Sesame Street Kicks It Old School
Oh hell yes!
Courtesy of Muppet News Central, October 24 will see the release of Sesame Street: Old School Volume 1.
# First time ever on DVD – the best of the first 5 years of the ground-breaking show, Sesame Street
# Includes over 7 hours of classic content
# 5 complete hour-long episodes
# Over 45 bonus segments:
* The original pilot for the show – first time available anywhere!
* Celebrity appearances from James Earl Jones, Jesse Jackson, Johnny Cash, Jackie Robinson
* Classic segments every parent will remember: "I Love Trash," "Rubber Duckie," "C is for Cookie"
* Original animations include Ladybug Picnic, Alligator King, King of Eight, Pinball Number Count
7 hours of content! While that’s a whole lot of Sesame, that sounds just about perfect to me. All I know is that it had better have "ABCDEFCookie Monster" on it:
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I bought the Songs From The Street box set a few years ago. The more recent stuff is relatively lame (you can almost hear Michael Stipe cringing through "Furry Happy Monsters"), but you can’t beat songs like these:
The Pointer Sisters – Pinball Number Count
Stevie Wonder – 123 Sesame Street
Now that’s funky.
Enjoy and have a great weekend. Next week will bring a couple of posts on KT Tunstall (saw her at the China Club last night), and perhaps The Beach Boys.
September 9th, 2006 at 10:18 am
As a fellow Henson Junkie…this is SO AWESOME!!! Dare I say it, ‘Hotter than http://www.housemath.com‘! BTW-Just brought back my copy of the book "Of Muppets & Men" from my parents’ house. It’s about the first season of the Muppet show – if you want to take a perusal… May I also recommend http://www.tinyd.net/sesame1.html for lyrics and downloads.
September 9th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Hopefully this set will also put to rest my ‘made up story’ about Herbert Birdsfoot (he ought to be in the pilot episode)- a long lost Sesame Character!
September 9th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Emily, you must know that I did this post with you in mind. :)
September 10th, 2006 at 6:38 am
sounds like the amazing james jamerson having a hoot on bass on the Stevie song – any way of telling if this would have been recorded at Motown?
September 10th, 2006 at 11:43 am
The liner notes say it’s the "television version" and the video seems to back it up. Recorded live on set in Queens!
September 12th, 2006 at 9:36 am
I totally just fucking bought this. You just cost me $30, you dick.
P.S. I ordered it through your site, so you should get, like, a few cents from the sale. Congratulations.
October 9th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Anybody out there got a good vinyl-to-digital version of “Cookie Disco” they wouldn’t mind posting … somewhere? The versions on LimeWire either cut off the spoken intro by Cookie Monster or cut off the final 45 seconds, and I don’t understand why the latter is the most widely available and keeps being uploaded. Damn these rare, not-on-CD-yet tunes from childhood.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:33 am
I lost me cookie at the disco(disco, yeah!)I lost me cooke in the boogie musicI lost me cookie at the disco(woo, hoo)I want it back(I want it back)I want it back againWhere is my cookie?Help me find my cookie.Please!
October 9th, 2006 at 5:35 am
sorry. pagebreak and hardline don’t follow beside me.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:30 am
I know I have Sesame Street Fever on vinyl, but unfortunately, I am currently sans turntable. So sorry. I feel your pain; I have most of the songs from Ernie & Bert’s Bathtime Singalong in my head at any given moment.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
http://members.tripod.com/tiny_dancer/cookied.html What you’re singing, Elaine, is "I Lost My Cookie at the Disco," but the similarly titled "Cookie Disco" is a parody of "Theme from ‘Shaft’" ("He’s shaggy, he’s blue, and he knows how to chew / Cookie!") and ends with Cookie Monster eating the record. It apparently comes from the 1977 "Sesame Street" album "Aren’t You Glad You’re You?"I lied — I actually don’t remember this song from childhood (the TV version of the song CAN be found online at http://www.ftp.nu/files/2100/), but someone put it on a mix tape for my girlfriend in high school and increased it to an Alvin and the Chipmunks-like speed, and once LimeWire came around I tried to find a regular-speed version of it. (And that’s the ONLY song I’ve ever looked for on LimeWire, RIAA boogeymen … I swear.)Thanks for responding, though. Record Robot, who did post the song back in January, never responded to my post on his blog about the actual length of the song. I requested a response, not a show of emotion, robot. Stop holding out on me.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Wow, Robert. No, I suppose that’s different from the track on Sesame Street Fever.
However, I checked out the site you linked to and I may – MAY – have the 10th Anniversary Album somewhere. The cover looks very familiar. I’ll have to wait until I have a chance to go to my parents’ house and dig around.
That being said, it looks like you can get Aren’t You Glad You’re You? for $12 plus S+H here…
October 10th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Sadly, I don’t have a record player, but thanks for the link! Perhaps my niece will have to wait until her third birthday to hear "Cookie Disco" in all its glory. And I’ll have to wait until my 32nd.Thanks also for responding to these comments. I appreciate that. I look forward to more mellow gold tomorrow.Elaine, did you know there’s a "special disco mix" by Larry Levan of "’C’ Is for Cookie"? I’m not sure if that one’s on CD or not.
October 10th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
Wow, you are one serious fan of disco-era Sesame Street. :)
October 10th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Not really, but I am a fan of spitting out useless facts. Plus, if I’m going to request a rarity from the blogosphere, I might as well get specific about what I’m looking for.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Okay, here’s where I test to make sure comments still have paragraph breaks when using the Safari browser.
Do they? Let’s see …
June 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Success!