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Star Trek: Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album for the 2009 film Star Trek, composed by Michael Giacchino.The score was recorded in October 2008 since the film was originally scheduled to be released the following December.
The score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture was written by Jerry Goldsmith, who would later compose the scores Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis, as well as the themes to the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.
The album was re-released in the UK in 1973 on the Rediffusion label as Mr. Spock Presents Music From Outer Space.The track listing is identical to the original Dot Records release, but with a new sleeve design by Stephen Hill Design Services, including a different photo of Nimoy as Spock (front), and new liner notes by Ron Edwards (rear).
The First Contact soundtrack was released by the independent label GNP Crescendo Records—which distributed all of the Star Trek film and television soundtracks—on December 2, 1996, [7] [8] The album contained 51 minutes of music, with 35 minutes of Jerry Goldsmith's score, 10 minutes of additional music by Joel Goldsmith, and two licensed songs—Roy Orbison's "Ooby Dooby" and Steppenwolf ...
Leonard Nimoy playing guitar in 1967.. During and following Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy released five albums of musical vocal recordings on Dot Records. [1] On his first album, Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space, and half of his second album Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy, science fiction-themed songs are featured where Nimoy sings as Spock.
In 1989, Pittsburgh radio station WYDD-FM played this song non-stop in a loop for 25½ hours—focusing on a repeat of the "Pure Energy" sample from Leonard Nimoy as Star Trek ' s Mr. Spock. The marketing stunt caused listeners to call emergency services, concerned that some calamity had befallen the DJs and other station employees.
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the song is played by the originator of warp flight, Zefram Cochrane, during launch sequences for good luck. Cochrane uses the song for any test flights and plays the song during the first warp flight, with the crew of the Enterprise, as featured in the movie Star Trek: First Contact. [9] [10] [11]
Columbia Records released the score in 1979, in conjunction with the film's release and became one of Goldsmith's best-selling scores. [1]: 90 This would be followed by an expanded edition released by Legacy Recordings on November 10, 1998, with additional 21 minutes of music supplemented the original track list, and released into a double disc album, with the first containing the score and ...