LNNAF Newsletter (1974)
Chatter Boxes No. 5, LNNAF Nov./Dec. 1967
The Leonard Nimoy National Association of Fans held a contest in 1967, asking their members to come up with a new word to describe Mr. Nimoy. The winning entry was "Spocktacular" and the prize was a set of cuff links and tie bar belonging to and donated to the club by him.
Personal Appearances
Kentucky Lion's benefit for Crippled Children Clinics telethon, Nov. 12th 1967.
Chatter Boxes No. 3, LNNAF Jul./Aug. 1967
In the interview by Bonnie Laney LN describes how a typical day in his life looks while he's shooting Star Trek. While I'm sure to have read variations thereof in the past, only now, while copying the dates for his personal appearances from the newsletters, it hits home how little private free time he must have had for years once his career took off.
The song Cotton Candy was written by Cliff Rahlke, who was a member of the Star Trek camera crew.
Personal Appearances
Promoting his album on Malibu U on the new ABC-TV series July 28th.
June 18th Rocky Point Park, Warwick, Rhode Island
June 21st Pat Bone Show
July 4th Dateline Hollywood
More Personal Appearances (tentative at the time):
July 30th - Rimrock Amusement Park - Estes Park, Colorado
August 12th - Macy's Department Store - New York City - morning
August 12th - Jordon's Department Store - Boston - afternoon
August 13th - Riverside Park - Agawam (Springfield), Massachusetts
Sept. 6th - (definite) "Kids' Day Fair" - Sacramento, California
Scans here.
Chatter Boxes No. 2, LNNAF May/Jun. 1967
By his request members of the fan club were encouraged to write to NBC instead of to the fan club to have their letters forward to Mr. Nimoy, and to write often. Because "NBC keeps track of the amount of mail he receives; and the more mail he receives, the more aware NBC is made of what a favorite person to the public Leonard Nimoy is!"
On the prospect of him appearing on the Pat Boone Show, members were appealed to to write in to specifically ask that they would have him on the show without his makeup.
The newsletter also related this story: "The Nimoys recently returned from a short vacation - having driven through Santa Barbara, Carmel, Monterey, and up to San Francisco. The stores were so mobbed with fans that he had to have protection; and fans who recognized him as he drove through the streets ran after the car. So goes a day in the life of our star!"
To help get Mr. Nimoy's album Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space on the radiowaves fans were cautioned against calling radiostations on the phone, as they would get annoyed at that. Instead Dot Records recommended writing letters to the DJ's asking they play selections from the album.
On April 20-22nd 1967 Mr. Nimoy appeared in many large stores in New York City to promote his album and on April 23rd he performed 4 shows that day "(singing etc.)" in Agawam, Massachusetts at Riverside Park.
Talk show Appearances: April 19th on the Tonight Show, April 21st on the Today Show. "On the Tonight Show, he sang 'Lost in the Stars', and on the Today Show, the beginning of 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth' was played from the album while the camera took closeups of Leonard Nimoy.
NBC reported that year that The Monkees series had broken all fanmail records and that Star Trek came in second place. [Then they still proceeded to cancel it. !!!??!!]
Blurb from the Dallas Times Herold: "Leonard Nimoy, who portrays the unemotional Mr. Spock in NBC-Ch 5's Star Trek plans to unbent by preparing a nightclub act as a vocalist. Leonard not only has big ears, but, according to insiders, he also has good ears - for music."
