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 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 (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 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 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 Nimoy 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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Trekkie1450 (Monday 6th of October 2008 11:22:43 AM)
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?!?!?!?
isilinde1982 (Sunday 5th of October 2008 02:18:59 PM)
this is really creepy, yet oddly entertaining
BankersAreAssassins (Sunday 5th of October 2008 11:10:32 AM)
lol
stoopidname4me (Sunday 5th of October 2008 11:09:38 AM)
Perhaps the most degrading yet oddly entertaining thing Nimoy's done.
winfieldstudios (Sunday 5th of October 2008 04:43:12 AM)
LOL
Saromez (Saturday 4th of October 2008 09:40:39 PM)
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...
Saromez (Saturday 4th of October 2008 09:38:08 PM)
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?
MattTheWildcat (Saturday 4th of October 2008 11:48:18 AM)
GALVATRON!!!
winfieldstudios (Saturday 4th of October 2008 10:19:53 AM)
lol
Trekkie1450 (Saturday 4th of October 2008 04:12:22 AM)
Wow. I bask in the awesomeness of this song.