Sesame Street: Jazz Number 7

[Pocockable]

I wonder what would happen if those Jazz sketches aired on Sesame Street today? I clearly remember those when I was five.

[Shteve67]

LOVE that!!

[murielsartre]

0:33-0:35. My favourite bit of her singing of this entire number series.

[ripmowt]

anyone else heard a light "hmm" @ :09 -:10 ? as a child i would humm along to that part. could it be a mistake they let slide? cause its a mistake i always enjoyed lol

[hirstyrox]

this was my dream last night

[dexdrexler]

my fave sesame st song, that guitar at the start with a 7/8 beat ... awesome!

[HUTINAK]

I like this a lot better than the Pinball version

[mysticaltraveler1111]

This makes me glad to have been there watching it on the ol' tv and here in this age to watch this great stuff again on the web :) Life is good..

[CycloneJosh]

P.S. I really dig the last time she says "seven" (at 0:32). She totally cuts loose, sounds like she's tripping out.

[CycloneJosh]

I'm 41 and like a lot of people commenting here, I grew up with this stuff and had this melody echoing in my head for years. It makes me bummed that some parents would think this is unsuitable for kids now. Huh?? It's terrific stuff. I remember as a kid digging the weird trippiness of these animations-- it kept my attention and I learned the numbers. The music is super-cool-- very cutting-edge for its time-- and Grace Slick? Utterly brilliant-- she recites the numbers with such wild zeal.

[JohnLRice]

7 + 7

then

7 + 6

then

7 + 9!

SaWEEEET!

[JohnLRice]

YEAY!!!!!!!!!!! I've had this stuck I my brain for over 30 years and it's great to finally find it and hear it again! :-)

[thimoneus]

Grace should have sung some of these songs at the Jefferson Airplane reunion concerts.

[TheDanbristol]

I DANCE LIKE A SPAZ TO THIS AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT!!!!

[toadetterocksmysocks]

and there are 7 dislikes right now, how ironic

[Tubernaut]

Don't you want some numbers to count?

[DaveWollenberg]

Was Gracie the singer who also did the Spanish versions of 7 & 10? Please let me know. God bless!

[DaveWollenberg]

Anybody have Jazzy Spies #7 & #10 in Spanish. Those were the only 2 JS spots done in Spanish. Post 'em if you've got 'em. God bless!

[lumabi25]

And the memories come flooding back. Pretty cool, but always found this stuff utterly bizarre, especially the way the numbers are said. Peculiar!

[cochranexyz]

Do you know how many times I have just randomly sang 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 over the years? Thousands.

[Autostade67]

You'd never get away with this creepy freaked out style now...the lawsuits from tapioca/milque-toast yuppie parents would come flying in. I grew up on this stuff and am just fine.

By the way, the electric harpsichordy thing you hear is called a Clavinet, sister to two other proto synth intstruments of the time, the Farfisa and Mellotron.

[MVillani1985]

@Autostade67 Ironically, the yuppie parents, mostly around our ages, grew up on this stuff and turned out fine, yet they think it's apparently too scary or whatever for today's kids.

[Autostade67]

Yes the vocals by Grace Slick, music by the prog-jazz musician Denny Zeitlin - both of the San Francisco 60's "scene". Though he still plays and releases albums, Zeitlin became a psychiatrist in his spare time and composed the something of minor cult score for Phillip Kaufman's '78 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

[jacko5592]

Trippy, isn't it?

[bombergal1]

holy what were these animators on??

[aldiakaroofus]

@bombergal1 Creativity. It has been removed from today's kids' shows now.

[baikinmon]

Many have said it. I'll say it too: I'm so glad that I grew up on this instead of Barney.

[ausme10]

@baikinmon Ain't that the truth!!!!!!!!!!

[MarioZone69]

Trust me, Bert, this is not a meatball game.

[Pocockable]

Was there a sketch for 1?

[mwermuthland]

@Pocockable No. The recent 40th anniversary book even says so.

[jasonpp1973]

There were also espanol versions of 7 and 10, I believe.

[MuzikJunkyAES]

I liked the spanish-language versions of these, too, 'cause that clavichord was louder. Peace.

[JGCooney]

The magician is a benign "Flasher" (Showing the second magician)!

[Papillonmuscogee]

@Cuteblondie1972, LOL, I know..

[Papillonmuscogee]

"six, se-ven, eight, ninnnnnnne, ten."

[rockinya01]

these number videos are great if you are trippin

[dullsvillain]

Grace brainwashed me.......forever grateful

[cosmogirlteri]

i think im brain-washed

[conradragzoff]

Holy crap, I just came across this again, I didn't know it was called the Jazz Numbers.... hahahahahaha!!!!!

Awesome memories from when I was a kid!

[mrbpis]

I'm going to drop acid and then watch this

[boudebond]

yeah!great drum, nice 7/8 beat

[bhull1]

Love this song. The drum beat is awesome. The singer is completely off her rocker. Love it!

[pinkdildofromhell]

The singer is Grace Slick.

[timepoet77]

@pinkdildofromhell I think you're right.

[MeIancholyMan]

bhull.. the singer is Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and unfortunatley later Starship) fame.. ;) of COURSE she's off her rocker!! lol

[morphine883]

Trippy.

[Kevbox2008]

I remember that one. I liked the end because I wanted to be a spy when I grew up. I never because a spy. I became a Real Estate Investor instead.

I should've become a spy. :^(

[woofer0doofer]

Sub-prime is like being a spy.

[thimoneus]

That is awesome classic stuff, but the advertisement is really distracting and obnoxious.

[Neorio]

The Jazz Number count and the Pinball Number count have the best music on Sesame Street. The music rocks! I love it!

Da-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, nah-nah-nah

Da-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, nah-nah-nah 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!

[hemanshera777]

can ya please upload "A Birdie's Eye" where the Kids guess which Bird they're seeing through the eyes of?

I like that one.

[WarlordFeyd]

Grace Slick totally rocks and I've seen her live with Starship so this is a bonus!-Mikey

[JGCooney]

I forget, is seven schomone or sheva in Hebrew? Who is the voice for Rechov Sumsum and Shalom Sesame?

[KingSlifer]

7 is sheva schmone is 8.

[DJLaurieB]

This is my new favorite song in the world for the week! :)

[ErisTheFairest5]

One of my all time faves. I think that's Grace Slick on vocals.

[38yofrmut]

Yes! that's right! and she gets a kick out of this segment!

However in the Spanish versions it's someone else doing the vocals.

[DiAnno13]

Magnificent!

[hoopersghost]

The Jazz Number clips have always been some of my favorites==thanks for posting this one!

[KappenandFriends]

woo! sesame street!