Best Sesame Street song ever (tough call, I know)

[HopeHoops]

Poll question: Best Sesame Street song ever (tough call, I know)

This is limited to songs on SESAME STREET, so "Rainbow Connection" from the Muppets Movie is OUT!

Edited for spelling

[amyrose2712]

1. Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ...

Yes, I love, I love, I love trash!:bounce: :bounce:

[Inchworm]

2. Youtubed them all for yas

I picked Kermie :P

It's not that easy being green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIOiwg2iHio

Inchworm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0lQ0bdcjfY

C is for Cookie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovQyphS8kA

Rubber Duckie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9d7rSf_Ks

I Love Trash -from before he was green ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9fwjox49Wk

ABC-DEF-GHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ

Put Down the Duckie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMAixgo_zJ4

Doing the Pigeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXX9bZrZXw

We All Sing with the Same Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtk39S6Z9g

The Batty Bat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeG2fgqxqs

:hi:

EDIT: I woulda voted for Ma Na Ma Nah had it made the 10 picks :D

[Flaxbee]

3. Ma Na Ma Na!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA&feature=related

Classic. The pink sheep? (what are they?) aren't regular characters, but I *love* Ma Na Ma Na.

[Lyric]

6. That was the Muppet Show, but I posted it too.

It rocks!

:hi:

[applegrove]

7. That is my favourite song.

[HopeHoops]

13. Yeah, I should have used that for number 10 - my bad.

"Doo doo, da doo doo."

[Lyric]

4. C Is For Cookie, of course.

But the best MUPPETS song overall was this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA">Mahna Mahna!

[Flaxbee]

5. Also like Song of the Count:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FL99ESjnZg&feature=PlayList&p=ECF3FBAA9312C2F1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11

[CTyankee]

8. No "Rainbow Connection"??!!

By far the best, most wonderful song of Kermit's. Here he is singing it with Debbie Harry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvhRhWWE44

[HopeHoops]

14. I mentioned Rainbow Connection in the OP.

I thought that was just Muppet Movie - didn't know it had been on the show.

[CTyankee]

17. Yes, it was the Muppet Movie. You changed your OP message after I had posted my

response. I must say you were a tad on the brusque side. Geez...

[HopeHoops]

18. No, that was there originally - read on.

I edited the post because I had "It's" instead of "Its" in the song "It's not easy being green". The exclusion of Rainbow Connection was there in the very first OP.

What I was SAYING is that I didn't realize that it had EVER been done on the show! That's really cool. I thought it was just a Muppet Movie thing. And somebody told me it was originally a Willie Nelson tune, but I've never bothered to verify that.

There was certainly no offense, or "brusque", intended in my response!

:hi:

[CTyankee]

26. Thank you for your kind response. I did not see what you refer to in your first posting.

However, I do not doubt your word; I could have been mistaken, but if I am I am beginning to doubt my sanity...

As for my feelings, well, I felt you had singled me out for condemnation in your OP with caps and all and I felt "well, it is such a nice subject, Sesame Street and all, why this?"

Oh well, thanks for listening. I really like "The Rainbow Connection" nonetheless. Sometimes, I can't hear it without crying a little bit...

[HopeHoops]

29. Frankly, that's one of my favorite songs in the world.

And the opening scene zooming in on Kermit in the swamp is just amazing. I love that movie.

Favorite quote: "Jack not name. Jack JOB!"

[CTyankee]

30. OK.

[Orrex]

41. I don't believe that it was originally a Willie Nelson song, though he has covered it

My recollection (verified by Wiki) is that the song first appeared in The Muppet Movie. A friend of mine had the sheet music back in 82 or so, and I recall that Paul Williams (the pianist at the El Sleazo Cafe) wrote it. Cowrote it, as it turns out, with Kenneth Ascher.

Wiki doesn't mention that the song was ever performed on Sesame Street, though it could have been.

[huskerlaw]

9. I voted for Rubber Duckie, but I would also add...

I Don't Want to Live on the Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIntrayvOlc

[HopeHoops]

15. I was going to, but I already had one by Ernie. I love that song!

[redqueen]

10. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qd9Bd4nX9Q

[fight4my3sons]

11. the pinball song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekHPx2TENqU

[buzzycrumbhunger]

12. Other

My all-time fave is the Count's. I don't remember it quite this way, but it's the funniest thing since those bouncing aliens with the telephone. :7

I have the original Sesame Street LP. . . wonder if it's worth anything.

[Debi]

16. C is for Cookie - and don't believe that 'sometimes food' BS

C will never be for celery!!!

[HughBeaumont]

19. Here are some really screwed up ones . . .

The Queen of Six:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAIefBMsHd8&feature=related

King of Eight (sounds like muppets rapping over The Residents):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4munc-VzFU&feature=related

1,2,3 Red Ball (one of the most innovative sequences of early 70s TV):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67khDZ0P7Xo&feature=related

Orange Sings Carmen (Aphex Twin when Aphex Twin was still in his mama):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg&feature=related

Not really screwed up, but badass . . . Stevie Wonder performing Superstition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE&feature=related

Subway (purportedly the only appearance of Bert and Kermit at the same time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPh8As-y6E&feature=related

Some and None (the first appearance of a mosh pit?):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7cWBrGAIcc&feature=related

Jazzy Spies 10 (featuring Grace Slick on vocals):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRBEqq-tGY

and finally . . .

Painter #3 (featuring a pre-Bentley Paul Benedict (RIP) and Stockard Channing before she played Rizzo at the age of 33):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTn9Xr_lyqQ&feature=related

[redqueen]

25. Ooh 1,2,3 Red Ball & Orange Sings Carmen

those are two of my favorites as well. :)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

36. Check out the little headbanger on the landing!!

At 0:38 and 4:12.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE&feature=related

[ogneopasno]

40. I will never forget the first time I saw Stevie Wonder sing "Superstition" on Sesame Street. I was

three or four, and lived in a small town in Nebraska and had no idea there was music like that in the world. I remember thinking there was something wrong with him -- not because he rocked back and forth, or that he was blind, but because of the way he sang...the growls, the screams, the strange pronunciation of the words. I remember loving it, though, and I still think that version of "Superstition" is my favorite.

Oh, and the guy playing the guitar, with the hat -- I remember thinking, why is he nodding "yes"? And now shaking his head "no"? HE'S MAKING NO SENSE!

[Lavender Brown]

20. Sugar Beet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZR6qg33yI0

Sugar!

[begin_within]

21. "One Of These Things Is Not Like the Others"

excellent way to stimulate critical thinking in children, and also so ripe for satire.

[Lyric]

22. Most HILARIOUS version of the Count Song anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM

:evilgrin:

[Nickster]

23. No Letter B, Letter B, after A and Before C, Letter B.....?

[underpants]

24. Shiny Happy Monsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Oh man, does this bring back memories of my old S.S. 45s and my

clown record player!

[DemBones DemBones]

28. "Rubber Duckie, You're the One"

Especially since people covered Kermit's song and thereby sullied it.

[HughBeaumont]

31. More . . . .

Russian Dolls . . . OK, the last two . . . :wtf: :scared: :wtf: :scared: :wtf: :scared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQV45Wichw&feature=related

Capital I/Lowercase n (Great piece of simple songwriting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK2VOdRAbW8&feature=related

[Rhythm]

33. "Capital I" and "lower-case n" were always my favorites...

Something about that minor key that gets me...

[Silver Swan]

32. I would pick

the "Sunny day" Sesame Street song as done by Joshua Radin on Scrubs recently.

I am way older than Sesame Street watcher age, but my 33 year old daughter said it brought her to tears.

[Aristus]

34. I'm holding out for Frazzle and the Frazzletones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY-dx48pR1I

[Sebastian Doyle]

35. Gotta go with the original OG

That's Oscar Grouch, as if ya didn't know.

[likesmountains 52]

37. More of The Count..Eight Beautiful Notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02V-LrLCk4

[MissMillie]

38. "cookie, cookie, cookie starts with 'c'!"

:silly:

[likesmountains 52]

39. I forgot this one...Dance Myself to Sleep...poor Bert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1Y4xo4XJ4