STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - LEONARD NIMOY - LEONARD MIMOY MR. SPOCK'S MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE

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Good morning record junkies and welcome back to the Sunday edition of Stuck In the Vinyl Again . Today we remember Boston born  actor, author, film director, singer, and photographer, Leonard Nimoy, on this, the 7th anniversary of his passing. He died in 2015, age 83, from COPD. With him in mind, we spotlight his debut record, Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space. The LP was released June 1967 on Dot Records and produced by Charles Randolph Grean . It peaked at #83 on the Billboard 200 and it's sole single, "A Visit To A Sad Planet" reached #121 on the Hot 100. On it we hear the Star Trek theme, the Mission Impossible theme (coincidentally Nimoy would join the cast of Mission Impossible as The Great Paris, following Star Trek, for it's 4th and 5th Seasons) and a couple of way cool spoken pieces narrated by Nimoy. Our copy was purchased a couple of years ago at Lakeland's own Jesse Carl Vinyl.

"Theme from Star Trek" (Alexander Courage, Gene Roddenberry)

"Alien" (Cy Coben)

"Where Is Love?" (Lionel Bart)

"Music to Watch Space Girls By" (Anthony Velona, Sidney Ramin)

"Beyond Antares" (Wilbur Hatch, Gene Coon)

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth" (Charles R. Grean, Fred Hertz, Leonard Nimoy)

Side two

"Mission: Impossible" (Lalo Schifrin)

"Lost in the Stars" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill)

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" (Alexander Courage)

"You Are Not Alone" (Don Christopher)

"A Visit to a Sad Planet" (Charles R. Grean, Don Christopher)

Vocals, narratiopn - Leonard Nimoy

Producer: Charles R. Grean
Arranger: Charles R. Grean
Engineer: Bob Liftin