Tickle THIS, Elmo!
Posted by theblindstagger on 1 February 2008 - 6:35am.
After reading Fraser's entry about Stevie Wonder perhaps being the most talented person in the history of music, I found this video on YouTube of Stevie performing Superstition on Sesame Street. Perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever performed on a kids TV show. I certainly don't remember anything like this ever happening on Multi-coloured Swap Shop!
The thing I like best is all the kids clapping along and shaking maracas... except for one little girl who is wigging out from beginning to end.
Love it!
Any more examples of classic kids TV performances?
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Gonna Mess Around
Anyone else think the guitarist in the muppets looked like Duane Allman?
What have you started, blindstagger?
Just remembered this:
I remember Crocodile Rock as well - probably the perfect setting for it.
That line up
So that's Duane Allman, Joni Mitchell, Dr John...
Finally
My brother always maintained that this was one of the most moving things on The Muppet Show:
Muppet Goldmine
Alice Cooper
Joan Baez
Paul Simon
The Paul Simon clip is beautiful...
and should serve as an example to modern day gig goers as to how to behave at concerts. No mobiles going off, no filming or recording the show, no chatter, no shouts of "Yeeeeeeeaaaaah! Woooo!" during the quiet songs. If only The Muppets could be my fellow audience members when I go to see a band, instead of the muppets I normally find myself surrounded by.
no filming or recording
but...then what would happen to YouTube?
Doing a bootleg is a good thing - makes sure you keep quite and don't sing along :)
Mrs Thistlebottom never taught us the alphabet this way
its a sorry state of affairs
when the DVD of Sesame Street is stickered with "Not Suitable For Children"
Dr Teeth's Finest moment
can't imagine hearing this on Runaround!!
Animal
I like how they don't show Animal on the drums during that song... I can only imagine it's cos they had to pump him full of sedatives to get him to play a nice slow jazz beat like that one.
It's time to play the music...
I'm late to this post, but by huge coincidence just last week I made Stevie Wonder our "Music of the Week" in school (I'm a primary school teacher) and in assembly I showed in full that very clip from Sesame Street on the big screen! All the kids were bopping away just like they were on the Street.
The full line-up of real-life inspirations for Dr Teeth & the Electric Mayhem (as far as we know) is as follows:
Dr Teeth: Dr John/Elton John/George Clinton
Janice: Mick Jagger/generic hippie/named after Janis Joplin
Sgt Floyd Pepper: Sgt Pepper character/Pink Floyd (he's pink)
Zoot: Pick your own jazzman...
Animal: No evidence that it's Keith Moon, except that he behaves, plays and looks like him (it's the eyebrows!)
Lips: Louis Armstrong(vaguely)
Clifford: Pick your own reggae artist.
Rowlf (guest pianist): Tom Waits
Here are some more great Sesame Street musical moments.
First, the drum battle of the century, Buddy Rich v Animal (place your bets...)
Next, Little Richard (is HE a muppet?)
REM, with Furry Happy Monsters:
"Born to Add" by "Bruce Stringbean and the S Street Band" (it says here):
Paul Simon mixes with Julio et al down by the schoolyard:
James Blunt. Yes. James Blunt. Singing about triangles.
A whole load of incongruous stars (name 'em all) advise you to "Put Down The Duckie":
Other stars that appeared on Sesame Street (but not on YouTube unfortunately) include Bo Diddley, Nina Simone, The Four Tops, Mahalia Jackson, BB King and Diana Ross.
There IS YouTube evidence of the appearance of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Jose Feliciano, Michael Jackson (walk-on part), Los Lobos, Aaron Neville and Itzhak Perlman.
Erm, that's enough.