The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - Leonard Nimoy - Full Version
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The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and 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 of Malibu U, a short-lived variety television series. This segment survives as a "music video" and shows Nimoy (wearing his Star Trek hairstyle as the se
ries 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 (or Vulcan) 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 thou
gh 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 documen
tary Ringers: Lord of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fandom. Leonard Nimoy in the music videoFans 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 N
imoy and Star Trek fanzine writers and editors (notably Regina Marvinny's Nimoyan Federation) discussed the idea of a live-action The Lord of the Rings film, with Nimoy playing Aragorn, and there was a brief letter-writing campaign.
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| The last thing I ... ( 1 week ago by eiremoonblossom) |
| The last thing I wanted was Leonard Nimoy singing about hobbits! However watching this made me realize that this is ingenius! |
| the girls were ... ( 1 week ago by branie99) |
| the girls were probablty star trek extras (yeomans on the Enterprise). |
| yah i know he was ... ( 1 week ago by weasellord) |
| yah i know he was probally one of the best in the movie. |
| I am betting drugs ... ( 1 week ago by redstar170) |
| I am betting drugs were involved |
| I've actually had ... ( 1 week ago by bobaex) |
| I've actually had this song since I first got I-tunes...what's that say about me.... |
| I seem to be one of ... ( 1 week ago by TranscendentLion) |
| I seem to be one of the only people who likes this... It's brilliant, and I'm such a geek that I downloaded the lyrics and I can play it - it's very easy. |
| If this were the ... ( 1 week ago by Harry44Callahan2) |
| If this were the fare on MTV today, the world would be a better place! Such an innocent tune compared to the cesspool waste of today. Save us Leonard!!! |
| awesome. maybe ... ( 6 days ago by Naxzgul23) |
| awesome. maybe there is hope for humanity... |
| Wow. I bask in the ... ( 6 days ago by Trekkie1450) |
| Wow. I bask in the awesomeness of this song. |
| lol ( 6 days ago by winfieldstudios) |
| lol |
| GALVATRON!!! ( 6 days ago by MattTheWildcat) |
| GALVATRON!!! |
| Dear God, this is ... ( 5 days ago by Saromez) |
| Dear God, this is possibly the most disturbing thing I've seen today. Leonard Nimoy, with a bunch of hippie-chicks singing about Bilbo Baggins?!? What the Heck? Is it the end of the world? or is this the most misplaced odd thing ever? |
| oh, my mistake ... ( 5 days ago by Saromez) |
| oh, my mistake there Hipie ELF chicks...notice to fake pointy ears? and whats up with the paper ring? This isn't just horrible....its low budget... |
| LOL ( 5 days ago by winfieldstudios) |
| LOL |
| Perhaps the most ... ( 5 days ago by stoopidname4me) |
| Perhaps the most degrading yet oddly entertaining thing Nimoy's done. |
| lol ( 5 days ago by BankersAreAssassins) |
| lol |
| this is really ... ( 5 days ago by isilinde1982) |
| this is really creepy, yet oddly entertaining |
| That invisible, ... ( 4 days ago by Trekkie1450) |
| That invisible,unexplainable thing that keeps atoms spinning; thus keeping the world from imploding is: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. a Star Trek person singing a LOTR song? WHAT COULD BE COOLER?!?!?!? |
| holy shit this is ... ( 3 days ago by pogsworf) |
| holy shit this is priceless |
| dildo baggins ( 3 days ago by spyhinken) |
| dildo baggins |
| WHO DISRUPTS MY ... ( 3 days ago by pwntermute) |
| WHO DISRUPTS MY CORONATION? |
| A geeks wet dream ... ( 2 days ago by steve001010) |
| A geeks wet dream right here! Spock singing about LOTR! |
| "Coronation, ... ( 2 days ago by DebrisStorm) |
| "Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy!" Thanks! You just got me laughing until I started to snort with that. |
| "Here's a hint!" * ... ( 17 hours ago by DebrisStorm) |
| "Here's a hint!" *Transforms into the insanely powerful cannon, proceeding to turn Starscream into dust* Yeah. Nimoy has an awesome voice. And his singing voice is actually pleasant. |
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