Classic Sesame Street - "Don't Sing This Song"

[steventean]

what if telly met barny?

[0perry00]

maria is always like with elmo or oscar lol

[justinlovespastry]

Go, asl! Woot! I love asl

[Americanautistic]

OK, so who is the elderly guy next to Gina???

[Ashantay]

Love the video but why was Bob taking all his clues from everyone else?

[King689]

RIP mr. hooper

[hgwilt1]

poor Oscar ha ha ha.

[paklack]

Ah... The days when Elmo was just a red guy on Bob's shoulders... lol

[thewiseturtle]

This looks like the stuff from the middle years. Not the newest, and not the classic, either. Clearly it's fairly new because Elmo is in it. And Mr. Hooper isn't... But it does look a bit dated, too. Late 80's, I'm guessing?

[panthrosmoke]

WHO IS THE BLACK GUY NEXT TO TELLY

[BossZula]

Ahem, That "Black" Guy is the Legendary David from Sesame Street.

[hades0013]

His name was David and he went crazy.

[berkyberk67]

Yeah, that's David. Mr. Hooper left the store to him when he passed.

[Jamiethewookie]

Love classic Sesame Street but I can completely understand why Oscar was pissed. It's borderline harrassment hahaha

[UpcomingJedi]

How come the girl in blue is singing?? Isn't she mute/deaf?

[coolbluelights]

no that's the one in pink signing

[amy027]

wow i cant believe how much older the people look on here, especially Gina... does anyone know if Linda is still on here?

[Marbles471]

Nope. Linda left in, I think, 2003.

That basically makes her the first of that ancient "core" group to actually leave the show. (I'm not counting Northern Calloway's [David's] leaving since it was mostly because of his failing health.)

[loumichaels]

If Big Bird and Oscar are both played by Caroll Spinney, does that mean they've never shared a scene together on Sesame Street?

[Marbles471]

loumichaels:

No, the Bird and the Grouch have been in plenty of scenes together. They get someone else to puppeteer Oscar, but Spinney does both voices from inside the Bird and sound technicians make sure the audience can't tell.

[Jumanji83]

when Oscar and Big Bird share a scene, Spinney does Big Bird and another performer does Oscar, and Spinney does the voiceover for Oscar later.

[bostonscholar]

nope; they have many scened together on show and in movies. Christmas eVE ON sESAME sTREET Oscar talks face to face with Bird

[disneysongtape]

who is the guy next to Gina. The older guy. He is not Mr. Hooper, I know, but he looks so familiar. Bob

[dubs19842008]

That was Bob's Uncle Wally, played by Bill McCutcheon. He showed in 1984, not too long after Mr. Hooper' death, and stayed until 1992.

[theproplady]

Interesting fact: Bill McCutcheon also played "Dropo" in "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians."

[classicssmfan]

That's Uncle Wally. He was Bob's uncle on the show.

[ryryjoe1]

he was also in steel magnolias

[brightbite]

Ha ha. They used reverse psychology on Oscar! He almost looked like he just MIGHT sing with them! LOL

[ginaandsavionfan39]

don't stop sing it

[lostandsafe]

Why don't televised kid shows possess this sort of quality anymore? Now we have Yo Gabba Gabba and Teletubbies, both of which are mind numbing, even for kids.

[brightbite]

I agree totally. This is an example of children's TV which is warm, personal, and creative. A lot of brilliant minds went into the making of songs and clips like these, and we are just lucky that some of us, like sawing14s, have preserved these classic moments for all of us to enjoy.

[classicssmfan]

I myself agree. Today, the shows that are most educational on PBS would be Sesame Street, Arthur, Reading Rainbow, and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Now all we have on PBS most of the time are Super Why, It's a Big Big World, Barney, and junk like that

[classicssmfan]

Not to mention Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, Super Why, and World Girl.

[TherealRNO]

classicssmfan: Word Girl the best out of all of them, because at least it is informative and doesn't make the audience feel inadequate by forcing the audience to "help" with a simple problem.

[Marbles471]

I don't have anything against shows like Blue's Clues and Dora. They have their place, and kids love them. I just regret that this particular show felt it had to become more like them in order to survive in the current media environment

(Although it may be true. It's not like the old days when Sesame and Mr. Rogers were the only games in town as far as preschool TV went. Now there's a lot of competition.)

[bostonscholar]

Miss Old (early 1980s) Sesame Street; human/ monster interaction, no annoying Elmo, Grover, Harry, Guy (I know many of their human counterparts have passed/ moved on) but it was engaging.

[glowworm2]

I believe that was Meryl Sheep-a discontinued Sesame Street character.

[GroverKent]

Um... what was that supposed to be next to Oscar's can on the left (between him and Bob)?

[MarshalGrover]

Merel Sheep

[paisleypoet66]

I believe her name for the show was Lynda she was deaf and barkly the dog was her friend/ she owned him.

[MsTexas73]

Her real name was Linda bove she was really deaf...she was Bob's girlfriend on the show.