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William Shatner gets animated for a single from his new blues album

October 3, 2020October 4, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments William Shatner

William Shatner’s recording career goes back to 1968. Since then he’s (a) mashed up popular songs and Shakespearean dialogue, (b)

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William Shatner’s new music frontier? The blues

August 27, 2020August 28, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Ritchie Blackmore, William Shatner

William Shatner has been making records since the classic The Transformed Man from 1968. (Listen to some highlights here.) There

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Random music news for Monday, July 20, 2020

July 20, 2020July 19, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canned Heat, Clash, Concerts, Donald Trump, Drake, Linkin Park, Live Music, LyricFind, Lyrics, Ozzy, Perry Farrell, Ramones, Rockfield Studios, William Shatner

I’ve had the same three twenty-dollar bills in my wallet for six weeks. I have no loose change in the

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What if the cast of Star Trek performed Pulp’s “Common People?”

June 23, 2019June 22, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Common People, Cover Version, Mashup, William Shatner

About 15 years ago, William Shatner (with help from Ben Folds), had something of a hit with his version of

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Random music news for Friday, December 14, 2018

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Baby It's Cold Outside, Blu-Ray, Cannibal Corpse, China, Christmas Music, David Lee Roth, Deadpool, GG Allin, Hip-hop, Lean, Mormons, Music Piracy, MusicCounts, Noel Gallagher, Peter Murphy, Smart Speakers, TV, Van Halen, William Shatner, YouTube

Plutonium was isolated on this day in 1940. As for music news on December 14, 2018… Nominations for the 2019

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Willam Shatner boldly goes into the holidays with a new Christmas album

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Christmas Music, William Shatner

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] In the pantheon of most-ridiculed albums of all time is William

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Listen to William Shatner duet with Iggy Pop(!!!) on “Silent Night”

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Christmas Music, Iggy Pop, William Shatner

Tuning through satellite radio channels the other day, I chanced upon the season’s first play of Mariah Carey’s “All I

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Here’s your first taste of William Shatner’s Christmas album.

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Christmas, Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, William Shatner, ZZ Top

William Shatner’s latest music project is a Christmas album. Yes, he’s Jewish, but that doesn’t mean he can’t get into

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A William Shatner Christmas album? Looks like it.

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Christmas Album, William Shatner

Back in 2011, I was won a gig to be William Shatner’s on-stage straight man in a production called How

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Because it is May 4, here is the obligatory May the Fourth Be With You post.

May 4, 2018May 3, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beastie Boys, William Shatner

[It’s Star Wars Day, so the Law of the Internet requires that something related be posted. Punishment may extend to

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Random music news for Thursday, March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018March 21, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments #MeToo, Beats, Buffalo, Ed Sheeran, Footloose, James Corden, Joshua Tree, Justin Timberlake, Konnie Planck, Manchester United, MilleXZials, Monster, NRA, Podcasts, Rick James, Shaggy, Smart Speakers, U2, William Shatner

Captain Kirk turns 87 today. Happy birthday, William Shatner. One online meme says that since Donald Trump loves appointing TV

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