The Electric Company - Hey Diddle Diddle

Jim Simon (Wantu) playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BAD042A9C450ACD9

I liked this song so much I recorded it off the television on compact cassette tape when I was a kid. Animation produced by Wantu Studios, with Jim Simon's distinctive art style that many people remember from his segments of Sesame Street, The Electric Company and Vegetable Soup.

I still don't know who wrote or performed this amazing music. The lead vocalist sounds a bit like Lou Rawls, but I haven't been able to find any real information.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• Jim
• Simon
• Wantu
• Enterprises
• 1970s
• 70s
• cartoon
• animation
• groovy
• funky
• classic
• vintage
• PBS
• CTW

[rang3r34]

Damn....This song is better than ANYTHING Justin Bebier has ever done!

[NantoVision1]

@rang3r34 True, but that's a bit like pointing out that a steak dinner is better than a piece of rotten baloney!

[shydmples]

This was the cut in the 70s

[NantoVision1]

@shydmples Yeah, I even made a cassette tape of it off the TV back then so that I could listen whenever I wanted to. Great jam that still sounds amazing today.

[binturong1000]

looks like the animation from vegetable soup.

[NantoVision1]

@binturong1000 Same animator, Jim Simon. He also did some great cartoons for Sesame Street and the opening titles to Soul Train.

[trence5]

Electric company cartoons went hard!

[ebf1957]

That song was dripping with soul.

[whecks]

Not gonna lie...when i was a kid, this scared teh bejesus out of me. For some reason, though, I couldn't change the channel. Intoxicated and terrified at the same time.

[ebf1957]

@JGCooney

This was shown after the "Two Letters" song.

[hotgritz4sho]

@NantoVision1 throughout college there was a mean clicque led by this overweight dude with two side chicks and we nicked named after this very same animee: we called them the Parisian Fat Cats because they walked around campus wearing these long denim coats, smoked ciggarettes and always looked as if they were going sing this diddle-diddle song at any given moment. it was hilarious. this song got me through the worst moments of my life because I could smile at any thing.

[ebf1957]

If there was an Electric Company tribute album, Cee Lo Green would be perfect to cover that song

[YhwhKhaiMostHigh]

The so-called current bogus Electric Company is trash compared to this!

[pardyhardly]

Does anyone else notice that the orange cat is blind?

[goodnyc]

70's soul all the way!!!!

[JGCooney]

Anyone have "Kelly and Buddy"? It's a stage performance a similar theme,

Reading double letters".

[kangaroostertail]

oh yeah!!!

[danilovameister]

Thanks a lot for posting brilliant song!

Couldn't you please provide the link or exact words for learning lyrics? I'm not kidding. I'm studying English.

And yes, I know that the very beginning is from Mother Goose... but how about the rest?