Between the cancellation of the TV series in 1969 and the release of the first motion picture adaptation in 1979, there was a huge groundswell of interest in Star Trek, and a consequent demand for related media.
Outtakes and bloopers, which had survived from the annual 'gag reels' prepared for the amusement of the original cast and crew, became popular when they were screened at fan conventions in the early 1970s by Gene Roddenberry himself.
As documented on the liner notes for the Blue Pear LP, a copy of the third season bloopers was found on a set of reel-to-reel audio tapes that were alleged to have been discovered in a trash can at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
The LP cover featured a simplistic caricature of Leonard Nimoy as Spock (credited to an artist with the initials MDL), while the reverse had a track list and perfunctory liner notes.
The sleeve notes indicated that, at the time, a "commercially made record" had been co-produced by the composer, Baldwin Bergensen, and the lyricist/librettist, William Archibald, which was "issued on acetate to a few select individuals" and subsequently became an exceedingly rare collector's item.
The Cat, The Body Beautiful and Zenda) or from professionally produced acetate recordings that were made for limited or private distribution (e.g. Kittiwake Island, Sing Muse and Look to the Lilies).
Some of these shows involved major Broadway talents, including Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, Jule Styne, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, and Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.
A unique undertaking by Blue Pear was a solo LP devoted to Broadway and cabaret singer Dolores Gray, which included songs previously issued only on 78 rpm format, and others that had been performed on television programmes such as The Ed Sullivan Show and had never been released.