Sesame Street - 1to 20

[ultramega67]

No wonder I grew up to be an acid head.

[matt32p]

i hate this chanel!

[FBoobieTubie]

Thank you Jean Piersol for this beautiful gift of memorable music to our childhood!! I remember being so mesmerized whenever this song comes up while watching Sesame Street! Thank you!

[GoodLaxatives]

I sampled this song in a hip hop beat i made. Its nothing special since i made it on a crappy free program, but it still came out pretty cool & i wanted to pay respects to this song/video. Great stuff ! If anybody wants to hear the beat then let me know, i'll have it posted soon

[TheJediCharles]

This one used to give me the creeps.

Still does.

[josh26220]

At the very begin of the vid, it started to 3!

[alibh2]

no way! hello ms. Piersol! Can i just say that your song The Nest is one of my favourite songs of all time!

[cootmaster]

i have this in hebrew on vcr

[vastenmielinen]

GRAMPA-MORPHER TRANSFORMER!

[toonguy06]

a little fact about Mrs. Piersol. She sung with a band from 1965-1966 called The Great Society. A band which later became known a s the Jefferson airplane

[0krishangopal0]

yaaa nice voice....

[TheNoisePolluter]

This video is responsable for making me think Hindu guys turn into flowers.

[CodTongueSushi]

Thank you Jean!!! I have never forgotten this song or the sound of your voice. I was probably 4 or 5 when I first heard this. I am 33 now and show this video to my daughter who is 5. She thinks this song is beautiful too. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[bulaia2007]

are you flippin serious? That's amazing! I have longed to hear this and many other SS animated pieces. Many have posted that the time in which many of these songs were written and recorded is long past gone. I agree. There is nothing like this any more. Your voice has remained in my ears and heart for 20+ years. WOW!!

[sperminator21]

EPIC WIN!

[Animalsrule3398]

I used this to Call of duty, Modern warefair.. And we was doing the 1-10 thing, And on 10 we shot eachother and who ever killed who won! ! XD

[rbairos1]

I have been searching for this song since the start of the internets.

This is significant.

[pokemon5621]

i like diz

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

psychedelic to the max and very bizarre song style

[ruthmagdalen]

very beautiful! Thanks

[Tehkeelah]

The video ends by flowing back into Big Birds head, and he just has a total blank tripper stare on his face. AAHahaha

[FlickDaBic]

ummm..... watch this on shrooms and you'll be trippin out

[wotmeworry333]

freaky 70's wallpaper.  thanks for posting this.

[tsjuderthrone]

Did Peter Max do the animation for that?

[jeanpiersol1]

try gladys piersol on youtube

take a lilsten to a recording for chess records. JP

[jeanpiersol1]

Thanks John - Glad you still enjoy the

1-20 song. I had fun recording it all those

years ago at Fantasy Records for Sesame St.

Love, Jeannie Piersol aka Mom

[sperminator21]

@jeanpiersol1

you sang that? :D wow :D i love it xD i just love it haha.

i have to say: beautiful voice! because it's so full of love! Not like lady gaga.

[spkenn36]

@jeanpiersol Thankyou so much for this! I have always sung this song in my head since I was a child and now I am 40, but hearing you sing this takes me back to my childhood in an instant.

What a wonderful gift you have bestowed on children, you are surely blessed!

[cricket2001]

@jeanpiersol1 I have loved this for almost 40 years! You have no idea how these touched people! Just beautiful. Thanks!

[2199]

@jeanpiersol1 Ms. Piersol you have a great voice and I like this Sesame Street back when this was recorded. What else have you sang for Sesame street.

[InsertName125]

@jeanpiersol1 THANK YOU! You have a beautiful voice.

[InsertName125]

@jeanpiersol1 Do you still sing professionally?

[bybeert]

@jeanpiersol1 I grew up watching this when Sesame Street and this video was new. I always thought that this was really cool and that you had a great voice. Did you record any other songs for Sesame Street?

[JohnPiersol01]

That is my Mom Jean Piersol signing...go Mom!

[TheChiteach]

Your mom sparked my interest in East Indian culture, man. I was a little kid absolutely fascinated with her voice, the music, and images of this Sesame Street segment.

[icedlava]

@JohnPiersol01 your mom rocks. 

[mpc3po]

@JohnPiersol01  BEAUTIFUL AND SOOTHING VOICE..cherishable

[351528]

This freaked me out when I was little as did anything psychedelic at the time. But now I realize that the psychedelic aesthetic had become mainstream back in the early 70's when I was a little kid. I think it's kind of cool now though and I've never forgotten the song.

[illegitimo888]

'I think it's kind of cool now'

just as i've come to realise that the world has since become infected with bigoted little acist pirk faqers like you

[HorusRising]

I....LOVED...THIS..!!!! I still do. This was one of my faves growing up (I haven't seen this since the late 70's). Ulan25, you're the greatest for this one,lol!!!

[kll510]

Beautiful song and animation. An old favorite from way back. I loved it.

[d72jjpilc]

This and the 'E Imagination' clip were perhaps the two best-known Sesame Street clips to contain sitar music. Great memories indeed!

[farodyoung]

how could anyone growing up in the 70's not remember this.The voice is so unique and the music was stuck in your head!

[starwarsrebel2006]

I remember it well.:)

[JonasClark]

As a kid, I was fascinated with mechanical things, so the last sequence was incredible. But the whole thing is really beautiful, the patterns through the middle sequence are captivating stuff. I adored this as a kid, same for most of the psychedelic ones (and this from a kid who watched in the 80s, born after the psychedelic era).

[spkenn36]

Just love this!!! I was singing this to myself at work all day yesterday and so had to find it to show work mates - they loved it too!

Takes me back to about 1978 or so...

[gumonthepants]

Same here! Maybe 35 years now, every now and again, pops into my head. Loaf-a-bread, cahton-a-milk, stick-a-buttah also, which can be found on YouTube too!!

[lilymilly4000]

...Hippie song

and it reminds me of drugs x]]

but i love it!

[TrinityHiro]

...wtf how did he turn into flowers?!

[tvercetti1970]

......good song to get stoned with when

you're smokin' weed.

[Thundershower77]

Looks like the Beatles Majarishi!

[Oawol]

I wish that last part was clear...

[lejonfo]

my 2 year old love this thanks for posting

[waddleduckie1]

I liked the music the best. That is how I always remembered it.

[frezerburntskinnycow]

woahh

that was trippy

i was watching it

and when it went to ten i was likee. but the title says to twenty

and then two more arms slipped out and i was like

HOLY GEEBUSS haha. it was weirrd

[begottenphoenix]

That is scary... I'm not even stoned and i'm high! That makes so little sense

[Brots2009]

when i watched this.. I FELT LIKE I WAS HIGH!!

[pretearking]

I feel like I'm hallucinating!

[hippocakes]

Who would think counting could be so beautiful..

[ruleta74835]

I agree. This is so brilliant and it's just counting to 20. My memories of seeing this as a child certainly helps me enjoy it so much I guess...but it's still great.

[xxxemzy88xxx]

a bit psychadelic lol...do u reckon the makers of sesame street mite possibly have been on acdid??!

[evertonkarate]

Hi... I´m a Brasilian guy ... and i learning inglish with sesame street ...rsss ... i loooveeddd this ahahah .... so olddd ... i remenber this

[aezram]

i'm american and i learned english with sesame street too :-)

[kimsy520]

I remember this!!!

[diobolikal]

is that ravi shankar on the violin-sitar!

[RangerGordon]

A subliminal statement on the industrialization of Indian/Hindu society.

[nuckinfutzerik]

A factory, how zen!

[lotuswight]

I remember this one vividly from S. street

skipping school and watching this stuff was much more educational

[rrrock6]

...yeah, don't be sorry. Dead's about right. And honestly, I have a feeling that to anyone with most of his brain functioning, this honestly is more interesting than anything on Lickherass.com_ or whatever it was.

[fagotron]

I'd like you , dead, in a bag with mustard please. Thank you. sorry.

[niclbagz]

fudge yea this is kool

[eyedisco93]

Whoah, dude I'm tripping

[raposofan]

Geeeeeeee, what era did THIS cartoon come from? ;)

[cootmaster]

THIS IS A AWSOME VISUAL i got this in hebrew on rahov sum sum too bad number 1 and 2 are cut off

taught me count hebrew quickly

[raakone]

What's with the World War 2 video here? Mislabel?

~Ra'akone

[raakone]

Oh, now it's back to normal. For some reason, once when coming here, it showed German airplanes. MAde no sense! This, on the other hand, is what's required here. I like the four-armed Guru, and the "machine."

~Ra'akone

[splotchwork5000]

when seeing this one on SS, the machiene at the end, i thought was funny because of the speed the numbers zoomed by.

[joanieaqua21]

Preeeettyyyyyyyyyy

[locksmithite]

i used to love this one when i was a kid.

[apwittlich]

Dude. That number machine toward the end is bad-ass.

I used to freak out when that cartoon would come on the tv. Wow.

[ProfessorIgor]

First of all, anyone claming SS of racsism is an idiot. Secondly, it speaks volumes when people haven't seen these in 25+yrs and can remember them CLEARLY, it says to me that the were doing it right.. they were TEACHING !!

[ParadiseBar]

I watched this segment many times in elementary school, and I remember the appealing music well. Sesame Street was all about bright colors, funny puppets and catchy melodies; the fact that a little psychedelia crept in is only natural given the time period. Trust me, young kids (SS's prime viewing audience) didn't think of "drugs" when they saw this bit of exotica.

[Jolar70]

No, it's drugs AND imagination. Don't forget that Sesame St. began in 1969, smack in the middle of a counter culture revolution, and drug imagery was already ingrained in popular advertisement by that time. I don't think anyone is suggesting that Jim Henson was pushing drugs, but this kind of kalidoscopic Op Art has its roots in drug culture. It's a pretty song too.

[awakeupnorth]

why does anything fanciful and imaginative need to be associated with drugs? Can't you guys use your imaginations? sheesh

[yankeegirlCA]

I remember this well--I was born the year before SS started airing so all of this stuff is embedded. Who's the dude that said 'racist?' He/she has no idea that SS was the only TV show that you could see and learn about other cultures and I loved it for that.

[thoughtfoxe]

Isn't it neat the way the backgrounds correspond to the numbers?

[MistressRhea]

This was always one of my favorite cartoon bits :D

[HypnoToad72]

Yup. Drug-induced. Very creative, but definitely a LSD-fest. Not that there's anything wrong with that! :D

(I barely remember it, but it's worth the memory - thanks!)

[jumpaholic22]

this was a lil before my time...cuz i don't remember it...

[natlegend]

woah too much acid

[eastcoasting]

Lighting my brain like mad!

[BAhern63]

this sounds like a George Harrison song!

[drfulmore07]

I agree with you.

[patricklover909]

omg i have this on an old sesame street video and i used to watch it all the time!!

[mubd]

racist!!!

[benabz]

the factory at the end is an amazing piece of animation

[RabbitEleven]

I completely forgot this one. One of my favourites from childhood.

[Muddyrich]

what about lower case n and the capital i? anyone have those? other great ones are the train song, run, run everybody run, and the time lapse sunflower on the balcony...

[ChristiRich]

I loved those too.

[cygnusixion]

This clip and the Letter E clip are about the best of all the SS clips, the music is very similar and they both have that mystic aura about them.

[ultang]

its quite possible that sesame street are responsible for my currently dissolute lifestyle

[standardgrey]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

[emdub1985]

The acid trip machine at the end is the kicker tho-- I was remembering this and thought the indian guy turned INTO the machine, but not quite.. way trippy!

[ISNorden]

This is one of my favorite vintage clips; I thought

the four-armed guy was a little strange, but he

wasn't as scary as some other characters in Sesame

Street cartoons. BTW, I agree that the morphing

designs behind the numbers (in the last section)

look like floor tiles; as a kid, I wondered how

the cartoonist could draw the shapes that perfectly.

[raposofan]

I'M wondering that NOW.

[beckigreen]

one of my fav anamation shorts

[shyguy76]

Was that little John-john with grover before this clip?? anyone have any clips of him? This indian one is memorable

[beckigreen]

i think that was john-john.

[cjdunn]

I liked this when I was a kid, and it's still pretty cool. Although the part after the guru turns into flowers and Crace Slick continues to count to 20 the every changing background animation looks like the animators stoll lynolium tile designs from Home Depot.. LOL

[cakestick]

this explains so much, really.

[tigercubgurlie]

hehe the colors are all definately psychadelic...can u believe "psychadelic" coming from someone who wasn't "there" lol

[brendafohio]

ahhhhhhhhhhh Namaste! Wonderful nostalgia! TYVM!

[daccochan]

i like this animation very much but i remeber this film on Spanish version.

[xpander2k]

The spanish version was better because it taught me how to count to 20 in spanish. :-)

[LiteracyLabyrinth]

aaaaaaaaaaah! I had forgotten this now its back in my head! thanx

[alberteau]

Hmm, I'd also read somewhere that the Pointer Sisters did the pinball one. Perhaps 'spies' is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=K-X3Ezf1UCo

[alberteau]

I read somewhere that this was Grace Slick singing. Anyone know how true this is?

[ulan25]

wow, interesting! i googled it and according to this wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L­ist_of_celebrity_guest_stars_o­n_Sesame_Street grace slick sings on the pinball segment? and spies? i dont think i know what the spies segment is... :)

[ISNorden]

"Spies" is a popular nickname for what were officially called the "Jazz Number" segments; all of them end with ten spy-like characters revealing numbers under their trenchcoats.

[wileycoyote64]

@ulan25 Its the one that allways counts to ten at the end as the " Spies" open their trench coats

[RSG2006]

Alberteau asks "I read somewhere that this was Grace Slick singing. Anyone know how true this is?"

Not on this clip. She sings the clips with the spies. The vocalist here is Jeannie Piersol.

[wileycoyote64]

@alberteau Grace sang on the "Jazzy Spies"

[aldiakaroofus]

I had forgotten that song but I now remember it! I love nostalgia....

[SamIAmxoxox123]

OMG!!!

GROVER!!

[Pdasilva0324]

I would love to see the Spanish verison of this! Awesome vid and defniitely different from today's SS!

[StaceSesame]

scary! :O

[kspacecmk]

Wow, I remember that.

[welchm8]

Ulan25, you are awesome! A VERY trippy piece!! A nice remnant of a [sadly] bygone era.

[rdangelo]

Perhaps it isn't the video that's trippy, but rather our perception of it that is indeed trippy. On second thought, yeah...

[emcgo]

No problem, but now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head for days :)

[emcgo]

Wrong clip, but still awesome

[ulan25]

acck!!! thanks for the heads up.