Music video: TOS theme with lyrics (a cappella arrangement)

[Shipbrook]

Hi there! Long-time lurker, recent member, brand-new poster.

There are a few videos out there where people sing Gene Roddenberry's lyrics for the TOS theme song (including Tenacious D and Robert Picardo), and several where people sing a cappella arrangements of the theme (without lyrics), but I couldn't find any that combined the two. So I felt compelled to fill that void myself:

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LLAP!

 

[B.J.]

Wow, you've got a great voice, and impressive range! (Can't carry a tune in a bucket myself - there's a reason I play drums!) Love the intro bit too! The lyrics themselves are horrendous as always, but you do a wonderful job with it.

I looked at your YouTube profile, and I'd seen your TOS version of the Lower Decks intro before (not sure where). Great job on that too!

 

[Tallguy]

Good heavens! You actually made them sound ok!

 

[Michael]

This is fucking brilliant! Very well done, my good sir. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. The rendition of the song is perfect, but I gotta say, the whole virtual set works rather well, I love the costumes and the fact that your cadet (?) version pulls out a TOS Universal Translator to use as a mic. Brilliant! No notes.

 

[Shipbrook]

Thanks, all!

the fact that your cadet (?) version pulls out a TOS Universal Translator to use as a mic.

That someone appreciated the gag made it worthwhile!

 

[UssGlenn]

Good job, I ran across this on YouTube the other day myself. Whenever I hear the lyrics I scratch my head that Roddenberry didn't do one more edit. For example, "Beyond the Rim of Starlight" flows way better than "Beyond the rim of the starlight". There's a couple other spots that work better with similar tweaking.

 

[Tallguy]

Courage's bigger complaint than the financial shenanigans was that Roddenberry was not a song writer and didn't ask for help. If Courage was going to get bilked for royalties at least the lyrics could be good.

 

[Shipbrook]

Good job, I ran across this on YouTube the other day myself. Whenever I hear the lyrics I scratch my head that Roddenberry didn't do one more edit. For example, "Beyond the Rim of Starlight" flows way better than "Beyond the rim of the starlight". There's a couple other spots that work better with similar tweaking.

That would have been a definite improvement, though still not 100% ideal from a prosodic standpoint, as it would have put the accent on "-light". But yeah, out of eight measly lines, five of them mashed two syllables onto a single note (the worst was the second line, as in addition to sticking "starflight" on the last note, he wrote out the four syllables "wandering in" under a triplet).

Courage's bigger complaint than the financial shenanigans was that Roddenberry was not a song writer and didn't ask for help. If Courage was going to get bilked for royalties at least the lyrics could be good.

Exactly. I read one interview where he quipped, "If he'd written a decent lyric, we could have both made more money."

 

[PumpkinSpiceFoodCube]

fantastic

 

[publiusr]

Very different..very good.