(AUDIO RESTORED) William Shatner "Sings" 'Rocket Man' 1978
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- My gift to all Shatner Fans who have had to sit through the abysmal versions of this song replete with buzzing and hissing. It was a bit more difficult than your average restoration project but Captain Kirk deserves no less than my best attempt. Some artifacts remain but on the whole I'd say it is considerably better than the original found here:
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The greatest thing about Shatner's "singing" performances is that you can never tell if he's serious or if it's a goof. That's genius!
He’s very serious.
@@Shlankyman545 He appears to be but .... I don't know.
Father of spinal tap...
@@Koji-888 It was the '70s. Today he'd get cancelled just for smoking.
Per his most recent memoir, "Boldly Go...", projects like The Transformed Man and Has Been are very serious. But he's not above having a laugh, like his rendition of "Tears for Caesar" in Free Enterprise.
I think we're all missing the truly impressive aspect of this performance; he managed to time his cigarette to the song almost exactly.
Back then proper smoking was taught in acting classes. A lot of actors did cigarette ads for extra income, like John Wayne and Yul Brynner , both of whom died of lung cancer.
that's a blunt man
Kirk was high af
I don't think that's a cigarette.
That's so funny
The way he manages to imitate Stewie Griffin's mannerisms is sensational.
It's amazing how he copied Stewart Gilligan Griffen
🤡
Are you serious this was like in the 70s
This was just a year before Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture.
No, Stewie Griffin was imitating William Shatner’s mannerisms. That was a parody of this.
Nice work. I really don't want to live in a universe where this never happened.
William Shatner holds up very well on the reruns of Star Trek. As a matter of fact, the whole original ST holds up just fine.
I want THIS version played at my wake! Dressed like the partied out version. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me Either 🤣🤣🤣
My condolences 💐
I lived in a universe where this never happened. So i moved
Paul McCartney was asked about Shatner’s interpretation of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, and his response works for this as well: “It’s wrong, but it’s so wrong it’s great”
I came looking for the legendary videos of Shatner singing, and I came across your comment. Paul McCartney is my favorite artist hahaha
paul is better than shatner at everything including acting
Still holds up as one of the truly fearless yet disastrous performance of a song at an awards show
Was it, though?
Check out his rendition of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”. He’s gotta get an album out - he owes it to the people.
im fucking dying lmao
FActoid = ALLWAS got the woman. Janas,robot girl, Temtress aliens. got the woman,, Bill.
disastrous? This is the best version.
1978: Shatner "sings" Rocket Man
2021: Shatner becomes Rocket Man!
and after blowing all those CARBON emmisions from that rocket goes on to spew about "saving the earth from "climate change". HAHAHA
@@Antsylum Kerosene is a bi product of petroleum. Rocket fuel is Kerosene.
You should research the facts before you speak or post, makes you sound smarter
This is the most painful set of replies ever.
@@scottchapman9931 Sunshine, you really haven't researched this. Aviation fuel is generally kerosene, or similar. But rocket fuel is a bit different and comes in a lot of forms. Space rockets are usually powered by mixing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the combustion product of which is water.
So directly, there is no carbon emission; however, there will be carbon emissions involved in the production of the liquid hydrogen and oxygen, and there is a greenhouse effect of water vapour in the atmosphere (though this is less well understood than other effects.
All that said, the emissions involved in the occasional space launch, compared with the vast emissions involved in daily air travel, and road use are infinitesimal.
@@edwardcoe7293 While it is true for the rocket Shatner flew on, Blue Origin's New Shepard, it's certainly not true in general. The rocket engine used on New Shepard does indeed burn only hydrogen with oxygen, producing nothing but water vapor as exhaust, but the vast majority of rockets launched throughout history and the most active ones today, burn refined kerosene (usually RP-1) with oxygen. It's equivalent to commercial airliners in terms of exhaust products, being mostly carbon dioxide and water, along with soot as not all the carbon in the fuel reacts with oxygen during the combustion process in the rocket engine. Many rockets also combine kerosene-burning engines with solid rocket boosters, where the fuel typically is powdered aluminium metal which burns with ammonium perchlorate as oxidizer. The exhaust is pretty nasty. The third major category is the hypergolic fuels, often some variant of hydrazine combined with nitrogen tetroxide. Horrible substances when unreacted.
I love how the first two Shatners seem annoyed at Party Shatner's appearance.
There is only room for one Shatner on the planet
@@jasonphillips5816 two*
Because he won't pass the spleef!! Bill was and IS a HUGE cannabis consumer.
My ideal t-shirt is a graphic tee of all 3 of them like a 3 wolf moon shirt
@@Slappap Agreed...pause at 4:20 and thats exactly the screenshot I would want on my 3 Shatner Moon Shirt
I love the way Shatner acts his way through the song, it's like a lesson from your drama teacher on three different ways to interpret lines.
People always seem to forget Shatner is classically trained. He knew _exactly_ what he was doing in this.
I wonder if it was a stealth reference to Freudian personality theory. Or maybe I give Shatner too much credit. :P
I certainly had some teachers like Third Shatner but that was due to the vodka.
Acts?
The phrase ‘Third Shatner’ really should have superseded ‘Magnum Opus’ by this point in popular culture
We all strive to reach the third shatner level but fail.
President Bush, a third Shatner just manifested on the stage of the Saturn Awards.
Yes. There is the 3rd Shatner that's been going all nite & wants to take a road trip to vegas.
There's a third Shatner in all of us. Polyp-like in nature
Oh wow, he really leans into this.
It truly *is* glorious.
Forever legendary.
there’s a lesson here about committing to an original idea no matter how insane and ridiculous it seems. this truly is an original interpretation; explains why it’s so controversial, and also why we’re still talking about it almost 50 years later
When something is so terrible it's wonderful.
No, just wonderful.
A lesson for us all. If you think you're doing shit, don't try to improve. Do the counterintuitive thing of attempting to become more shit, it may well turn into gold.
It’s wonderful. Not bad @ all.
@@DCI-Frank-BurnsideHow do you know that Shatner thought he was “doing shit,” let alone “attempting to become more shit”? Not to mention, that’s a terrible lesson that this is not teaching.
@@imfsresidentotaku9699 I was merely echoing the O.P's sentiment in more meandering terms.
This is the pinnacle of human culture. Can anyone top that?
Hearing his dramatic reading of this song changes you. You will never be the same.
Check out his interpretation of “Lucy in the sky with Diamonds”. You may never recover.
@@colcocon6021THANK YOU FOR THE RECOMMENDATION. IM SO EXCITED TO HEAR IT.❤❤❤
@@Hylianmonkeys My pleasure. While you’re at it, check out Leonard Nimoy’s valiant attempt at “Where is Love”. Epic.
I agree
@@colcocon6021 LOL
The more I see this, the more I think this is the best performance of the song. Comedy aspects aside, he understands the song on a spiritual level.
He high
That's why I love these Shatner performances - he is treating it as a role he is performing just as he would in any scripted dialogue from an acting role. Singers are more just singing a nice tune and telling a story.
It’s absolutely brilliant.
@@leftifornian2066 as a kite by then
I saw this live. The adults thought I was crazy that I wanted to watch this show.
Lucky man.
You lucky lucky man! 👍
I was actually on the moon watching him perform this on earth.
@@theshapeexists You must have ben very high at the time.
And maybe still are.
@@CommodoreFan64 for the MANGS!!
When Third Shatner showed up, I laughed myself into a coughing fit so hard i started aeeing stars and that honestly improved it so so much
Every couple years or so something reminds me of this and I watch it again. Third Shatner's entrance gets me every damn time.
I read your comment as Third Shatner made his apparition. I laughed myself into a coughing fit, too.😂
I don't think that was tobacco.
Also, he must have been a time-traveller. Went to the year 3008 and saw Zap Brannigan in a karaoke bar... the rest is future history from the past.
After watching this again, I agree. Looked more like a joint.
It was a cigarette, you idiot. Do you really think they would have let him smoke shitty marijuana? Cigarettes are better anyway if you wanna get things done.
@@jameslincoln92 I assume you have incontrovertible proof it was a cigarette?
@@colcocon6021 I assume you have incontrovertible proof that it wasn't a cigarette.
@@scottchapman9931 Are you for real? Have you HEARD his rendition of “Lucy in the sky with Diamonds”? Come ON!!
Someone said this should of been a post credit scene in Rocketman movie but with Chris Pine as Shatner
If chris pine did this, we could shut down the internet. It couldn't get any better.
That'd have been the greatest moment in cinema since Citizen Kane
bUt hE bELiEveS iN a gOd tHaT iSn'T dIsNEY!!??!!
If somebody could get Chris Pine to do this I'm sure somebody with a lot of ca$h, like Howard Stern, would pay good money just for the "it was SO funny I pissed myself" hilariousness of it ! Hell... at this point... I'd settle for a deep fake swap out of Shatner for Pine.
😂😢 I WISSHHH
Today, October 13, 2021, The Shat Man officially became a ROCK-IT-MAN!
I have occasionally used the term "Shatner!" scatalogically.
@@lizab.stough9396 LMAOOOOOO
This clip shows the man's versatility. And at 90, he went into space. Unbelievable life.
It may be the greatest piece of art ever created.
Now that is some awesome weed.
Shared this today in honor of 90 year old William Shatner being released from the Earth's Gravity and really making his way where no man of his age has gone before. Thanks for the remaster. It's great!
Same here; had to experience it again. I'm just amazed that seemingly _none_ of the commentators over the last couple days have referenced this!
All the world's a masonic stage...
Finally someone who knows!!!!
Technically, because it was a sub-orbital flight, he was not released from Earth’s gravity
Beyond awesome
He's so powerful that he really split into 3 parts that night. Truly a timeless classic.
I love Shattners surrealistic point of Humor.
Oh please he's DEAD ASS SERIOUS
@@matthewwalsh3399 He WAS dead ass serious back in 1978, sure.
At this point, 40+ years later? He's a bit more willing to poke fun at himself and enjoys trolling everyone.
He was totally sincere when he started doing these.
That's the special Romulan blend tobacco 😉
This is not meant to be taken as a joke, whatsoever.
It’s a great thing to see someone capable of self amusement at this high of a professional level. In front of the songs writer no less.
He is the MAN. His spoken word version of who's the real shady deserves to be in the library of Congress.
I thought all published material is there.
This is one of the single greatest moments in film and music history, and i am proud to say, i was there when it happened
I wasn't there, but I had permission from my parents to watch the award show
Question, if indeed you were there, while he was on stage how did they replicate his to other personas?
Did they use a film projector or did the audience only see 1 Shatner?
Amazing audio restoration. Like you said, Shatner deserves no less than your best. His "singing" is a guilty pleasure of mine. Somewhat ironically, the "original" version has since been nuked by RUclips.
Happy 93rd Birthday, Captain!
That's right folks ! You watched it ! You can't unwatch it !
If you really really think about this songs lyrics and listen to Shatner sing it in the wee small hours then this performance is truly quite a power one. 😇
If this was the only thing on the internet it would be worth it. Thank you, Bill. Thank you.
I saw this reference on Family guy and never knew what this was referencing but this is pretty awesome lolol
I can hear the five shots of bourbon in his voice. lol.
10/13/2021 William Shatner at 90 years old becomes the oldest man to ever go to space. He's finally a Rocket Man!
Brilliant! A true Shatner fan can only agree. He knew exactly what he was doing
Scotty! Bones! Spock! I'm a RocketMan!
It must have blown peoples minds to see three William Shatners on screen at once singing and reacting to each other properly in sync over what started out as a live stage performance in 1978. I don't believe this had ever been done before this and with the television quality of the 70s it probably looked more realistic than how it looks here as well
The look on Shanter#2’s face when Shanter#3 pops out from behind Shanter#1 is priceless.
Wait, what?
Mr. Shatner should be in every music hall of fame there is for this song alone.
William Shatner should have Won at Least one Oscar for His Star Trek Movies.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@davidwesley2525The part where he yells Khaaaaaan! Oscar worthy for certain. Lol
I was just around the edge of RUclips's front page, near the recommendations... when the drugs began to take hold.
He's on the verge of tears on that last "it's gonna be a long long time"
It WAS a long, long time, but he's finally going to be the Rocket Man he always wanted to be on October, 12, 2021.
You might want to edit your comment, as it's getting delayed to 10-13-21 due to very high winds.
10/13 aliyah day (means going up)
I thought the Animaniacs were just making fun of the way he talks
7 years in and this is still glorious
For people who saw this live/remember it happening: was the consensus that Shatner was doing this tongue in cheek, or did shatner think he was really doing like “high performance art”?
Good job on this. By far the best quality version. God i love it. It's almost as though his belief in how good it is is some kind of madness and we are all just along for a ride around Shatner's breadbasket
"restored" and then promptly converted to ringtone quality again.
Julie lol.
Yeah, this is terrible quality. The original un-"restored" version is 100% better.
Seriously, it sounds like it's being played from an iphone inside of a coffee can.
@@jaxes88 or a pot tin depending who you are.
@@Mr_PNW @Jake1992s description was 100% exactly correct. And then you topped that with an apt twist (for those who are, already, twisted -- HA HA!).
Incredible job, always considered this singing of this song one of my favorite guilty pleasures but I've honestly never heard sound so satisfying. Everything was very clear the instruments were much more prominent and Shatner was balanced into the music nicely, very well done.
This is the video I’ll look for on the sad day when he leaves us for another dimension
I'm listening to this, while watching Bill's flight into space on Blue Origin... Live Awesome!
This is genuinely good performance art. I know we're supposed to clown on Shatner but i think about this performance A LOT and its so very him, so very of the moment, so very retired Starfleet Captain musing on how his career began. Just happens to also be an Elton John/Bernie Taupin song, so the two energies mix elegantly as the smoke from that "totally not a joint" twirls skyward.
One could even say this was the birth of Denny Crane, because I see more of him than Kirk here.
The best, the most unforgettable performance of this song ever. I love it. James T Kirk IS the Rock-It-Man!!!
Thank god for yt.
We'd never get to see these gems otherwise.
A magnificent mix of sarcasm and droll sarcastic humor. Love it! Can’t stop laughing!
I have watched this video a dozen times, and the more I watch it, the weirder it gets. Truly bizzare.
He’s a Legend !!
His talk-singing of other songs as well is unique and so-genius 🌟!
Something is special in this song. Thanks for sharing.
It may have taken 55 years but soon at 90 he will really be the oldest "Rocketman" to go into space.
Oooooh yeah... that's the good stuff.
And I'm gonna be........high................ as a kite.
Such a great dude. Anyone else see how much fun he's having???
I’m in stitches….this cured my depression
It stopped me from killing myself.
never gets old
Man the ultimate in "im cool" self-indulgence
I absolutely love William Shatner. Grew up watching him in so many endeavors. Fangirling. This is fabulous. Thank you very much for sharing this! (I've never seen it before.)
You should share it with him. Especially since he took that trip to outer space.
Honestly, if the song didn’t exist, this would be a riveting movie scene.
sheltering at home..
won't watch the news..
need an escape..
what better than Bill Shatner to ease the pressure..
we are all so lucky to have experienced this masterpiece in our lifetime..thank you, and hang in there everybody
My Dad claims he came home from a shift, found the Science Fiction Awards on TV by accident, and then woke my grandfather up to watch this train wreck as it unfolded.
Remember he did this on purpose. Rehearsed for a couple of weeks. It's hard to imagine that the Theater was big enough to fit his massive titanium encased balls.
Thank you so much for this, I listen to this all the time! This is so underrated and a surreal, powerful, amazing cover of a timeless and brilliant song by an actual legend.
Every now and then I come back to this video to restore my faith on humanity.
This is an absolute masterpiece
Live Long and Prosper, Mr. William Shatner. What a monumental day it is that this is the day Commander James T. Kirk launched into space for the first time.
I love the old synth sounds. I'm happy to have seen this historic piece of entertainment... now I never have to watch it again lmao. LOVE YOU SHATNER!
I love how the audience is like "WTF just happened."
I'm so glad I have been alive to witness this.
ok i think watching this 10 times today is enough
3:40 BEST PART XD
For sure!
I'm a rock it man!
This is so raw. Pure genius. Its beautiful, truly.
Congrats on becoming a real rocket man mr Shatner!
*WILLIE SLAKMER:*
_I'm here to entertain..._
_My little friends,_
_...My ...Small friends !_
"There's something missing."
"Like talent?"
I love the fact Stewie came real close to duplicate this great performance by Shatner.
A true legendary man/persona replication of an equally legendary artist/musician`s work is truly a sight / sound to behold
I love his version of Hey Mr Tamborine man too!
This video lives rent free in my head.
Hey captain.....You finally made it! 😀
Magical performance....
This is really good, I heard the original and this is a lot better. It feels like your in a studio without the audience
Shatner, we love you man.
G'day Thomas, Thank you very much for this restoration job. Now, one can study the effort Bill Shatner puts into this performance. I know it's roundly written off as kitsch and awful but, no, this is a highly examined, definite and sophisticated performance. Critics should just get a microphone and a sound source and try doing this themselves. It's nowhere near as 'easy' as Shatner makes it look. It takes meticulous timing (which he doesn’t get 100% right - I'd say 98%) to pull off a song like this where you are speaking and the music is played for a singer. Shatner would say he did this because he can't sing, but he's being coy. I've heard him sing; he really can. Anyway, thanks again! Cheers, BH
Now this is art! One of the greatest performances ever caught on film. The stuff of legends!
DeForest Kelley: “Dammit Bill. You’re an actor, not a singer”
"Your use of prose in a melodic situation is illogical" - Spock.
That man is a world treasure!
We Must Protect Bill at All Costs.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
William Shatner is
truly in a class by
himself....no one else
could do this justice ! ❤❤❤❤❤
... and now he really will be a "Rocket Man" 😁
This makes me appreciate the Chris Elliot parody even more. I forgot all about the lettin' it loose, undone tie Shatner part.
Shatner is one of the iconic eccentrics, fearless and shameless. 🤣
I've heard about this for so long. It really is interesting - and you really don't know if he's serious or not - and the wondering is part of what makes it work. That also sums up the 70s. So fantastic. I think it's brilliantly done.