Sesame Street - Rhythm in nature

Here is a true classic. I remember watching this as a very little kid (early 70's). One of my favorite film clips about how one can find rhythm in nature. Love the horse galloping part! That tune ALWAYS sounded familiar to me but I could never put my finger on it. The last few notes are in tune with "..skip to my Lu, my darling"

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• rhythm
• horse
• galloping

[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!

[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!!

[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!

[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.

[lohphat]

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

[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!

[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.

[dahger7]

Some group needs to do this song in concert.

[Chaliamusiclover]

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

[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.

[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? : ]

[kameonq]

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

[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! :-)

[joeybinky]

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