Sesame Street "Beep!" 1970's Rare Clip

[JGCooney]

Wasn't Jerry also the lead singer for "Ten Turtles" on a LP from CTW?

Also I think he replaced Bud Luckey, the singer from the TV presentation.

[MattHatter]

I don't understand why this was taken off and never shown again past 1982. I remember this one when I was a real young boy, and then I never saw it again. It stuck in my memory for ALL of my life and I started thinking I had imagined it.

[Silentchap]

And if it says pi, then you go beep beep beep be---, cause you know, it ain't that accurate.

[iwantoldschool]

I'm a New Yorker.

If they drive slow... I go beep

If they slow more... I go beepbeep

And if they stop... then I go beepbeepbeep

And that's the way it's done :)

[jfpinell]

I don't think that was quite 2,478,696. (1:42) I think he miscounted.

[charlestonchewy]

This is so "beeped" up!

[sha11235]

Don't care for the ending. Guess that isn't my humor.

[baarbear]

I haven't seen this in years. Thanks for uploading it!

[derocket88]

what if it says 492353056090550033698888000331­113434346467777?

[DRIVEIN101]

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[kll510]

I never saw this one. so weird

[MuzikJunkyAES]

Wow, I remember this! Peace.

[derocket88]

Obviously created in the 70's given the stoned junkie muppet. I love Jim Henson and nothing since his passing whether Sesame or Muppets have endured the legacy as his creative input trademark he left on everything made prior to!

[pliskenlee]

@derocket88

The man touched kids from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England, Eastern Europe, a true legend some of us grew up on it, along with the likes of Fat Albert and Electric Company, pure genius. Bert and Earnie can't fuckin' beat them.

[dorourke105]

What if it goes googolplex?

[MarioZone69]

Something tells me this is not the original audio.

[tncookies]

I remember at the end of the song, the purple Muppet says, "Good beepin', baby!"

[MattHatter]

@tncookies: I remember that too. Another thing that I wondered if I had imagined it. Thanks for the confirmation.

[MattHatter]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I've been wondering all my life if I imagined this one. I haven't seen this since 1981 or 1982, I kid you not!  You have relieved my mind of a GREAT DEAL of torture over the years!

[culpit]

I remember when R2D2 and C3PO visited Sesame Street, Big Bird had the same number confusion and C3PO sang the same song while R2 provided the beeps and Big Bird asked the same exact number questions.

[LincolnHeightsrocks]

You know I just got thinking, if Jerry Nelson would have voiced the purple AM, instead of the blue one. Using the same voice. You would have an Arnold Horshack Muppet. lol

[LincolnHeightsrocks]

haha. That Northen Calloway, I sure do miss that guy.

[JMaxfield09]

Actually, the audio track is not how I remembered it from watching this on SS way back when. I think it came from a record album, sung in a different key, and the voices, though they are the same actors, don't exactly sync up with the Muppets' mouth movements in this video. But still, quite a find!

[MarshalGrover]

@JMaxfield09 Yeah, this user took the album version (which doesn't match the TV version) and slowed down the music.

[eric262003]

Sounds like Jerry Nelson and Kevin Clash singing am I right?

[SesameOldSchool]

@eric262003 It's Jerry Nelson and Northern Calloway.

[MattHatter]

@SesameOldSchool: I was curious as to why you overdubbed the different version over the video? Was the sound quality really bad on the source from which you got this rarity? If you have the original, I'd love to hear that one too, no matter how bad the sound quality is. I haven't seen this in close to 30 years!

[superAJ71]

@MattHatter

If I'm wrong about this, I hope someone will let me know, but since this clip exists in its Dutch and Arabic versions, my guess is that he used one of those and dubbed the audio from "The Count Counts" album.

[MattHatter]

@superAJ71: You're right, that's exactly what he did. I would like to hear the original though. It must exist in the archives. Like I stated when this was first uploaded, I've been thinking about this one my whole life and it got to the point where I thought I might have imagined it. Don't know why it was let go of post-1982! This has now got to be one of the RAREST SS clips there is!

[superAJ71]

@MattHatter

And me: I'm just hoping against all hope that someone will dig up and upload the "30 dots" segment where they're heard talking to each other in unintelligible chipmunky voices, possibly brokering a deal with the 30 squares.

[PandaMishima]

I'd forgotten about this, nice to have it back.

The ending is just silly, which is the best thing about it!

[benvolio15]

I wonder if anyone has the version with Big Bird, C-3PO, and R2-D2.

[spicy321]

Wow. The memories!