On Tuesday Sesame Street turns 40! For Radio Free Lunch we’ll dedicate songs to our favorite characters. We came up with a few around the office–”Cookie Jar” by Jack Johnson for Cookie Monster (thx E), anything by Garbage for Oscar The Grouch and “You’re My Best Friend” by Queen for Bert and Ernie. Believe it or not Margot is the most excited for this subject, she knows every character!! Happy Birthday Sesame Street!!
Update: Today’s Playlist
Rain King, Counting Crows (The Count)
Furry Happy Monsters, REM
Yellow, Coldplay (Big Bird)
Peace Frog, The Doors (Kermit)
Cookie Jar, Jack Johnson (Cookie Monster)
Don’t You Forget About Me, Simple Minds (Forgetful Jones)
McDonald’s Daily Cheese
Just The Two Of Us, GROVER Washington Jr (for Ernie and Bert)
Only Happy When It Rains, Garbage (Oscar)
Tangled Up In Blue, Bob Dylan (Grover)
1,2,3,4, Feist (The Count)
Margot?? Really! that’s great
India Arie sang the alphabet beautifully with Elmo!
Rain King – Counting Crows for the COUNT
Yellow Bird – Chris Isaak for BIG BIRD
Backwards Down the Number Line – Phish for DOROTHY
Cheese:
Just the Two of Us – GROVER Washington, Jr.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer – ELMO and Patsy
ELMO’s Got a Gun – Weird Al (This is hysterical!)
Mr. Jones- COUNTing Crows
Big Bird- B-52s
Surfin’ Bird- TRASHmen (bird, bird, bird- bird is the word)
St ELMO’S Fire- John Parr
The Grouch- Green Day
Brian Wilson- Barenaked ladies off the album GORDON (Gordon is the African-American teacher married to Susan- still on the )
Cheese- Rainbow Connection, It’s not Easy being Green- Kermit the Frog
C is for Cookie- Cookie Monster
Heck- for your playlist, you could actually do all the special appearances by stars on the show itself including:
Stevie Wonder, Superstition
Paul Simon, Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Johnny Cash, Nasty Dan
Destiny’s Child, A New Way To Walk
Billy Joel, Just The Way You Are
James Blunt, My Triangle
REM, Furry Happy Monsters
Norah Jones, Don’t Know Y
Feist, 1,2,3,4
Tony Bennett, Little Things
Ya gotta love Nasty Dan by Cash! Sesame Street Rocks!
Primus – Southbound Pachyderm (Snuffleupagus)
David Bowie – Space Oddity (Gonzo the Great…was he ever on Sesame Street? If not, at least he is a muppet)
In Primus’ “My Name is Mud” he says his name is Aloysius, which is Snuffleupagus’ first name…
Particle Man-They Might Be Giants for Telly because he LOVES triangles!
Superman-REM for Super Grover
Mara……
One is the loneliest number….who sings that one? for the Count
Future RFL….something “Real” dedicated to all the real housewives out there….
Have an aaaaaaaah mazing day. Carry on….
Round Here–Counting Crowes (for Maria, the Hispanic lady) OR Maria–Blondie (love that song)
Bert’s Blues–Donovan
Spaceship–Angie Aparo (for the Martians–”yip yip”)
(cheese) Delta Dawn–Bette Middler (for Prairie Dawn)
anything by Prince–for Prince Charming (I used to love that character!)
Good Morning Mara;
I remember watching the first episode on PBS when I was in kindergarten. We watched on a black and white tv set at school. This is probably my earliest childhood memory.
Here are my suggestions:
“Peace Frog” – The Doors (Kermit)
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” – Alice Cooper (Guy Smiley)
“And Your Bird Can Sing” – The Beatles (Big Bird)
“Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)” – David Bowie (all the monsters)
“Psychotic Reaction” – Count Five (The Count)
“Trash” – New York Dolls (Oscar the Grouch)
“Every Day I Write the Book” – Elvis Costello (EC’s full name is Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus. The imaginary character that only Big Bird can see is Snuffleupagus whose first name is Aloysius. Why the F do I know this?)
Cheese:
“Rubber Ducky” – Ernie
Today’s RFL is brought to you by the letters M & D and the number 92.9.
Cheers.
Neil
Sweet list and with some thought. Kudos! Especially on the M&D and 92.9!
Too bad you can’t play some Trash Can Sinatras.. How about something by the Hooters for “Hoot the Owl or “Flowers for Zoe”- Lenny Kravitz
here’s a link to the characters….brought back some great memories!
http://www.sesamestreet.org/characters
“Kiss that Frog”-Peter Gabriel-Kermit
“Abbacab”-Phil Collins- Abby Cadabby
“1985″-Bowling For Soup-Elmo
“Pencil Full Of Lead”-Paolo Nutini-Telly
“One Week”-Barenaked Ladies-Bert
” A Pirate Looks At Forty”-Jimmy Buffet-brought to you by the number….40
According to my mother , I was the only kid in America who didn’t like Sesame Street…so I can’t make any song suggestions today…I am however LOVING the selections y’all have tossed out.
Mara – Can’t wait to hear what makes the cut!
We can tie in Oscar and Ida together:
“I’m only Happy When it Rains” by Garbage.
Neil Young’s “helpless.”. Big birds flying across the sky.
Mah nah, mah na of course!
Here’s a link to a classic-
What no Hanson? or is it Hansen? [Jim Hanson, icon]
Two birds – Regina Spektor (for Big Bird)
I think I’m Paranoid – Garbage (for Oscar the Grouch)
Forgetful Jones – Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me
Fun stuff!
What about Tom Petty – Don’t come around here no more…. “Alice in Wonderland”