Sesame Street - High, Middle, Low video free download


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Uploaded: 2010/03/18

Jeff Moss and Emily Perl Kingsley wrote this "barbershop" style song from 1971, teaching about vocal ranges and cooperation. The TV version featured a trio of Anything Muppets voiced by Jerry Nelson, Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss, while the version released on vinyl LP the same year was sung by Ernie, Bert and Herbert Birdsfoot. I'll try to remember to post the vinyl version when I get time.

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10 years ago

dugroz

I had this on a record!

10 years ago

tsp11boy

A shame these characters never caught on!

10 years ago

spy4863

Love this segment! Always have! I love the album version too! This tune reminds me of the old barbershop quartet style songs, minus the second tenor of course!

10 years ago

Allen Booth

Steven Scott: The three male voices are tenor (high), baritone (middle), and bass (low).

10 years ago

MrJamieMurph4141969

LOL, at 2:27-"OK, high part fellow! Enough already; you've done your part, as have your two comrades, so stop hamming it up, and get off the stage!" and with that, they give him a shepherd's crook. HILARIOUS ending, and fond memory!

10 years ago

MrJamieMurph4141969

It's also funny, on the album version(Herb, Ernie, and Bert's cover version),when Ernie laughs his trademark goofy giggle, after singing his part.

10 years ago

MrJamieMurph4141969

Yes, saw this one many a time, in the 1970s-thanks for posting! I also have that record, that Herbert Birdsfoot(high),Ernie(middle)and Bert(low)sung a "cover version"of--it's entitled "Sesame Street 2," or something like that. Another "cover version"of an early classic SS song, on that record, is "I'm Pretty," sung by a baby seal(as everyone knows, David sung the TV version.) LOL, at the end, when the "high part"fellow gets one of those "shepherd's crooks", or "hooks", meaning getting "pulled offstage."(Ha ha.) Thanks, again, for posting.

11 years ago

Josh Freilich

+TimBurtonIsAmazing It's actually tenor is high, middle is baritone, and low is bass.

11 years ago

TimBurtonIsAmazing

@Steven Scott The middle part is tenor. The high part is countertenor.

11 years ago

kirkrules66

Excellent lesson to be learned here about the value of teamwork and if you have a home entertainment system how essential having the entire spectrum of sound for high quality realistic sound.

12 years ago

1RichardHunt

See? I'm not the only one you've been irritating.

12 years ago

antsamthompson9

If that version was made in the late 90's, when Frank's voice got really deep, it wouldn't sound as weird.

12 years ago

Alan Bishop

High voice was Jerry Nelson, Middle was Joe Raposo, and Low was Jeff Moss.

12 years ago

Garrettk41

I just heard the audio version for the first time, and it doesn't even compare to this one.

12 years ago

Garrettk41

Cory, if I had even a nickel for every time you said that, not to mention various other repeated comments...

12 years ago

Cory S.

HAPPY 45th ANNIVERSARY, CTW!!!!

12 years ago

Cory S.

HAPPY 45th ANNIVERSARY, SS!!!!

12 years ago

afriendofbean

Is that Fat Blue muppet singing the low part the same muppet used for Mr. Johnson only sounding like he is voiced by someone else?

12 years ago

BadIdeaBearCub

I've been looking for this skit for years. thank you.

12 years ago

Garrettk41

Very true. However, neither Raposo nor Moss were puppeteers, just singers and composers. I believe the high singer was the only one being both puppeteered and voiced by the same guy.

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