Sesame Street - Rhythm in nature

[dahger7]

Some group needs to do this song in concert.

[Chaliamusiclover]

I was looking for this and it is more wonderful than I remember.

[kameonq]

I remember this!! I LOVED it when I first saw it 8 million years ago and it got me interested in playing music. Thank you so much for finding and posting it!!! This video mde my whole week! :-)

[Emcd1909]

Hey! Does anyone remember the chef that makes rhythms? Need Help :)

[Puppatoons]

The horse trotting was always my favorite.

[noreaga12326]

this was a true classic! takes me back to my childhood. thanks for posting

[luzrik]

This makes me so happy to hear. Thank you!!!

[calspace]

This, That's About the Size, and the Vivaldi Rain/Flower bit are my absolute favorites. This melody has been in my head.

Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop. clip-clop, budududududumbum budududududuh dudah dah-du-dum

[quietguy33]

WOW!! I have been searching for this video... I am 43 yrs old and this tune has been stuck in my head for 30 something yrs... the first time I went in a horse drawn carrage ride I was 31 and the horses started to trot and this tune came into my head it was so cool! thank you Mstatz for posting this!

[kameonq]

@quietguy33 I have been searching for this video for years too! I thought I was the only one who loved and remembered it!

[lohphat]

@quietguy33 I'm 45 and remember season 1 in 1969 when Oscar was *orange*.

I've been searching for this too as it's been stuck in my head -- I had the same experience when I first went to NYC in 1997 and rode a central park carriage and the song popped into my head as well.

[iwantoldschool]

@lohphat So much of early Sesame Street was informed by our city. Back in the Sixties, they were targeting inner city New York children as their audience -- so the show had a very New Yorkacentric look and feel. Nowadays they want the show to appeal to kids all around the world -- which is a great thing -- but they've removed the New York feel: the urban grit, the seediness, the natural diversity, the depictions of lower income children and their families. To me the show suffers for that.

[iwantoldschool]

There is something to be said for the New York City experience. I was a New Yorker when Sesame Street premiered, then my family moved to the Deep South, and I grew up watching the show from Atlanta. Every episode almost brought me to tears because it looked and sounded like home.

I returned to New York in 2008, and I'm in north Brooklyn now. It feels so good seeing these episodes, and looking out the window and seeing identical scenery outside on the sidewalk.

Thanks for posting this!

[alice092948]

I watched this with my sons in the early days of Sesame Street and it was one of my very favorites. Bless you, whoever put this on YouTube!!!

[romenson]

thank you thank you thank you

[kittyprydekissme]

I've been searching all over for this. Thank you for putting it on here!!! Does anybody know what the song is called? Is it even a real song, or was it just improvised?

[LarryGastropoleau]

Thanks for unearthing this memory from my subconscious!

[PandaMishima]

If memory serves, this clip was actually about a minute longer, with the middle filled in by other noises, nails being hammered, a pile driver pounding stakes for a pier, etc. If you listen very carefully at 1:05, where they're walking again, you can hear some of the other sounds.

The beginning is also about 5-10 seconds longer, showing the dog, its first woof which starts off the steel drum's music and the dog's tail wagging, a nice signal to begin.

[raakone]

The piledriver was part of another clip. But it's easy to get them confused, both about sounds and rhythm, both have a horse's hooves somewhere

[PandaMishima]

The longer version was only shown in the first season, don't know why, so most people would remember the one shown here.

I think the longer version actually had a title, "Let's Go Play to the Rythym of the World" or the like. Anyway, it's something I remember.

[lohphat]

@PandaMishima v=tJkNDMUidYo is the full piece posted under the Sesame Street YT account

[teborek]

Thanks!

[amosmjm]

Wow! I was thinking of this song the other day and now...whew, its' like traveling back in time 30 years! Thanks, I'll wear this video out.

[d72jjpilc]

When the horses' hoofs go 'clop, clop, clop,' and I start hearing the accompanying instrumentation, I know I'm hearing one of the many tunes that stay in my head - even after thirty-some years have passed since my 'regular viewing' days!

[dahger7]

Same here d72!

[SnowbirdFlock]

@d72jjpilc Yeah cool clip. It would've been neat to see what kind of answer the kids would've given to what the man said to them! I wish they said something back.

[christimacc]

I REMEMBER THIS!  And I've song this diddy in my head a million and one times. THanks for posting this!

[zacandtaylorrule]

I totally remember this.  This is an absolute classic I love the sound of the drums especially when they are on the horse. Five stars.

[BadEarthMonkey]

Magic..I am a kid again. I am 40 as well and this is one of my favourites. Capital I, lowercase n and this...great memories here. Now for the Yello yahoo bird...lol Thanks man..this is great. I was just thinking that the lowercase ns would probably divorced by now..how sad.

[coolstufftt]

Treasure! Thanks for sharing. I'm 38 and loved watchin this in Trinidad as a kid. Trinidad is the birthplace of Steel Pan.

[ghostchantxx]

July 4 ?

[mstatz]

July 31st!

[ghostchantxx]

mstatz,you are almost 40. when ?

This is from the second season.

[mstatz]

I turn 40 this coming July!

[zflex]

I haven't seen this clip in probably 20 years, but I never hear a horse trotting without having that melody enter my head and stick with me for days.

[treadley]

Mstatz, this one brought back great memories! To me this song is a combo between "Music Box Dancer" and what you said too, "skip to my lu"....not for sure, just thinking it sounds like it. Anyway, thanks for posting!!!

[fetymann]

wow! you're right! I've often thought the end part sounded like Skip To My Lu too, but I haven't thought of the Music Box Dancer but now that you mention it I can hear that in it.  Good ear!

[joonk35]

I love this.....brings me back at least 32 years! There was another video that they showed regularly that I'm trying to find......it was basically about water....an icicle melts than trickles into a stream, etc,etc...piano accompanied it...no narration.

Thanks again!

[Horseyhorseyhorsey]

THANKS FOR POSTING THIS ONE! It was a favorite of mine back in the early 70's.

[bearcattony]

Jamaica?

[ghostchantxx]

Reminds me of a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

[WonkaZone]

I've been looking for this video for the past 7 years! Thank you! It really takes me back seeing it again. I loved this one as a kid. Man, how things have changed...

[macandcheese38]

Me too, been looking for this for a LONG time. Thanks!

[WonkaZone]

Now what about "Sweet Sue at the Sweet Shop?" :-). Also, the rest of the Mad Painter vids.

[macandcheese38]

I have no idea how many episodes there are, or what I consider the truly classic episodes. I was born in 67 and watched a lot in the early 70s. It was a fantastic show, and clips like this one were so ahead of their time.

It makes me wonder where the people in this video are now!

[WonkaZone]

It makes me wonder if there are creative people out there -- and executives willing to give them free reign -- working on creative programming.

[raposofan]

Google "Sunshine Again" or visit my YouTube channel.  We're doing it.

[shrill99]

@macandcheese38 I always wonder that myself...."where are those people today?" Thought I was the only one who cared about stuff like that... Thx fellow SS fan!!!! The film itself is older than God's first fart,but where did they film it is my question? : ]

[jbl1975]

I thought it was a white guy who was talking too. I was wrong, but that's okay.

[GeoKeys]

wow, that's pretty ignorant

[GeoKeys]

not the video, of course...the comment by jbl1975 "I thought it was a white guy who was talking too"

[GeoKeys]

And, in reference to werewolfantipaladin's comment, "Why is that drummer wearing that God awful Qiana shirt, I mean that was fashionably ugly even by 70's standards," -- That short was made in 1969, the very first year of the Sesame Street experience. That beach scene is supposed to be young people in the caribbean who are very poor having fun on the beach, and the caribbean-style shirt the steel drum player is wearing is very becomming for that atmosphere during that time period.

[kll510]

I always loved this one. I've always loved rhythms of different kinds. The steele pan drum was cool too. I like how he played music with the horses steps too. This was so cool. Thanks for posting it.

[Figure2006]

well that music was very important to me. since then always played music. but after that came on that shadow guy came on, does that ever come back

[Brinah]

My uncle used to play in a steel drum band during the 70s-80s; they won many competitions so this clip reminded me of him!

[ISNorden]

That music brings back a lot of great memories; four stars from me!

[dispatcher484]

Does anyone remember or have the clip where they made the steel drum from the barrel to the finished product?

[mstatz]

Yes....I remember that one but didn't get it. Too bad!!

[kingcjulia]

Yes, I want that one too!

[jbl1975]

I was wondering if someone had posted that one yet.

[minecritter]

I saw the one where they make the steel drum on YouTube just yesterday. Try a YouTube search on "Sesame Street steel drum".

[joeybinky]

@dispatcher484 yes, I have it on my facebook page. I can swear that was part of this video. was'nt it?

[werewolfantipaladin]

Why is that drummer wearing that God awful Qiana shirt, I mean that was fashionably ugly even by 70's standards.

[MIKECNW]

Sounds like you have to much time on your hands.

Anyway there was some other film with a steel drum and a guy singing watch the dance. Love to see that 1.

[MIKECNW]

Woner what the horse carriage driver thought of the the drummers were doing? Did he like it or was he finally glad they got off?

[afriendofbean]

I'm sure whether the driver liked the drummers playing or not, he still couldn't of told them to be quiet since customers/passengers should be respected, especially customers/passengers who pay (maybe those drummers paid the driver before the ride started). The only thing I wonder why that smaller kid didn't have a musical instrument and he never got a turn to play one of the drums. I know he looked very young to play an instrument but, I'm sure he could've had a turn if he was in the skit.

[kingcjulia]

Thank you for posting this. It's my favorite!

[emcgo]

I remember the steel drum from this. Nice find :)

[DiAnno13]

There's rhythm all around. So no matter where you are, you're in the rhythm section.