Monday, 1 December 2008

The Wonder-ful World Of Sesame Street


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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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous2 December 2008 at 08:41

    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"

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  2. Bob Turnbull2 December 2008 at 10:50

    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".

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  3. Unknown2 December 2008 at 12:45

    Man, i wish i lived on Sesame St. in 1972!

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  4. Anonymous2 December 2008 at 18:43

    Wow. That simply ruled!

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  5. Anonymous3 December 2008 at 08:15

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  6. Bob Turnbull4 December 2008 at 00:33

    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.

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  7. James Yates4 December 2008 at 20:02

    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

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  8. elgringo4 December 2008 at 21:30

    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)

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  9. Bob Turnbull4 December 2008 at 23:54

    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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