Songs from Old-School Sesame Street that go way harder than they have any right to (1 / ??)
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Lyrics:
I believe in little things
That you can hardly see,
Like honeycomb and spiderweb
And starfish in the sea.
I believe in little things
Like icy drops of rain
That melt into a morning mist
When the wind blows warm again.
I believe in little things
Like colors in the sky,
And noticing the waves roll in,
And how the flowers die,
And knowing they'll come back again
Whenever it's July.
I believe in little things,
Like you, and me,
And just how big
Little things can be.
Miss Piggy has her own workout album called Miss Piggy's Aerobique Exercise Workout Album. The album is a parody of "Jane Fonda's Workout" series and even has Miss Piggy copying Fonda's pose on her own cover.
Sources:
"Jane Fonda's Workout" series. 1982.
Miss Piggy's Aerobique Exercise Workout Album. Joe Raposo. Warner Bros. Records. 1982.
al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1273
first posted in facebook february 23, 2024
hilda rue wilkinson brown -- "ball park" (1935)
"take me out to the ball game" … jack norworth
"play ball" … cy young
"and there used to be a ballpark where the field was warm and green
and the people played their crazy game with a joy i'd never seen
and the air was such a wonder from the hot dogs and the beer
yes, there used to be a ballpark right here" … joe raposo
No es fácil ser verde. El clásico de "Sesame Street" de Joe Raposo que interpretaba en la serie de TV la rana Kermit (Gustavo) con voz del creador del show Jim Henson, en versión de José Feliciano (LP "¡Sesame Mucho!", Children's Records Of America 1974).
"Bein´ Green" ha conocido muchas versiones (Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Buddy Rich, Diana Ross, Ray Charles...) pero la conocí en el LP de Van Morrison, "Hard Nose The Highway" (1973), otro disco con una portada que... Mejor no saber lo que significa. La versión de Van es anterior a la de Feli, pero siempre he pensado que Morrison había tomado nota interpretativa de él ya desde sus "semanas astrales". Perro Verde.
"“People did know he had something, but no one would cross that line to ask him. The only person he ever told was Walter Cronkite. They would go sailing a lot and one day when he came back from one of their little trips on the Winnie, he said ‘I told Walter because I just had to tell someone. If you can’t trust America’s most-trusted man, who could you tell your secrets to?”
(Pat Raposo)
"Raposo was in Sinatra’s good graces, back when the crooner thought the composer was a paisan, not Portuguese."
"“Joe wasn’t bragging so much as he was sharing a kind of joy. He didn’t name-drop to impress the listener, but to remind himself that he was not in a waking dream. He actually knew the likes of Sinatra and Cronkite and Richard Rodgers, pretty heady company."
(Pat Collins)
was not enough adoration in the world to meet Joe’s expectations,” Cooney said. “You couldn’t fill his needs. He had the weakest ego of any person I have ever known. It needed to be fed all of the time. He was an only child who was worshiped by his parents, and I always thought that resulted in ego strength. But sometimes it can be the opposite. He was jealous that Jim got so much attention after we went on the air, jealous that the Europeans and Latin Americans wanted adaptations done because the Muppets were such a sensation.
“And yet, Joe was a great genius,” Cooney said. “One way you can tell a true genius from a near genius is in their need to keep creating. With geniuses, the urge is unstoppable.”