Roddenberry's lyrics

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Courage's theme was a radio hit?

@Indysolo, please report to the bridge!

 

[ZapBrannigan]

i remember reading it in one of the bios…Eventually, if I remember correctly, nimoy convinced him to move in with him for a while, as the mold was not healthy.

It cries out for a citation.

 

[jackoverfull]

Well, I’ll try to remember to post it if I read it again

 

[NCC-73515]

The TOS theme lyrics exist in the comic universe

 

[Trekker09]

Haha! thanks.
Just found it here

https://view-comic.com/star-trek-v1-09/

 

[Takeru]

Sorry if this was posted earlier, thought it was interesting. When Alexander Courage composed the theme score, Roddenberry decided to write words for it so he could get half the royalties. They never recorded or aired this version. There’s just no way to sing the words with the melody, right-?

Beyond….the rim of the starlight
My love….is wand’ring in starflight.
I know….he’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love….Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know….his journey ends never
His star trek….will go on forever.
But tell him….while he wanders his starry sea
Remember…..remember me.

These lyrics are really awful and are impossible to sing to the theme (I tried and now my cat looks at me like I'm a weirdo), he should have written something like this:

This is the theme to the Star Trek show!
This is the theme to the Star Trek show!
This lyrics are a cash graaaaaaaab!
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaa
Dadadadadadadadadadadadadaaaaaaa
Strange New WOOOOOOOOOORLDS!!!!!

At least it would have been honest

 

[ChallengerHK]

At least it would have been honest

Be funny of Goldsman did the same thing for Strange New Worlds.

 

[Commishsleer]

The TOS theme lyrics exist in the comic universe

Would have blamed the comic book writers for that garbage but now I know.
I think writing lyrics to the Star Trek theme would be difficult though because its seems too melodic? Maybe the Abrams version of the theme might be easier to write for.

 

[Donald G]

Would have blamed the comic book writers for that garbage but now I know.
I think writing lyrics to the Star Trek theme would be difficult though because its seems too melodic? Maybe the Abrams version of the theme might be easier to write for.

Enterprising young
Mentorprising young
Enterprising young
Me-en!
This tune is repetitive
So repetitive
Ya better get uuuuuused to it
Giacchino has
Maaany hours t'fill
Wiiith his score
You'll be sick of it
Sooo sick of it
By the time the film ends
It's an ee-earworm
Such an ee-earworm
You'll never unheeeeear it . . .

 

[Qonundrum]

The TOS theme lyrics exist in the comic universe

There are days I wish that thing on the right side of the pane on the right was a Cyberman... at least until Cybermen start singing musicals, but that's not the crossover most fans of ST+DW would want either... unless they did, in which case it's party time... one would have to be drunk and/or high on an acid trip to get through that too...

 

[yosef]

i remember reading it in one of the bios…Eventually, if I remember correctly, nimoy convinced him to move in with him for a while, as the mold was not healthy.

In DeForest Kelley’s biography, From Sawdust to Stardust by Terry Lee Rioux, Kelley and his wife, Carolyn, bought a house in the early ‘60s in Sherman Oaks, CA, and lived there the rest of his life. Flipping through the book just now to re-find this information, I don’t see any references to ever temporarily moving out due to mold (although I’m admittedly not reading every page). Even further off topic, it says that Rick Berman moved in across the street in the late ‘80s.

But that single didn't chart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meco#Charted_singles].


So, no example of a radio hit has been produced so far. I'm highly skeptical that there even is one.

On Discogs.com, there are a handful of singles released in the ‘70s that have covers of the Star Trek theme, which could have also feasibly been played on the radio, but I’m guessing none of them charted either.