POX: Muppets

I realized you guys might not be familiar with How Now Brown Cow, a lesser-known but really awesome Muppet. Here's a still from the video for his mid-80s hit, "Wet Paint".

Wet Paint by HNBC+TMW
http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39CFO15W2VZRS08BVFWAJ40E13

Quality

I liked the Beetles, and I like that "Everybody Sleeps" song that used to get played on Sesame Street a lot, but that is cheating a bit as it was not Muppet footage. I have good memories of "Trash Can Tango", if it was called that, and Kermit doing "Bein' Green" with Ray Charles.

and even better artwork:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002BBA.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

The one with the Abbey Road cover is the only one featuring "Wet Paint", it would seem.

"Can You Picture That?" from The Muppet Movie.

1. "Rainbow Connection" (Kermit)
2. "Moving Right Along" (Kermit, Fozzy)
3. "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" (Gonzo)
4. "The First Time It Happens" (Kermit, Piggy)
5. "Christmas Is Coming (Round)" (Piggy, Scooter, Gonzo) (hell, the whole John Denver Christmas album)
6. "Mahna Mahna" (those pink things)
7. "Can You Picture That" (Electric Mayhem)
8. "When the River Meets the Sea" (Emmet Otter and His Mom)
9. "Riverbottom Nightmare Band" (Riverbottom Nightmare Band)
10. "Couldn't We Ride" (Kermit, Piggy)
Bonus Track: "The Lover, The Dreamer, and You (reprise)" (full Muppet Movie cast)

I also have much love for "Grandma's Feather Bed" (ensemble, from one of the movies, with Animal yelling "AH CHICK!" in the back), "Tit Willow" (Rolf and Sam the Eagle), "Coconut" and "Java."

I'll concede that my first list was skewed toward Sesame Street. Those Paul Williams penned movie tunes are first rate and should probably make up the bulk of the top ten (and I'd forgotten about the full-cast "Rainbow" reprise -- I need to get on that). The Sesame Street ones are great, but often a bit too silly to put in a mix.

Still, "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" is a Sesame Street track that is very affecting and a great song even when stripped of any novelty value it has. I will YSI it, should anyone express interest.

This is not getting enough praise.

No, that one too... This was a jazzy little rock number with Ernie and a whole bunch of Muppets singing "Do the duck duck, rubber duck duck" while the whole house rocked back and forth. It was sorta funny.

Animal is to Keith Moon as River Bottom Nightmare Band is to G.G. Allin.

And yes, more ups to Emmet Otter, as above (also contender for most-unfairly-butchered-animated-re-release since Twice Upon A Time removed all the "adult" humor)

THAT'S THE POINTER SISTERS?

This thread is different...lousy...but different.

The Pointer Sisters were'nt the only ones to do one of those counting things: Grace Slick did one, as did some other well-known musicians whose names I can't remember...

"Very angry, very very angry!"

Can someone point me in the direction to find this? I'm madly curious.

We don't wish to learn / But we hate what we don't understand!

After what sequence would the waiter appear at the top of the stairs and say "SIX - ICE CREAM - SUNDAES!" and then promptly collapse, falling down the stairs, ending up on the floor, bruised and cream-covered? Been awhile since I've seen that one, too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/samples/B0000C05MP/ref=dp_tracks_all_1/103-7021429-0467064?%5Fencoding=UTF8#disc_1

Re: Paul Williams upthread, he did the songs for the Muppet Movie and probably more; he was also a popular songwriter for singers who weren't being fisted 24/7.

http://www.serienoldies.de/images2/muppets_electric_mayhem.jpg

Muppet Show
1. Group of Octopi w/ Marching Band Uniforms on Drums And Kazoo performing some sort of Khachaturian number, until interrupted by an angry Animal
2. Group of Sheep singing "Rama Lama Ding Dong"
3. The usually noxious Scooter singing "Six String Orchestra"

Sesame Street

4. Fifties Biker Muppet singing about how he couldn't get to see his girl because the sign said "One Way"
5. Whoever sang "Letter B"

I also have a vague recollection of Oscar The Grouch singing 'Inch Worm'
to Slimey. Or maybe I just dreamed it.

There are so many compilations I don't know where to begin. Another problem is the dramatic drop-off in quality after Jim Henson died diluted the overall quality of the Muppet catalogue. There were some real shitbombs in the '90s -- Vince Gill and the lame jazz-fusion african-american Muppet covering "On Broadway"? New-voice Kermit singing Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy"?

Anyhow, I have a lot of work to do, so I spent a few hours looking up Muppet stuff on the internet. These are who wrote the various songs, as far as I can tell:

Joe Raposo

Sesame Street Theme
"C" Is for Cookie
I'm Pretty
Little Things
Peanut Butter
Would You Like to Buy an "O"?
A New Way to Walk
Bein' a Pig
Bein' Green
Sing
ABC-Def-Ghi
Doin' the Pigeon
Fruit Song
Has Anybody Seen My Dog?
I'm an Aardvark
A Little Bit (At the Beginning)
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco
Songs for “The Great Muppet Caper”

Jeff Moss

Together Again
Saying Goodbye
I’m Gonna Always Love You
And the rest of Muppets Take Manhattan musical
The People in Your Neighborhood
Rubber Duckie
I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
I Love Trash
Songs for “The Muppets Take Manhattan”

Paul Williams

Songs from “Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas”

Paul Williams And Kenny Ascher

Songs from “The Muppet Movie”:
Rainbow Connection
Movin’ Right Along
Never Before, Never Again
I Hope That Somethin’ Better Comes Along
Can You Picture That?
I’m Going to Go Back There Someday

Christopher Cerf

The Monster in the Mirror
Do de Rubber Duck
Wet Paint

Sam Pottle

Muppet Show Theme (with Jim Henson)
I Want a Monster to Be My Friend (with Robert Pierce)

Also, a helpful resource for those unable to obtain soundtracks to Muppet Movies may be found at http://www.whysanity.net/muppets/ , a Muppet Movie Lyric archive.

bonus track, "Fuck Tha Police" - Muppets

'I cry' which features a baby humanoid (not a monster or animal) muppet from sesame street singing in his crib to a tune that sounds like blitzkrieg bop. The lyrics go "I cry in the morning, I cry at night, I cry cry cry till its all right" or something like that

There was also one that I think the title was 'you can dance, you can lend us a hand' It was from sesame street with a group of muppets who looked like they should be in devo. The song sounded like a devo tune as well.

My sister just got her driver's license and went driving with her boyfriend (who's Mexican and doesn't speak English). She doesn't have a car yet, so she borrowed mine. There was only one tape in the car, a mix I made that featured "Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog.

Now in Mexico, Kermit the Frog is called "La Rana Rene" and wasn't voiced by Jim Henson, so the boyfriend was quite suprised when my sister told him that was Rana Rene singing. A few songs later on the tape is "Photo Jenny" by Belle and Sebastian, which prompted the boyfriend to ask (in Spanish) "So is the the frog, too?"

RIP Jerry Nelson, singer and performer of among others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFR3zz12p0

Waiter Grover serving alphabet soup skit is all-time

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqdHrpIy6w

https://www.slashfilm.com/happytime-murders-lawsuit-update/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLYnxelHZc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IHMctrKCg

I'm a huge (Henson-era) Muppets fan. I love Meet the Feebles. This thing looks like the hottest of hot garbage.

not a musical afaik

fuck this

Worth noting that the Henson Company first floated this idea about a decade ago. They had ten years to come to their senses, and yet. I guess this is what happens when you've lost the majority of your dad's most lucrative IP (I think they only retain the rights to Fraggle Rock and Jim Henson's non-Muppet movies at this point).

Listening to the Muppets Take Manhattan soundtrack right now (look, I don't know why either, okay?) and am reminded that, while the first two Muppet Movies are amazing, the third is often like being a kid and stuck in a JC Penney's for 90 minutes, and the music reflects that. Feel like I'm begrudgingly trying on multiple pairs of corduroys and watching my Saturday melt away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vlZW5aJG68

More like The Muppets Meet Manhattan Transfer amirite.

#1 - Subway (from Sesame Street)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPh8As-y6E

the third is often like being a kid and stuck in a JC Penney's for 90 minutes, and the music reflects that. Feel like I'm begrudgingly trying on multiple pairs of corduroys and watching my Saturday melt away.

yeah it's lacking a certain something. There are some decent gags in it but the plot is weirdly inert. Mordy inexplicably considers it the best of the three iirc.

peoples is peoples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEx3Cm53798

Snoop Dogg dressed as The Count in 2010.

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— Muppet History (@HistoryMuppet) April 8, 2020

ok, no actual singing muppets, can't even see any dancing ones, but wonderful all the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE