We've all seen it, and most likely some of us have forgotten it completely. There are several versions, most shorter than this one, but I like this because it has the most jazzy solos, the most psychedelic scenery, and also "ee-levennnn". It kind of makes me wish I smoked dope. Let's face it, there were times when Sesame Street brought the funk, and this is some fine ass funk indeed, courtesy of the Pointer Sisters, of all people. Anyway, enjoy.
Since I'm talking up Sesame Street funk, here's the feelgood king of them all:
Yeah!
Friday, November 14, 2008
The greatest music video was one of the first
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Can you fucking imagine? Sesame Street was the shit for that. Just think of all those little kids who were exposed to him. I remember seeing this when I was a kid, but I think the original airing was a few years before I was born.
I'm pretty sure it was my first exposure to his genius as well. Seriously, I think that appearance was the high point of those kids' lives. The one rocking out on the fire escape pretty much says it all.
Shit. Larry Levan's first remix was a 12" for "C Is for Cookie" from the Sesame Street Fever single. This one also featured the Pointer Sisters (billed as "Cookie Monster and the Girls").
If you don't know who Larry Levan was, go dig on some history.
Hey, that was a pretty interesting lil' article you wrote up there, chuck. I'd heard of the Mancuso loft parties, but Larry Levan's a new name to me.
A good friend of mine used to have a weekly radio show where he played all disco, and I used to hang out with him a lot while he was on the air and help pick tunes. Danny's collection of disco on vinyl could stand up against anyone's. If it was good, he had it. If it was bad, he had it. If it was completely obscure with a print run of only 200, he had it. If it was disco, he had it, except for the "Kaptain Kool and the Kongs" LP from Sid and Marty Krofft that was hanging around in the station's collection, and we played that sucker too. It was awful.
Well, having only heard the really really bad disco, which I think sucks sucks sucks, I can't really say anything else. But I'm sure I would find the Levan kind better; I'm simply not a dance person, so the whole movement isn't appealing to me to delve deeper away from the obvious popular crap.
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