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Two hours of rollicking delite: '60s jams, cartooniness, seriousness, sing-alongs, and Simpsons talk. P.dece.

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Favoriting February 9, 2017: I Believe in Little Things: Joe Raposo

Composer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumental whiz JOE RAPOSO would have been 80 this week. Known primarily for his indefatigable work as the music director of Sesame Street, for which he wrote and arranged dozens of tunes, Raposo was also a well-respected talent for film, stage, and other TV projects. His songs were recorded by a variety of pop superstars during the '70s. His own arrangements are immediately recognizable: complex, "busy" pieces that incorporate techniques from big band to funk to vaudeville. Through these beautiful songs, many of them under a minute long, he informed the musical tastes of a generation of young people around the world.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Bob  Look a Little Closer   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Kids  Somebody Come and Play   Favoriting Sesame Street Gold  Sesame Street  1977  LP    0:01:50 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  You're My Baby   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:04:18 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison  Bein' Green   Favoriting Live at the Troubadour    1973      0:06:07 (Pop-up)
  Electric Company Theme       1971      0:10:52 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Peanut Butter   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:11:56 (Pop-up)
Bob and Susan  What are Kids Called?   Favoriting Sesame Street Gold  Sesame Street  1977  LP    0:13:12 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Doggie Paddle   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:14:36 (Pop-up)
Ernie & Salesman  Would You Like to Buy an O?   Favoriting Sing: Songs of Joe Raposo vol. 1    1992      0:16:26 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Trying   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:17:55 (Pop-up)
The Carpenters  Sing   Favoriting Now & Then  A&M  1973      0:20:12 (Pop-up)
 
Joe Raposo  Me   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:33:13 (Pop-up)
Company  You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown   Favoriting You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (original cast album)          0:34:40 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  I'm an Aardvark   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:38:30 (Pop-up)
Kermit, Fozzie, et al  Happiness Hotel   Favoriting The Great Muppet Caper    1981      0:39:04 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  It's a Long Hard Climb   Favoriting         Sesame Street  0:43:16 (Pop-up)
Cookie Monster  C Is for Cookie   Favoriting Sing: Songs of Joe Raposo vol. 1    1992      0:44:46 (Pop-up)
Electric Company  Lick a Lolly   Favoriting           0:46:12 (Pop-up)
Big Bird & Kids  J Jump   Favoriting Sesame Street Gold  Sesame Street  1977  LP    0:48:30 (Pop-up)
The Kids  Sesame Street theme (loud version)   Favoriting   Sesame Street  1976  7"    0:50:24 (Pop-up)
The Kids  Sesame Street theme (original 1969)   Favoriting           0:51:24 (Pop-up)
 
Bob, Susan, Gordon, Mr. Hooper, Big Bird, Oscar  I've Got Two   Favoriting           1:05:21 (Pop-up)
Cookie Monster  Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco   Favoriting           1:08:05 (Pop-up)
Grover & Marty  Has Anybody Seen My Dog? (disco version)   Favoriting Sesame Street Fever  Sesame Street  1978  LP    1:12:00 (Pop-up)
  Funky Chimes (Sesame St. end credits)             1:16:29 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo (narrator)  Joe teaches kids ("America Is" snippet)   Favoriting "America Is" TV special    198?      1:18:14 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  We're a Family   Favoriting         Sesame Street  1:22:09 (Pop-up)
Herbert Birdsfoot, Ernie, Bert  High, Middle, Low   Favoriting Sesame Street Gold  Sesame Street  1977  LP    1:23:46 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Little Things   Favoriting         Sesame Street  1:26:48 (Pop-up)
 
Ernie  Rubber Duckie   Favoriting         ***4TH SET JEFF MOSS INTERLUDE***  1:36:49 (Pop-up)
Anything Muppets  Listen to the Bells   Favoriting           1:38:42 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash & Oscar The Grouch  Nasty Dan   Favoriting           1:41:40 (Pop-up)
Oscar  I Love Trash   Favoriting           1:44:00 (Pop-up)
Ernie & Bert  But I Like You   Favoriting           1:46:48 (Pop-up)
Captain Vegetable et al  Captain Vegetable   Favoriting           1:48:50 (Pop-up)
Anything Muppets  5 People in My Family   Favoriting           1:51:38 (Pop-up)
Kermit & muppets  Right Where I Belong/Somebody's Getting Married (From The Muppets Take Manhattan)   Favoriting           1:53:51 (Pop-up)
The Queers  I Don't Want to Live on the Moon   Favoriting           1:57:30 (Pop-up)
 
Kevin Clash  Skin   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:05:03 (Pop-up)
  Three's Company theme       1977      2:06:20 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Take a Breath   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:07:33 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Fruit Song   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:08:42 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Pretty Baby   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:10:55 (Pop-up)
Big Bird, Gordon, Susan  ABC-DEF-GHI   Favoriting Sesame Street: Sesame Street 1 Original Cast Record          2:12:36 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo, arranger  Madeline (excerpt)   Favoriting     1988      2:16:08 (Pop-up)
  Shining Time Station theme       1989      2:18:57 (Pop-up)
Ray Charles and Kermit  Bein' Green   Favoriting     1975    Cher variety show  2:20:03 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  Flying   Favoriting           2:22:19 (Pop-up)
 
Frank Sinatra  Winners   Favoriting Ol' Blue Eyes is Back    1973      2:36:04 (Pop-up)
The Kids  B is for Bubble   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:38:53 (Pop-up)
The Count with Ftatateeta and the Bats  The Batty Bat   Favoriting Elmo's Dance Party  Sesame Street  2012      2:39:55 (Pop-up)
Oscar  Simple Song   Favoriting Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella  Sesame Street  1974  LP    2:42:38 (Pop-up)
Joe Raposo  New Life Coming   Favoriting           2:45:33 (Pop-up)
Luis, Bob, Susan & Kids  Sing   Favoriting         Sesame Street  2:47:58 (Pop-up)
 
Ernie & co.  Imagination   Favoriting Sing: Songs of Joe Raposo vol. 1    1992      2:58:27 (Pop-up)

Joe Raposo on the Muppet Wiki
Joe's New York Times obituary
Joe Raposo fan site maintained by his family
And a lot of other biographical info here for further reading.


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00am
listener james from westwood:

w00t! Raposothon!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am
listener james from westwood:

Bob singing there, I wonder?
  9:02am
sugarwolf:

Good morning!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am
listener james from westwood:

Oh! I see the playlist now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02am
Amanda:

This kid's tiny little voice kills me every time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am
listener james from westwood:

Saw Bob McGrath at a Paramus movie theater once as a grammar school kid. It blew my mind. (He lived 1 town over.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am
Uncle Michael:

Haven't heard Somebody Come and Play in oh...40 years...and singing along.
Avatar 9:03am
KP:

Hey, Amanda! Had to shovel a path to the couch but the cat and I made it
Avatar 9:04am
Parq:

My workplace *just* closed. Woo! Looking way forward to this show. My kid and I loved this record of "Play" when she was a tot. I can't speak for her, but I sure still do.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am
Amanda:

Glad to hear you all are enjoying the show so far! I might not be super active on the playlist today because these songs are very short and I wanna pay attention... but I will try to chit chat about 'em as much as I can!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am
listener james from westwood:

Roger that! Spin with aplomb!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am
listener james from westwood:

Had completely forgotten the Sesame Street connection on this track.
  9:23am
sugarwolf:

I am, well I don't know what exactly, but that the Sesame Street old school DVDs coming with a warning for today's children
Avatar 9:26am
annie:

well, i'm glad i checked my email!! thank-you doug!!!
  9:27am
sugarwolf:

Still can't believe they fired Bob. 2016, man!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32am
Uncle Michael:

Happiness trigger warning?
Avatar 9:32am
annie:

i'm still upset that they made luis and maria get married, instead of bob and she.. stupid PC culture
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33am
Uncle Michael:

Luis and Bob should have gotten married.
Avatar 9:33am
annie:

hehe, you silly^
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35am
Amanda:

Meh, I would've gone for Luis over Bob tbh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am
listener james from westwood:

Wait, that "marvel at his consistency" person, was that one of the people from The Electric Company?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:36am
listener james from westwood:

Yes! Skip Hinnant!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:37am
Amanda:

Ha! I was just about to answer you in the affirmative. Also: Bob Balaban as Linus!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am
listener james from westwood:

For a sec I thought this was "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"! Both are a treat!
Avatar 9:51am
annie:

will you be playing "My name is ME"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53am
listener james from westwood:

Ooh, yes, Seasme Street soundalikes. That opening sequence is burned into my head! There's at least one other SS clone out there, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54am
melinda:

hi everyone! Just got the email about the Joe Raposo tribute, what fun!
Avatar 9:57am
Scraps:

Argh, I have to listen to first hour later! (h'lo.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01am
melinda:

I loved Don Music.
Avatar 10:04am
annie:

well, it was The Captain for me and Andy Devine, sesame was mostly for my kid.
Avatar 10:05am
annie:

(although i loved watching SS as an adult)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am
Amanda:

Just a few weeks ago I was with my dad and he was reminiscing about how much he liked Sesame Street! He was 30 when it debuted. He knows all the words to "I Don't Wanna Live on the Moon."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09am
Skurky:

I know all the words to 12!
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10am
listener james from westwood:

Cookie Monster ends up having to fight Grace Jones for his cookie, and leaves on a stretcher.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10am
melinda:

This is great. I had stopped watching when Sesame Street went disco.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:15am
Amanda:

Much love for 12, as well as the number videos where the pastry chef falls down the stairs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am
Amanda:

So happy to see so many of you here digging the funky Sesame St. soundz!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am
listener james from westwood:

Sesame Street's blaxploitation turn! Or, "Across Sesame Street."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am
melinda:

Good one, James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21am
listener james from westwood:

This bit show how, even for like 15 or 30 sec of music, Joe busted his buns to get it right. Daaamn.
  10:21am
Doug Schulkind:

Raposo, Raposo, let your songs down, Raposo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:22am
Amanda:

Seriously! I was going to say, he would've been a great music teacher to have. But then, in a sense he was a music teacher to all of us. :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23am
Artie Haywire:

Well this is fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:25am
melinda:

Herbert Birdsfoot!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am
listener james from westwood:

Surprised that's as late as it is, that Thomas version. Feels more at home in the Carter years vs, the mailed fist of the Reagan ones.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35am
listener james from westwood:

A-funkin'-men, Joe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36am
melinda:

The idea that music needs to be simplified for kids is ridiculous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:36am
Andy in Etobicoke:

A belated Good Morning from above the 49th.

A have some remedial listening ahead of me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:40am
Amanda:

Welcome, Andy in Etobicoke!

@melinda-- You got that right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42am
Gaylord Fields:

Awwww...I missed my favorite Joe Raposo song, "Somebody Come and Play"!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:42am
Amanda:

Hi Gaylord! One of my all-time fav's too, which is why I front-loaded it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43am
listener james from westwood:

I feel like Oscar and Johnny would get on as drinking buddies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45am
listener james from westwood:

Old-school Mac users, raise your hand if you had the app that made Oscar emerge and wave and sing this song's title when you emptied the Trashcan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45am
Gaylord Fields:

Amanda, I'll just have to jump in the time machine and hear it in context.

Also, I've always appreciated how much the Three's Company theme sounds like a Sesame Street song (even down to having a number in it), just with a grown-up message. The lyrics are just as elementary, as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46am
listener james from westwood:

RUSTY TROMBONE, LOL.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:48am
Amanda:

Ha! Three's Company, brought to you by the number 3.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50am
listener james from westwood:

If they both sing at the same time this will be totes the opening of "Man of La Mancha."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52am
Gaylord Fields:

@Amanda: And the letter F.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:56am
melinda:

@Gaylord: Somebody Come and Play might be my favorite too.
@James: I laughed at that too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:57am
listener james from westwood:

A seamless jump from Vaudeville to Broadway!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am
Gaylord Fields:

@melinda: And mind you that I was well out of the Sesame Street age demographic when that song debuted circa 1969-70. Didn't stop me.
Avatar 11:06am
Miss Mailas:

Hi, Amanda! Hi, Gaylord! Hi, all! I must say, hearing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" flashed me back to first seeing Ernie sing it on television when I was a wee lass - and, more specifically, how I cried because I felt such empathy for Ernie and the idea of him living on the moon, away from everyone he loved. Such big feelings for a little girl! Anyway, thank you for that memory.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:07am
listener james from westwood:

Had no idea this was his!! ::completely Furleys out::
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08am
Gaylord Fields:

Hi, Miss Mailas! Empathy is a wonderful trait for a wee lass to possess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am
Amanda:

I had the same reaction to Ernie's plight when I listened to it a couple of days ago!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:15am
Gaylord Fields:

Pretty Baby is such a well-done 1920s pastiche, and I forgot it existed until now. Thanks, Amanda, for jogging my memory! (And the reason I'm so Sesame savvy — even though I was too old for the program — is younger siblings and one TV.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17am
Amanda:

Ya, I love that one too. Funny--I had the same syndrome, my middle sister is 9 years younger than me. But "Pretty Baby" is one that I remember from my OWN babyhood, as by 1990ish they had stopped running it.
  11:19am
sugarwolf:

Some of my favorite Sesame Street music is from don't eat the pictures, but I don't think Raposo wrote those. I always sing the theme when I'm in the Met!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21am
doctorjazz:

what a great duet, Brother Ray and Kermit!
  11:22am
sugarwolf:

Great news for me just found out it's a SNOW DAY!!!! No work!!!
  11:24am
sugarwolf:

Being an only child means never having to share the TV.

Also I am spoiled and incapable of love.
  11:29am
sugarwolf:

Dunno if shining time station is still on but Thomas the tank engine is still huuuuuge with little kids. This summer my little toddler friend was telling me about trains, and telling me about cow catchers!!!
  11:31am
sugarwolf:

Love seeing Sesame Street actors on Law and Order
Avatar 11:33am
annie:

"gordon, i believe, had a spot in on of the F/X movies as a police seargant(sp)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:37am
Amanda:

Gordon was also a character on The Wire!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38am
Amanda:

@sugarwolf - I'm gonna call BS on your "incapable of love" statement.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Gaylord Fields:

@Amanda @sugarwolf: But no argument abut the "spoiled" assessment, right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Gaylord Fields:

There were three Gordons during the series' run, none called Gordon IRL.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42am
Amanda:

Well, if she weren't spoiled, how would she know she loves sugar so much?
  11:42am
sugarwolf:

@amanda@gaylord: I'm spoiled for choice when it comes to nice friends!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:43am
Amanda:

Well played!!! <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am
Gaylord Fields:

That's Our Sugarwolf! (with a theme song by Joe Raposo)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am
Doug Schulkind:

What a special special, Amanda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:57am
Andy in Etobicoke:

A Hall Of Fame episode Amanda. Bravo!

Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am
listener james from westwood:

Superb tribute show, Amanda—thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm
Amanda:

Thank you all for listening! Fun times!
Avatar 12:00pm
annie:

wonderful show this morning amanda!!
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