{"id":535299,"date":"2015-02-28T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=535299"},"modified":"2015-02-28T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T18:47:02","slug":"listen-to-leonard-nimoy-cover-johnny-cashs-i-walk-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/listen-to-leonard-nimoy-cover-johnny-cashs-i-walk-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Leonard Nimoy Cover Johnny Cash\u2019s \u2018I Walk the Line’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Director and actor Leonard Nimoy<\/a>\u00a0passed away<\/a> Friday morning (Feb. 27). He was best known for playing Mr. Spock in\u00a0Star Trek<\/a><\/em>, but during his lifetime, Nimoy also recorded five albums, one of which included a Johnny Cash<\/a> cover.<\/p>\n

Nimoy\u2019s first album,\u00a0Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock\u2019s Music From Outer Space<\/em>, was released in 1967, but it wasn\u2019t until his fifth album, 1970\u2032s The New World of Leonard Nimoy<\/em>, that he shared his cover of the Man in Black\u2019s \u201cI Walk the Line.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCharles Grean of Dot Records had arranged with the studio to do an album of space music based on music from Star Trek<\/em>, and he has a teenage daughter who\u2019s a fan of the show and a fan of Mr. Spock. She said, \u2018Well, if you\u2019re going to do an album of music from Star Trek<\/em>, then Mr. Spock should be on the album.\u2019\u00a0So Dot contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in either speaking or singing on the record. I said I was very interested in doing both,\u201d Nimoy once explained<\/a> of how his musical career began. \u201cThat was the first album we did \u2026 It was very well-received and successful enough that Dot then approached me and asked me to sign a long-term contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nimoy\u2019s version of \u201cI Walk the Line\u201d was also included on a 1993 compilation album,\u00a0Highly Illogical<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Walk the Line\u201d was Cash\u2019s first No. 1 song on Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Singles chart; it also reached the Top 20 on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100. Originally recorded at Sun Studio in 1956, \u201cI Walk the Line\u201d was re-recorded four times during Cash\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

Born in 1931 in Boston, Nimoy was 83 when he died, due to end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is survived by his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy.<\/p>\n

Listen to Leonard Nimoy\u2019s Cover of \u201cI Walk the Line\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n