Shatner's Rocket man

[ironbrewer]

Sorry I don't know how to make a link open automatically, but this is truly hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbv6r_tKnE

Can you get all the way through it??

 

[Mazeman]

So awful...

Here's a Shatner music video that's actually not bad:

Link

 

[xriley]

LOL I don't understand Shatner. He seems to teeter totter between comic almost genius and complete idiot in the most haphazard fashion.

 

[ouch]

Where have you been?

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35067&highlight=shatner+rocket

 

[ironbrewer]

Where have you been?

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35067&highlight=shatner+rocket

That was a little bit before my apearance on this forum, but I voted anyway.

What Exit??

I grew up in Wayne NJ!

 

[ouch]

165

 

[TravelingMan82]

Painful.

 

[Duckster]

Shatner singing Rocket Man is funny. His performance of Mr. Tambourine Man is painful.

 

[Commander Quan]

I don't get it

 

[gollum83]

Shatner singing Rocket Man is funny. His performance of Mr. Tambourine Man is painful.

What about his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

 

[Duckster]

What about his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

That's high art.

 

[Swampfox]

If you call right now, you'll get the complete Bill Shatner Rockets Immortality: Songs of the Space Man for only 14 low payments of $19.99! You want to miss this!

Operators are standing by!

 

[gurana]

hrm... I saw the Family Guy that referenced this bit... but I had no idea it was something from so long ago.

 

[Topgumby]

My favorite Shatner music video:

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I give Shatner credit for becoming a musical joke, then cutting an album with Ben Folds that is actually quite good. Most mere mortals would merely hang their heads in shame after something like "Rocket Man", but Shatner thrives on the ability to make fun of himself.

His co-star, Nimoy, cut records but he hardly ever gets ridiculed for them..."The ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is at least as awful as any Shatner tune.

Most non singing celebs of the era did a little dabbling in music, and some had chart success. Lorne Greene, anyone?

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This little spoken word tune went to #1 on the Billboard hot 100 in 1964.

 

[Mr_Amazing]

I was under the assumption that he was loaded up on cocaine when he recorded these songs. Maybe I'm wrong, but it wouldn't suprise me. I find Mr. Tambourine Man to be the funniest of them all.

 

[Obsessed]

His co-star, Nimoy, cut records but he hardly ever gets ridiculed for them..."The ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is at least as awful as any Shatner tune.

Oh man, I really, really, really, really need too find that.

 

[kap49]

A masterpiece.

 

[gollum83]

Oh man, I really, really, really, really need too find that.

Are you sure? You may never be the same after you hear it.

 

[Topgumby]

Oh man, I really, really, really, really need too find that.

Sometimes, the worst that can happen is that we get what we ask for...


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[Duckster]

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