This is a simply great thread (about a greatly simple man!). "White Comanche" and "Ruby Red" were a revelation to me, and I couldn't keep a straight face through the intro to "Very Good Year" any more than Shatner himself could. Let's not forget his current role on the wackily weird "Boston Legal" TV series, too.

But let's be fair: Shatner isn't the only one who was no stranger in that strange land of the Sixties. Witness Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins