Music in "The Way to Eden"

[Sevrin]

In The Way to Eden, a band of hippies takes over the Enterprise, and does so while singing a bunch of flower-power songs, as you all know.

According to Memory Alpha:

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Way_to_Eden_(episode)

Charles Napier, who plays Adam, one of the hippies, wrote some of the songs they sing.

Now, this has been haunting me for years: is there a soundtrack that has these songs?

Any hint welcome.

Thanks!

 

[Esteban]

After years of worthless thought on this subject, I've concluded it's either:

1) Fred Steiner, the almighty. He was, at least, around in the 3rd season and there is a riff or two that is reminiscent of his work in "Charlie X".

2) Wilbur Hatch, the lame. He was the Desilu Music Supervisor. I think he gets the nod on "Beyond Antares". But of course, by then, Paramount had bought Desilu and he was probably canned.

3) Unknown Studio Musicians. And we may never know.

But I vote for # 1, and I wish Fred had insisted on credit.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

If said album does not include some hits by The Good Old Boys, I'll boycott!

...after all, he drove the Winnebago!

 

[Christopher]

Now, this has been haunting me for years: is there a soundtrack that has these songs?

Not an official one. There was a bootleg "Star Trek Bloopers" album that compiled a bunch of discarded 3rd-season soundtrack tapes someone found in a dumpster, and they include on-set recordings of the filming of the musical scenes in that episode -- which means the performers on set singing along with a playback of the performance they recorded earlier in a recording studio for maximum sound quality, so it's kind of doubled-up and the audio quality isn't great. But it's the closest thing there is to a release of the "Way to Eden" songs.

I once asked ST music expert Jeff Bond about the authorship of the songs, and he said that one of the show's writers -- he believed it was Jerome Bixby but wasn't certain -- had claimed credit for them. I assume that would just be the lyrics, though.

 

[Sevrin]

Thanks!

That's v. helpful.