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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]
The special ends with all the characters singing the Sesame Street song “Sing.” The program is dedicated to the memory of Joe Raposo , who had died on February 5, 1989, in Bronxville, New York , of non-Hodgkin lymphoma .
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]
Thurl Ravenscroft, 1970 album Rubber Duckie and Other Songs From Sesame Street; Frank Sinatra, 1971 album Sinatra & Company, this recording would later be used on Sesame Street in an animated insert by Étienne Delessert. [2] Lena Horne, 1971 album Nature's Baby; Urbie Green, 1972 album Bein' Green; Buddy Rich, 1972 album Stick It
Its first Sesame Street performance was by Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Loretta Long (Susan) on the fourteenth episode of the show, broadcast on November 27, 1969. The following Sunday, Henson and his Muppets performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show. Seven years later the song was part of the premiere episode of The Muppet Show.
Pinball Number Count (or Pinball Countdown) is a collective title referring to 11 one-minute animated segments on the children's television series Sesame Street that teach children to count to 12 by following the journey of a pinball through a fanciful pinball machine.
1990 - Put Down the Duckie! (Golden) 1991 - Bob's Favorite Street Songs 1991 - Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration (Golden) 1992 - Sing: Songs of Joe Raposo (Golden) 1993 - Sesame Road (Golden) / 1995 (Sony Wonder)
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration opens with a montage of the various opening intros used throughout the years. Shortly after, a brief version of the song is sung by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the cast. In The Muppet Show, some of the Sesame Street Muppets sing it in Marty Feldman's episode as part of the closing act.