Essential Vintage Sesame Street on YouTube
I first got hooked on YouTube by searching for old Sesame Street clips from the ’70s. I watch plenty of current Sesame Street these days, and it’s perfectly fine, but somehow the magic of the show has waned over the years. I remember watching it as a kid and thinking it was hilarious and weird and entrancing and pretty much the best thing ever. Now, it’s sweet and still very educational, but it’s lost a lot of its spark, its edge, and its pure wacky psychedelia. In a quest to bring my kids the magic of the original Street, I purchased the Sesame Street Old School DVDs, but of course they don’t cover everything. Here’s a list of the absolute best vintage Street on the block. (Hooray for YouTube!)
Classics:
- Ernie and Rubber Duckie
- C is for Cookie
- La La Lemon
- Alphabet with Kermit
- Ladybug Picnic
- Pinball Countdown (1-2-3-4-5…)
- Mahna Mahna
- Yip Yip Martians and the Phone
- People in your Neighborhood
Letters:
- Fairy Alphabet
- Noonie Noonie Noon (C)
- Dee Dee Dee
- E (imagination)
- Francis Fairy
- Capital I
- J Song
- R is for rabbit
- Willamena
- Zizzy Zoomers
- Psychedelic morphing alphabet
- Construction workers alphabet
Numbers:
- Jazz #2 (Grace Slick singing)
- 2 girls with a dollhouse
- Two toucan two-step
- Ringmaster (4)
- Alligator King (7)
- Number 9 cutie
- Number 10 song
- Baker (10) - YouTube has the rest of the numbers for this sketch
- 11 morning
- Counting 1-10 with Nobody
Muppets:
- Do De Rubber Duck
- Ernie & Bert Go Fishing
- Fuzzy and Blue
- Doin’ the Pigeon
- Monsterpiece Theater (Chariots of Fur)
- Supergrover
- Kermit News Flash
Guest Music:
- Stevie Wonder, Superstition (hands down the BEST CLIP EVER)
- Stevie again, 123 Sesame Street
- James Taylor, Jelly Man Kelly
- REM, Furry Happy Monsters (after my time, but still great)
- Many celebrities, Put Down the Duckie
Obscure yet wonderful:
- 1-2-3 Rolling Ball
- A baby and her cookie
- There Are Chickens in the Trees
- Loaf of Bread…
- Striped Balls
- Yo-Yo Master & Lost Kid
- That’s About the Size
- Billy Joe Jive
- Orange sings Carmen
- Subway song
- Telephone Rock
- Count it Higher
- Some and None
- Clap, Clap, Clap
- Apples and Bananas in Spanish
- Sad Flower Song
Bonus Electric Company stuff:
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