Stand by Me

Would You Like To Buy An O

Frank Oz & Jim Henson on Sesame Street (1971).

Talk To The Animals

Roger Moore & cast on The Muppet Show (1980).

This is the last number on the last episode of The Muppet Show.

Everybody Wash

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Sesame Street. To celebrate, here is the first musical number from that very first episode:



Jim Henson & cast on Sesame Street (1969).

Welcome to My Nightmare

Alice Cooper and the Muppets on The Muppet Show (1978).

Happy Birthday to U!

Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Sesame Street (1979).

Because it is my birthday!

Bonus: if it isn't your birthday, you can have this one...

Chilly Down

The Fieries in Labyrinth (1986).

Nasty Dan

Johnny Cash & Oscar the Grouch (Caroll Spinney) on Sesame Street (1973).

Banana Boat Song

Harry Belafonte, Frank Oz (Fozzie Bear) and cast in The Muppet Show (1978).

Rubber Duckie

Jim Henson on Sesame Street (1969).

Danny Boy

Swedish Chef (Jim Henson and Frank Oz), Animal (Frank Oz) and Beaker (Richard Hunt) in The Muppet Show (1980).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Magic Dance

David Bowie and cast in Labyrinth (1986).

Furry Happy Monsters

REM, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, & cast on episode #3844 of Sesame Street, 1999.

Apparently Michael Stipe wrote it as an ironic criticism to Chinese propaganda and the Tiananmen Square incident. Turns out he doesn't like the song much.

NINJA RAP!

Vanilla Ice does NINJA RAP from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (Secret of the Ooze)(1991)

Feelings

Beaker (Richard Hunt) performs Feelings on the Muppet Show. (197?)

SUBWAY!

The Muppets on episode 666 of Sesame Street (1974)
Kids media is usually the most music saturated of all media output, but most of the songs are such crap these days. Early period Sesame Street is a total exception, with a real quality group of song-writers & performers doing the numbers.

School's Out

Alice Cooper & the Muppets gang on the Muppet Show (1978) The Muppet Show introduced me to Alice Cooper & insured his status as cool in my book. This is a great argument for sitting on the fence between shock & show business, Alice Cooper keeps it all just nice enough to be able to go on a show that has a 50% kids audience like the Muppet Show, but is also creepy & rock & roll enough to be cool. You couldn't say that about someone like Marilyn Manson who just goes too far, even though he's probably more commercial than Alice Cooper was (weird!).

12 Days of Christmas

Bob Denver & the Muppets from the A Christmas Together special (1979).

The Christmas Song

Big Bird (Caroll Spinney) & The Swedish Chef (Jim Henson) in A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) performing the Christmas Song written by Mel Torme and Robert Walls

The Rat Scat

Rizzo (Steve Whitmire) & the Rats in the Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wherever there are people & food, there are rats!