More cartoons for you, this time from Sesame Street...
-Eleven Twelve: Another memorable musical segment (this time with The Pointer Sisters), this was memorably parodied on Family Guy. Here are several (all?) of the original 1977 segments edited together.
-These "Jazzy Spies" interludes feature The Jefferson Airplane, of all people. These were some of the longest running segments on the show, from 1970 until the mid 1980s.
-Roosevelt Franklin and the alphabet: When "Sesame Street" started, it was just as diverse, but its visual look seemed to say "diversity=rundown ghetto." As the street got tidied up, they discarded anything too realistic (or potentially not-PC) such as Roosevelt Franklin, likely the first black Muppet, voiced by Matt Robinson (who would later write for The Cosby Show). It's too bad, because he was an excellent role model in his day. He even got his own album on which he sang this alphabet song (as well as a very similar ditty about counting). He was occasionally joined by Mobity Mosley (singing about the months of the year), who sounds like he wants to sing "Surfin' Bird." If you listen to the musical tracks in all of these, they sound great! Really, how is it that any piece of music recorded back then sounds amazing. TUBES!
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