The Touch of Leonard Nimoy is the fourth studio album released from Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Simon Nimoy is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. Nimoy's most famous role is that of Spock in the original Star Trek series , multiple films, television and video game sequels....

. The album was released in 1969, on Dot Records

Dot Records

Dot Records was an American record label and company that was active between 1950 and 1977. It was founded by Randy Wood. In Gallatin, Tennessee, Wood had earlier started a mail order record shop, known for its radio ads on WLAC in Nashville and its R&B air personality Bill "Hoss" Allen...

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Background

Continuing with the folk sound and direction he established with his previous album

The Way I Feel (Leonard Nimoy album)

The Way I Feel is the third studio album by Leonard Nimoy. It was released in late 1968 by Dot Records, the same year Two Sides was released.-Background:...

, the songs range from optimism

Optimism

The Oxford English Dictionary defines optimism as having "hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something; a tendency to take a favourable or hopeful view." The word is originally derived from the Latin optimum, meaning "best." Being optimistic, in the typical sense...

, political awareness, the human condition, living together, and love.

The song "Maiden Wine" was featured in the Star Trek

Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

episode, "Plato's Stepchildren".

Side one

1. "I Search for Tomorrow" (Paul Evans, Paul Parnes)
2. "Maiden Wine" (Leonard Nimoy)
3. "Now's the Time" (Val Stoecklein)
4. "Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell)
5. "I Think it's Gonna Rain Today
   I Think It's Going to Rain Today
   "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" is a song written by Randy Newman, and appears on the album Randy Newman, as well as The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 1 and all of Newman's official and bootleg live albums...
   
   " (Randy Newman
   Randy Newman
   Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
   
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Side two

1. "I Just Can't Help Believin'
   I Just Can't Help Believing
   "I Just Can't Help Believing" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. The song received its most success after being recorded by B.J. Thomas and released as a single in 1970...
   
   " (Barry Mann
   Barry Mann
   Barry Mann is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.-Career:...
   
   , Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil
   Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written many songs together with her husband Barry Mann....
   
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2. "Nature Boy" (Eden Ahbez
   Eden Ahbez
   eden ahbez was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement...
   
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3. "Contact" (Nimoy, George Tipton
   George Tipton
   George Aliceson Tipton, also known as George Tipton is an American composer, musical arranger and conductor.Among Tipton's works are the theme songs for the TV shows Benson, It's a Living, I'm a Big Girl Now and Empty Nest, plus incidental music for numerous shows, including The Courtship of...
   
   )
4. "The Man I Would Like to Be" (Nimoy, George Tipton)
5. "A Trip to Nowhere" (Cymbal, Costa)
6. "Piece of Hope" (Nimoy)

Production

• Producer: Charles R. Grean
• Arrangers and Conductor: George Tipton
  George Tipton
  George Aliceson Tipton, also known as George Tipton is an American composer, musical arranger and conductor.Among Tipton's works are the theme songs for the TV shows Benson, It's a Living, I'm a Big Girl Now and Empty Nest, plus incidental music for numerous shows, including The Courtship of...
  
  
• Engineers: Thorne Nogar and Dave Wiechman
• Cover Photography: Tommy Mitchell
• Art Direction: Christopher Whorf

External Links

Review of Touch of Leonard Nimoy at maidenwine.com, a detailed Leonard Nimoy fan site.