I don't remember where or when I purchased this album, but I'm pretty sure I'd never listened to it the entire way through before the other day. It is weird. I don't even know what it is - a dramatic audition? Shatner reads Shakespeare and some other monologues - each with pretty much the same inflection, as though it's the same character every time - with big band orchestral music backing him up. And then, he intersperses those monologues with covers of songs like "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", except he doesn't sing. He recites the lyrics - dramatically!This album is a lesson in chutzpah. I'd say it's delightfully terrible, except that it's also just plain terrible - beyond camp. At the end of his Dylan cover, he cries, "Mr. Tambourine Man!" as though his heart is literally in danger of being wrenched from him.
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