At that, the door opens and we can hear the band clearer, along with everyone else's sheer delight at their presence, as the album finally fades out. The largest living bird, ostriches can grow up to 9 feet tall and weigh. The album ends with " Stars and Stripes Forever" in the distance, as Ernie suddenly remembers he also invited the University of Michigan marching band. This Encyclopedia Britannica animals list features 8 flightless bird species. David then does a song called "A Very Simple Dance," where he got the whole group involved clapping their hands, stomping their feet, turning around, touching their toes, pulling their ears, flapping their arms, stretching up high, and all falling down.Īfter various antics, at the end of the album, Bert finally sings along with the rest of the cast in " Sing." Side two starts with Luis kicking off something called "What's the Name of That Song," where everybody, including Bert, contributes trying to guess what it is, but they end the song unsuccessfully. A couple of times during the sing-along, The Count tries to sing "Bats in My Belfry," but is justly thrown in the shower. Over the course of side one, various other Muppets ( The Count, Grover, Cookie Monster, Herry Monster, Prairie Dawn, etc.) join the sing-along. 149 Wonderland by Night (Dec) 71 YELLOW BIRD (LIFE) (10) 29 YELLOW BIRD. The framing sequences of the video, as well as the sketches featured, were later incorporated as Episode 2443, sponsored by the letters H, R, and the number 12. They would start off by singing " I've Been Working on the Railroad" then Bob, Luis, Maria, and David would do " Old MacDonald Had a Farm." At this point Bert would start asking for a towel, conceding his bath to be over, but is either ignored or turned down by others because they couldn't access one for him. Sing Along is a 1987 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS under the My Sesame Street Home Video label. He starts playing music, which accompanies Bert singing in protest of the whole thing ("I Refuse To Sing Along"), with Ernie, in counterpoint, trying to persuade him to sing along.Īfter the song, and just as it seems Bert is going to get Ernie and the piano out, David joins them, followed by Gordon and Bob, then by Luis, Maria, and Susan. As he does so, he is heard singing " Yankee Doodle." Eventually, Ernie comes in and pushes their piano into the bathroom and decides to join in, much to Bert's dismay. The album starts out with one of the rare times we hear Bert taking a bath. The entire album was released on CD for the first time on the 3-disc set Old School: Volume 1, with other Sesame Street albums The Sesame Street Book & Record, and Big Bird Sings! Album's storyline The album cover is a little misleading as it shows a happy Bert with Ernie at a piano with sheets of music, while Bert, throughout the album, is mostly anything but happy with the situation. Bailey worked on the televised version of the story as well. Bailey and originally conceived as a radio program. A year later however elements of this album were re-imaged into a television storyline for the Sesame Street TV program (episode #900). The songs and dialog were recorded exclusively for this album. fly and his feet are tied together, so he opens his throat to sing. A documentary entitled I Am Big Bird is released in UK cinemas this month chronicling the life of 81 year old Caroll Spinney, the man who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969.Bert and Ernie Sing Along is a Sesame Street album released in 1975 that involved the entire cast of humans and Muppets doing a sing-along in Bert and Ernie's bathroom. The latter bird sings both to cope with its circumstances and to express its own. The framing scenes feature Big Bird looking through his scrapbook and recalling favorite moments, as expressed in song. If the style feels familiar than you might recognise how in March Animal Robot had Earl Sinclair from Dinosaurs rapping along to Notorious BIG.īig Bird is clearly having something of a moment in pop culture. Big Bird Sings is a 1995 Sesame Street video compilation featuring classic Big Bird songs. 'Cheer Up' is a Sesame Street song sung by Big Bird in Episode 0900 and then in the 1987 video Sing Along. Thanks to Ben Robots (aka Animal Robot) we get to see the Sesame Street character perform Still Not A Player, Pun's 1998 hit that features the immortal line "Puffing the lye from my Twinzito / Up in the Benzito with my kiko from Queens nicknamed Perico." However we must express our slight dismay that the line "I'm sick, you couldn't measure my dick with six rulers" has been given a radio edit.īelow: Watch Big Pun Bird bring hip-hop to Sesame Street The history of Sesame Street and hiphop is a long one and the show has seen appearances by LL Cool J, Ice T, Snoop Dogg and the Fugees. However rarely have the two art forms come together so wonderfully as the video below.
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