The original sixties classic, "Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space" is perhaps the most sought after Nimoy album. Like a piece of fine blue cheese, thirty years have added another dimension to this remarkable debut.

Under the strict creative control of Paramount, the album includes marvellously camp big-beat versions of the "Theme from Star Trek", "Beyond Antares" but the "Theme to Mission Impossible" is gone, all without any visible input from Mr. Nimoy.

If "Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy" is the White Album of Star Trek recordings, this is Sargeant Pepper redone by The Bay City Rollers. Stand-out tracks include "Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth" (Spock addressing a conference of "little green men") "Alien" (a poignant cry against prejudice on behalf of Vulcan visitors to Earth) and "Visit to a Sad Planet" (where Spock visits the Earth after a nuclear holocaust in seeming ignorance of earlier Star Trek time-travel plots). Nimoy's hope for an afterlife on Broadway is reflected in a deliciously flat "Where is Love" from "Oliver".

The original, worth the extortionate collectors' prices as one of the greatest party records of all time, was later released with the same cover art on the "Raven" label. This expurgated version on cassette only is much easier to find, and quite a bit cheaper than the originals.

The Sheet Music was also published by Don Christopher © 1967 Petunia Music Co.
The arrangement shown is © 1979 by Caterpillar Music

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