The first version in the opening credits has the melody played by Thielemans while children sing the lyrics.
Sometimes, Big Bird would appear in these intros playing with some of the kids. The theme during the test shows was sung in its entirety.įor the first 23 seasons of Sesame Street, the theme song in the opening credits and the show's start was untouched, featuring footage of children playing in various New York neighborhoods. In the test shows, the theme song lyrics were sung by Bob McGrath. Uses within the series Opening sequences "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street" has since become a "siren song for preschoolers". Raposo enlisted jazz harmonicist Jean "Toots" Thielemans, as well as a mixed choir of children, to record the opening and closing themes. Stone considered the song "a musical masterpiece and a lyrical embarrassment". Raposo wrote the lyrics to the song with Jon Stone and Bruce Hart. In his book on the history of Sesame Street, Michael Davis called the theme "jaunty" and "deceptively simple".
The Sesame Street theme song was composed by Joe Raposo, a writer and composer of many of television shows' songs. Sample of the original 1969-1992 intro via It is the oldest song in Sesame Street's history, dating back to the show's beginning on November 10, 1969, and has been used as the title song in every episode of the show.
" Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" is the theme song of the children's television series Sesame Street.
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