LEONARD NIMOY
''THE WAY I FEEL''
1968
31:32
1 I'd Love Making Love To You (David Schudson) 02:51
2 Please Don't Try To Change My Mind (Don Christopher, Leonard Nimoy) 02:15
3 Sunny (Bobby Hebb) 03:19
4 Where It's At (Cy Coben) 02:21
5 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell) 02:51
6 If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays) 02:06
7 Here We Go 'round Again (Paul Evans, Paul Parnes) 02:39
8 Billy Don't Play The Banjo Anymore (Randy Sparks) 02:16
9 It's Getting Better (Barry Man, Cynthia Weil) 02:51
10 Consilium (Leonard Nimoy, Charles R. Grean) 02:29
11 Love Is Sweeter (John Hartford) 02:40
12 The Hitch Hiker (David Somerville, Bruce Belland) 02:44
----------
I'D LOVE MAKING LOVE TO YOU
(Leonard Nimoy)
I know you don't know me
Where I've been or what I've done
And you're not sure if all I've told you has been true
And the only thing you know is
Good vibrations have begun
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you
I know you don't know the thoughts I lived with in my head
And you're not sure if this is right for you to do
And you don't know the nights of love I shared in my warm bed
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you
We might reach out to warm another
Share a feeling worth a smile
Pretending that we're not alone for just a little while
I know you can't tell me where we'll be a year from now
And the times of love and laughter may be few
And nobody knows what's going to happen anyhow
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you.
----------
PLEASE DON'T TRY TO CHANGE MY MIND
(Don Christopher / Leonard Nimoy)
Tomorrow I'll be going to just where I'm not quite sure
There are seeds I must be sewing for my life is to obscure
There are questions I must ask there are answers I must find
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
please, don't try to change my mind
In me there's a yearning, I feel too unfulfilled,
both, heart and mind are burning with a fire that must be stilled,
there's so much of life to taste, I must leave you here behind,
so, please, don't try to change my mind
I'm not saying: "I don't love you", for that would be a lie,
But I'm feeling like a bird in spring who must spread his wings and fly
Now, please, don't look at me that way, don't make it hard to do,
Just treat me like a stranger who you met but never knew
In the poem of my life there's no reason and no rhyme,
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
Please, don't try to change my mind
Being here and loving you could fill somebody's dreams,
But my eyes are full of hunger for the things they've never seen
Now, please, don't look at me that way, don't make it hard to do,
Just treat me like a stranger who you met but never knew
In the poem of my life there's no reason and no rhyme,
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
Please, don't try to change my mind
----------
SUNNY
(Johnny Hebb)
Sunny, thank you for the sunshine bouquet,
Sunny, thank you for the love you brought my way.
You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain.
And, Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain.
Oh, the dark days are done, and the bright days are here,
My Sunny one shines so sincere,
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, I thank you for the truth you let me see.
Oh, Sunny, thank you for the facts from A to Z.
Well, my life was torn like a windblown sand,
Then the rock was formed when we held hands.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, thank you for that smile upon your face.
Sunny, thank you for that gleam that flows with grace
Where you’re my spark of nature’s fire,
And you’re my sweet complete desire.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
I love you,
I love you,
I love you...
----------
WHERE IT'S AT
(Cy Coben)
You've come to seek the truth, to ask me: "Where it's at?"
I thank you for your confidence in me, and yet, you see,
I cannot draw for you in black and white,
a map you could follow in your quest for that which all men seek
For each man finds that road alone each day as he eases himself
into the stream of life.
If he's lucky, he may come a little nearer to the goal.
I, too have been a prospector wandering through the maze
Buffeted by the storms and jagged rocks of life
that tore the nerve ends of my hopes and dreams
And like yours my skin was much too thin to shield me from the inroads of our times:
The big machines, the strangling crimson tape,
The hate filled moulds that keep us from the other seekers,
searching too for the road to "Where it's at".
But then, one day, the fog within my mind began to clear
and for me the truth shone forth as brilliant as a thousand suns.
I had it, all along, within my grasp:
The answer, so simple that I almost did'nt see it:
It's love, loving someone more than you love yourself.
Loving so much, that you trust, you give and you ask nothing in return.
This is the purest form of love.
And then,
and this is the miracle,
if the one you are giving to believes as you,
you've found it, the treasure you've been seeking,
you've found out where it's at.
----------
BOTH SIDES NOW
(Joni Mitchell)
Swirls and curls of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked that clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud's illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
When every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowd
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads they say I've changed
Well something's lost and something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From give and take and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
----------
IF I HAD A HAMMER
(Pete Seeger / Lee Hays)
Well. If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land.
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
Well, If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening
All over this land.
I'd ring out danger.
I'd ring out a warning.
I'd ring out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
Well, If I had a song,
I'd sing it in the morning,
I'd sing it in the evening
All over this land.
I'd sing out danger,
I'd sing out a warning,
I'd sing out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
----------
HERE WE GO 'ROUND AGAIN
(P. Evans / P. Parnes)
If you hate somebody that somebody is gonna hate you
And if somebody hates you, you gonna hate somebody
Here we go 'round again
If you put somebody down that somebody is gonna put you down
And if somebody puts you down you gonna put down somebody
Here we go 'round again
If you don't talk to somebody that somebody won't talk to you
And if nobody talks to you, you have nobody to talk to
Here we go 'round again
But if you love somebody that somebody is gonna love you
And if somebody loves you, you gonna love somebody
Here we go 'round again
And the world needs all the love it can get
It's got all the hate that it can stand
And you can make love happen
Yes, you can
'Cause if you love somebody that somebody is gonna love you
And if somebody loves you, you gonna love somebody
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
----------
Billy Don't Play The Banjo Any More
(Randy Sparks)
See the black wagon rolling along
stop just outside our door.
Heard my mother crying a mournful sound,
Billy, don't play the banjo any more.
Pockets full of money, bells on his chest,
when they brought brother Billy home from the war.
They said he was a hero, braver than all the rest,
Billy won't play the banjo any more.
In my heart I can hear his banjo ringing,
but my mind can only hear the canon roar.
Can't help thinking: "War is a shameful thing."
Billy don't play the banjo any more.
Billy don't play the banjo any more.
----------
IT'S GETTING BETTER
(Barry Mann – Cynthia Weil)
Once I believed that when love came to me
It would come with rockets, bells and poetry
But with me and you it just started quietly and grew
And believe it or not
Now there's something groovy and good
'Bout whatever we got
And it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday...
I don't feel all turned on and starry eyed
I just feel a sweet contentment deep inside
Holding you at night just seems kind of natural and right
And it's not hard to see
That it isn't half of what it's going to turn out to be
'Cause it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday...
And just like a flower that takes time to bloom
This love of ours is taking time to grow
(la la la la...)
And I don't mind waitin', no, I don't mind waitin'
'Cause no matter how long it takes
The two of us know
That it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday…
----------
Consilium
(Leonard Nimoy / Charles R. Grean)
What a small portion of infinite and immeasurable time is allotted to each of us.
It is so quickly swallowed up by eternity.
And how small is the cloud of earth on which we crawl about.
Money has never made anyone rich not any more as salt water can cure a man's thirst.
A poor man is not one who has little but one who desires much.
If you can just remember that no human condition is ever permanent,
then you will not be too overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
Nothing dries faster than a tear and one joy dispels a hundred cares.
While it may be impossible to win every contest
Great satisfaction can be achieved from knowing that your course was fair and just.
Hide not your talents nor your God-given intelligence for they were created to be used.
What good is a sundial that sits in a shade?
Hostility and distrust reduced men to children fighting for control for each other's half of the playground.
How sad!
When - with mutual respect -
they could explore and enjoy together the many rooms in the mansion of their lives.
Your love and your friendship should not be sealed up until your friends are gone.
Fill their life with kindness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear them
and while their hearts can be filled and made happier by them.
Remember all of these things and consider nothing great but this: Nature bids you.
Accept what life brings.
And live it.
Fully
----------
LOVE IS SWEETER
(John Hartford)
Well, it's easier to love on a busy day
When there's lot's of work to be done
And I can drink more water when it's hot and dry
And my throat has been scorched by the sun
You feel pretty small when you study the sky
For as far as the eye can see
And love is sweeter when you're all alone
The way that you left me
Now the shadows turn black in the middle of the day
When the sun is high in the sky
And lights get brighter in the middle of the night
Where there wasn't any light to see by
I passed not the place where we sat yesterday
Where you rested your head on my knees
And love is sweeter when you're all alone
The way that you left me
----------
THE HITCHHIKER
(Somerville Belland)
Dirty jeans and four-days-whiskers,
Oh, I needed this ride, Mister,
the rain is hard and I shouldn't shoot her easy.
Well, I ain't much good, you can tell by looking,
Eatin' lousy diner cooking, maybe, "gee, the boy at sure is greasy."
Your license it says 'Georgia', Sir,
that's the state I'm headed for,
maybe how I left a bit won't bore you.
Bone-tiered and the baby crying,
riding on empty, tired of trying,
I pushed on for a job in California.
Get to the golden state I did
and someone down the line said:
"Kid, diploma's from a high school's what you're lackin'"
So, I took to driving a hack for bread,
existing like the living dead,
the wife , she just gave up and started packing.
So, I'm down and done here and out, I guess, Sir,
I tell you Sir, if I could just get back home,
I'd go back to the mill.
Diplomas there ain't worth a hang,
all that counts is if a man
can do his job 'cause no one no ill.
I'll get back on my feet again,
find my family load and then,
I'll stay home where folks like me should stay.
Get out of California state,
Golden streets and pearly gate,
your state of mind that counts most any way.
Just look at that rain coming down,
I never thought, I'd get out of that town,
If you'd like to stop to give this fool a ride.
Oh, thank you, bless you, thank you, Sir,
you never knew how kind you were,
so nice and warm and cozy here inside.
Now, Sir, suppose real slow like you just pull over to the side of the road.
That's real fine.
Now, if you'd be good enough to let me borrow your wallet,
and that real fine watch.
Thank you, Thank you, Sir.
Now, you step out in the rain,
I'm going to take me a ride,
Hey, man, you really ought to know better than to pick up a hitchhiker.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Linda Seida
Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space
On the surface, it seems Leonard Nimoy succeeded at whatever task he tackled. He acted in films, television, and theater, and most likely will be linked forever to his memorable portrayal of Star Trek's Mr. Spock. He was an author of poetry and other works, as well as a director and a producer. He even recorded almost a dozen albums, and there, unfortunately, is where Nimoy finally faltered. One recording, Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space, is particularly campy. Featured numbers included "Highly Illogical," "Spock Thoughts," and "Amphibious Assault," as well as a cover of "Where Is Love?" from the musical Oliver.
Among the titles of Nimoy's other albums are The Touch of Leonard Nimoy, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, The Way I Feel, The Martian Chronicles, The War of the Worlds, and The Illustrated Man. A compilation album titled Highly Illogical was also marketed, with covers of "Proud Mary," "If I Was a Carpenter," "Everybody's Talkin'," "Both Sides Now," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Abraham, Martin & John." Die-hard fans of Mr. Spock and dedicated Trekkies who followed similar series-related trivia kept track of the entire list of releases and the albums' availability, as well as similar recordings by William Shatner, who played opposite Nimoy in the role of Captain James T. Kirk.
Nimoy was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Max, was a barber, and mother, Dora, took care of the family's home and children. He acted throughout his childhood in school and amateur productions before heading to Hollywood at the age of 20. He began getting work in films such as The Brain Eaters and Francis Goes to West Point, but had no memorable roles until that of Mr. Spock in 1966. His other series work included the role of Paris in Mission: Impossible during the early '70s. Nimoy was married twice. He wed Sandra Zober in 1954, and the couple had a son and a daughter before divorcing in 1987. He wed Susan Bay in 1989 and had a stepson with her. Leonard Nimoy died at age 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Los Angeles on February 27, 2015.
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''THE WAY I FEEL''
1968
31:32
1 I'd Love Making Love To You (David Schudson) 02:51
2 Please Don't Try To Change My Mind (Don Christopher, Leonard Nimoy) 02:15
3 Sunny (Bobby Hebb) 03:19
4 Where It's At (Cy Coben) 02:21
5 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell) 02:51
6 If I Had A Hammer (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays) 02:06
7 Here We Go 'round Again (Paul Evans, Paul Parnes) 02:39
8 Billy Don't Play The Banjo Anymore (Randy Sparks) 02:16
9 It's Getting Better (Barry Man, Cynthia Weil) 02:51
10 Consilium (Leonard Nimoy, Charles R. Grean) 02:29
11 Love Is Sweeter (John Hartford) 02:40
12 The Hitch Hiker (David Somerville, Bruce Belland) 02:44
----------
I'D LOVE MAKING LOVE TO YOU
(Leonard Nimoy)
I know you don't know me
Where I've been or what I've done
And you're not sure if all I've told you has been true
And the only thing you know is
Good vibrations have begun
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you
I know you don't know the thoughts I lived with in my head
And you're not sure if this is right for you to do
And you don't know the nights of love I shared in my warm bed
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you
We might reach out to warm another
Share a feeling worth a smile
Pretending that we're not alone for just a little while
I know you can't tell me where we'll be a year from now
And the times of love and laughter may be few
And nobody knows what's going to happen anyhow
But you're here now, we're so near now
And I'd love making love to you.
----------
PLEASE DON'T TRY TO CHANGE MY MIND
(Don Christopher / Leonard Nimoy)
Tomorrow I'll be going to just where I'm not quite sure
There are seeds I must be sewing for my life is to obscure
There are questions I must ask there are answers I must find
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
please, don't try to change my mind
In me there's a yearning, I feel too unfulfilled,
both, heart and mind are burning with a fire that must be stilled,
there's so much of life to taste, I must leave you here behind,
so, please, don't try to change my mind
I'm not saying: "I don't love you", for that would be a lie,
But I'm feeling like a bird in spring who must spread his wings and fly
Now, please, don't look at me that way, don't make it hard to do,
Just treat me like a stranger who you met but never knew
In the poem of my life there's no reason and no rhyme,
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
Please, don't try to change my mind
Being here and loving you could fill somebody's dreams,
But my eyes are full of hunger for the things they've never seen
Now, please, don't look at me that way, don't make it hard to do,
Just treat me like a stranger who you met but never knew
In the poem of my life there's no reason and no rhyme,
So, please, don't try to change my mind, girl,
Please, don't try to change my mind
----------
SUNNY
(Johnny Hebb)
Sunny, thank you for the sunshine bouquet,
Sunny, thank you for the love you brought my way.
You gave to me your all and all.
Now I feel ten feet tall.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain.
And, Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain.
Oh, the dark days are done, and the bright days are here,
My Sunny one shines so sincere,
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, I thank you for the truth you let me see.
Oh, Sunny, thank you for the facts from A to Z.
Well, my life was torn like a windblown sand,
Then the rock was formed when we held hands.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
Sunny, thank you for that smile upon your face.
Sunny, thank you for that gleam that flows with grace
Where you’re my spark of nature’s fire,
And you’re my sweet complete desire.
Sunny one so true, I love you.
I love you,
I love you,
I love you...
----------
WHERE IT'S AT
(Cy Coben)
You've come to seek the truth, to ask me: "Where it's at?"
I thank you for your confidence in me, and yet, you see,
I cannot draw for you in black and white,
a map you could follow in your quest for that which all men seek
For each man finds that road alone each day as he eases himself
into the stream of life.
If he's lucky, he may come a little nearer to the goal.
I, too have been a prospector wandering through the maze
Buffeted by the storms and jagged rocks of life
that tore the nerve ends of my hopes and dreams
And like yours my skin was much too thin to shield me from the inroads of our times:
The big machines, the strangling crimson tape,
The hate filled moulds that keep us from the other seekers,
searching too for the road to "Where it's at".
But then, one day, the fog within my mind began to clear
and for me the truth shone forth as brilliant as a thousand suns.
I had it, all along, within my grasp:
The answer, so simple that I almost did'nt see it:
It's love, loving someone more than you love yourself.
Loving so much, that you trust, you give and you ask nothing in return.
This is the purest form of love.
And then,
and this is the miracle,
if the one you are giving to believes as you,
you've found it, the treasure you've been seeking,
you've found out where it's at.
----------
BOTH SIDES NOW
(Joni Mitchell)
Swirls and curls of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked that clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's cloud's illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
When every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care don't let them know
Don't give yourself away
I've looked at love from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all
Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowd
I've looked at life that way
But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads they say I've changed
Well something's lost and something's gained
In living every day
I've looked at life from both sides now
From give and take and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
----------
IF I HAD A HAMMER
(Pete Seeger / Lee Hays)
Well. If I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the morning,
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land.
I'd hammer out danger,
I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
Well, If I had a bell,
I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening
All over this land.
I'd ring out danger.
I'd ring out a warning.
I'd ring out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
Well, If I had a song,
I'd sing it in the morning,
I'd sing it in the evening
All over this land.
I'd sing out danger,
I'd sing out a warning,
I'd sing out love between
My brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
----------
HERE WE GO 'ROUND AGAIN
(P. Evans / P. Parnes)
If you hate somebody that somebody is gonna hate you
And if somebody hates you, you gonna hate somebody
Here we go 'round again
If you put somebody down that somebody is gonna put you down
And if somebody puts you down you gonna put down somebody
Here we go 'round again
If you don't talk to somebody that somebody won't talk to you
And if nobody talks to you, you have nobody to talk to
Here we go 'round again
But if you love somebody that somebody is gonna love you
And if somebody loves you, you gonna love somebody
Here we go 'round again
And the world needs all the love it can get
It's got all the hate that it can stand
And you can make love happen
Yes, you can
'Cause if you love somebody that somebody is gonna love you
And if somebody loves you, you gonna love somebody
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
Here we go 'round again
----------
Billy Don't Play The Banjo Any More
(Randy Sparks)
See the black wagon rolling along
stop just outside our door.
Heard my mother crying a mournful sound,
Billy, don't play the banjo any more.
Pockets full of money, bells on his chest,
when they brought brother Billy home from the war.
They said he was a hero, braver than all the rest,
Billy won't play the banjo any more.
In my heart I can hear his banjo ringing,
but my mind can only hear the canon roar.
Can't help thinking: "War is a shameful thing."
Billy don't play the banjo any more.
Billy don't play the banjo any more.
----------
IT'S GETTING BETTER
(Barry Mann – Cynthia Weil)
Once I believed that when love came to me
It would come with rockets, bells and poetry
But with me and you it just started quietly and grew
And believe it or not
Now there's something groovy and good
'Bout whatever we got
And it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday...
I don't feel all turned on and starry eyed
I just feel a sweet contentment deep inside
Holding you at night just seems kind of natural and right
And it's not hard to see
That it isn't half of what it's going to turn out to be
'Cause it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday...
And just like a flower that takes time to bloom
This love of ours is taking time to grow
(la la la la...)
And I don't mind waitin', no, I don't mind waitin'
'Cause no matter how long it takes
The two of us know
That it's getting better
Growing stronger warm and wilder
It's getting better everyday, better everyday…
----------
Consilium
(Leonard Nimoy / Charles R. Grean)
What a small portion of infinite and immeasurable time is allotted to each of us.
It is so quickly swallowed up by eternity.
And how small is the cloud of earth on which we crawl about.
Money has never made anyone rich not any more as salt water can cure a man's thirst.
A poor man is not one who has little but one who desires much.
If you can just remember that no human condition is ever permanent,
then you will not be too overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
Nothing dries faster than a tear and one joy dispels a hundred cares.
While it may be impossible to win every contest
Great satisfaction can be achieved from knowing that your course was fair and just.
Hide not your talents nor your God-given intelligence for they were created to be used.
What good is a sundial that sits in a shade?
Hostility and distrust reduced men to children fighting for control for each other's half of the playground.
How sad!
When - with mutual respect -
they could explore and enjoy together the many rooms in the mansion of their lives.
Your love and your friendship should not be sealed up until your friends are gone.
Fill their life with kindness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear them
and while their hearts can be filled and made happier by them.
Remember all of these things and consider nothing great but this: Nature bids you.
Accept what life brings.
And live it.
Fully
----------
LOVE IS SWEETER
(John Hartford)
Well, it's easier to love on a busy day
When there's lot's of work to be done
And I can drink more water when it's hot and dry
And my throat has been scorched by the sun
You feel pretty small when you study the sky
For as far as the eye can see
And love is sweeter when you're all alone
The way that you left me
Now the shadows turn black in the middle of the day
When the sun is high in the sky
And lights get brighter in the middle of the night
Where there wasn't any light to see by
I passed not the place where we sat yesterday
Where you rested your head on my knees
And love is sweeter when you're all alone
The way that you left me
----------
THE HITCHHIKER
(Somerville Belland)
Dirty jeans and four-days-whiskers,
Oh, I needed this ride, Mister,
the rain is hard and I shouldn't shoot her easy.
Well, I ain't much good, you can tell by looking,
Eatin' lousy diner cooking, maybe, "gee, the boy at sure is greasy."
Your license it says 'Georgia', Sir,
that's the state I'm headed for,
maybe how I left a bit won't bore you.
Bone-tiered and the baby crying,
riding on empty, tired of trying,
I pushed on for a job in California.
Get to the golden state I did
and someone down the line said:
"Kid, diploma's from a high school's what you're lackin'"
So, I took to driving a hack for bread,
existing like the living dead,
the wife , she just gave up and started packing.
So, I'm down and done here and out, I guess, Sir,
I tell you Sir, if I could just get back home,
I'd go back to the mill.
Diplomas there ain't worth a hang,
all that counts is if a man
can do his job 'cause no one no ill.
I'll get back on my feet again,
find my family load and then,
I'll stay home where folks like me should stay.
Get out of California state,
Golden streets and pearly gate,
your state of mind that counts most any way.
Just look at that rain coming down,
I never thought, I'd get out of that town,
If you'd like to stop to give this fool a ride.
Oh, thank you, bless you, thank you, Sir,
you never knew how kind you were,
so nice and warm and cozy here inside.
Now, Sir, suppose real slow like you just pull over to the side of the road.
That's real fine.
Now, if you'd be good enough to let me borrow your wallet,
and that real fine watch.
Thank you, Thank you, Sir.
Now, you step out in the rain,
I'm going to take me a ride,
Hey, man, you really ought to know better than to pick up a hitchhiker.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Linda Seida
Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space
On the surface, it seems Leonard Nimoy succeeded at whatever task he tackled. He acted in films, television, and theater, and most likely will be linked forever to his memorable portrayal of Star Trek's Mr. Spock. He was an author of poetry and other works, as well as a director and a producer. He even recorded almost a dozen albums, and there, unfortunately, is where Nimoy finally faltered. One recording, Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space, is particularly campy. Featured numbers included "Highly Illogical," "Spock Thoughts," and "Amphibious Assault," as well as a cover of "Where Is Love?" from the musical Oliver.
Among the titles of Nimoy's other albums are The Touch of Leonard Nimoy, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, The Way I Feel, The Martian Chronicles, The War of the Worlds, and The Illustrated Man. A compilation album titled Highly Illogical was also marketed, with covers of "Proud Mary," "If I Was a Carpenter," "Everybody's Talkin'," "Both Sides Now," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Abraham, Martin & John." Die-hard fans of Mr. Spock and dedicated Trekkies who followed similar series-related trivia kept track of the entire list of releases and the albums' availability, as well as similar recordings by William Shatner, who played opposite Nimoy in the role of Captain James T. Kirk.
Nimoy was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Max, was a barber, and mother, Dora, took care of the family's home and children. He acted throughout his childhood in school and amateur productions before heading to Hollywood at the age of 20. He began getting work in films such as The Brain Eaters and Francis Goes to West Point, but had no memorable roles until that of Mr. Spock in 1966. His other series work included the role of Paris in Mission: Impossible during the early '70s. Nimoy was married twice. He wed Sandra Zober in 1954, and the couple had a son and a daughter before divorcing in 1987. He wed Susan Bay in 1989 and had a stepson with her. Leonard Nimoy died at age 83 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Los Angeles on February 27, 2015.
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