The Song Stylings of William Shatner

William Shatner is on Craig Ferguson tonight, and he showed a clip from a concert film he's got coming up on TVLand. Ferguson asked him whether he was really "singing," which Shatner admitted was actually more "talk singing." It occurred to me that Eddie Argos out of Art Brut essentially does talk singing, and everybody says he's heavily influenced by Mark E. Smith. Does that mean Shatner's influenced by Mark E. Smith, too? Actually, it would be sort of cool to get a little bit more Mark E. Smith into Shatner's performance.