Music By Other Star Trek Actors
Shatner was not the only Star Trek star to record music. Leonard Nimoy's versions of "If I Had a Hammer" and the children's song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" are widely considered to be comparably camp recordings. Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols, who sang on some episodes of the show and also in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, also recorded two musical albums, and Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation has recorded two. Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) released four albums. George Takei appeared on the TV series Secret Talents of the Stars as a country musician; the lone song Takei would perform before the series's cancellation was the Willie Nelson song "On the Road Again."
In 1996, MCA Records released a single-CD compilation of Shatner and Nimoy's collected music output, under the title Spaced Out: The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner. It included the above songs, plus other contributions.
Read more about this topic: William Shatner's Musical Career
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