Sesame Street: Cripple Creek

[pigswithbeards]

RIP television.

[konopelli]

Doncha just LOVE BUFFY? I do, nigh on 40 years...

[AbuBishir]

I thought I had seen it all.

[airthes]

Cripple Creek blows I live Here.

[GflowersGordon]

i like!!!

[naturalpro2003]

I remember her from "Sesame Street". I forgot how beautiful, and talented she is!

[williewilliewillieya]

this song is so good

[MollieZiegler]

Buffy Sainte Marie is AWESOME!

[tranurse]

i actually remember this. i was probably 5, which would have been 1976.

[redrover327]

I love this...

[missy12061]

who was singing that song?

[musiklaunisch]

@missy12061 Hi, this is the one and only, the great Buffy Saint Marie!

[TrueSouthernPride]

TO THINK I USE TO LIKE THIS SHOW........ I FEEL EMBARRASSED

[whitewitchoz]

@TrueSouthernPride You don't need to feel embarrassed. This show was awesome back in the 70s. Of course today's version sucks , but so does most everything thats new ...TV,music,movies, etc.

[jpeavler1975]

Whenever I see something from my infancy, it makes me feel old, and I'm only 36.

[Hadding1933]

"Jump on a man" is the real version.

[jpeavler1975]

Wasn't there also a song she did with a dog around that same time?

[jpeavler1975]

I remember this from my infancy days!

[avenger232]

this is not an age appropriate song for children's tv! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAA

[loversthatssocute]

Buffy Sainte Marie

[aquemeni541]

HOLY CRAP!!!! A TALKING HORSE!!!!

[quirpco]

@aquemeni541 AND HE SINGS TOO!!!

[so77ars]

@aquemeni541 Which one?

[aquemeni541]

@so77ars Good question...

[HillbillyProduction1]

my papaw makes mouth bows, he learnt it from his grandma who could play one

[mopbrothers]

Thank you. I like it. Salt of the earth music.

[drogoscg1]

ahhh.. good ol' sesame street during the lsd days...what years those were..

[QueenKuehn]

Amazing! Love Buffy. Great performance and nail polish lol

[travka79]

If you watched Sesame Street or any progamming on PBS you benefited from federal funding.

[1060893]

Shouldn't this song be called "Handi-Capped Creek" or "Disabled Creek"? Just wondering.

[ssavia]

That is just ignorant.



[banjoskadoo]

@1060893 LOL

[TrapezoidalDinosaur]

I don't know how that horse is going to make a bow...

[melba1231]

I love miss buffy! You go girl - wit yr bad self!

[paintbasstard]

They would never play this song on Sesame Street now. Damn shame if you ask me.

[travisgray]

If it's the verse about girls being half grown and jumping on boys like a dog on a bone that's stirring up the "political correctness" comments here, I don't think there's a problem for those of us concerned with political correctness. It's liberating for young women, it's owning our right to sexuality, and it's not about anyone being violated or put down. Still politically correct but also free. Best of both worlds.

[snipeefox]

@travisgray yes but this is sesame street.

but regardless, kids wouldn't get the reference, other than just puppy love, rather than the true meaning of the innuendo.

[houdini1972]

I remember watching this one when I was a kid! I just worry the string would brake and take my eye out.

[fvrrljr]

BIG Smiles = )

[terrapin227]

I have to go find me a good stick and make these myself!

[reelnub]

WUT!!!!!??!?!?!!?!?!!?!?!!?!?!­?!??!?!?!!

[Radiance275]

@max44ist Actually, Buffy is not from the US. She is Canadian. She is from the Piapot Reserve in Saskatchewan, but was adopted by Americans as a child. She's a cousin of my husband.

[fngrpkn06]

Awesome! This is as as real as it gets

[max444ist]

I believe Buffy now lives in Hawhii where shes runs a goat farm, She a truly amazing lady and the best American folk singer of the last century.

[Sethskid]

Nowadays, you'd never hear that song on tv "girls up Cripple Creek 'bout half grown, jump on a boy like a dog on a bone" hahahaha!

[Ebeneezerable]

@Sethskid HA HA! Look up "One Toke Over The Line," Lawrence Welk! Hilarious, they introduce it as a gospel song...One toke over the line sweet Jesus, one toke over the line.....

[hardtechnoboy]

I remember watching her on Sasame St. She had a son named Cody Starblanket Wolfchild and I thought that was the coolest name ever!!

[arlichar11]

holy crap... this is great.... ironicly this sounds similar to the theme song of 3-2-1 Contact...

[dndmatt]

lmao "Now the girls up at cripple creek about half grown, jump on a boy like a dog on a bone."

[666UFO666]

Wow very cool..............

[missy12061]

What ever happend to her?

[Tsoiyona13]

This is the roots I miss from sesame street culture bring it back!

[dbadagna]

Wonderful! What year was this filmed?

[barbj7121]

lol i remember this! :) omg i was a little girl and i use to love to see buffy on sesame street? oh wow THANK YOU!!! :)

[Azizip17]

Thanks for sharing this video. I started a page that presents the text of selected 19th century dance and play songs. I reposted this video under "Cripple Creek” so that I and other folks could get a sense of how that tune sounds. Google Cocojams American Banjo and Fiddle Songs. I also transcribed this version of that song on that page & it is included with other versions of that song & other songs, most of which would be considered part of the Bluegrass music genre nowadays.Btw, I LOVE Buffy!!

[dlandline]

I can't imagine this song, especially with the line "The girls up Cripple Creek about half grown, jump on a boy like a dog on a bone", would EVER appear on Sesame Street today: look what they did with the very cute little number with Katy Perry and Elmo.

[muppetfan33]

If I remember correctly, there was also a song that she did on Sesame Street with a dog.

[conordwyer07]

you dont have to be young to enjoy this stuff

[imlovingrondos]

I love this instrument!

[hanslefamily]

wow! you could never sing this song on a children's TV program nowadays ... ha ha ha!

[taibeleeds]

I wish I was born in Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan but in HELLsinki, Finland

[crystalgayleaddict]

amaing instrument... I guess the mouth is playing resonance box...

[MickeyJoMcGuire]

the polical correct stuff is gonna stop VOTE I am a child of the 60s-70s let us sing

[cromptonator]

Was anyone else startled at the line "jump on a boy like a dog on a bone"?

[TheSnickers101]

@cromptonator Yes!

[1glib1]

@cromptonator She is also a master of the skin flute.

[Doosb0x]

Ahaha.

[fionnbharro]

Sesame Street has become nothing but noise, now.

[dojon99]

So great it's good.

[werehyenataur]

I find the word Creek offensive.

[goofygoat2009]

@werehyenataur oh grow up!

[musiklaunisch]

@werehyenataur hahaha, loool

[Savebiosphere]

Wow! I saw Buffy at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and at the Main Point coffee house in the 70s. Don't aske me the exact date, those day are all a blure.

[tzelahjessica]

vintage Sesame Street!

[snowgrett14]

I love at 1:51 when she smiles :)

[broadstone1020]

Way cool, I met this woman at Chocolote Church in Bath, Maine.

[flyguy359]

@broadstone1020 Ayuh.

[flyingkittencake]

a. i didn't realize you could sing an use the mouth bow silmultaneously!!

b. duet with a singing horse. 

[yandros1]

Wow I remember seeing this!

[anarquia1985]

massa!!!

[stevejah7]

@anarquia1985 no! nasa! moonshot! i know a boy from a tribe so primiitive he kin call without no telefone x

[stevejah7]

@anarquia1985 no! nasa! moonshot! i know a boy from a tribe so primiitive he kin call me up without no telefone x

[crackfarm76]

wow, quality children's progamming, huh? this song is awesome, i'm gettin into it and i'm 33:)

[TelephoneRock4ever]

Aww, very nice!! This is one of the reasons why I love old-school Sesame Street.

How does she sing with the mouth bow?? I could never do that, even if I tried.

[zigsinclair]

seen her in cape breton on saturday night, was just awesome..

[sevenells]

Buffy is still playing the mouth bow at the age of 69. I seen her in concert in Georgetown PEI singing that same song a few nights ago and she did a great job. Nice to see her doing it up close on here.

[fek2000]

This is Mr. Ed's favorite music video, I'm sure. I still have Buffy's "I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again'' LP on display in our den. Great album cover. Guess you could say I still have her UP WHERE SHE BELONGS! Cool Native American.

Did I mention NATIONAL TREASURE?

[LegallyMoi]

If they did stuff like this on sesame street nowadays I would still watch it and I'm in the eighth grade.

[countrysinger1952]

This is awesome!

[wheresthejam]

Wow,Buffy.Just so cool.

[82jdog]

Damn! This was awesome, I've met Buffy St.Marie she's awesome in real life. Thank You for this video!

[Snakeshit287]

Wow! I must have missed something in the last many many years. What isn't politically correct about sesame street. I grew up on it. It was wonderful. I too rode around on a bike without a helmet (until I found what a helmet is really used for) and playing war or tag or whatever we could until dark. That's what old shows like sesame street taught. Anyway. They changed it. or stopped it. That is such BS. Grew up on the song cripple creek. Fun song.

[jasonpp1973]

The "mouth bow" makes such a trippy sound! The song makes me wanna "square dance"!

[itsmejerkface]

Everyone shut up and SING. (:

[midnightsun465]

i agree sesame street today is nothing like it used to, i watched the old school sesame street, and as a kid i drank water from a hose and rode my bike with out a helmet, and played outside till the street lights came on and i turned out just fine whats so wrong with the street on sesame street looking dirty like a real street in a real city there was no reason to go and make everything all pc and nice for the kids.

[supernagro]

@midnightsun465 Its the everyday average, homegrown, un-nurtured people like you that turn into rapists and pedophiles and serial killers, which is why parents think that its safe to nurture their kids even though it hasn't made any difference. The world changes so people do, Kids 100 years ago were treated different then the ones 50 years ago so its not like its a super big deal that parents are changeing their ways today, chill out nigga

[opelicano123]

@supernagro you don't have the slightest idea of what it was before or of what midnightsun465 is talking about. bet your kids are the perfect technology grown of these days, bet technology takes care of them not you. bet they havent played with dirt or have not a scrapped knee. Artificially grown with all the junky food u can get, bet you dont even have time to cook. you are turning out superjunkyobessenagros right. man you better chill out whatever color of skin u are. feel pity for 4 ur kids

[psychedashell]

@supernagro Everyday average people don't just turn, something usually drives them over the deep end.

[Lecrie]

@midnightsun465 turned out just fine. just with low punctuation abilities.

[theMansalad]

@midnightsun465 wait... You're not supposed to drink water from a hose?

[harenchi]

@midnightsun465 Yes, now it is becoming more and more clear for all of you that we live in the days of the pussification of the United States! Very, very sad!

[mullerheinrich]

Hippies...

[valleri07]

I think the problem is that overzealous parents don't want to do any real "work". For example, Cookie Monster, Bert & Ernie. When I was a kid I had to share a room with my brothers and sisters. When I watched them, I thought they were in a similar household as me.I never thought of it in any sexual context at all.

And as far as Cookie Monster? Parents need to get a backbone! My family had served meals w/ veggies. Whenever one of us had a tantrum for more junk foods, we were told a firm "NO!"

[dizzyspellsmartian]

amazing

[chrissept21]

WOW this is amazing

[TangoNardin]

dracopols comment isnt too true actually cripple is a medical condition i would know my mom is crippled

[FreedomforHaiti]

I saw this when it first aired. (I think my family still had a black and white TV.) I'd heard this song on my mom's record for years, and this was the first time I saw what the performer and the instrument looked like. A few years ago there was a news story that the early Sesame Streets were now considered unfit for children to watch (e.g., the Cookie Monster ate cookies instead of celery sticks, or whatever; Ernie & Burt living together). I think there's a warning to this effect on the DVDs.

[madcapromanian]

Isn't it crazy how the world is today?

When I grew up as a kid and watched Sesame Street, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, and other shows, no one complained about anything and none of us kids became mentally disturbed or anythng because of these shows.

Now all this old stuff is "Wrong" because it's not "PC"? It's because of Sesame Street that our generation of kids learned that people of all nationalities can get along. What's not "PC" about that?

Now they want to "dumb down" kid shows.

[HCShannon]

No, it was stuff like Oscar being too grouchy!

[abook2008]

man i learn english fromet

[kungfujiapple]

From 1976, because this appears in a Sesame Street Season 8 (1976-1977) episode called "Episode 1041".

[Dracopol]

Don't give me Buffy Sainte Marie. I want to see Buffy the Vampire Slayer. THAT kind of Sesame Street would rule!

[Dracopol]

The show is showing its age. You can't say Cripple any more. You have to say Differently Abled Creek.

[daveycard]

I don't think Cripple Creek would be a problem... more "The girls up at Cripple Creek above half grown jump on a boy like a dog on a bone"

[dontripmypaperheartx]

this is so wrong! i love it!! x

[NantoVision]

Great to finally see this complete with the unaired introduction (with Buffy explaining to Fred about the mouth bow).

This song was one of my all-time favorite moments on Sesame Street. I remember waiting by the television with an audio cassette recorder back in 1977, hoping they would play the song again so that I could record it. It's really great that now people can enjoy these clips on YouTube any time they want to.

[MarshalGrover]

I'm pretty sure the intro was aired. It could've been used in other episodes.

[NantoVision]

While I suppose it's possible they showed the complete version at some point, I can say that I was watching the show very consistently in 1977-78 hoping for it to be shown again, and I definitely did not see it in any other episodes.

[nudist0885]

Wow, I love the sound of this thing.

[nen92786]

I agree. It's just a song! People are so uptight these days, and even things like Sesame Street is becoming watered down. I still love it, but I wish they would go back to some of their old ways.

[armisis]

I love this, it was before the world went political correct mad, i hope that goes away soon and we can get back to being normal, i hate over done political correctness its stupid...

[KyleLee408]

@armisis Politicians did nothing to make the world better. :/

[bkeymak]

i thought it was about cripples....

[ShaiMyst]

I love sesame street from this era...from the clips from teh 70s and 80s and early 90s cause those are the ones I grew up with...A lot more fun and educational in my opinion

[Ennui83]

They may be more entertaining, but many people have done studies that show that the show is more educational now. I love that Sesame Street has a Research Department.

[ShaiMyst]

studies by whom? I am not sure I believe they are much more educational now. The educational aspect is more blatant and overt. I will give you that. But the older sesame street used subtle techniques which is why even this far from when people in my age group and older can still remember the clips and by extension the facts and lessons learnt through those clips.

But hey, the newer sesame street may work better for the new breed of children that now exists.

[BonzoGal1980]

All they've done is DUMB THE PROGRAM DOWN. It's an abomination compared to what I grew up with in the 80's.

[Dracopol]

How long did it take for you to grow up?! LOL.

[ShaiMyst]

lol...not as long as you think lol.

But sesame street was something you still watched even into secondary school because of the inside jokes for adults/older than young people that were part of the programme.

[nintendolad]

The title of this video is rather suggestive isn't it?

[Deathartist666]

Lyrics aren't really Sesame Street material huh?

[JethroWilbury]

I guess that's why they started having artists perform educational parodies of their songs.

[StreetReach]

I want a mouth bow.

[thegrandallusion]

i'll gladly get you one

[StreetReach]

Thank you, darling<3

[zacandtaylorrule]

I love this. This is classic Sesame Street.  I miss Buffy.

[antsamthompson9]

Very nice.

[timabad]

I imagined something very funny... this is cool too though.

[LoboPreto]

know what you're talkin bout X 9!!

[TofuPuppets]

u guys rock.

[aargreendaybillie]

by the title, at first i thought it was a spoof by mad tv. but ya