April 18, 2006

Rocking Out with Sesame Street

The Web proves its nostalgia value in this Metafilter post that mines YouTube for video clips of major musicians and groups who performed on Sesame Street: Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, REM, Stevie Wonder, and several more.

I have to go dig out the cassette of alternative groups covering ABC's Schoolhouse Rock now, which Underdog and I supposedly bought for Spork, but listened to a hundred times on our own. (I'm not sure we have a cassette player any more.) Here's the Wikipedia entry for Schoolhouse Rock, which includes the tracklist for the alt-music tribute album, lyrics to all the songs, history, etc.)

(In the Metafilter post, note the two e's in "The Beetles Come to Sesame Street.")

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Posted by johndanseven at April 18, 2006 10:39 PM