On today’s show, it’s a Sesame Street Spectacular. Sesame Street first aired on public broadcasting television stations November 10, 1969, and reached its 50th season this year. The history of Sesame Street has reflected changing attitudes to developmental psychology, early childhood education, and cultural diversity. Featuring Jim Henson‘s Muppets, animation, live shorts, humor and celebrity appearances, it was the first television program of its kind to base its content and production values on laboratory and formative research, and the first to include a curriculum “detailed or stated in terms of measurable outcomes”. During the 1980s, Sesame Street’s curriculum expanded to include topics such as relationships, ethics, and emotions. Musically speaking, Sesame Street had amazing in-house songwriters Jeff Moss and Joe Raposo but thanks to inviting not just celebrities but great musicians onto the show, there’s a wealth of parodies and versions of Sesame Street songs available. We’ll hear some of my favorites on today’s show. Enjoy!
-Lisa
TODAY’S PLAYLIST
C IS FOR COOKIE – Cookie Monster
SING – The Carpenters
BEIN’ GREEN – Ray Charles
MAHNA MAHNA – Cake
FIVE FEET HIGH – Johnny Cash and Biff
THE JAM SESSION – Yo Yo Ma and Hoots the Owl
THE MUPPET THEME SONG – OK GO w/the Muppets
DON’T KNOW Y – Norah Jones w/Elmo
MONSTER WENT AND ATE MY RED 2 – Elvis Costello w/Elmo
TALKING TUNES – Brian Simms & Tom Moon
MOVIN’ RIGHT ALONG – The Muppets
RAINBOW CONNECTION – Weezer
THE BATTY BAT – The Count and bats
ONE TWO THREE FOUR – Feist
LADYBUGS’ PICNIC – Bud Luckey
I LIKE YOU – Bert & Ernie
POP SOME TRASH – Macklemore, Oscar & friends
I LOVE TRASH – Steven Tyler
JUST HAPPY TO BE ME – The Fugees
TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS – Ed Sheeran w/the Muppets
