Sesame Street - Eight Beautiful Notes

[jimamia77]

Belvedere's Castle is awesome! I went there to meet The Count and help him count the Castle stones but he was not home!!

[JeffK1980]

0:53-1:05... that part kicks ass!

[fherrick1]

This was my first exposure to the concept of the "harmonic minor" scale.

[jimamia77]

Belvedere Castle in Central Park NYC! This was filmed in 1977 when the Castle, as well as the rest of the park and City was in a serious state of disrepair.  Some of the Castle windows were boarded up, Some masonry was missing, Grafitti covered much of it, and it's corners made for good lavatories and drug dens.

[marasu66]

Klezmer ruulz!

[HarshPTHESNAKEFIST]

This is always one of my favourite Count skits. 5 stars

[zangazoo2007]

I always loved when they showed The Count's castle. :-D

[mpis]

The song sounds like Jewish.

[Drchainsaw77]

Hm. So that's a melodic minor scale, right? I can never keep those two straight....*sight*

[illudwinnepooh4]

@Drchainsaw77 It's harmonic minor (natural 6th, raised 7th). I could never keep them straight until I remembered that in minor harmonies, the 7th is raised so there's a leading tone, but in melodies the 6th is also raised to avoid the augmented second :)

[Bigben1984]

I'm contemplating actually being the count for halloween this year 

[lycanthrope1962]

They should have a female vampire dancing to that belly dancing music LOL!!!

[lycanthrope1962]

I watched this with one of my nephews, had a blast. Thanks for the memories. The count rules!!!

[finnishminnow]

Thanks for reposting this.

[adabee]

Thanks for posting! This song reminds me of when my kids were little - been looking for it. So much fun to hear it again! Oop, break's over, gotta run, thx!

[mpis]

Nice song.

Count von Count's songs are like Jewish and Romani.

"Eight Beautiful Notes" sound like a Jewish and Roma hora.

[AnnainCA]

This is one of my favorite songs from the old "Numbers" record, which I believe is one of the few Sesame Street LPs to make the transition to CD.

[antsamthompson9]

Very catchy song!

[lycanthrope1962]

@antsamthompson9 No kidding Silly one LOL!!!

[antsamthompson9]

@lycanthrope1962 Yep.

[lycanthrope1962]

@antsamthompson9 You are so goofy!!! LOL!!! I have a friend who laughs like the count, when he does I start to howl and he gets pissed!!!

[antsamthompson9]

@lycanthrope1962 Funny.

[lycanthrope1962]

@antsamthompson9 HA_HA_HAAAA