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For my 1234th post, here is an old but much-loved video of the lovely Leslie Feist performing a brilliant version of her hit iPod advert, "1234". My son watches this almost every day, sometimes several times, and he loves it. And so do I, it's a great song and brilliantly adapted to become educational. And I love the fact you can see she's having a blast.

[flash=853,480]http://www.youtube.com/v/fZ9WiuJPnNA?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0[/flash]

It's pretty impressive too - think what the floor looked like seconds before the camera pulls back in the final shot. Great work all around.
 
Aww, man!

You guys are gonna think I'm a puss, but this brings tears to my eyes. Not in a bad way, though. It's just fond memories of watching Sesame Street with my son when he was very small, before kindergarten. Learning letters and numbers through the use of clever songs and skits by memorable characters. Very effective, those folks. I still remember them, and we're talking 30-some years ago.

This one's different in that it's more musical - back then, it seemed they used dissonance to get attention and enhance memory. It worked, whatever they were doing. Me and my son both know our ABCs and 123s.
 
Cagey said:
You guys are gonna think I'm a puss, but this brings tears to my eyes.
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Gee Mr Jumble, How to make a grown man cry.  :icon_biggrin:

Your just making me fell old thou.  :doh:

I do now exactly how it is, with your little bloke watching this.
Been there with my two girls. Great times indeed  :blob7:  Enjoy every minute. 
 
They definitely didn't do this thing of having famous musicians on, doing altered versions of their own songs, when I was a kid. But it occurs to me that now we have a generation of pop stars etc who grew up with Sesame Street. That wasn't true in the 70s and 80s.

A lot of them are really great, depending on how little the artist in question tries to remain "cool". The ones who let go the most are the ones who end up coming off the best.

They still do all the weird stuff too. Some of it is just hilarious, still. And they still have that pinball song that counts to 12! If you know the one I mean, you're singing it in your head right now.
 
Jumble Jumble said:
They definitely didn't do this thing of having famous musicians on, doing altered versions of their own songs, when I was a kid. But it occurs to me that now we have a generation of pop stars etc who grew up with Sesame Street. That wasn't true in the 70s and 80s.

A lot of them are really great, depending on how little the artist in question tries to remain "cool". The ones who let go the most are the ones who end up coming off the best.

They still do all the weird stuff too. Some of it is just hilarious, still. And they still have that pinball song that counts to 12! If you know the one I mean, you're singing it in your head right now.
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ocguy106 said:
Jumble Jumble said:
They definitely didn't do this thing of having famous musicians on, doing altered versions of their own songs, when I was a kid. But it occurs to me that now we have a generation of pop stars etc who grew up with Sesame Street. That wasn't true in the 70s and 80s.

A lot of them are really great, depending on how little the artist in question tries to remain "cool". The ones who let go the most are the ones who end up coming off the best.

They still do all the weird stuff too. Some of it is just hilarious, still. And they still have that pinball song that counts to 12! If you know the one I mean, you're singing it in your head right now.
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1,2,3,4,5.......6,7,8,9,10....11...12
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That was a Pointer Sisters song, btw.  :icon_biggrin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFQXs2_et8
 
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