Sesame Street - I'm A Hard Workin' Dog

[jusaLOSER]

i remember seein this one too!!! it seems like this wattamack, and nantovision guys have got TONS of old school sesame street videos! how u upload them and from where? u got the Old School Sesame Street dvds???

[OttoLund]

Thanks :)

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[axf48529]

For our buddy Gus. He's a hardworking cow dog (Border Collie)too. His whole world revolves around working the cows. No kidding. If he doesn't, he will come in the house sulking til the next day. Love him so much.

[melillyutube]

Hey! Watch the full version  and in color! I can't post the link so look under the title

Classic Sesame Street film - Hard Workin' Dog (FULL VERSION)

[melillyutube]

Wow! I am tickled pink to find this clip. I saw it on Sesame Street only one time when my son was little; he is 31 now. I must have been destined to eventually own a dog because I never forgot it. I was mighty lonesome after my son left home. But, then, I got my first dog and I was so happy, I got a second one! I'd sing this to myself while I waited for my two golden retrievers to bring back the toys I threw for them in the park, one happy owner and . . . TWO!  hard workin' dogs.

[club921]

One of my kids' and our favorite episodes. Love that dog

[delideliver]

that dog is so cool,makes me laugh

[scrilla51]

I catch myself singing this tune every now and then and my teenage kids look at me like I've lost my mind! They are like where in the heck did you get that song? I tell ya, the younger generation just don't know what they missed back in the day..LOL

[fortune7770]

poor doggie must of kicked the bucket by now. He WAS one hard workin dog :(

[bakedevryday]

im bumpin this shit in my car downtown to pick up chicks

[VegasLass]

This is the best of SS! Well, this and the Stockard Channing shorts.

THANKS FOR POSTING!!!

[OrbGoblin]

the chorus just gets stuck in your head...

[zacandtaylorrule]

This sounds like Mike Nesmith of The Monkees but I don't think it is.

[PandaMishima]

"It's a dog's life, and I love it!" That's one sweet hard-workin' dog!

[Pocockable]

Where was this filmed? It looks like it might be Montana. Also, this sketch is from Season 7, in 1975. It aired on the Season 7 premiere episode.

[izzy55k]

I LOVE THIS!! I first heard it at work. I work with a handicapt lady and we watch "sing, hoot, and howl" like all the time. its always in my head. IMA HARD WORKING DOG!

[25mynameissnake]

I love this song and used to sing it to kARRI And Jason (tried to anyway) WHEN THEY WERE BABIES. I feel like this toda

[Backzlider]

This video is from the 70's definitely. This is the first fingerpicking song I ever learned, the second year I was playing guitar (1976).

[AnnetteTodd]

One of the best Sesame Street videos I can remember....did anybody else love this one too? (I still do.)

[aussersein]

fake.

[Smartboy8877]

@aussersein

What exactly is fake about this?

[teee2]

And wham..I'm right back in my childhood!

[FallingandRunning]

"All I know how to do is take 100 cows and teach them some manners."

[Dekobee]

When you said "from the 1980s," II have this on Old School Volume 2, and the date is 1976-1979. So do you mean that you got the clip from an old recording from 1980s?

[Smartboy8877]

@Dekobee

I noticed that one of the suggestions presented to me on the right-hand side of my screen is this in full-version. I plan on watching it next. Maybe that is the one from 1976-79. This could be a shortened version from the 80's.

[NICKYGARCIA2000]

i am such a baby!!! i love this!

[MIBsecretagent]

brings back membories

[worshipbits]

This is a memorable song, with many applications to one's own life. I remember it from decades ago -- thank you so much for finding it and posting it. I thought I remembered that the dog said, "I even heard there was such a thing as a LAP dog" -- have I rewritten history or was there possibly a longer version with another verse?

[daviddpb75]

27 years later this is still Awesome, Thanks for sharing! Sounds like arlo guthrie.

[menslady125]

Aww, I wuv dogs.

[kungFUwhomper]

thank you so much for posting this. i have been looking for this for YEARS

cheers

[bjicjds]

Im glad to see I am not the only one in this world who still remembers this song from the long long ago. I can not wait to listen to it with my kids. Thanks for posing it. Im a dog, Im a working dog, Im a hard working dog. Timeless and Priceless

[Hadra568]

"take 100 cows and teach them some manners" made me giggle

[sarumitai]

The lyrics are stupid now, but I sing it all the time after listening to it 25+ years ago. Whenever I see a dog I start humming the tune.

[coyote374]

Lassie is a hard workin dog too. And so is Scooby-doo

[Brinah]

@coyote374 No scooby's not; he's a fraidy dog! lol

[tolpit]

priceless

[firesidelabs]

Saw it on the show ONCE. Remembered it forever! So glad to find it again!

[deserteacher]

watched this with my daughter, now 25 yrs. remember and love it. thank you  sesame street you are always awesome! thanks waccama! i've sung this in my head forever! what talent these guys have!

[ranchroper1974]

my very favorite part is when he jumps into the back of the pickup..clears the bumper, the tail gate..and gets to his spot, before his Dad gets the truck door open...what a dog.

[ScythianMom]

@ranchroper1974 - That's my favorite part, too! I loved watching this with my kids when they were little and like everyone else, it's stayed with me...

[xenoyakozabo]

Thank you so much for posting this. I love it! Sometimes this song will get stuck in my head after seeing some dogs running around hehe

[CanadaFamilyMan]

I wish MY dog was hard-working.

[xefalcon351]

one of the catchiest tunes ever ,loved it 30 years ago ,love it today.

[jmmelnyk]

Sesame Street the greatest kids show of my generation - this song was the coolest

[tennytenbob]

been looking for this clip for so long classic sesame street .

[MiltownPunkette21]

LOL, this one was THE SHIT when I was little!!!! :-D

[dennydog10]

That reminds me of my family's cattle dog on our farm here in iowa

[ccolby358]

I remember this so vividly!! Loved it!! Thats why Sesame Street is the best kid show ever!!!

[mlmck]

I saw this as a kid, about twenty...maybe twenty-five years ago, and never, ever forgot it. The song, the dog, the words, the herding...I sort of expected to cry when I finally saw it, because I'm a softy...but mostly I was just proud to have remembered it so clearly. What a hard workin' dog.

[CelesteK]

This just makes me smile. :)

[elmosio]

Now here i was thinking my family had made this little segment up! Aw, it's still great and we still sing it... I'm 26 next month!

[Hondo20132]

I can't believe you didn't notice this earlier: this is NOT the full version. The first 2 verses are cut.

You can find the full version on Old School: Volume 2 on disc 2.

[jtomally9681]

I always hated it when the TV station went on stand by because something went wrong while Sesame Street was on.

[jtomally9681]

Oh my gosh. I forgot about this one too.

[prm1138]

I remember that my Grandmother used to love this video. She grew up on a farm. Her favorite part was when the dog leaps into the back of the pick up. Thanks for posting this. Miss you Grandma. :o)

[GameShowNetwork]

actually I saw this on the Sesame Street old school. It's from the 70s.

[DontCallMeChrissy]

The dog looks like he would sound like the singer signing the song. I could watch these Sesame street old videos all day long!!!!

[Archaeopteryx911]

Love this so much.  It ran through my head 24/7 as a kid.

[wvsissy]

i never tire of this one! i've been singing this song for what, 20-some years? since my 28-yr-old was little, anyway! since wayyyyyy before the internet and youtube---what would we do without the internet?!!!  i've been telling my (now 82-yr-old) mom about this clip for years, so i can't wait to show it to her!!

[debvin85014]

Can't tell you what a smile this brought to my face!! Never thought I'd see this again, one that is burned into the recesses of my mind from childhood!! Thanks for posting :)

[OtherBrother09]

I used to sing and recite this song over and over and over as a little kid.

[BonzoGal1980]

Looks like the front range in Colorado

[ckparsons1]

HAAAAAAAAAAA! I love this. Thanks for posting.

[Nightmastercool97]

great this came on when i was a little old for Sesame Street but i still enjoy it.

[jahnkekong]

I've been looking for this as a clip for ages. The version I remember had a labrador retriever swimming around in a pool if my memory serves me right. Anyone else remember this? I'd love to see the other versions posted. Hard to believe how much this song stuck with me.

[ktymbe]

Oh YEAH! I *love* that clip! I was thinking about that the other day, and here it is. YouTube rocks!

[boomchuckaboom]

I believe this is a border collie, a very popular dog for herding sheep and cattle on ranches.

Thanks for posting, reminds me of the good old days watching Sesame Street, and growing up in the country!

[Mobee211]

I remember this one! It was played in the mid 80s when I was a wee babe.

[Pdasilva0324]

I remember this..was shown well into the 80s, maybe even early 90s. BUT..from what I have learned, this originally aired in Dec. 1975..making it cool vintage Sesame!

[loveutoto]

I remember an episode where a clip of Madeline Kahn appeared right after this song. She said, "Wow, that's really a hard-working dog! I wonder what he gets paid?"

[Cathalain]

This is definitely 70s. I was about 3 or 4 when I first saw this and I was born in '72. :D

This was one of my many, many favorites!

[Nightmastercool97]

Now i think there is a clever line in here that says as follows "Now Some dogs will fetch a stick others will roll over I even heard of a dog that could shake your hand. All i Know how to do is get a bunch of cattle together and teach them some manners".

[PinballStewie]

Not from the '80s, from the '70s - this dates as far back as 1975 (if not earlier)

[grazon]

Film quality looks like it's from the 70's.

[euthophro]

From H: I want to say a big THANK YOU for posting this clip! I would watch Sesame Street religiously as a child in the '70s & '80s and "Hard Workin' Dog" was (and still is) one of my all time favorites. I remember it quite vividly from when I was a child and have NEVER forgotten it since. The dog (border collie, I think) runnin' around to the guitar music made me giggle EVERY time (and still does). I believe that every child on this planet should see this. SESAME STREET ROCKS!

[howieizme]

Awesome. Memories. Smile.

[frenkmelk]

I think that is Neil Hamburger Singing...sounds like him speaking at least.

[wolfenklaue]

Pretty dog. Looks like an Aussie Shepherd. :) I remember this clip very well.

[rambam1204]

Are you sure it's not a German shepherd (incidentally often—and incorrectly—called the police dog)?

[tmsan74]

i remember watching this. thanks for posting!

[michigandon]

FINALLY! I've been wanting this movie to show up on Da Tube for ages now. My older brother actually had to get an Austrailian Shepherd on account of this clip.

God Bless you wattamack!

[lizzykat2]

I remeber that song

[wiley207]

This is gonna be on "Old School Volume 2"

[wattamack4]

Really?Cool.

[rocknroller111]

The version on volume 2 is the full version with the "french poodle" verse.

[wiley207]

Cool!

[Piatnitskysaurus]

all of a sudden this seldom forgotten clip from my childhood means alot more. I'm sure your uncle is up in the clouds somewhere with a guitar on his lap, and a halo over his head :)

[grazon]

The urge to hunt down this clip overtook me at 2 AM.

I have no doubt he's in a better place now.

[lion371]

Who is you uncle? the man on the hrose or they guy singing?

[zacandtaylorrule]

I remember this one. Who is singing? The voice sounds very familiar.

[jcool90901]

does anyone have the old cartoon from sesame st with the 2 stoners talkin about their dog ? i havent seen that in years

[barlytone01]

i've actually been waiting for this clip to arrive. funny how things from sesame street stick with you. whenever i moved to oklahoma and inherited three dogs, i always sang this song when watching them run around. crazy.

[tcrouter]

The filmmaker and singer of the video was Fred Wardenburg. It was shot near Dubois, Wyoming in the early to mid-1970's. He also created "Milk Crisis" and "Film is Magic" for Sesame street. Fred died last year.

[CorinneMarguerite]

He died last year?? Oh how sad I am. His music made me happy every time I heard it. I'm going took up some of his music on-line and see if I can buy it.

It's funny how music can evoke strong feelings and memories...

[tcrouter]

You won't find any, I think. In middle age, Fred learned jazz piano and played with fellow Seattle musicians.

[Marbles471]

Hi. Just curious---how do you know this? I ask because it's such a rare novelty to come across ANY information about Sesame Street segments. These hundreds of anonymous films are all embedded in the collective unconscious of three generations of people, yet the people behind them are largely unknown.

[tcrouter]

He's my uncle...The film was made in December of 1974, according to my mother, on the Parker Ranch west of Dubois. She remembers clearly because Fred was there for her wedding. He is greatly missed.

[Marbles471]

December '74 fits, since I misspoke before---it seems to have first aired in November 1975.

Sorry your uncle's gone.

Was filmmaking his primary occupation, or was he mostly a singer?  What other kinds of films did he make, besides his Sesame Street segments, I mean?

[bwfjk]

Filmmaking, until he changed careers altogether. He made other documentary films about the civil rights movement, including one titled the Streets of Greenwood.

[grazon]

Your Uncle was a good man.

I suspect this clip is part of why I like Working Dogs.

[Smartboy8877]

@tcrouter

You seem like a real fountain of wizdom! Glad to meet you!

[efil4own1]

Rowlf's a hard workin' dog too, and where's his production number?

[jcool90901]

that was pretty funny

[rocknroller111]

I noticed you changed the date on the clip from the '70s to the'80s. I think you were right the first time. :)

[wattamack4]

No this actually iss from the 80's.I thought it was 70's at first till Mstatz corrected me.

[anttanant]

I remember watching this as a kid and it would have been in the late 70's based on the house my family was living in at the time. If it were the 80's it would have had to have been 1980. What source did this person use to correct you?

[Marbles471]

Sorry man, this is definitely the '70s. It appears in the 1974 episode that aired on Noggin a few years ago. So it dates from at least 1974, although of course since this is Sesame Street it's impossible to pinpoint exactly when something was shot.

I'm not sure why mstatz would think otherwise...

[Marbles471]

@wattamack4

Actually no, this IS the 70s. Its earliest known use was in the 1974 season opener.

[wiley207]

Most of the dogs here are Border Collies, like on "Babe!"

[wiley207]

And I remember owning this video from my childhood! I partially remember that goofy dalmatian salesman. I wonder if he appeared on the show?

[rocknroller111]

I don't remember the poodle version. This is the one I remember. If anyone posts the poodle version, I'll definitely check it out though.

[bearcattony]

Does anyone have the clip about a lost dog and how the kids find him with posters?

[wattamack4]

I do.I'll post it eventually.

[jackwolf131]

@wattamack4 put in keywords "sesame street lost dog" without quotes

[uraniumdeath]

This is missing the poodle...

There was a version on Youtube with the poodle, but it is gone now...has been for a little while.

[JessAstroBase]

doesnt this song and the guy sound like Woody Guthrie? at least just a little :)

[CorinneMarguerite]

Yes, I agree. Kinda the same folk-sounding twang.

[Herald8]

There were at least two versions of this so that poodle part might have been in the other one.

[MIKECNW]

I remember a couple of times when I was small I got up and started running around the room when this film came on?

[rocknroller111]

YES!!!!!! Thank you.

[raakone]

I thought there was also a part about "French poodles", where the dog said "Me, I'm an A American cow dog!"

~Ra'akone

[OofusTwillip]

Probably removed for the sake of political correctness. Mustn't have even a whiff of a suggestion of demeaning another nation, must we?

Incidentally, the term "political correctness" originated in the Soviet Union. If the state deemed your views to be (in its words) "politically incorrect", you were sent to a gulag where they would teach you to be "politically correct". (As if we needed another reason to hate the whole concept...)

[uofmrules1]

Yeah, I remember: Russian Wolfhound, French Poodle, and German Shepherd.