Songs From »The Way To Eden«

[Michael]

Hello folks! Since I am a big fan of the infamous space hippie episode (»The Way To Eden«) and its folk tunes in particular, I'd like to know if their complete originals (without the bleeps of the Enterprise bridge, static noise from the ship's loudspeakers etc.) are available somewhere. Or are there no real recordings for them? (I mean: could it be they were just played live?)

But I would also be interested in getting to know some more about them. Is it true that Charles Napier (Adam) came up with the lyrics for them? And who arranged the music?

Is it just me who likes these songs? Am I too geeky?

 

[Kryton]

Tangential: My favorite Charles Napier line is "...'cause you're gonna look pretty goddamn funny tryin' to eat corn-on-the-cob with NO FUCKING TEETH!"

What a range! Hippie Adam to the head of the Good Ol' Boys in about a decade!

 

[M'Sharak]

Pfft, that's nothing; he was an AAC General, after that!

 

[Kryton]

Oh, I'm FULLY aware...I own the Time Travel Fan Collective. I just loved him in the first Blues Brothers movie so much. :thumbsup:

 

[NathanielM]

SPOCK AND ROLL! BAAABY

You should look at the Posts for the Next Generation Forum. It's Marked Ratings PloY... (the posts of Spock with a Fro) The illustrious Carl Spock, Esquire.

That episode needed Spock with a Fro and a hippie headband.

Funny Episode tho... you can tell they were having fun...

GREAT BLOOPERS from the Blooper Tapes!



Nathaniel

 

[TowerPower]

Back to the question about the songs...

Yeah, I like them too. Have not seen them on any cd or anywhere else. Not sure where they might be available now.

 

[M'Sharak]

Kryton said:
Oh, I'm FULLY aware...I own the Time Travel Fan Collective.

Of course. It was a play on something found here.

 

[seigezunt]

more importantly, does anybody have the chords for these songs? I would love to be able to play them at a geek gathering on my uke.

 

[Hambone]

seigezunt said:
more importantly, does anybody have the chords for these songs? I would love to be able to play them at a geek gathering on my uke.

You know...once upon a time, BWDRTE*, I had "The Star Trek Songbook". It had sheet music for all of the "source music" in TOS (including "The Way to Eden"), plus the theme song and the "love theme" (from "This Side of Paridise"). I wonder what ever happened to that. All I can find now is schlock like this. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Star-Trek-Theme-Music/dp/0793588871 If you go to www.jwpepper.com and do a title search there are tons of Star Trek collections available.

Did anyone else have it? I remember it had an orange cover, and there were black-and-white pictures to go with each song.

*Back When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth

 

[cooleddie74]

"I'm gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy...got a clean bill of health from Doctor McCoy!"

Classic stuff.

 

[Steven Of Nine]

I've been looking, too, and I can't find 'em. Love those songs. Ripped 'em and listen to 'em at work!

 

[cooleddie74]

A shame GNP Crescendo records back in the '80s and '90s didn't put the EDEN songs on one of their classic TOS-themed soundtrack albums.

 

[Esteban]

And who arranged the music?

I'm going out on a limb and suggesting Fred Steiner.

One, he gets the credit for the episode, which is otherwise tracked.

Two, there are one or two cues on the bicycle wheel, I think, which are very close to some of the "Charlie X" rec room music, and Steiner definitely did that one (in fact, it was the first regular episode scored, in late August 1966--little known fact).

Now back to my regularly scheduled life.

 

[Christopher]

^^If not Steiner, the most likely candidate is Wilbur Hatch, Desilu's music director, who wrote the music for Uhura's song "Beyond Antares." Although by the third season, Desilu had been bought by Paramount, so I'm not sure if Hatch would've still been around.

 

[Woulfe]

Headin' out ta' Eaden, yea brother !

- W -
* We reach ! *

 

[Esteban]

Christopher said:
If not Steiner, the most likely candidate is Wilbur Hatch, Desilu's music director, who wrote the music for Uhura's song "Beyond Antares." Although by the third season, Desilu had been bought by Paramount, so I'm not sure if Hatch would've still been around.

I think by the 3rd season Hatch had been jettisoned. It's a good guess, though...he did some other uncredited work. It was either he or Steiner who touched up "City", no? (Courage gets the only music cred).

While we're on the subject, either he or Steiner also touched up "The Omega Glory", notably, the Star Spangled Banner motif.

Bob Justman was a huge Steiner fan so I'm betting it was he who got the nod, but of course Our Bobby was gone by the time of "Eden".

'Tis a puzzlement.

 

[Christopher]

Jeff Bond's The Music of Star Trek establishes that Steiner wrote the original music cues featured in "City." It was more than just "touching up." Although it was only a partial score, there were a number of new cues in the episode, mainly the romantic (and tragic) cues associated with Edith (built around the song "Goodnight, Sweetheart"), but also including the underscore for the "mechanical rice-picker" scene. The book makes no mention of Steiner doing any work on "Omega Glory," and is sadly lacking in information on the "Way to Eden" songs. When I e-mailed Jeff Bond about this, he mentioned having read an interview with one of the third-season writers who claimed he had written the songs; he said it might have been Jerome Bixby, but he couldn't quite remember. But that would probably only have been the lyrics, not the music.

It's amazing -- for nearly four decades, Trek fans and writer/researchers have been digging up information about every last little detail about TOS, yet somehow the composers or arrangers of these various little pieces of music remain unidentified. (I'm still wondering about the harpsichord pieces in "Squire of Gothos" -- original or existing compositions, and if original, who by?)

 

[Michael]

Christopher said:
It's amazing -- for nearly four decades, Trek fans and writer/researchers have been digging up information about every last little detail about TOS, yet somehow the composers or arrangers of these various little pieces of music remain unidentified.

That's exactly what I thought! Every little aspect of this series seems to be explored, but no one ever was interested in these songs.

 

[Shatmandu]

Christopher said:
It's amazing -- for nearly four decades, Trek fans and writer/researchers have been digging up information about every last little detail about TOS, yet somehow the composers or arrangers of these various little pieces of music remain unidentified.

I just assumed it was Satan himself.

Joe, yea, brother

 

[Steven Of Nine]

Satan isn't that bad.