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This is a list of songs from Sesame Street. It includes the songs are written for used on the TV series. The songs have a variety of styles, including R&B, opera, show tunes, folk, and world music. [1] Especially in the earlier decades, parodies and spoofs of popular songs were common, although that has reduced in more recent years. [1]
1984 - Sesame Street Christmas Sing-Along (CTW) / 1993 - Merry Christmas: A Sesame Street Sing-Along (Golden) 1985 - Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird Soundtrack ; 1986 - Bounce Along with Big Bird (Golden) / 1996 (Sony) 1986 - Christmas on Sesame Street (CBS) 1987 - The Best of Sesame Street (Sight & Sound)
Sesame Street: Old School is the title of a series of DVD releases produced by Sesame Workshop, featuring episodes from the early years of the PBS series, Sesame Street, plus highlights from that era. The first volume, 1969–1974, was released by Sony Wonder in Region 1 (North America) on October 24, 2006.
The Carpenters, one of the many artists who recorded music from Sesame Street.. Sesame Street's songwriters included the show's first music director Joe Raposo; Jeff Moss, whom Michael Davis called a "gifted poet, composer, and lyricist"; [18] and Christopher Cerf; whom Louise Gikow called "the go-to guy on Sesame Street for classic rock and roll as well as song spoofs". [19]
Joe Raposo, who was famous for his work on Sesame Street, was the music director of the series for Seasons 1–3 and wrote songs for the show during its entire run. Gary William Friedman , who wrote the music for the hit Broadway rock opera The Me Nobody Knows , was the music director and composer for Season 4, composer for an additional 260 ...
The Sesame Street theme song was composed by Joe Raposo, a writer and composer of many of television shows' songs. In his book on the history of Sesame Street, Michael Davis called the theme "jaunty" and "deceptively simple". [2] Raposo wrote the lyrics to the song with Jon Stone and Bruce Hart.
The arrangements reflect musical idioms commonly found in 1970s urban culture, predominantly funk and jazz, though other styles including Caribbean music are also represented. The number-specific middle sections contain one of three different improvised instrumental solos over a basic progression, featuring steel drums (numbers 2, 4, 9 and 12 ...
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