(AUDIO RESTORED) William Shatner "Sings" 'Rocket Man' 1978 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@victorblackley8372How 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.

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.

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

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.

I came looking for the legendary videos of Shatner singing, and I came across your comment. Paul McCartney is my favorite artist hahaha

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.

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

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

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

Every couple years or so something reminds me of this and I watch it again. Third Shatner's entrance gets me every damn time.

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!!

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

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

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.

I thought all published material is there.

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!!

I wasn't there, but I had permission from my parents to watch the award show

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)

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

It stopped me from killing myself.

For sure!

I'm a rock it man!

"There's something missing." "Like talent?"

We Must Protect Bill at All Costs. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅