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1987 single by The Firm

"Star Trekkin' "
Star Trekkin' Cover.jpg

UK single release
Single by The House
from the album Serious Fun
Released 1 June 1987
Genre Novelty song
Length 3:32
Label Bark Records
Songwriter(s) John O'Connor, Grahame Lister, Rory Kehoe
The House singles chronology
"Long Live The National"
(1983) 		"Star Trekkin'"
(1987) 		"Superheroes"
(1987)

"Star Trekkin' " is a 1987 song by British novelty ring The Business firm. Information technology parodies the commencement television receiver series of Star Trek, and prominently features comical vocalism caricatures of the original Trek characters, provided by members of the band, a studio technician, and the married woman of 1 of the songwriters. One of the vocal's phrases, "It's life, Jim, merely not as we know it", originated with "Star Trekkin'", but has been afterward misattributed to the TV series.

The song's promotional video was created by a team of art students called The Pic Garage, featuring a combination of puppetry, stop movement animation and computer-generated imagery.

The song entered the UK charts at number 74, eventually climbing to spend two weeks at number 1. It also found nautical chart success in a number of other countries, selling more than a million copies.

Origin and recording [edit]

"Star Trekkin'" originated from songwriter Rory Kehoe, who was a member of an English Civil State of war combat reenactment order called The Sealed Knot. Kehoe had written a series of verses about the principal characters who appear in the 1960s American science fiction boob tube serial Star Trek, which were sung in pubs and effectually campfires, after Sealed Knot battles, to the tune of "The Music Human". This version was re-titled "I Am The Star Trek Man". Chris Steinhauer performed this version at a folk club 1 evening in 1986, which is where it was first heard by Grahame Lister, of novelty band The Firm. Lister convinced Steinhauer to record the song onto an audio cassette and took information technology to his writing partner John O'Connor.[1]

The duo dropped "The Music Man" tune, and wrote a new chorus.[1] They at kickoff attempted to prepare Kehoe's lyrics to the tune of their 1982 striking unmarried, "Arthur Daley E'due south Alright", creating an alternative version initially entitled "Captain Kirk (He's Alright)". Unsatisfied, they sought to create something original, locking themselves away for a week to write "Star Trekkin'",[two] based on an increasing tempo seen previously in Rolf Harris' "The Court of King Caractacus".[ane] They sought to have information technology recorded professionally, but were received unfavourably past potential recording labels.[3] Instead, they recorded it at O'Connor's and Brian O'Shaughnessy's Bark Studios in Walthamstow, East London.[4] The arrangement was past Bill C. Martin, and the rest of The Business firm was made upwards of Dev Douglas and Peter Sills.[3] O'Shaughnessy later said "One of the greatest highlights of my career was producing 'Star Trekkin' '. The record was produced to mock the series and we had no idea it was going to be a big hit."[4]

The song features the catchphrases of several Star Trek characters, including Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and Doctor Leonard McCoy. These were intended to be recognisable to British listeners who had seen the episodes of the serial on re-runs throughout the 1970s and 1980s, or those who were only relatively familiar with the source. While several of the lines such as Scotty's "Ye cannae alter the laws of physics!", or Uhura'south "There's Klingons on the starboard bow." had been said in the series, other phrases had not.[v] Spock'due south quote, "It's life, Jim, but non as we know information technology", never featured in The Original Serial but "Star Trekkin'" subsequently so popularised the phrase that it is at present commonly misattributed. The closest equivalent in the series is the phrase "No life equally we know information technology" in "The Devil in the Nighttime".[6] Kirk'southward "We come up in peace; shoot to impale" also never featured, and was suggested by author Brian Robb equally having "summed upwardly the popular impression of the violent captain'south approach to conflicting encounters".[5] The voices of the characters were non provided by the actors who portrayed them in The Original Serial; O'Connor voiced Kirk and McCoy, while Douglas voiced Spock. Scotty was voiced by a studio engineer and O'Connor's married woman, Shelly, voiced Uhura.[seven]

Release [edit]

At the fourth dimension of its recording in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation had recently been announced and was in product, bringing new attending to the franchise. Having funded the pressing of 500 copies of the single,[1] O'Connor sent copies of it to British radio stations, with the studio's telephone number on them.[8] One Liverpool station began giving the phone number out on air and O'Connor began to receive many phone calls from the area, request for copies of the tape. A Radio ane disc jockey, Simon Bates, promoted the song and after an initial release where it reached 74th position on the UK Singles Chart, it climbed the following calendar week to 13th identify.[8] For the 2 weeks afterwards, it was placed at number one,[ix] and becoming the 9th best-selling unmarried of 1987 in the UK.[five] While information technology was at number one, it kept Whitney Houston'south "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" in 2nd place,[iv] which was previously at number i.[x] At one indicate, information technology was selling threescore,000 copies a mean solar day,[2] and went on to sell more than 470,000 copies in the UK alone.[11]

The single was also released outside of the Great britain, reaching 22nd place in the Ultratop nautical chart inside Belgium,[12] 9th place in the neighbouring Dutch Top xl,[13] and on the other side of the globe, it reached third place in the ARIA Charts within Commonwealth of australia and peaked at the number ii spot on Official New Zealand Music Chart.[14] [15] Worldwide, information technology sold more than a million copies.[7] "Star Trekkin'" has get well known in the United States due to frequent play on the Dr. Demento Show radio program.[7]

The Firm subsequently released an album, Serious Fun, in 1987, through Thousand-Tel in the Britain and Dino Music in Australia. "Star Trekkin'" was rails one on the A-side of the record, and the album featured previous single "Arthur Daley (e'due south Alright)". The album likewise featured the follow-up single to "Star Trekkin'", "Superheroes",[16] [17] which was released in the UK on 26 September that year. It reached the 99th spot in the top 100, while the anthology did not chart.[18]

Music video [edit]

Following the success of the single, the band realised that they would exist expected to announced on the British television series Top of the Pops on BBC1 the following week. The decision was fabricated non to make personal television appearances, as O'Connor and Lister felt that they were a "bunch of balding thirty-somethings" and an appearance as themselves on the show "would impale the whole fun element of the thing stone dead!"[1] And so despite the time constraints, they sought for an animated music video to exist created. They approached several potential providers,[i] including the product company behind the boob tube series Spitting Image, which had previously produced the video for the single "Land of Confusion" by Genesis. However, the toll was too high, and they needed longer than a week to create the video.[i] One of the other companies approached was a team of graduate art students called The Film Garage. On a low upkeep, they created a claymation terminate motion animated video.[7]

The characters in the video are based on nutrient items, such every bit being made out of potatoes, with the Enterprise being created to wait like information technology was fabricated from pizza and sausages. The idea for the video as described by co-director Pete Bishop was that "Kirk has been out in space too long, and is hallucinating – almost food". Information technology was shot over seven days nether the direction of Pete Bishop and Marc Kitchen-Smith, while the visitor No Strings was responsible for the model construction.[19] The video was completed with just hours to spare before it was due to air for the outset time on Meridian of the Pops.[i]

Reception [edit]

In Brian Robb'southward 2012 book, A Brief Guide to Star Trek, he said it was a attestation to the quality of the series and of the characters that some 20 years after it was originally circulate,[20] a serial of catchphrases could withal summarise the appeal of the television series.[5] The song has appeared in several lists, such as in MSN'due south list of the near annoying songs of all time, "Star Trekkin'", placed in 15th identify.[xiv] British Sunday newspaper The People included it in a list of the nigh irritating songs in 2005, calling information technology "Funny, but dreadful."[21] In 2011, it was included in Wired's list of seven great geek comedy songs.[22]

Runway listing and formats [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d due east f g h Kutner, Jon (x February 2013). "Star Trekkin' (The House)". JonKutner.com. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b "It's a Hit Jim, But Not As Nosotros Know Information technology...". Lookin. No. 30. eighteen July 1987. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b "Graham Lister". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "A Walthamstow studio'south role in one of the most iconic singles of the 90s". Epping Forest Guardian. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d Robb 2012, p. 37.
  6. ^ Knowles 2002, p. 224.
  7. ^ a b c d Wuench, Kevin (July 22, 2016). "Begin your Star Trek weekend with this '80s classic". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  8. ^ a b Roberts 2006, p. 476.
  9. ^ a b "Star Trekkin'". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  10. ^ Myers, Justin (25 October 2014). "Official Charts Pop Gem #80: Whitney – I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  11. ^ "Gallup Year End Charts 1987: Singles". Record Mirror. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 23 January 1988. p. 36.
  12. ^ a b "The Business firm – Star Trekkin'". Ultratop. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  13. ^ a b "The Firm – Star Trekkin'". Media Markt Top 40. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  14. ^ a b c "The most annoying songs of all fourth dimension". MSN. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  15. ^ a b "The Official NZ Music Charts – xx September 1987". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  16. ^ "Firm, The – Serious Fun". Discogs . Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  17. ^ "House, The – Serious Fun". Discogs . Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  18. ^ "Business firm". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  19. ^ Clarke, Jeremy (Oct 1987). "Trekkin' across the universe". Animator. No. 21. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
  20. ^ Robb 2012, p. 38.
  21. ^ "Aaaargh Tunes! Tunes You Simply Can't Go off Your Encephalon". The People. 29 May 2005. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
  22. ^ Brown, Sophie (26 September 2011). "Seven Bully Geek Comedy Songs". Wired . Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  23. ^ "The Firm – Star Trekkin'". Discogs. Retrieved xxx July 2016.
  24. ^ "The Firm – Star Trekkin'". Discogs. Retrieved thirty July 2016.

Further reading [edit]

  • Knowles, Elizabeth (2002). Oxford Dictionary of Modernistic Quotations. Oxford, UK: Oxford Academy Press. ISBN978-0-198-66275-four.
  • Robb, Brian J. (2012). A Brief Guide to Star Trek. London: Robinson. ISBN978-1-849-01514-1.
  • Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Limited. ISBNi-904994-10-5.

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