WikiTube Volume Five: William Shatner

(This is a multi-part series combining Wikipedia and YouTube, with little to no original content written by TBP.)

William Shatner sings "Rocketman"

From the Wikipedia entry on William Shatner's Musical Career:

In 1978, Shatner hosted The Science Fiction Film Awards where he performed Elton John's "Rocket Man"[1] (again, in a spoken voice). This performance has been parodied by the TV show Family Guy and musician Beck, to name a few....

Shatner's spoken-word style was also parodied on The Simpsons, with the radio in one episode playing a spoken-word version of Homer's Christmas carol, "Everybody hates Ned Flanders". In a Treehouse Of Horror episode, the Comic Book Guy (as the super-villain "The Collector") uses "the only working phaser in existence" which "was fired only once to prevent William Shatner from recording another album."

Here is the immortal "Rocketman" performance on YouTube. (Make sure you stick it out until the end.)

What is this emotion that Shatner projects here?

Can anyone really do this? For real?

Is he the worst, or is he really the BADDEST?

(These have been hotly debated topics in TBP.)

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More singing Shatner here.