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Yesterday, in a fit of nostalgia, I decided to go looking for old-school PBS clips.
The bulk of these links (listed in fairly random order) are from '70s Sesame Street, back when it was still mostly a Laugh-In for kids, with no skimping on the bizarre.
I'll start off with an orange singing Carmen. Not much more to be said, there.
Then there's the classic pinball animation. Those're the Pointer Sisters you hear singing there, by the way.
The Ladybugs' Picnic. Another catchy tune, with a line or two only an adult will get. (This was a common happening, back then. The television used to be more than a babysitter; parents and children watched things together.)
When I saw this one of A Number 9 Cutie, I thought instantly of a certain someone on my friends list. I can't help but wonder if there was some developmental influence. ;)
If you weren't a child of the seventies, the bit on Family Guy about the chef announcing how many cakes he had probably flew over your head. This is where it came from.
Before the pinball animation above came into common use, the skits most often used to count up the numbers were The Jazzy Spies. I love the music in this one; it's my second favourite of the collection here.
And here's my favourite, The Madrigal Alphabet. Simply beautiful.
And now some proper LSD-inspired animation: Psychedelic alphabet. Morphing letters, back before such things were standard. Groovy.
Ever hear of Philip Glass? Even if you haven't, this animation of colourful hexagons is entrancing.
Allow me to pause and be grateful for Joe Raposo. Many of the lyrical songs of '70s Sesame Street came from his hands. Here's a superb example, New Life Coming. Joe also wrote music for The Electric Company -- which is supposedly coming back in 2008. Probably no Morgan Freeman, though.
I've just noticed that many of these are music-focused; this one's no exception, with a red ball bouncing down a literal wire-frame ramp to some bouncy electronica.
Another good song, and four spheres playing with one another. What more do you need?
I'm not gonna say much about this one, except This bird creeped me out when I was a kid. Still does, at that...
Fat. Cat. Sat. Hat. *snaps fingers*
Sesame Street didn't just do electronica and Jazz. They touched upon good ol' rock and roll, as well. Telephone Rock, notably.
Whew; that's a bunch of links. I'm going to close out with a couple from the aforementioned The Electric Company. Some guy named Tom Lehrer wrote the music for this animation, entitled Silent E. Wonder whatever became of him...
And, finally, The intro and outro for the first season of TEC. Right at the end there's a bonus old-style station ID for PBS, and with that, I'm done. :)
The bulk of these links (listed in fairly random order) are from '70s Sesame Street, back when it was still mostly a Laugh-In for kids, with no skimping on the bizarre.
I'll start off with an orange singing Carmen. Not much more to be said, there.
Then there's the classic pinball animation. Those're the Pointer Sisters you hear singing there, by the way.
The Ladybugs' Picnic. Another catchy tune, with a line or two only an adult will get. (This was a common happening, back then. The television used to be more than a babysitter; parents and children watched things together.)
When I saw this one of A Number 9 Cutie, I thought instantly of a certain someone on my friends list. I can't help but wonder if there was some developmental influence. ;)
If you weren't a child of the seventies, the bit on Family Guy about the chef announcing how many cakes he had probably flew over your head. This is where it came from.
Before the pinball animation above came into common use, the skits most often used to count up the numbers were The Jazzy Spies. I love the music in this one; it's my second favourite of the collection here.
And here's my favourite, The Madrigal Alphabet. Simply beautiful.
And now some proper LSD-inspired animation: Psychedelic alphabet. Morphing letters, back before such things were standard. Groovy.
Ever hear of Philip Glass? Even if you haven't, this animation of colourful hexagons is entrancing.
Allow me to pause and be grateful for Joe Raposo. Many of the lyrical songs of '70s Sesame Street came from his hands. Here's a superb example, New Life Coming. Joe also wrote music for The Electric Company -- which is supposedly coming back in 2008. Probably no Morgan Freeman, though.
I've just noticed that many of these are music-focused; this one's no exception, with a red ball bouncing down a literal wire-frame ramp to some bouncy electronica.
Another good song, and four spheres playing with one another. What more do you need?
I'm not gonna say much about this one, except This bird creeped me out when I was a kid. Still does, at that...
Fat. Cat. Sat. Hat. *snaps fingers*
Sesame Street didn't just do electronica and Jazz. They touched upon good ol' rock and roll, as well. Telephone Rock, notably.
Whew; that's a bunch of links. I'm going to close out with a couple from the aforementioned The Electric Company. Some guy named Tom Lehrer wrote the music for this animation, entitled Silent E. Wonder whatever became of him...
And, finally, The intro and outro for the first season of TEC. Right at the end there's a bonus old-style station ID for PBS, and with that, I'm done. :)