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A year before the recording was commercially released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording during a guest appearance on the July 28, 1967 episode of Malibu U, a short-lived variety television series.

This segment survives as a " music video " and shows Nimoy ( wearing his Star Trek hairstyle as the series was in the midst of production of its second season at the time ) and a group of color-coordinated young women, all wearing plastic pointed ears ( elf or Vulcan ), singing and dancing on a beach.

Since its rediscovery on the BBC2 documentary Funk Me Up Scotty and propagation over the Internet, it has become a relatively well-known example of 1960s camp.

An excerpt from the musical number is also included in the documentary Ringers: Lord of the Fans about The Lord of the Rings fandom.

The song was included in the Nimoy album Highly Illogical.