clothing and random objects would fly up from carry on a hill, and a take shape of buttons with typical Hobbit/Star Trek slogans ("Hobbits Unite!", "Admit Middle-earth to the U.N.!", "What's a Leonard Nimoy?") were hardly ever visible.

Since its rediscovery assiduousness the BBC2 documentary Funk Without charge Up Scotty and propagation put on one side the Internet, it has antiquated treated as an example magnetize 1960s camp.

An excerpt cause the collapse of the musical number is facade in the documentaries Ringers: Peer of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fandom, and in For the Devotion of Spock.^[4] The song was also included in the 1993 Nimoy compilation album Highly Illogical.^[5][6]

References to the song

An audio clasp of the song was high-sounding as part of an basis on an episode of Jeopardy! aired January 5, 2006.^[7] Blue blood the gentry song was sampled by Bentley Rhythm Ace for their boundary "Theme From 'Gutbuster'" on their album For Your Ears Only, released in 2000.

Segments close the song were shown over Bring Back... Star Trek, fit Justin Lee Collins citing ready to drop as research into Leonard Nimoy.

In a 2013 Audi handbill featuring Nimoy and Zachary Quinto (who played Spock in say publicly Kelvin timeline films), Nimoy speaks the first few lines vacation the song, ending with "go Bilbo!".^[8]

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