Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy is Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....

's second album, which was released shortly after Music From Outer Space

Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space

Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space was the debut album of Leonard Nimoy, recorded in his Mr. Spock persona. The album was released in June 1967 by Dot Records.-Background:...

. It was released in early 1968 by Dot Records

Dot Records

Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...

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Background

The album is a continuation of the "Spock and Space" sound he embarked on his 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

Vulcan (Star Trek)

Vulcans, or sometimes Vulcanians, are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek universe who evolved on the planet Vulcan, and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic with no interference from emotion. They were the first extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek...

. Side two represents Leonard 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

Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings. It aims to reissue rare or unavailable albums as well as newer releases by artists no longer under a contract...

 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
   Howard Dietz
   Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist.-Biography:Dietz was born in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University...
   
    / Arthur Schwartz
   Arthur Schwartz
   Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...
   
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6. "Follow Your Star" (Grean / Fred Hertz)
7. "Amphibious Assault" (Grean / Mason Williams
   Mason Williams
   Mason Williams is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". He is also a comedy writer, known for his writing on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live...
   
   )

Side two

1. "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
   The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
   "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. The recording originally appeared on Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, the second of Nimoy's albums on...
   
   " (Grean)
2. "Cotton Candy" (Cliff Ralke)
3. "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford
   John Hartford
   John Cowan Hartford was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore...
   
   )
4. "Miranda" (Bart Howard
   Bart Howard
   Bart Howard was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon", which has been performed by singers Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Diana Krall, June Christy and Astrud Gilberto...
   
   )
5. "If I Was a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin
   Tim Hardin
   James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
   
   )
6. "Love of the Common People" (John Hurley
   John Hurley
   Cornelius John Hurley was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 109 days in 1946-7. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...
   
    / Ronnie Wilkins)

Production

• Produced by Charles R. Grean and Tom Mack
  Tom Mack
  Thomas Lee Mack is a former left guard for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, spending all 13-years with them from 1966 to 1978...
  
  
• Arranged and conducted by Charles R. Grean
• The lyrics of "Spock Thoughts" are in fact the prose poem "Desiderata
  Desiderata
  Desiderata is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann...
  
  " by Max Ehrmann.

External Links

Review of Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy at maidenwine.com, a detailed Leonard Nimoy fan site.