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Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy

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Released
  
1968

Artist
  
Leonard Nimoy

Label
  
Dot Records

Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (1968)
  
The Way I Feel (1968)

Release date
  
1968

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Genres
  
Spoken word, Pop music, Country music, Novelty song, Outsider music

Producers
  
Charles Randolph Grean, George Tipton

Similar
  
Leonard Nimoy albums, Spoken word albums

Leonard nimoy highly illogical


Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy is Leonard Nimoy's second album released shortly after Music From Outer Space. It was released in early 1968 by Dot Records.

Contents

Background

The album is a continuation of the "Spock and Space" sound he embarked on Nimoy's debut album. Side one showcases the side fans know as Mr. Spock but in a softer side, along with his struggle between being human and Vulcan. Side two represents Nimoy's interests in a variety of songs; novelty, pop, country and love songs.

Side one of this album is presented on the Varèse Sarabande Records 1995 reissue of Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space.

Side one

  1. "Highly Illogical" (Charles R. Grean, Fred Hertz)
  2. "The Difference Between Us" (Cy Coben)
  3. "Once I Smiled" (Grean, Leonard Nimoy)
  4. "Spock Thoughts" (Grean, Max Ehrmann¹)
  5. "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz)
  6. "Follow Your Star" (Grean, Hertz)
  7. "Amphibious Assault" (Grean, Mason Williams)

Side two

  1. "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (Grean)
  2. "Cotton Candy" (Cliff Ralke)
  3. "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford)
  4. "Miranda" (Bart Howard)
  5. "If I Were A Carpenter" (Tim Hardin)
  6. "Love of the Common People" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)

Production

  • Produced by Charles R. Grean and Tom Mack
  • Arranged and conducted by Charles R. Grean
  • The lyrics of "Spock Thoughts" are in fact the prose poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann.

    • Songs

    1Highly Illogical2:23
    2The Difference Between Us2:13
    3Once I Smiled2:06

    References

    Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy Wikipedia
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