My buddy posted this on Facebook - Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street. Have a listen to this freaking terrific version of his classic "Superstition":
6 minutes and 47 seconds of a kids show dedicated to Stevie and his band funking up the place. I can't tell you how amazing that is. Wait, yes I can...
- First of all those chugging guitars - oh, what a glorious sound that is. It's a rawer form of the typical funky 70's wakachaka-wakachaka sound and you can almost hear the fingernails scraping the guitar strings.
- And his band - how tight are they? Very, very tight that's how.
- And then the extended instrumental ending where he drives home the riff and keeps it on the One.
- And then he throws down a false ending...
- And continues with the extended ending while singing "Sesame Street, that's where I will be..."
- Recorded live - no lip-synching.
Brilliant. This just made my week.
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For me this is right up there with R.E.M's appearance, where they changed the words of "Shiney Happy People" to turn the song into "Happy Furry Monsters"
I forgot about R.E.M.'s appearance. That was pretty cool as well. I wonder if Pink Floyd ever appeared on the show...They could've done all 20 minutes of "Echoes". Or perhaps the public service announcement "Careful With That Axe Eugene".
Man, i wish i lived on Sesame St. in 1972!
Wow. That simply ruled!
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Thanks for the comments folks...
Imagine you're 5 years old and prepping for your afternoon Senior Kindergarten class by catching a late morning episode of Sesame Street - and Stevie blasts that at you. That must've been incredibly cool.
Wow, I concur...great video. That would probably make a children's musician like Raffi just hang his head in shame.
For more "Sesame Street" fun, I absolutely love Feist's appearance. It's too damn cute for words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fciD_II7NI
I loved when James Taylor went on Sesame Street.
I also love Stevie's drummer. Looks like a younger Questlove. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove)
Jamie, that was indeed waaaaaay too cute.
So did James Taylor sing "You've Got A Friend", "How Sweet It Is" or "A Junkie's Lament"?
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