Yakety Yak, Take It Back features celebrities (like Stevie Wonder, B.B. The Alone Song, simply because sometimes people do want to be alone, and there's nothing wrong with it. In 1987, however, he rapped about healthy food. Although a lot of people get on Cookie Monster's case for eating fruits and vegetables in addition to cookies, they don't seem to remember that Cookie has promoted healthy eating as far back as 1974. "Birds in the sky! Beasts on the land! Fish in the sea and bugs in your hand!" The relentlessly upbeat Creature Feature intro deserves a mention of its own. And you wouldn't do anything funny, would you? Oh boy!" Includes a spoken ending line: "You are such a magnificent animal, and I am really a nice person. Composed by Joe Raposo and sung by Northern Calloway (who played David on the show). Another Sesame Street Creature Feature segment: The Tiger. Another so-oddball-it's-awesome Creature Feature: Props to Christopher Cerf for creating the best (and possibly only) song about how awesome manatees are. Besides the truly groovy spoken-word performance by Joe Raposo, contains the wonderful (and slightly subversive) lines "Are there things to share, when you're a marmoset? / And do you really care, when you're a marmoset." Sesame Street Creature Feature: The Marmoset. #PLAY WITH ME SESAME INTRO VOCALS DRIVER#
with The Four Tops, and watch for the cameo for Big Bird as the bus driver at the end.
All four clips are pure minimalist goodness, and while they are all based around the same framework, they each play out quite differently to keep things interesting. Philip Glass' "Geometry of Circles" music.It has the emotional message about how you can still feel happy and friendly like it's Christmas, even when it's not. "Keep Christmas with You", both the original and the remix.
Who could imagine a song about loving the number five could be so cool and suave? Intended as a parody of "Float On" by the Floaters, but between an insanely catchy chorus and the guys batting it right out of the park with their singing, this parody song is far better than the original. "Gimme Five" by The Lovers of Five (a.k.a.Sure, it dates itself, but that bass line is sick. "The Word is 'No'", featuring a note-perfect 80's music video parody from noted real-life video producer Jim Blashfield.
Fun Fact: Yes, that is The Pointer Sisters singing it. Then there's the closing theme used in the 90s.
The wonderful closing credits music that used to accompany Friday episodes, complete with Toots Thielemans' mellow, bluesy harmonica rendition of the theme and the unforgettable "Funky Chimes" music (basically, imagine Sly and the Family Stone doing the Sesame Street theme). Frank Sinatra and Van Morrison also recorded covers. He performed his version on the Street in 1989. Ray Charles' cover of "Bein' Green" (recorded for his 1975 album Renaissance and later featured on The Cosby Show) is as awesome as it is gorgeously uplifting. Even bigger, the Carpenters cover of "Sing" rose to #3 in 1973. Ernie's "Rubber Duckie" ( Official Video here ) was a huge hit (#10 on the Billboard pop charts!) in 1970. Particular standouts include their covers of "Spinning Wheel", "Octopus' Garden", "Everyone Knows It's Windy" and future Muppet standard "Mah Na Mah Na". Much of Season 1 is Jim Henson and Frank Oz using Sesame Street as their personal cover album, to awesome results. The original version was used for 23 years before it was changed in 1992, then again in 1998, then 2002 (with a slight revision in 2003), 2007, 2009 (with a slight revision in 2012), and 2016. How about the show's theme song ? The first song ever to be played on the show, it has gone through several revisions. During the show's first few years, Stevie Wonder performed one of the most devastatingly epic versions of "Superstition" ever! Listen for yourself!. Paul Jacobs, his wife Sarah Durkee, Tony Geiss, Sam Pottle, and Christopher Cerf also deserve credit. In all likelihood, any song you remember from Sesame Street, for better or worse, can be linked to either Joe Raposo or Jeff Moss.
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