My name is you sesame street

The Original Sesame Street Lyrics Archive

The I Interview a cartoon oldie and a goodie, might be complete

~~ "I Am Chicken hear me squawk!", groovy remake of "I Am Woman"

~~ I Can Do It By Myself classic tune, "Oh how do ya get that button through that old button hole"

(I Can't Get No) Co-operation noone is safe from parody on Sesame Street, not even The Rolling Stones!

Watch it online at YouTube

I Cry a baby's lament, "I wish I could speak, but I gotta shriek"

Watch it online at YouTube

I Don't Want To Live On The Moon Ernie's song confirming his love for home.

Ernie's original version available as a full .mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube
Shawn Colvin and Ernie's version available as a short .mp3 file 422K, and on YouTube
Aaron Neville and Ernie's lovely duet on YouTube
Also try here for guitar chords

~~ I Feel So Happy Elmo and Rosita are really happy and gotta share

~~ I Get A Kick Out Of U with the incredible Ethel Mermaid!

(I Get By With) A Little Yelp From My Friends three guesses what song this one parodies!

Available as a small . mp3 file 530K, and on YouTube

~~ I Gotta Be Clean Bert's stirring tribute to cleanliness

~~ I, Grover where you can learn to be just like Grover, or at least try

I Hate Christmas but we still love you, Oscar!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.7M

I Have A Chair and being in a wheelchair ain't holding this guy back!

Available as a full .avi file 10M, and on YouTube
Newer animated version w/Traction Jackson via YouTube

I Have A Little Plant and Ernie swears he hears her say (ding, ding) "Thank you!"

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ I Heard My Dog Bark and my cat meow and my lion roar, what a racket!

~~ I Just Adore Four Big Bird's ode to the number four

~~ I Know How To Swing who better than that swinging hepcat, Mel Torme, to teach kids how to swing? Groovy!

I Know I Am A Cow short but cute cartoon from The Electric Company

~~ I Like My Name by Bob and Olivia, not complete and not sure if the title's right

~~ I Like To Sing Bert and Farley duet "I like to sing LOUD!"

I Love Being A Pig ya gotta love what ya are, even you pigs out there

Watch it on YouTube

~~ I Love My Elbows Kermit's song about his beloved elbows!

I Love Trash Oscar's Theme Song, includes Steven Tyler's version

Oscar's version available as a full . mp3 file 2.6M, and on YouTube
Don't miss the original orange Oscar version on YouTube

~~ I Love When It Rains Oscar and Bob agree, what's the world coming to?!

~~ I Might all the possibilities of a blank piece of paper

~~ I Refuse to Sing Along Ernie and Bert duet, whether Bert likes it or not!

~~ I Stand Up Straight and Tall Grover's song of love for the letter I

~~ I Think That It Is Wonderful classic tune where everyone chimes in on their favorite subjects

I Want A Monster To Be My Friend darn, now the secret's out everyone will want one!

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.5M, and on YouTube

PLEASE NOTE: These files are for the original (now banned) version, not for young and impressionable ears!

En Vogue version from Elmopalooza! - YouTube

~~ I Want To Be Your Friend Grover getting chummy with a suit of armour

I Want To Hold Your Ear Bert will hold anything to prove his love.

Available as a short . mp3 file 500K

~~ I Wish I Had A Friend To Play With Me poor Bert needs a buddy, preferably someone that loves argyle socks!

~~ I Wish It Would Rain oldie but goodie, not complete yet

~~ I Wonder 'Bout The World Above Up There a chance to look up from your keyboard for a minute or two ;-)

I'll Bet I Can Make You Say This Word skit where Ernie tries to trick Bert ... with a twist!

~~ I'll Give You A Song very short, but not sweet, message from Oscar

~~ I'm A Baby "ga-ga-goo-goo-bop-bop-bop"!

~~ I'm A Bookworm, Baby! only on Sesame Street would this be sung by actual worms!

~~ I'm A Hard Workin' Dog classic with that proud, cow herding dog

~~ I'm A Little Airplane no ticket required, just bring your imagination

I'm An Aardvark And I'm Proud Well wouldn't you be too?!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1M, and on YouTube

~~ I'm An Earthworm Slimey's first official song, after his space adventure

I'm Going To Get My Hair Cut and it's about time too!

See the Cookie Monster version on YouTube

~~ I'm Gonna Get To You Cecile the rubber ball's song!

I'm Pretty and who's going to argue with a beautiful seal?

Watch the original version on YouTube

~~ I'm Proud with Orville the Lab Mouse

~~ I'm Sad Because I'm Happy Oscar's classic tune, "if wishes were garbage trucks, grouches would ride!"

~~ I'm So Blue from "Follow That Bird", Big Bird's sad lament when he's trapped as a blue bird *sniff*

I'm So Lonely "I'm feeling kind of down 'cause I'm lonely", awww, poor fella

Available as a full . mp3 file 2M

~~ I'm Square Bert's a square but he doesn't care! "I love laundry, it's quiet and clean"

~~ I'm Talkin' Love with Trisha Yearwood, Herry Monster, Baby Bear, Grover, and the Yip Yip Martian

~~ I'm The Big One Now taking care of your younger brother and sister

~~ I've Got Two eyes, ears, arms, hands, the whole nine yards!

~~ If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake Cookie Monster and The Count duet

If I Were Kermit's pseudo sonnet of love

Available as a small .mp3 file 490K

If I Were A Cloud Snuffy dreams about being way up high

Watch it at YouTube

If Moon Was Cookie let's face it, we'd ALL be in trouble, especially if Cookie Monster's around!

Available as a small .mp3 file 425K, and on YouTube

~~ "If You've Lost Your L look around you'll find it"

Imagination the 70's Ernie version

Watch the version where Bert sings Ernie to sleep on YouTube

~~ "And I'd tip my hat, Imagine That!" Another Ernie imagination song, but more recent

~~ In A Cabin In The Woods technically a Muppet song, sung by Rowlf The Dog, but still classic

~~ In My Book so many adventures waiting inside

~~ In My Head by that cartoon scamp, Suzy Kabloozie

~~ "In The Library You will find, books of every shape and kind"

In The Quiet Of The Evening poor Kermit can't find any quiet

~~ In Your Imagination Elmo's imagination song, "Too good to be true!"

~~ Inchworm classic from "The Muppet Show"

Infinity (That's About The Size Of It) all depends on "where you put your eyes", classic

Available as a full . mp3 file 1M and on YouTube

~~ The Insects In Your Neighbourhood Ernie and his neighbourly bugs

Island Of Emotion popular cartoon, "Let's have a cry at Weeping River"

Watch it at YouTube

It Feels Like Christmas from "The Muppet Christmas Carol"

Available as a full .mp3 file (2.2M), and on YouTube

~~ It Makes Me Feel Like Dancing start rockin' in your computer chair with Celina!

~~ It Sure Is Hot! when in doubt, talk about the weather, even if it is in Spanish! Previously called "Caliente"

"It's A Long, Hard Road/It's A Long, Hard Climb but I'm gonna get there ..."

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.3M, and on YouTube

It's All Right To Cry "Crying's not just for babies, grownups can do it, too"

Watch it at YouTube

It's All Right To Cry from the fab non-Sesame classic, "Free To Be ... You And Me"

Watch it at YouTube

~~ It's Fun To Wonder just sit back for a while and wonder at this amazing world

It's In Every One Of Us John Denver reminds us all how wise we are, "Find your heart, open up both your eyes"

Enjoy it on YouTube

~~ It's Oookie-ook (Ukiuk) And It's Cold Outside very difficult transcription, but very popular, so I finally tracked it down

The J Song you know, the one about the "jokin', joyful, jumpin' jamboree" of the family doing all those wacky J things!

Available as a full . avi file 8M, and on YouTube

J - Jump "J jump joyful jumble around!"

Joe Raposo's original version available as a full .mp3 file 1.8M, and on YouTube
Kids version available as a full .mp3 file 1.3M

~~ J Friends Joe, Jane, Jim, the whole J gang!

J Poem cute little poem by Big Bird

Jazzy Spies classic cartoon ending with the spies opening their coats to reveal the numbers 1-10

Available as a full .mp3 file (Number 2) 1.8M, full .mp3 file (Number 7) 1.8M

- YouTube Vids:

Number 2, Number 4, Number 5,
Number 7, Number 8, Number 9, Number 10

Jellyman Kelly by James Taylor

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.8M, and on YouTube

Jughead's J Story short cartoon with Archie's buddy Jughead

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ Just Ask A Question Tracy Chapman gives some good advice about learning

Just Because a letter Y skit which Grover turns into an Abbott and Costello routine!

Just Happy To Be Me Kingston Livingston III doing the Kingston thing; includes the Fugees' version

Kingston's version available as a small . wav file 360K

Just One Me Big Bird reminds us how special we are

Available as a small .mp3 file 175K

Just One Person Technically a Muppet song, really just a personal fave ... so sue me!

You can watch the lovely Muppet tribute to Jim Henson version online at YouTube

Just The Way You Are those grouch groupies Billy Joel and Marlee Matlin serenade Oscar

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ Just Three Colors Big Bird and Oscar tune about a funky album cover from the old days that included three colored discs

The L-Y Song, Tom Lehrer's memorable tune from The Electric Company. "How do you walk by a sleeping tiger? Silent L-Y"

Watch it at YouTube

Ladies First Marlo Thomas reads a Shel Silverstein story (from "Free To Be . .. You And Me")

Watch it at YouTube

Ladybugs' Picnic where they chat about fire insurance and tell knock-knock jokes. Classic!

Available as a full .avi file 7.7M, full .mp3 file 425K, and on YouTube

"La La La Linoleum!" Great duet w/Ernie and Bert extolling the virtues of the letter L

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.7M, and on YouTube

The Lambaba! The Count counting sheep, get it? LamBAABAA!

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.4M

The Land Of Eight a king, very happy with his 8 daughters, is in for a shock!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1M

The Land Of Six where the Queen of Six gets her kicks!

You can watch it online at YouTube

~~ The Last Cookie Roundup those cookies better getalong, here comes Cookie Monster!

~~ Laying Eggs Around The Clock a homage to those hard-working chickens

~~ Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella (Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella) with Oscar and Farley, not complete

~~ Let's Do It lay an egg, that is, you naughty people!

~~ Let's Do The Wash they'll sing about anything on this show, even laundry

~~ Let's Go Driving great travel tune with all the beep-beeps and swish-swishes!

Let's Make A Face one of those Prairie Dawn Productions, kind of a play, kind of a song, kinda classic!

Watch it on YouTube

Letter B Classic Beatles parody!

Available as a small . mp3 file 900K, and on YouTube

The Letter "I" (Beep, Beep) going for a ride with that irresistible letter I

Available as a full .mp3 file 775K, and on YouTube

The Letter N by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics, naturally

Watch it on YouTube

~~ The Letter O rap with Queen Latifah, Telly Monster, Prairie Dawn, and Mary Monster

The Letter O Rolls Over cartoon with the letter O and a horse

A Letter To Ling Lu popular cartoon, "It was loaded on a boat on its way to China, all the way from South Carolina"

Letters vs. Numbers skit where muppet kids split up by the letter or number on their shirt. Not quite as fair as it sounds!

~~ Like The Way U Do Melissa Etheridge croons to the letter U ... really! How '90's!

~~ The Limerick Song (Come On and Sing Along with Me) A singalong that sends Oscar packing

"Listen To The Bells, ding a ling, hear them ring, everybody listen to the bells ..."

Available as a full .mp3 file 2. 8M, and on YouTube

~~ Little Miss Count Along another great parody, this time of The Spin Doctors!

Little Miss Muffet Production great skit with a confused Blue Anything Muppet, includes pics

"(I Believe In) Little Things that you can hardly see ..."

Prairie Dawn's version available as a full .mp3 file 1.5M
Tony Bennett and Lexine's version on YouTube

~~ Living Hand In Hand lovely oldie from Gordon and Susan

Longy and Shorty - Longer Is Better, but not if you're a silly snake that bites himself!

Longy and Shorty - Next To The Cactus cartoon with two frightened snakes slithering next to the cactus

Available as a full .avi file 4.8M, and on You Tube

Longy and Shorty - Something Out There another cartoon with the snakes trying to keep safe *here*

Watch it on You Tube

~~ Lonesome Joan and stubborn, too! Ya gotta ask for help sometimes, Joan.

~~ Look A Little Closer guessing game played with closeups

Love The Ocean sung by the Surfin' Muppet Monsters

Watch it on You Tube

~~ Low, Middle, High Oscar's classic tune

"Lowercase N standing on a hill, the wind is very still, for the lowercase eh-en", classic cartoon

Available as a full . mp3 file 970K, and on YouTube

Lunch A La Sam Sam the Robot makes Maria and Oscar's lunches, in his own way

The M Who Came To Dinner and ate everything in sight!

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ MMM Monster Meal Herry and Cookie Monster with all kinds of M foods to Munch!

~~ Macarena even the Street's not safe from this dance craze!

Mad "Yeah, we're angry, very, very angry", oldie and a goodie

Watch it online at YouTube

The Mad Painter some of the live action skits starring Paul Benedict

- YouTube Vids:

Number 3, Number 4, Number 7, Number 8, Number 9, Number 10, Number 11

Mahna Mahna or as it's also known, "Phenomenon", don't ask me to explain it to ya, but it's one of the most popular songs of all time . .. to us muppet folks anyway! What does that tell you about us?

Original version available as a small .mp3 file 400K, and on YouTube
"The Ed Sullivan Show" version on YouTube
"The Muppet Show" version on YouTube
Dr. Teeth's version available as a full .mp3 file 2M

Mambo I, I, I "It's not the cha-cha, or the tango, it isn't even the fandango"

Original version by Gloria Esteworm and The Miami Slime Machine available as a full .mp3 file 1.4M, and on YouTube

~~ Maria and Luis' Wedding Preparations making sure the dress and suit are just right

Maria and Luis' Wedding the whole ceremony of this blessed event, including Elmo's "Don't drop the rings!"

Mary Had A Bicycle Don Music's version of "Mary Had A Little Lamb", now includes full skit

Available as a full .mp3 file 3.4M

Me short but classic tune, good for ME!

See the original live action vid on YouTube

~~ Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard with Paul Simon and the Kids

Me And My Llama even pet llamas have to go to the dentist

You can watch it online at YouTube

Me and My M with the moose, the monkey and a jar of marmalade . .. mmmmm.

Available as a full .avi file 5M, and on YouTube

Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco poor Cookie Monster, but he can still sing about his pain like no one else!

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.7M, and on YouTube

"Meet Me At The Bus Stop Down on the corner by the five and dime ..."

Available as a full .mp3 file 2M

~~ Measuring duet with husband and wife team of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates, The Count helps with the visuals

~~ Milk short but sweet

~~ Miss Mary M, M, M a clapping song

The Monster In The Mirror Grover's wubba wubba song

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.5M, and on YouTube
1989 celebrity version also on YouTube

The Monster's Three Wishes, a story Bob reads where Cookie Monster finds a genie in his toothpaste

Watch it on YouTube

The Monster That Ate The Television do I look like the monster that ate the television?

The Monster Who Came In From The Cold skit where Grover and Kermit try to keep warm, not complete yet

Monsterpiece Theatre sketches

- Available as a short . wav file 150K (part of opening theme, intro to "Monster Of Venice.")

- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - YouTube
- Chariots of Fur with Herry and Grover running down a beach - YouTube
- Dances With Wolves - currently untranscribed
- Dr. No - YouTube
- Fiddler on the Roof - currently untranscribed
- The Four Hundred Blows - YouTube
- Gone With The Wind starring Kermit as Green - YouTube
- Guys and Dolls - YouTube
- Hamlet - YouTube
- The Horse Whisperer - YouTube
- Howard's End with Howard the Rattlesnake
- Inside/Outside Story based on "West Side Story" - YouTube
- The King And I with Grover as the King of Siam
- Monsters With Dirty Faces - currently untranscribed
- Much Ado About Nothing - currently untranscribed
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- The Postman Always Rings Twice - YouTube
- The Sound Of Music - YouTube
- The Sun Also Rises - currently untranscribed
- The Taming of the Shoe - currently untranscribed
- The Thirty-Nine Stairs with Grover - YouTube
- Twelve Angry Men - YouTube
- Twin Beaks remember the cult TV show, "Twin Peaks"? Classic! - YouTube
- Upstairs, Downstairs - currently untranscribed
- Waiting for Elmo - currently untranscribed

~~ The Moon Shines lovely little tune sung by a boy as he lies in bed at night

~~ Morningtown Ride Sesame's version, sung by Bob, lovely lullaby

~~ Mothers And Children the same as always, down through the ages

Mountain Of Love doo-wop classic by Little Jerry and The Monotones

Watch it on YouTube

Mr. Hooper's Death the classic scene where everyone explains his death to Big Bird *sniff*

Muppets Rhyme In School and with toes/ rose and cat/ Matt/ hat/ flat, they're doing great! Not complete yet

Watch it on YouTube

~~ My Favorite Color Elmo and Grover's seem to be red and blue, I wonder why?

My Favorite Letter these people are partial to the perfectly pretty P

Watch it on YouTube

My Home from igloos to jungle huts, they're all home sweet home

Watch it on YouTube

My Martian Cutie (Number 9) "She's my real martian beauty, she's my number nine cutie..."

Available as a full .avi file 6.5M, and on YouTube

~~ My Name Is Zoe and she's really proud, as she should be

"You gotta see My New Computer, come and check it out!"

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ My Shadow Grover and his shadowy pal

~~ My Sister, My Father, My Mother, My Grandma, My Grandpa, My Dog And Me sounds like quite the group!

~~ My Triangle Home where even the cows are shaped like triangles!

The Mystery of the Four Dragons skit with Asian Muppets solving a mystery

The "N" Interview cartoon classic, includes a pic

You can watch it on YouTube

~~ The Name Song "It's a fine name. It's not your name, but it's fine just the same."

Name That Sound game show parody with Guy Smiley and Grover, not complete yet

Nancy The Nanny Goat - classic cartoon, "Nanny goats who nibble on their nails and notice noodles are nutty!"

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.4M, and on YouTube

~~ Naptime Ernie and Bert duet, one wants to nap, one doesn't, as usual

Nasty Dan with Johnny Cash and Oscar the Grouch

You can watch it on YouTube

The National Association of 'W' Lovers "When you say W-W-W-W!"

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ Nearly Missed Susan reminds us of all the lovely things we could miss if we're not careful
Also includes the version sung by Elmo and Rosie O'Donnell on "Elmopalooza!"

A New Way To Walk by The Oinker Sisters!

Available as a full .mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube
Destiny's Child's version on YouTube
1990s celeb version on YouTube

~~ The Night Before Christmas On Sesame Street Sesame version of the classic poem as read by David

No Matter What we all feel the same, no matter what we look like

Available as a full . mp3 file 1.7M, and on YouTube

~~ Nobody beautiful tune from when Snuffy was "invisable"

~~ The No-No-No! Oscar teaches Elmo a new dance

The Noodle Story Big Bird needles Oscar with nine naughty noodles!

~~ No One Like You with John Denver

The O Song now complete, the cartoon with the goat and toad etc.

You can watch it online at YouTube

~~ Octopus Blues he's gotta lotta arms and a lotta blues

~~ Oh G "There's nothing else for me, from "G" to shining "G", why I love that letter!"

Oh, What A Fabulous Party everyone's sitting next to someone fab

Watch it online at YouTube

~~ Old Friends, New Friends from "The Christmas Toy"

~~ On My Pond Kermit's environmental anthem

~~ One And One Make Two Bert and Ernie harmonizing as only they can

One Fine Face Ernie and Elmo duet, not that you don't have a lovely face as well!

Available as a full . mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube

One Of These Things (Is Not Like The Others) lots of requests for this goodie, so here ya go!
Now includes bonus version, thanks, Andrea!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.3M (Cookie Monster vocal)

- Susan - (premiere, W and 2s) - YouTube
- Bob and Susan (Circles) - YouTube
- Cookie Monster (Plates of cookies) - YouTube
- Sea Creatures - YouTube

~~ One Little Star a classic from the movie "Follow That Bird"

One More Sleep 'Til Christmas from "The Muppet Christmas Carol"

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.6M

"One Small Voice can teach the world a song" even one like yours :-)

You can watch Elmo and the Backstreet Boys' version on YouTube

One Way will the "One Way" sign keep our Muppet lovers apart?!

You can watch it on YouTube

~~ Opening Sing-Along Theme a classic Ernie and Bert duet sung on one of the sing-along albums, "George Washington Bridge!" Thanks, Robert!

The Opposite Song "Tell me why do you always do the opposite of what I do?"

See it on YouTube

~~ Oscar Don't Allow, this is the part before The Limerick Song (Come On and Sing Along with Me)

~~ Oscar's "B" Sandwich anything with barbecued buttons on top must be Oscar's!

Oscar's Do Re Mi Julie Andrews he ain't! "(Ti) A drink that I won't have with you".

Available as a short .mp3 file 500K

~~ Oscar's Junk Band "We're gonna play the junkiest tune you can stand!"

~~ Over, Under, Around and Through visuals would be a BIG help with this Grover classic!

Over, Under, Around, And Through cartoon with The Yo-Yo Man

See it on YouTube

"If I could only paddle like a doggie oughta paddle, I'd Paddle My Way To You"

See it on YouTube

"Have you ever looked at a Paper Clip?" Bert's gotta sing about his thing for paper clips, to each their own!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1M

Paper Makin' live action short from the old days, "a story about paper makin' and this little class that I've been takin'"

~~ Parents Are People from "Free To Be . .. You And Me" with Harry Belafonte and Marlo Thomas

"I am Part Of The Whole, the beans in your casserole"

~~ Pat Pat Patty Pat silly song with lots of wiggle-wiggles and shake-shakes

"Takes a lot of little nuts to make a jar of Peanut Butter"

Available as a full .mp3 file 1M, and on YouTube

~~ Penny Candy Man the whole song, finally, yeah!!!

People In Your Neighborhood Classic ditty with many more occupation verses I'm sure

Available as a full .mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube
William Wegman's photogenic dogs: The Barber and The Mechanic

~~ Perfectly Pearl White Teeth and when a shark tells you to brush, you better brush, kiddo!

Picture A World gets harder as we get older, but with Sesame Street's help I think we can all picture this world

Pinball Number Count my attempt at a translation anyway!

Available as a small .mp3 file 480K (Number 4)
Remix version by DJ Food, special edit by Strictly Kev, available as a full . mp3 file 3.7M
See the DJ Food edit on YouTube, great mega-mix
Other YouTube Vids:

Number 7, Number 12

Piper's Pickled Peppers Patch classic skit with our intrepid reporter, Kermit the Frog

~~ Planets, Moon And Stars Elmo discovers he's not alone in the universe

~~ Play Along even Mr. Hooper joins in the game ... *sniff* ...

~~ Please Keep Off The Grass where a blade of grass begs "Don't step on me!"

~~ Poems, Prayers and Promises with John Denver

"Im in love with you, Pretty Baby" live action short with two rhinos

Watch it on YouTube

~~ Pretty Little Song pretty but neverending!

Pride (Slide) the Goo Goo Dolls teach Elmo about pride

See it on YouTube

Professor Grover and Bathtime a lesson about bathing with some help from Grover's Mommy

See it on YouTube

Proud with Little Jerry and The Monotones, "I want to shout out loud, I feel so proud!"

See it on YouTube

Proud Of Me as well you should be, Grover!

Watch it on YouTube

~~ Proud To Be A Cow a moooving theme for all you cows out there

Put Down The Duckie Ernie can't play the sax 'till he drops that duck!

Available as a full . mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube

The "R" Machine Ernie and Bert skit from the album "Sesame Street: Sings The Alphabet"

The Rainbow Connection "the lovers, the dreamers and me" ... sniff ...

Available as a full .mp3 file 3M, and on YouTube
The Carpenters - YouTube
Dixie Chicks - YouTube
Kermit and Debbie Harry - YouTube
Kenny Loggins - YouTube
Sarah McLachlan - YouTube
Jason Mraz and Paul Williams - YouTube
Willie Nelson - YouTube

~~ Rain Falls not surprisingly, Oscar loves to see people getting wet, not complete

~~ Rainy Day "why do we need the rain anyway?"

Rappin' Alphabet if you could only see Grover breakdancing, you'd appreciate this song's true glory!

And now you can watch it for yourself at YouTube

Reach Your Hand Up High and never stop stretching for those goals!

Available as a full . mp3 file 1.8M

Read Me A Story Big Bird and Zoe's lovely tune about tricking grownups into reading

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.6M

Readers Of The Open Range cowboys a'ridin' and a'readin', yeeha!

Available as a small .wav file 470K

~~ A Really Good Feeling short but lovely tune from Big Bird

Rebel L Wahoo! Big hit and classic parody

Watch it on YouTube

The Remembering Game skit w/Guy Smiley, Cookie Monster, and Mr. Bill Smith

Remember Q "It's like a "G" that broke its back!", not complete

~~ Rhyme Out classic rhyming game, "You win every time you get the last rhyme"

The Rhyming Game Ernie talks Bert into a game ... "Stop it, please!", "A dog has fleas!"

Watch it on YouTube

~~ Right Field not a Sesame Street song, where the baseball kid ends up "watching the dandelions grow"

Rock and Roll Readers ya gotta read if ya wanna rock and roll!

See it on YouTube

~~ Rosita Little Richard serenades Rosita

~~ Roundity, Roundity, Round live action short with a hippopotamus

~~ Row, Row, Row Your Boat little ditty redone by Don Music, he'll never get it right! Not complete, just a verse for now

~~ "Rub Your Tummy pat your head and play along!"

Rubber Duckie Ernie's ode to his bathtime buddy

Ernie's original version available as a full . mp3 file 2M

~~ S, You're The Best little love song to the letter S

~~ Sad "Want to sit down and cry-yi-yi", by Little Jerry and The Monotones

~~ Sammy The Snake "And I look and I sound just like the letter S"

~~ Scratch My Back "Oh, baby, won't you scratch my back?", with Jack, Jill and Mahna Mahna

Seasons a lovely tune about the different seasons from way back when, thanks, David!

You can watch it on YouTube

Sesame Jamboree from "Sesame Country", yee-ha! Also includes the version done by Alison Krauss and Union Station (along with a pic)

Sesame Street News Flash skits

- Kermit In Wonderland ("Alice In Wonderland")
- Cinderella - YouTube
- Jack and Jill - YouTube
- Little Bo Peep - YouTube
- Little Miss Muffet - YouTube
- Mary Had A Bicycle Don Music's version of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" - full .mp3 file 3.4M
- Old King Cole - YouTube
- Old MacDonald Had A Spaceship - YouTube
- The Pied Piper - YouTube
- Piper's Pickled Peppers Patch
- Rapunzel - YouTube
- Red Riding Hood - YouTube
- Kermit Meets Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Halloween Witch . ..
- The Six Dollar Man - YouTube
- The Snowstorm - YouTube
- The Three Little Pigs - YouTube
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Don Music's version - YouTube
- Two Trees divorce, Sesame style

Sesame Street Theme it all starts and ends right here

Available as a full .mp3 file 1M (kids, original version, previously unreleased)
and as a full .mp3 file 1.7M (original version from the cast album)
and as another full .mp3 file 2.5M (closing credits w/Toots Thielemans' harmonica solo from 1992)
YouTube Vids: - Opening Credits - '70s
- Closing Credits - Season One
- Closing Credits - Season Three
- Closing Credits - Season Four
- Closing Credits - Season Five
- Closing Credits - '90s animated

Also try here for guitar chords

~~ Don Music's version of The Sesame Street Theme he'll never get it right!

~~ Sesame Street Theme Remix - Ursula 1000 and this version's from the box set

The Seven Tiny Little Mice poem recited by Bob about the mice that lived in a boot

Shake Your Rattle and Roll awww . .. even babies gotta exercise!

See it on YouTube

~~ Share another one of those things we learned as children but seem to have forgotten as adults

~~ She'll Be Comin' 'Round The Mountain with John Denver

~~ Sign Song "No Right Turn, No Left Turn, What can you do?"

~~ Sign, You're A Friend Of Mine Big Bird sorts out all the "Signs you never should forget"

~~ Silly Squirrel Dance with The Squirrelles, of course

~~ Simple Dance, it's a very simple dance to do!

Simple Simon And The Animals or, as some of us like to call it, "Sheep Don't Wear Boots!" Very surreal cartoon

You can watch it online at YouTube

~~ Simple Song yes, but still a classic

"Sing sing a song, make it simple to last your whole life long!"

Kids w/Spanish verse - full .mp3 file 2.8M
Big Bird - small .mp3 file 368K
Bob McGrath - small .wav file 184K
Denyce Graves - YouTube Video

Visit YouTube for a lovely Perry Como and Julie Andrews duet of "Sing" songs from "Julie On Sesame Street" (1973)

Also try here for guitar chords

Sing After Me classic echo song, as done by Madeline Kahn and Grover, includes Oscar's version

Original tune available as a full . mp3 file 4.3M, and on YouTube Video

~~ Singin' In The Shower great acoustics in there, why not?

~~ Sing Your Synonyms (aka Let's Call The Whole Thing Small) Maria and Luis arguing? This can't be right!

Sisters And Brothers from "Free To Be ... You And Me"

Watch it online at YouTube

Six as in Bert's fave number, a duet with Ernie

Available as a full .mp3 file 2M

~~ Six different from Bert's tune, this one's The Count counting on the beach

Six Feet Under cute parody of the popular TV show with The Count

~~ Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other by Susan and Gordon, not complete yet

~~ Six Soccer Socks marching themselves into the wash, must be pretty dirty!

~~ Skin doesn't matter what color, it's all beautiful

~~ Slimey To The Moon sung by Tony Bennett, a lovely parody of "Fly Me To The Moon", new classic!

~~ Slimiloquy great parody of "Soliloquy" from the musical "Carousel", the song Slimey's father sings before his newest baby is born

~~ Small People with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Prairie Dawn, and Big Bird

~~ The Snuffleupagus Polka and you don't even have to be a snuffleupagus to join in!

~~ Some Enchanted Lunchtime terrific muppet kids version of "Some Enchanted Evening"

~~ Some Of Us Are Here CLASSIC! Doesn't include all the action yet, but here's all the words!

Somebody Come And Play If you can watch this classic clip of a tiger trying to get his buddies to play with him and not start sniffling . .. well then there's just no hope for ya!

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.3M, and on YouTube (Original) and YouTube ('90s update)

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~~ Someday, Little Children beautiful song of hope for the future generations, sung by Susan

~~ "A Song From Kermit to wish you well"

~~ The Song Of The Count short and sweet theme song for our counting friend, not complete

~~ A Song Without A Reason, A Song Without A Rhyme by Judy Collins, not complete

~~ Songs tune from Elmo and his "Elmopalooza!", could be MY theme song here on the archive

The Sound of the Letter "A" the beginning of the alphabet album, AND the alphabet, neat!

Available as a full .mp3 file 2.4M

~~ Spaceketeers' Song with Slimey going to the moon, everyone wants in!

~~ Sparky's Alligator Song sort of a skit, bit of a song, a lot of attitude with that alligator-playing dog, Sparky

Splish Splash Elmo's having a bath!

Available as a full . mp3 file 1M

~~ Stand By Your Can with Miss Hammy Swinette! Great parody of "Stand By Your Man"

Steady Freddy finally complete! From The Electric Company, a cartoon about a scared boy at a movie theater (previously called "My Friend Freddy")

Available as a full .mp3 file 1.5M, and on YouTube

~~ Stick Out Your Hand and Say Hello Bert and Rick Moranis show an airplane full of people how friendships start

~~ Still We Like Each Other Grover's lovely tune of friendship

~~ Stop! classic version of the green light, red light game

Subway "Buy a token now for a ride thats super-wow on the subway!"

Available as a full .mp3 file 2M, and on YouTube

Sugar Beet old video of how sugar was made, not complete

~~ Surprise with Big Bird, Bob, Maria, Grover, Mr. Hooper and a Baker, not complete

Swamp Mushy Muddy the only place a grouch can feel at home

Watch it at YouTube

~~ Sweet - A Little Baby sung by Pete Seeger

~~ Sweet In The Mornin' (Tweet In The Mornin') sung by Bobby McFerrin with The Birds

~~ Swinging On A Star the original, could be the same as "Singing On a Star" from the album "Songs from Sesame Street"

Thank You for the Music, Sesame Street

The first word that ever came out of my toddler son’s mouth was “Daddy.” Okay, okay…this might be wishful thinking. His first utterance of the allegedly 30,000 words he will learn in his lifetime was actually “Elmo.” It was one of his earliest attempts at language and most importantly, his first acknowledgment of another soul in which there was instant affection when he laid his curious eyes on the bright-red, falsetto-singing monster, immediately accepting Elmo as a real person.

Sesame Street recently celebrated its 52nd birthday, announcing yet another season of engaging and entertaining children’s education through the relationships and songs of incredibly likeable live actors, influential artists and musicians, and of course, those transcendent singing characters like Elmo, who is back with a new puppy named Tango this season. These relationships are deeply rooted in music, and through the show’s well-written, interactive songs, that connection is also open to whoever is singing and dancing along, something significant in a child’s impressionable head and heart.

It’s this focus on music that has resulted in Sesame Street evolving into an almost generational curator of musical tastes that goes back to 1969 when the show first lit up living room television sets across the U.S. and, for some kids, a pivotal and positive introduction to the world of song. For more than five decades, the show has enlightened generations of kids—including myself and my little guy, Thomas—to an eclectic mix of genres, to artists and musicians of all backgrounds. 

Jon Batiste is this season’s first musical guest on November 18th. The show made a strong impact on a young Jon Batiste who admits that his eyes welled up at one point, while on set, because he’s dreamt of appearing on the show for so long.

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“It’s been a dream of mine since the beginning of my career…since I started being a performer,” Batiste tells SPIN about his appearance. “I was aware that it was a possibility in some realm, if I were ever to have enough success, I could be on Sesame Street. It’s always been a dream of mine.” 

Country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves also had a similar, moving experience when filming her episode, which is airing on December 2.

“There are few institutions more iconic than Sesame Street, and I’ve always adored how they blend music and learning,” says Musgraves. “It was a massive honor to be a guest on the show and something I’ll never forget. It made me kind of emotional to see behind the curtain of such a big part of my childhood.”

Sesame Street became an international institution and household name by focusing on education through catchy music and hilarious skits that not only engage its audience but also teach at the same time, leveraging the powerful, accessible medium of video to teach useful skills and lessons in a fun way that resonates with younger kids. The show’s music has also resonated with others in the industry and Sesame Street’s music has been recognized with 11 Grammys, the first in 1970 for Best Recording for Children for the Sesame Street Book and Record.

“[Sesame Street] is like a beam of light in the entertainment world,” says Batiste who is the amiable bandleader of the even-more-amiable Stay Human house band for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “Children’s media is something I’ve always been drawn to because of the purity of it. When you’re growing up, it’s an inspiration to be a better person. When you see it, you think, ‘I can be a better person’ if I have the agency to move towards self-improvement. I love that.” 

While there have been a number of people instrumental in the show’s pioneering musical and educational content, it can all be credited to Joe Raposo, a composer and jazz pianist who wrote the show’s ubiquitous theme song, “Sunny Day.” Creating thousands of songs until his passing in 1989, Raposo set the bar high right off the bat with the now-legendary theme song as well as bringing impressive talent to its band like Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers, jazz harmonica pioneer Toots Thielemans for the theme song, as well as vocalist Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane for a popular, psychedelic counting series. Over the decades, the bar remained high, hosting some of the most iconic names in the music industry on the show such as Stevie Wonder, Barbara Streisand, Paul Simon, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Cash, and Stevie Wonder all performing on an urban street called…well, you know.

As the current music director, Bill Sherman has filled those big shoes of Raposo and says this is a job he takes very seriously because of its everlasting influence on young people.

“I couldn’t be more proud,” says Sherman whose name you might recognize in the credits of the mega-musical Hamilton. “I hold this job in such high esteem that I always tell myself that if I’m not doing the best possible job then I should leave and go try to do something else. This job feels so important because it is so impactful…if you’re not giving it a hundred and fifty, two hundred, a million percent then you’re doing the job injustice because it is so important.” 

Sherman has written more than 3,000 songs for the show and says he has an extremely rigid approval process when creating new music. It must receive the blessings of his nine and 11-year-old daughters.

“I play them most of the songs I write to see if they like them. They’re the best litmus there is…they’re very, very honest,” he says laughing. “And if later, I hear them humming or singing it at dinner, that one’s a success”

The show’s music goes deeper than teaching toddlers their ABCs. As the first mainstream children’s series to develop its music program and content around a structured curriculum and educational research, Sesame Street has been at the forefront of inclusivity, very recently welcoming their first Asian American character and addressing tough issues like race (Nina Simone sang “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” in 1984), addiction, disability, and death (RIP Mr. Hooper – it still stings). 

But even when raising some big issues that not many of us, young or old, want to talk about, Sesame Street manages to do so with a decorum that is rare and special which, Batiste says, is just as enchanting behind the scenes as well.

“When you step onto the set, it’s just a whole other level of…it’s like magical surrealism,” he says almost dreamily. “You step on the set and feel all of the emotions and the nostalgia that you had as a child and it’s like a wonderland.” He laughs. “I remember how I felt so spry and I felt like running and jumping all around the set.”  

As my wife and I do our best to help Thomas navigate an unpredictable and sometimes-terrifying world, it’s reassuring to know that he and his little peers have that positivity, that accessible, mainstream moral compass to help them navigate some of the ups and downs of life, making that part of parenting a little easier, if not a guide for the parents themselves as well; Oscar the Grouch’s “I’m Sad Because I’m Happy” is feeling even more pertinent in my cynical adulthood. As a father, I am quite happy that one of his earliest COVID-era connections was with a fictional and friendly baby monster and that he can hum along to the legendary theme song. And as a music lover, I truly appreciate how this show is also providing a memorable soundtrack to the years that myself and his mom will value forever— that and I’ve learned to do a pretty mean Elmo Slide.

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Sesame Street was not only watched by all small children in the United States, it was also most often taken as an example for research. We will consider here only some of the effects of watching this broadcast (Anderson, 1998; Ball & Bogatz, 1970; Bogatz & Ball, 1972; T. D. Cook et al., 1975; Huston, Wright, Rice, Kerkman & St. Peters, 1990; Huston & Wright, 1998).

In the opinion of the majority of parents, their children show an unflagging interest in this program, they watch it attentively; preschoolers really enjoy the show. If we talk about more significant effects and influence Sesame Street on the level of knowledge of the child, that is, data indicating short-term effects: the child's vocabulary increases, the child learns the preliminary skills necessary for reading, the children also learn positive social skills and attitudes: for example, after watching a TV show, children disappear racist attitudes and changing behavior towards children of color (Anderson, 1998; Ball & Bogatz, 1970; Huston & Wright. 1998; Rice, Huston, Truglio & Wright, 1990). Longer-term effects are not so obvious, and some studies have shown that the benefits that children who watch Sesame Street, have over controls disappear after a few months or years (Bogatz & Ball, 1972). Other more recent long-term studies show that consistent viewing of Sesame Street as a preschooler is positively correlated with school grades in English, math, and science, even when early language ability and parental education are tested during the experiment (Huston & Wright, 1998).

There are some interesting patterns in children's viewing of Sesame Street . Positive effects appear to be stronger if the program is discussed with parents or accompanied by education (Cook et al., 1975). This suggests that, among other things, the program serves as a catalyst for non-formal education in the family (a topic we will return to in Chapter 12). Another interesting fact: Sesame Street was more effective in helping children with higher social status (Ball & Bogatz, 1970). It is a sad irony that the show actually widened the gap between reading preparation for low- and high-status children, even though it was designed specifically to close that gap. However, this result was not unexpected, since any intervention tends to help those who can adapt to it more quickly and are more able to take full advantage of what it offers.

There are other positive effects as well. Children from cultural minorities after viewing Sesame Street were more culturally proud, self-confident, and willing to interpersonally cooperate (Greenberg, 1982). Also, after two years of viewing Sesame Street , white children showed more positive attitudes towards children of other races (Bogatz & Ball, 1972; Christensen & Roberts, 1983).

The series Sesame Street, is generally praised, although occasionally criticized (eg Bowman, 1996; Healy, 1990; Winn, 1977, 1987). The series has been criticized for encouraging passivity and absent-mindedness, and language skills are overlooked due to the visual nature of the TV show. However, such criticisms can be attributed to television in general, and not to individual programs and their quality. D. R. Anderson (Anderson, 1998) discusses this topic in detail and refutes individual remarks.

Thirty years have passed since the release of Sesame Street , and this TV show has not lost its popularity. New series are constantly being created, old ones are actively used, they all appear together as part of a single show. Preschoolers don't get bored with repetition; in fact, they are attracted to what is already familiar. Although the social theme is most important for Sesame Street, there are areas of that this program is silent about. For example, there is almost no talk about religion and religious holidays, and there are no characters - gays and lesbians.



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Carly (left) tells Elmo why she ended up in a foster family

In one of the most popular children's shows in the world - "Sesame Street" - addition - new Carly's character, a six-and-a-half-year-old green fluffy doll, explains to her friends that she lives in a foster family because her real mother suffers from drug addiction.

"My mom has adult issues," Carly says to little Elmo, the bright red Sesame Street character, in one of the clips. And in another, she and 10-year-old girl Salia, whose parents also struggle with addiction, discuss what it is.

This is not the first time that Sesame Street has dealt with important social issues that children may face. The creators of the educational program cite statistics that prompted them to highlight the topic of opioid drug addiction of parents: in the USA 5.7 million children under the age of 11 live with parents who are addicted to opioids.

Sesame Street viewers first saw Carly in May, but only now have the creators explained that her mother is being treated for opioid addiction, which is common in the US and many other countries around the world.

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Serious problems for children

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services in 2018, 10.3 million people used opioids without medical reasons, and an average of 130 people die from an opioid overdose every day.

During the 50 years of Sesame Street's existence, the characters of the TV show have spoken to children on a range of social topics. From breastfeeding babies in public to coping with the death of loved ones, what is racism, why some children have foster parents, and some have parents in prison.

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Sesame Street last year was about homeless children

homeless.

In 2013, Sesame Street in Communities, a widely accessible online educational resource, joined the television version, where parents and teachers can find videos for children in English and Spanish.

New videos about Carly appeared on this site.

What Carly is talking about

"My mom and dad told me that addiction is a disease," says girl Salia in a conversation with Carly doll in one of the videos.

"Yes, it's a disease that makes people feel like they have to take drugs or alcohol to get better," Carly replies. only happens in my family. But now I know a lot of other kids like us. I feel like I'm not alone."

In another video, Elmo tells his father Louis about Carly. He explains that drug addiction is a disease, and Carly's mom had to seek help to stop this disease.

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