William Shatner
Shatner began a much derided musical career with the spoken word 1968 album The Transformed Man. Delivered with orchestral backings with the odd psychedelic flourish, his exaggerated, interpretative recitations of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" became instant camp classics. It Was A Very Good Year William Shatner does his rendition of the Sinatra classic "It Was a Very Good Year" on The Mike Douglas Show in the early '70s.
Rocket Man William Shatner sings Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Rocket Man" at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards show. Shatner is introduced by Taupin.
Common People William Shatner and Joe Jackson perform Pulp's Common People - live. Ben Folds on keyboards.
Leonard Nimoy
The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins The recording originally appeared on The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. 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. 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 sci-fi camp.
