@JMDub89 There's that; but look at all these songs, especially the ones involving live actors and not just puppets. It's really obvious they weren't just producing a children's show - they were putting on a new musical every week! They made the show not just for kids, but for everyone. Personally, I'm 27 and I'd sit down and watch a marathon of old school Sesame Street with friends - if I had the recordings at my disposal.
If you are a true sesame fan, then don't criticize it now is all I'm saying, it's still great, older fans just may not be able to open up to a refreshed version of what they love, like a built in bias.
It was and still is a good show, and still teaches a lot of the same lessons as it always has, but of course they have to try and freshen the show up a bit, there is so much competition now with children's show that they didn't face back in the day.
In the most recent episodes Cookie Monster is still a cookie addict, I don't htink they ever went through with the whole veggie monster thing. I haven't seen him eat one veggie and watch the newest season everyday with my baby.
awww...brings back memories...the sesame street now, it's awful compared 2 this. they make cookie monster eat vegetables!!!!!!! HOW AWFUL IS THAT?!?! pretty soon, i bet theyre gonna start calling him "vegetable monster"!!! UGH!!!!! C'MON PEOPLE! GET SOME SENSE!!!!!
I think Kevin should stop playing Elmo and go back to Hoots or at least not take up the last ten minutes of sesame street. Also, was Hoot's saxophone an Eb Alto or Bb Tenor saxophone?
i was 4 when this show started i remember this 42 later. i lived in the bay area all my life this show and mr rodgers and the electric co.our tv had cable hooked up to it. we had 12 channels 2 -13 this show was on channel 9.. yes we had to get up to change the channels the volume and turn it off and on. the tv made a buzzing sound when a car pulled in to our drive way,and the tv had to warm up when turn on
I'm so glad I can get Sesame Street online I mean the classic episodes. My kids absolutely love these episodes and it is both surprising and delightful to see their facial expreession. WOW!!! I had the same look over 2 decades ago .....hah
Wow..memories. Growing up seeing this in NYC area, in late 70's and 80's I thought there was a really a Sesame ST and I was going to find it one day! LOL..how cute..
How can I forget... Big Bird I love you ! ---------------- Sunny Day Sweepin' the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Street Come and play Everything's A-OK Friendly neighbors there That's where we meet Can you tell me how to get How to get to Sesame Street
@Surfer041 thank you :) i'm glad you agree. because people in my age...they totally don't which is so sad! :( :( :( :( like everything is on facebook, myspace, etc. :( no fun or play, not even boardgames! tv is totally obsolete now, barely anyone in my age uses it. *sigh* wish i can change the world back to the 80s.
I love seeing all the muscle cars on the streets in the early season openings, especially that other one from a season later (I think) where kids are crossing the street and there's a Pontiac GTO & I believe a Chevy Nova both waiting for the green light.
@canadiantisdale Well kid, it's nice to see you have an open mind. I agree that technology has ruined childhood, the80s were a great decade to be a kid in.
@sunnydayinperth Mmmmm, absolutely... I see all these little tiny kids toting Nintendo DS handhelds, and though I am a huge Nintendo supporter, these kids can't even /read/ yet. I can't understand it. They have no imagination whatsoever. Kids don't play imaginative real-life games or watch imaginative shows like Sesame Street used to be.
@sunnydayinperth haha me too....but I wonder if we suddenly did away all our modern gadgets to get back in touch with a simpler time, we'd see it as hell, because we know those things were possible and existed. Back in the day, what the hell was a cell phone and a facebook and why would we need to know every detail of our friends' mundane lives when there's an empty lot to play in?
I made a multilanguage video of the Sesame Street intro, in there you will find many versions around the World, including this (the original). Come to my channel and you will find the video =) Greetings from Portugal
I made a multilanguage video of the Sesame Street intro, in there you will find many versions around the World, including this (the original). Come to my channel and you will find the video =) Greetings from Portugal
LOL! What year is this? I'm trying to figure out if I'm old enough to have been one of the toddlers in this video. Kids don't play like this anymore. The 80s were almost the same as far as playing OUTSIDE. Atari sucked compared to what xbox 360 is today. If we had such graphics back then, we'd have never seen daylight again. We'd have been awestruck, drooling at the TV.
@ty73us: Hence the Wii Fit, Playstation Move, & Kinnect...LOL
But, yes, people are too reliant on technology now that it's staggering. If the Internet died, only kids from the 80s & back would know what to do, because the 80s was the last generation before the Internet's arrival onto personal computers.
There weren't a lot of Internet users around in the first half of the 90's, from what I remember. Yes,a lot of businesses and universities were on it, but most people would have thought home internet access was pure science fiction. Watching videos for free on Youtube and then making instant comments about them really would have been science fiction.
I can't tell you how many times I heard this song as a kid. Sesame Street is like the Ducktales of early childhood shows....although Mr. Rogers is pretty good too
This wasn't the only opening used in season one, although it was used in episode #1. There were numerous films (most likely from Joan Cooney's inner-city-children documentaries) that were rotated throughout SS's first four seasons, then in 1973 new openings shot on videotape were shown.
I think it was actually 1972 that first had the videotape openings.
And I don't think they replaced them until 1988.
Stuff used to last AGES on this show. They would keep these pieces of footage around as long as they could possibly get away with it, even long after it had obviously dated. That's what's so ironic about their recent decision to scrap their entire 40 years' worth of material and start from scratch. It's just utterly the opposite of what they've always done.
@jmdowden75644 I'd argue that it's life before society went completely bonkers and created a risk-averse, cottonwool culture around children (cf. the excellent book "No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society," by Tim Gill).
Technology's a nice scapegoat, but it's not the real reason kids don't play outside as much today.
Things brings back so many memories though I watched in the late 80s/early to mid 90s. I remember when the problems took the whole show to solve rather than the first ten minutes
This is the same arrangement we're playing at my middle school. I love this song. I grew up watchin this show and it feels great to learn how to play the theme song at my school!!!
@sillygramcracker This was back when it was more about the kids, and the learning than about the muppets themselves. It's easier now to use the muppets because the problem with having the children in the show is after a while they either cant be there anymore from outside influence or just get too old to really be on the show. It wasn't about the muppets back then...it was about the kids ^_^
I think my favorite part is the kid trying to talk his little sister into going down the slide, then finally scooping her up and pushing her down it. :-)
Happy Birthday Sesame Street! I was born the same year! Great show to start out with. These videos bring back lots of memories. It was weird seeing Mr. Hooper again, but at the same time, he was familar. I also remember being scared of the Yip yip aliens. LOL!!
Those look like the projects on the West side . Its a pretty scarry place, somewhere you don't want to stop as you're walking by. I assume the aquarium is the one on Conny Island. My brother's appt used to be near where they produce the show near Spanish Harlem.. Martha Stewarts show is in the same building I believe.
I was there on day 1... today 1969... 14 months old.. my mom said a nuclear bomb could have gone off and I wouln't have even flinched from the TV ! LOL Happy 40th B-Day !!
I've always loved Sesame Street. I was born in 1990, but my brother had a lot of books of them. That's how I learned to bake on my own. The cookie monster and big bird will always be in my heart
Oh What memories I'm 43 I was '3' I remember the open of this show man what a big jolt to back in time bringing back memories in my head that was hid away so so so long ago I forgot that I was a little kid at one time Happy Birthday Sesame Street !
The article in TV Guide said that when the show first aired in 1969, the state of Mississippi refused to air it, because black kids played alongside white ones (kids.)
What season had the scenes with the kids on the super long slides? I don't remember if it was the opening or closing. I wanted to know where those slides where so I could go down them. I wonder if they are still around.
Actually back in 1970 when the SesameStreet came to Germany, the Bavarian broadcast company boycott it because of it's controversial content. It was seen as a commercial and propaganda. One of the famous quotes from that discussion was the statement of BR "In Bayern gibt es keine unterprivilegierten Kinder". There are no underprivilidged children in Bavaria.
In was born in 1986, and I was probably among the last crowd of preschoolers who got to enjoy the show as it originally was before all those so-called changes started taking place, replacing many classic skits in the process.
Actually, if you look at episodes from today, they are paced far more slowly and predictably than the ones we grew up with. The storyline takes up the first fifteen minutes with no "commercial" interruptions, and then they move on to skits. This was done after research showed that children have longer attention spans than was originally thought when the show was developed.
My toddler likes it, because she can predict when each segment of the show will be on next.
Actually, it's interesting. Depending on how you look at it, the show is both much slower than it was before, like you said, but in other ways it feels much faster.
I think it's because while the individual segments are longer than the old ones, they have a tighter, brisker pace compared to the casual, improvised feeling the old ones had. Another reason---the show used to be a lot quieter. Yeah, there was a lot of fast noise, but there were also many pauses and quiet transitions.
"In was born in 1986, and I was probably among the last crowd of preschoolers who got to enjoy the show as it originally was."
IMO, the cutoff is 1994 or '95. Because '98 was when they first started to tinker with the format, and those kids would have been watching by then. So those born after 1994 wouldn't remember the "old" show.
Still, those born before maybe 1999 would remember a show that was more like the old one than today's completely overhauled incarnation.
This is the opening that I most remember. I watched, being 13 at the time, with my youngest brother who was but a year old when "Sesame Street" first saw the light of day. We were in-sync with the show until I was married in 1976 and then I watched with my Daughter.
Yes, he appears in the first episode looking different than he would look in later years. The other muppets who appear in the first episode are Ernie, Bert, Oscar the Grouch (colored orange-yellow!), Kermit the Frog and a silent Cookie Monster. The show originally was going to have the actors be the main focus but the Muppets became quite popular and they were featured more often.
A sweet glimpse into the past,loved sesame street,land of the lost,dr shrinker and wonder bug.And of course i loved electro woman and dyna girl,i was always looking at their junk and thats how i knew i liked girls.thankyou 1975 tv programing,got the ball rolling for me.
I was 3 years old when SS first came on and I remember this beginning. Was it shown for more than one year? I remember the girl going down the slide and the seal, pretty amazing for a 3 year old to remember that, that's why I wondered if it was on for other seasons.
Wow.. It's so weird seeing the opening with such old footage. I grew up in the late 80's, so we has the same song, but the picture/color was slightly less crappy. lol.
Wow! To think that opening is now 40 years old! My mom was only 8 when this show came out and my dad was 13. and now I'm only 2 years away from graduating from High School.
yeah, i agree! whoa, what a time capsule! if the youngest ones were 5 years old, then they would be in their 40s. yeah, they probably already have grandchildren.
Considering the fact that this was 40 years ago, that means these kids would be at least in their late 40's, so it's possible that they have children who have children.
1969
nellie2581 1 day ago
I would love to see what some of these people look like now. lol
funkybunny9966 1 day ago in playlist Sesame Street Classic Songs
old school like a boss!!!
vNocturnalBuffalos 1 month ago
Now..... The Show Isnt about kids anymore is it just elmo and that stupid fairy v.v
Eternalshadowgamer 1 month ago 2
first show ever with an integrated cast. One more reason to love Sesame Street
LazyDucksCantSwim 1 month ago
Season 1 of the show was from 1969 to 1970
chrispleasantable 2 months ago
i bet hal them kids are dead.....just sayin
katekate045 2 months ago
@katekate045 whys that? most would be in their 50's at the oldest
steelbeltsdrumming 2 months ago
@GameStation3 They used to on Noggin, but now you can see them on DVD's
rtuckerivey 2 months ago
HAPPY/GROUCHY 42ND BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!!!!
TheaterServant 2 months ago
What the hell?! Sesame Street is in the ghetto?!
SwissyChief1265 2 months ago
Are any of the old episodes rerun on TV?
GameStation3 3 months ago
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yeechern123 3 months ago in playlist Sesame Street Classic Songs
childhood............ u only have one and i wish i had mines back
29krazyk 4 months ago
yep, when things were different then!!!!! 42 years is a generation ago
ed008ue 4 months ago
Its truly amazing that Sesame Street has lasted for so long; most kids shows die out after a while, but this show keeps going.
Perhaps its secret is that the company in charge of it is a nonprofit organization; hence, they focus on quality programming instead of making money!
JMDub89 6 months ago
@JMDub89 There's that; but look at all these songs, especially the ones involving live actors and not just puppets. It's really obvious they weren't just producing a children's show - they were putting on a new musical every week! They made the show not just for kids, but for everyone. Personally, I'm 27 and I'd sit down and watch a marathon of old school Sesame Street with friends - if I had the recordings at my disposal.
johannhowitzer 5 months ago
@JMDub89 absolutely right
TeamRmageddonNetwork 5 months ago
i want to go to sesame street and have fun all day long
grtyuj 6 months ago
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This was B.E..................Before Elmo.
Mrfunkyfilmore 6 months ago
If you are a true sesame fan, then don't criticize it now is all I'm saying, it's still great, older fans just may not be able to open up to a refreshed version of what they love, like a built in bias.
ash20bunny 6 months ago
It was and still is a good show, and still teaches a lot of the same lessons as it always has, but of course they have to try and freshen the show up a bit, there is so much competition now with children's show that they didn't face back in the day.
ash20bunny 6 months ago
In the most recent episodes Cookie Monster is still a cookie addict, I don't htink they ever went through with the whole veggie monster thing. I haven't seen him eat one veggie and watch the newest season everyday with my baby.
ash20bunny 6 months ago
0:13 Look ma no hands!!
jet1117 7 months ago
to think some of those kids might be dead today
T101Terminator 7 months ago
awww...brings back memories...the sesame street now, it's awful compared 2 this. they make cookie monster eat vegetables!!!!!!! HOW AWFUL IS THAT?!?! pretty soon, i bet theyre gonna start calling him "vegetable monster"!!! UGH!!!!! C'MON PEOPLE! GET SOME SENSE!!!!!
evilskunk12 7 months ago 3
i was 16 months old october 1969 when s.s first aired in pa.
gnaym1968 8 months ago
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GOD I LOOOVE THIS SHOW LOL XD ! NVM THE FACT IM 15
naylee1222010 8 months ago
GOD I LOOOVE THIS SHOW LOL XD ! NVM THE FACT IM 15
naylee1222010 8 months ago
ok is this like 1801 O_O
poopinburgers21 8 months ago
i was an "Electric Company" fan!
geebee123 8 months ago
I think Kevin should stop playing Elmo and go back to Hoots or at least not take up the last ten minutes of sesame street. Also, was Hoot's saxophone an Eb Alto or Bb Tenor saxophone?
JGCooney 8 months ago
Ah, back when kids were kids, and everything was OK with the world...
Ian16545 9 months ago 3
@Ian16545 well not ok with the world the 70's stunk , except for sesame street.
gnaym1968 8 months ago
i was 4 when this show started i remember this 42 later. i lived in the bay area all my life this show and mr rodgers and the electric co.our tv had cable hooked up to it. we had 12 channels 2 -13 this show was on channel 9.. yes we had to get up to change the channels the volume and turn it off and on. the tv made a buzzing sound when a car pulled in to our drive way,and the tv had to warm up when turn on
tryby12 10 months ago
Sesame Street Aired On Tv After When Martin Luthern King Jr Died
kaiclay2 10 months ago 2
Back when kids actually played outside, I was blessed to be an 80's baby a 90's teen and a 2000's adult.
MrTonyalvarez 10 months ago
this show was brought to you by... the number 5 ! .. i loved it.
dixiewife47 11 months ago
the difference between this theme song and the 1998 is that this one sounds like black boys singing
Sw499erB0iZ 11 months ago
The best thing that EVER happened? It's up there.
junedeon 11 months ago
bad ass with no hands on the tricycle. lol jk. i love sesame street<3
xotibblesox 11 months ago
DAAAAAAMN BRING ME BACK WHEN I WAS SNOTTY NOSE KID LMAO
TheRealtalk504 1 year ago
I'm so glad I can get Sesame Street online I mean the classic episodes. My kids absolutely love these episodes and it is both surprising and delightful to see their facial expreession. WOW!!! I had the same look over 2 decades ago .....hah
rojasdiablo 1 year ago
Wow..memories. Growing up seeing this in NYC area, in late 70's and 80's I thought there was a really a Sesame ST and I was going to find it one day! LOL..how cute..
jodona76 1 year ago
@jodona76 I grew up in the bronx during this time it was great to watch this show kids today have no clue how good it was
spoiler54 1 year ago
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bluejelly100 1 year ago 3
@bluejelly100 though i usually hate those dislike comments, yours actually made me laugh hehe
AKBerryz 1 year ago
sidonieorange 1 year ago
@sidonieorange "la-la-la-la, lalalalaaaaaa" !
Trund27 1 year ago
its amazing how basic clothing has remained unchanged in the past 40 years.
plateshutoverlock 1 year ago
@Surfer041 thank you :) i'm glad you agree. because people in my age...they totally don't which is so sad! :( :( :( :( like everything is on facebook, myspace, etc. :( no fun or play, not even boardgames! tv is totally obsolete now, barely anyone in my age uses it. *sigh* wish i can change the world back to the 80s.
canadiantisdale 1 year ago 2
I love seeing all the muscle cars on the streets in the early season openings, especially that other one from a season later (I think) where kids are crossing the street and there's a Pontiac GTO & I believe a Chevy Nova both waiting for the green light.
SteveBrandon 1 year ago
sesame street is the best show on earth
sasukemeowboyXD 1 year ago 9
@sasukemeowboyXD More like....was. But man was it ever.
KaizokuShojo 1 year ago
awwww i found 0:21 till 0:29 really cute! the boy is so cute, he carried the little girl and put her on the slide hahaha so cuteee
canadiantisdale 1 year ago
No cell phones, no Microsoft, no laptops, No Bluray, No Xbox, No Playstations, No Ipods, HD or 3D TV......Heaven or Hell?
Personally, if i had a time-machine, id go back then right now.
sunnydayinperth 1 year ago 64
@sunnydayinperth why u be dissin iPods and playstations and blu-ray, they freaking rock. praise the lord for giving us these good toys for us teens
segerfan 1 year ago
@segerfan
I wasn't dissin them as such, just posing a theoretical question. Your name doesn't happen to be Steve Jobs does it? ;-)
sunnydayinperth 1 year ago
@sunnydayinperth No
segerfan 1 year ago
@sunnydayinperth
I can understand your point of view!
Smartboy8877 1 year ago
@sunnydayinperth OMG i agree with you! & i'm 15, a teenager! i loved those times. technologies suck ass, they ruin the childhood!
canadiantisdale 1 year ago
@canadiantisdale Well kid, it's nice to see you have an open mind. I agree that technology has ruined childhood, the80s were a great decade to be a kid in.
Surfer041 1 year ago 2
@sunnydayinperth Mmmmm, absolutely... I see all these little tiny kids toting Nintendo DS handhelds, and though I am a huge Nintendo supporter, these kids can't even /read/ yet. I can't understand it. They have no imagination whatsoever. Kids don't play imaginative real-life games or watch imaginative shows like Sesame Street used to be.
KaizokuShojo 1 year ago
@sunnydayinperth haha me too....but I wonder if we suddenly did away all our modern gadgets to get back in touch with a simpler time, we'd see it as hell, because we know those things were possible and existed. Back in the day, what the hell was a cell phone and a facebook and why would we need to know every detail of our friends' mundane lives when there's an empty lot to play in?
crocetti1984 4 months ago
@sunnydayinperth Yes. Me too.
joeywomer 2 months ago
@sunnydayinperth Would you go back and still get excited about "this hot new 'Nintendo' thing", though?
LanceHertford 1 month ago in playlist Sesame Street Classic Songs
That stunt at the beginning... kids aren't ALLOWED to flip off a jungle gym anymore!
I miss those days!
Cinemastique 1 year ago
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I made a multilanguage video of the Sesame Street intro, in there you will find many versions around the World, including this (the original). Come to my channel and you will find the video =) Greetings from Portugal
warbandit1990 1 year ago
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I made a multilanguage video of the Sesame Street intro, in there you will find many versions around the World, including this (the original). Come to my channel and you will find the video =) Greetings from Portugal
warbandit1990 1 year ago
LOL! What year is this? I'm trying to figure out if I'm old enough to have been one of the toddlers in this video. Kids don't play like this anymore. The 80s were almost the same as far as playing OUTSIDE. Atari sucked compared to what xbox 360 is today. If we had such graphics back then, we'd have never seen daylight again. We'd have been awestruck, drooling at the TV.
ty73us 1 year ago
@ty73us This is from 1969.
Oldiesmann 1 year ago
@ty73us: Hence the Wii Fit, Playstation Move, & Kinnect...LOL
But, yes, people are too reliant on technology now that it's staggering. If the Internet died, only kids from the 80s & back would know what to do, because the 80s was the last generation before the Internet's arrival onto personal computers.
TherealRNO 6 months ago
@TherealRNO
There weren't a lot of Internet users around in the first half of the 90's, from what I remember. Yes,a lot of businesses and universities were on it, but most people would have thought home internet access was pure science fiction. Watching videos for free on Youtube and then making instant comments about them really would have been science fiction.
anonUK 4 weeks ago
@anonUK: That's 'cause computer tech advances very, very rapidly in such a short time.
TherealRNO 3 weeks ago
The Sesame Street theme song reminds me so much of "It's A Sunshine Day" from "The Brady Bunch".
Cance251 1 year ago
the legacy of sesame street lives on.
wolfschmidt11 1 year ago
I can't tell you how many times I heard this song as a kid. Sesame Street is like the Ducktales of early childhood shows....although Mr. Rogers is pretty good too
awesomecdiperson 1 year ago 2
Hmm,,,,,The exact same song everyone heard except with a better camera.
floralgem 1 year ago
As You Know That You Saw In This Clip, Was The "Sesame Street" Video Open From November 10, 1969.
radiodj1520 1 year ago
This wasn't the only opening used in season one, although it was used in episode #1. There were numerous films (most likely from Joan Cooney's inner-city-children documentaries) that were rotated throughout SS's first four seasons, then in 1973 new openings shot on videotape were shown.
jhillst 1 year ago
@jhillst
I think it was actually 1972 that first had the videotape openings.
And I don't think they replaced them until 1988.
Stuff used to last AGES on this show. They would keep these pieces of footage around as long as they could possibly get away with it, even long after it had obviously dated. That's what's so ironic about their recent decision to scrap their entire 40 years' worth of material and start from scratch. It's just utterly the opposite of what they've always done.
Marbles471 8 months ago
Wow. .life before computers and internet... and kids went outside and did things....
jmdowden75644 1 year ago 4
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thisisnotdaniel 1 year ago
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@jmdowden75644 I'd argue that it's life before society went completely bonkers and created a risk-averse, cottonwool culture around children (cf. the excellent book "No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society," by Tim Gill).
Technology's a nice scapegoat, but it's not the real reason kids don't play outside as much today.
thisisnotdaniel 1 year ago
I remember this in the 80s!
exportmarket 1 year ago
Holy motherf...I REMEMBER THIS INTRO. Oh god, nostalgia hard. :(
evankimori 1 year ago
LOL MOM WANTS HER MEMORIES BACK WHEN SHE WUS 6 NOOOOO
aiboluver 1 year ago
Oh how I remember it so
dexterdenise 1 year ago
So many, many memories of my oldest daughter and I watching Sesame Street together. I miss those days.
Tigermoon1950 1 year ago
What will show 10,000 be like when I'm and old man in the 2050s or so?
SIGNSMAN87 1 year ago
These kids would be almost 50 buy now! :O :) Like another poster said, they probably all havegrandkids by now. :)
Donniesmith1975 1 year ago
MY SISTER LUVS THIS!!!!!!!
ronious11 1 year ago
im offended u said "If ur watching this with ur PRESCHOOLER..." for I watch it and im 11. LOLOLOLOL (jk i mean I dont like it, but i watched it)
xTaylorSwiftHeartx 1 year ago
On what episode(s) did Jodie Foster appear?
wreckage3001 1 year ago
Things brings back so many memories though I watched in the late 80s/early to mid 90s. I remember when the problems took the whole show to solve rather than the first ten minutes
SugarlandLoverr1 1 year ago
This English intro is so old. XD
fagc1979 1 year ago
This is the same arrangement we're playing at my middle school. I love this song. I grew up watchin this show and it feels great to learn how to play the theme song at my school!!!
torieharris96 1 year ago
LOVE it! I learned English with Sesame Street!
alejandroysofia1 1 year ago
@sillygramcracker This was back when it was more about the kids, and the learning than about the muppets themselves. It's easier now to use the muppets because the problem with having the children in the show is after a while they either cant be there anymore from outside influence or just get too old to really be on the show. It wasn't about the muppets back then...it was about the kids ^_^
NekoKiku 1 year ago
And yet, they never, ever tell us HOW to get to Sesame street..
StrickenRecord 1 year ago 2
@StrickenRecord I know right! I've always wanted to visit Sesame Street.
torieharris96 1 year ago
cool
WarriorkaiGuitar 1 year ago
I think my favorite part is the kid trying to talk his little sister into going down the slide, then finally scooping her up and pushing her down it. :-)
mdumas43073 1 year ago
dobre!!
dybaaa 1 year ago
Wait...where are the muppets?
sillygramcracker 1 year ago
I kind of want to be five again. *heart*
WhiteRoseChild09 1 year ago 9
oh my, throwback days! :]
hellovideosXD 1 year ago 2
OMG My dads there!
SionedPost 2 years ago
November 10 1969
ZackTrain33 2 years ago 3
Gosh i have so many MEMROISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OwlCityRox04 2 years ago 3
omg! I almost cried when I heard the start of this video...instant memories!
Candican2 2 years ago 10
I was 4 when this show started and my parents got me a Sesame Street LP and it was signed by Susan. Good memories.
contessakitty 2 years ago 2
happy brithday:)
JuneyMiss 2 years ago 3
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!
For fun I wish you'd show old episodes... we miss 'em!
chevychic73 2 years ago 58
They're on DVD!
CR100692 2 years ago 5
props to that...but you know we can if we raise the money and donate it to PBS. If enough of us wanted it...it would happen.
CjSeal13 2 years ago 4
@chevychic73 Yes! Sesame Street should do reruns!
KraZvEgGyBuRgEr 1 year ago
omg this brings me back a lot of memories :) Happy birthday sesame street!
gsrulov 2 years ago 6
Weird how I was able to sing this song word for word like it were yesterday !! What great memories :)
Featherflow 2 years ago 4
Happy Birthday Sesame Street! I was born the same year! Great show to start out with. These videos bring back lots of memories. It was weird seeing Mr. Hooper again, but at the same time, he was familar. I also remember being scared of the Yip yip aliens. LOL!!
carolynibis 2 years ago 2
Happy Birthday Sesame Street I was 10 years old and i also still miss Mr,Hopper
reneee800 2 years ago 4
My mom was 1 when this show started, My dad 3.
I watched this and hopefully my kids will too.
Here's to 40 more years!
shootcocacola73 2 years ago 41
@shootcocacola73 Beautifully put. Generations of kids have grown up on this show.
Surfer041 1 year ago
Those look like the projects on the West side . Its a pretty scarry place, somewhere you don't want to stop as you're walking by. I assume the aquarium is the one on Conny Island. My brother's appt used to be near where they produce the show near Spanish Harlem.. Martha Stewarts show is in the same building I believe.
RobertGary1 2 years ago
I was there on day 1... today 1969... 14 months old.. my mom said a nuclear bomb could have gone off and I wouln't have even flinched from the TV ! LOL Happy 40th B-Day !!
ProfessorIgor 2 years ago 3
I was 7 yrs old When Sesame Street started. So I remember this opening.
selander62 2 years ago
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FurriesOnFire 2 years ago
Wow sesame street is so old???
DjRandom04 2 years ago
i was born in 90s, but love sesame street, watched it everyday afterschool, Ernie is my favourite
Ishlam 2 years ago
same =D
ruty143sh 2 years ago
I was born in '71 & Sesame Street was a HUGE favorite.
CadillacL 2 years ago
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NYTOC 2 years ago
I've always loved Sesame Street. I was born in 1990, but my brother had a lot of books of them. That's how I learned to bake on my own. The cookie monster and big bird will always be in my heart
Luchia298 2 years ago
Oh What memories I'm 43 I was '3' I remember the open of this show man what a big jolt to back in time bringing back memories in my head that was hid away so so so long ago I forgot that I was a little kid at one time Happy Birthday Sesame Street !
1968DodgePolara 2 years ago
The article in TV Guide said that when the show first aired in 1969, the state of Mississippi refused to air it, because black kids played alongside white ones (kids.)
lcirej71 2 years ago 2
Being born in 1966 - This is the opening I remember. This and the ones from the mid 90's when my kids watched the show. Happy 40 Sesame Street!
mbarrison 2 years ago
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Homeandawayeps 2 years ago
What season had the scenes with the kids on the super long slides? I don't remember if it was the opening or closing. I wanted to know where those slides where so I could go down them. I wonder if they are still around.
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NYTOC 2 years ago
Actually back in 1970 when the SesameStreet came to Germany, the Bavarian broadcast company boycott it because of it's controversial content. It was seen as a commercial and propaganda. One of the famous quotes from that discussion was the statement of BR "In Bayern gibt es keine unterprivilegierten Kinder". There are no underprivilidged children in Bavaria.
wrtlpfmpf 2 years ago
In was born in 1986, and I was probably among the last crowd of preschoolers who got to enjoy the show as it originally was before all those so-called changes started taking place, replacing many classic skits in the process.
RingtailStudios 2 years ago 3
I agree. Kids shows now are wired up and move to fast. I don't get it.
scampbell04 2 years ago 4
Actually, if you look at episodes from today, they are paced far more slowly and predictably than the ones we grew up with. The storyline takes up the first fifteen minutes with no "commercial" interruptions, and then they move on to skits. This was done after research showed that children have longer attention spans than was originally thought when the show was developed.
My toddler likes it, because she can predict when each segment of the show will be on next.
gregly 2 years ago
@gregly
Actually, it's interesting. Depending on how you look at it, the show is both much slower than it was before, like you said, but in other ways it feels much faster.
I think it's because while the individual segments are longer than the old ones, they have a tighter, brisker pace compared to the casual, improvised feeling the old ones had. Another reason---the show used to be a lot quieter. Yeah, there was a lot of fast noise, but there were also many pauses and quiet transitions.
Marbles471 8 months ago
@RingtailStudios
"In was born in 1986, and I was probably among the last crowd of preschoolers who got to enjoy the show as it originally was."
IMO, the cutoff is 1994 or '95. Because '98 was when they first started to tinker with the format, and those kids would have been watching by then. So those born after 1994 wouldn't remember the "old" show.
Still, those born before maybe 1999 would remember a show that was more like the old one than today's completely overhauled incarnation.
Marbles471 8 months ago
I was born in 1990 and I like this show very much , in addition there is some arabic versions of this lovely show till now ! :D
the original is : sesame street
the Arabic is : semsem workshop " world "
FullaAbedAllah 2 years ago
This is the opening that I most remember. I watched, being 13 at the time, with my youngest brother who was but a year old when "Sesame Street" first saw the light of day. We were in-sync with the show until I was married in 1976 and then I watched with my Daughter.
And the seasons
They go round and round...
TralfazConstruction 2 years ago 3
i don't remember this opening at all i was born in 79
locutz 2 years ago
This is from 1969. The music has only been redone twice, but the opening changes every season.
CR100692 2 years ago
i miss the sesame street show
LancainS 2 years ago 2
was bigbird already in sesame street?
acerflots 2 years ago
Yes, he appears in the first episode looking different than he would look in later years. The other muppets who appear in the first episode are Ernie, Bert, Oscar the Grouch (colored orange-yellow!), Kermit the Frog and a silent Cookie Monster. The show originally was going to have the actors be the main focus but the Muppets became quite popular and they were featured more often.
NYBredBamaFed 2 years ago 3
I was born in the early 1960s. I remember this fairly well.
Wellch 2 years ago 2
From 1969.
kungfujiapple 2 years ago 3
I don't even remember this footage. I was born in the late seventies.
jackmanslightpepper 2 years ago
That seal at the end looks familiar but then again I was born in the mid-70s.
PinkChocolat07 2 years ago
A sweet glimpse into the past,loved sesame street,land of the lost,dr shrinker and wonder bug.And of course i loved electro woman and dyna girl,i was always looking at their junk and thats how i knew i liked girls.thankyou 1975 tv programing,got the ball rolling for me.
superbert35 2 years ago
I was 3 years old when SS first came on and I remember this beginning. Was it shown for more than one year? I remember the girl going down the slide and the seal, pretty amazing for a 3 year old to remember that, that's why I wondered if it was on for other seasons.
kll510 2 years ago
my goodness I remember this!
monimania 2 years ago
Wow.. It's so weird seeing the opening with such old footage. I grew up in the late 80's, so we has the same song, but the picture/color was slightly less crappy. lol.
foxxyloxx 2 years ago
was this filmed in New York city??? i see ...the projects..
erinashleyx 2 years ago 4
Wow! To think that opening is now 40 years old! My mom was only 8 when this show came out and my dad was 13. and now I'm only 2 years away from graduating from High School.
bart11114 2 years ago 8
and also to think that my mom and my dad were born only a few months after this
darkcammander55 2 years ago
woow thoes were ncie time realy :)
doomalz3eem 2 years ago 4
wow... those kids probably already have grandkids!
hani273nhk 2 years ago 19
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c100692 2 years ago
yeah, i agree! whoa, what a time capsule! if the youngest ones were 5 years old, then they would be in their 40s. yeah, they probably already have grandchildren.
CliveVorhees 2 years ago 5
Hello, they are not in their mid to late fifties. They would have college kids. Maybe a grandchild or two!
c100692 2 years ago 5
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That seal is probably DEAD! That's a comforting thought.
passlion 2 years ago
Only if they have babies as teens!
stimpyjaxon450 2 years ago 6
i doubt they would have grandkids--most likely they would just be parents of teenagers
PinkChocolat07 2 years ago 2
Considering the fact that this was 40 years ago, that means these kids would be at least in their late 40's, so it's possible that they have children who have children.
chuckmanofgod 2 years ago 2
@hani273nhk
Possibly more likey they are 50 now,
Armidilo99 1 year ago
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mel3846 1 year ago
@hani273nhk yep, that was 1969
beirutbill 1 year ago
@hani273nhk I don't know maybe they got kids in college.
Kryptonian250 1 year ago
*happy tears*
OtherBrother09 2 years ago 4