Rare Audio Bloopers

[KirkPicard]

I suspect many fans may never have discovered a record entitled "Trek bloopers" According to the liner notes, "rescued from old reel-to-reel audio tapes from a "Hollywood garbage can" and sold to a Star Trek collector" The entire record is preserved here as a series of *.mp3 downloadable files. 58 different bloopers and outtakes from "Whom Gods Destroy", "The Way To Eden", "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield", and "Turnabout Intruder."

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/365-days-199---.html

 

[Michael]

Much thanks for the link! For a fan of The Way to Eden like me this is a great gift. I just finished listening to the whole record. And indeed, the most interesting stuff comes from this episode. It's nice to hear Charles Napier's I'm Talking About You without the distortion when they cut to the bridge in the aired episode. Man, I'd kill for some clean recordings of those wonderful songs.

Other funny bloopers are What would you do if the Captain spat on you?, The Chief Engineer plays football on the bridge. Hilarious! and Kirk. »... a general courtmartial ...« Spock. »I want a transfer.« which showcase the wonderful camaraderie and atmosphere among the cast and crew of Star Trek even in its doomed final season.

Again, thank you, KirkPicard!

 

[Outpost4]

KirkPicard, nice find. I've never seen this before.

And has a vinyl collector, I hate you. After seeing this thread, I went to one of my standard sources for used vinyl and they have a mint copy for $50. That's too much money, but not out of the ballpark. I could see myself paying $50 for this as a Trekkie and a vinyl-holic. I've spend $25 on a classic record that I wanted. In fact, I do that a couple of times a month, maybe more often. I went to the record store last week and spent $125 on mostly new and some used vinyl.

I mean, I once spent $20 for the soundtrack record to Deep Throat. Really, who else has the soundtrack to a porno movie on vinyl? (I have the movie itself on LaserDisc.) It sounds awful, BTW.

I'll sleep on it tonight. That copy isn't going anywhere.

 

[Therin of Andor]

After seeing this thread, I went to one of my standard sources for used vinyl and they have a mint copy for $50.

Keep looking. There are plenty of copies out there. I've had my vinyl LP since about 1982 and it's from "Blue Pear". (My first version was on audiotape but I eventually realised it wasn't an original version, but copied by a fellow fan.)

 

[Outpost4]

I will. I've found another one for $27 but it is rated just VG. The thing about the first one that attracted me was Mint. We all know what that means with collectables.

Anyway, it's the next morning and I haven't bought it. That tells the story.

 

[SchwEnt]

Thanx KirkPicard for providing that link. Good stuff.

I've heard it before. I have it on cassette. I remember buying it out of the back of an old Starlog magazine from the early 80s.

Alas, it remains on cassette..until now.

 

[WendellM]

I guess the cast was used to it, but I broke out laughing at Side 1 - 13:

Sulu: Ship's phaser ready sir.
Scotty: All right, now let's punch a hole in it. Full power!
Some Random Guy: Booop!
Scotty: Another blast - full power!
Some Random Guy: <higher pitched voice> Boooop!

Then, after the cast has some trouble for a few tracks, Random Guy's phaser vocalizations start showing up again.

Thanks, KirkPicard!

 

[Trekwatcher]

These are awesome-many thanks for posting!

 

[Outpost4]

I just won an Ebay auction for this record. $13.99 including shipping. Not too bad.

If anybody else is interested, I found, after I placed my bid, this offer for a sealed copy of the vinyl for the same price.

 

[Phoenicianknight]

Vinal?!

Who the hell has a "record player" anymore?


Hell, I'll just wait for the CD version.....

 

[Christopher]

I still have my "Blue Pear" LP of these as well. I got it way back when at Tower Records in New York before it closed. At the time, I had no idea it was a bootleg, or even what that meant; I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.

The thing is, it's not really a blooper reel, just assorted audio outtakes that aren't necessarily funny at all. It is nice to have a sort of "soundtrack album" for "The Way to Eden," though really the folks who wrote the music and lyrics to those songs should be getting royalties. I'm not sure anyone even knows for sure who actually wrote them, though. I think Jeff Bond (author of The Music of Star Trek) once told me that Jerome Bixby claimed to have written the lyrics, though I could be misremembering which author it was. And Fred Steiner was credited as the composer for the episode, so he may have done the music. (The episode was shot post-Desilu, so I doubt it was Desilu's music supervisor Wilbur Hatch, who wrote the music to "Beyond Antares.")

 

[Therin of Andor]

it's not really a blooper reel, just assorted audio outtakes that aren't necessarily funny at all.

Although a few of them are. It's also very telling as to how many takes poor ol' Harry Landers (Dr Coleman in "Turnabout Intruder") needed to get through a scene.

And I love the final farewell to Majel Barrett, leaving the TOS set for the very last time.

It is nice to have a sort of "soundtrack album" for "The Way to Eden," though really the folks who wrote the music and lyrics to those songs should be getting royalties. I'm not sure anyone even knows for sure who actually wrote them, though. I think Jeff Bond (author of The Music of Star Trek) once told me that Jerome Bixby claimed to have written the lyrics

Charles Napier (Adam) wrote some of the songs he sings in the episode.

I thought I recalled Bond's book mentioning how unusual it was that the full lyrics were included in the final script, rather than an instruction that someone should break into song - and therefore some lyrics might have been written by Arthur Heinemann?

 

[Christopher]

Charles Napier (Adam) wrote some of the songs he sings in the episode.

Source?

I thought I recalled Bond's book mentioning how unusual it was that the full lyrics were included in the final script, rather than an instruction that someone should break into song - and therefore some lyrics might have been written by Arthur Heinemann?

The final script wouldn't be solely the credited author's work. Every script is the work of multiple hands. If the songs had been in the first draft, that would be indicative.

 

[Michael]

I don't know where this info is from, but I found this on Memory Alpha:

Deborah Downey was an actress who played Mavig in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Way to Eden". Along with episode writer Arthur Heinemann, who contributed the lyrics, and co-star Charles Napier, she wrote the music featured in the episode. She provided her own vocals as well. [...] Her album, Painting Pictures, features Heading Into Eden, a reworked version of a song from the episode.

Damn! Now I want to have her album. Does anyone have an idea where I can possibly get it?

 

[Outpost4]

What a fascinating life Deborah Downey has lead.

IMDB Biography

 

[M'Sharak]

I don't know where this info is from, but I found this on Memory Alpha:

Deborah Downey was an actress who played Mavig in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Way to Eden". Along with episode writer Arthur Heinemann, who contributed the lyrics, and co-star Charles Napier, she wrote the music featured in the episode. She provided her own vocals as well. [...] Her album, Painting Pictures, features Heading Into Eden, a reworked version of a song from the episode.

Damn! Now I want to have her album. Does anyone have an idea where I can possibly get it?

A quick search didn't turn up any copies, but perhaps you might be able to contact her directly and ask.

http://www.deborahlyonsportraits.com/about.html
http://www.deborahlyonsportraits.com/forms/contact/contact.html

 

[Therin of Andor]

Source?

An interview with Napier in "Starlog" magazine, IIRC, but I was also reminded by Memory Alpha.

The final script wouldn't be solely the credited author's work. Every script is the work of multiple hands. If the songs had been in the first draft, that would be indicative.

I know, but remember the script was originally "Joanna" by DC Fontana - and Fred Frieberger nixed it because he didn't see Kirk and Joanna as a love match. I'm sure I recall DC Fontana saying the songs weren't hers.

http://captainmike.org/Galactopedia/article_waytoeden.html