The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - Leonard Nimoy - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Leonard Nimoy was known best for playing the iconic character of Spock in the long-running sci-fi franchise Star Trek but he also lent his voice to a number of psych-pop songs over the years. Case in point: "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," a plinky-plonky pop fantasia about the J.R.R. Tolkien protagonist from his famous 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit. "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" finds Leonard Nimoy imagining The Hobbit universe, conjuring a vivid image of the character "with his long, wooden pipe" and fuzzy, wooly toes", going on adventures and "just a-sittin' on a treasure of silver and gold". "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" was composed by Charles Randolph Grean and recorded by the Star Trek star for his 1968 album Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, his second release for Dot Records following his aptly titled debut, Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space, released in 1967.