favourite Muppet & Sesame Street-related songs

Also see this thread from a few months back:

Favorite "Old School" Sesame Street songs?

 

"The Monster Went and Ate My Red Two"

 

I am a fan of Grover ,
this song taken from the LP Grover sings the Blues

 

So many favorites already mentioned, I wasn't quite the Sesame Street generation, just a tad too old for it, but I was a big fan of the Muppet Show and did watch some with my son... and ok, if I was home from school sick, it was one of the most decent tv choices at the time slot.

Anyway, I've always been a fan of Roosevelt Franklin (baaa) Elementary School, here's one I could find:

 

Doin' the pigeon
Ladybug Picnic

 

Not sure if this has been mentioned, or if it qualifies, but here's Herbie Hancock on Sesame Street showing kids the Fairlight CMI, around 1980 or so:

 

Top ten (including the theme songs to both Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, which are givens):

1. "C" is for Cookie
2. Mahna Mahna
3. The Exit Song
4. Lowercase "n"
5. Capital "I"
6. Somebody Come And Play
7. Can You Picture That?
8. Mystic Twenty
9. I Love Trash
10. Hugga Wugga

From "The Electric Company" (also include the theme song here, preferably from the 2nd season):

1. Sweet Sweet Sway
2. Easy Reader
3. Hard Hard Hard
4. Right On!
5. An "E" On The End
6. Punctuation
7. The Sign Song
8. Unbutton Your Heart
9. I'm Prettier
10. This Lollipop Is Following Me

 

In my mind this song never does end. It's there always!

"Superstition" is an often misunderstood song...

 

HA! The first girl is Tatyana Ali... AKA the cutie from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air!!

 

Yup, one of the greatest musical TV performances EVER... And for a bunch of 6-year-olds to boot! I suspect their lil' minds were well and truly blown.

 

Can't compare to Stevie, but I always liked this too:

 

No one mentioned this yet? I saw this as a kid... YEARS before I knew that "Born To Run," or Bruce himself, actually existed.

By the time it surfaced on YouTube, I was a huge Springsteen fan, which made me appreciate just how cleverly they "approximate" the classic Bruce sound here... Bits of Jungleland, Born To Run, and Thunder Road all mixed together. (And, um, a white girl Muppet in place of Clarence....)

Sesame Street has done some great parodies (Hey Food, The Rebel L) but this is still my fave.

 

It was mention earlier in the thread (back in 2007), but I've always loved the Jazzy Spies with Grace Slick on vocals. Being somebody who was watching Sesame Street since the first season, these had a big impact on me. But I didn't know it was Grace on vocals until just the last few years!

 

I have a bunch of the records. This one is cool.

And this one,

The best one with most the early classic tunes is this one,

 

Sesame Street Theme
Mad
Rainbow Connection
Breakfast Time
Up Goes the Castle
Rubber Duckie
Daddy Dear

 

OK, it's been mentioned but no one's posted video/audio of "I Love Trash" -- and not the original version.

From the Elmopalooza soundtrack, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Steven Tyler (this is pretty awesome):

 

The Muppets do 'For What It's Worth'

 

"Sing" and "The Rainbow Connection" both by The Carpenters.

 

Audio but no video until 2:13 - alas!

 

I Love Trash!!!

Oscar The Grouch

 

I think of that clip every time I hear that song!

 

FURRY HAPPY MONSTERS!!!

 

Hot n' Cold - Katy Perry w/ Elmo