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waitingman) wrote2022-02-06 05:52 pm
waitingman) wrote2022-02-06 05:52 pm
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"Can You Tell Me How To Get...
... if you don't know the next line, you had a different childhood to mine
Here in Australia, the ABC must have started showing Sesame Street not long after it debuted in the USA in 1969, as I can't remember it not being on television & I was 2 in the Summer of '69 (though it would be many, many years later, that I got my first real 6-string!!) & I can remember seeing the show in black & white for a few years (Australia didn't get colour broadcast until 1975) & even though I was 7 years old by that time, I still watched this amazing 'kids show' & was amazed to see what colours Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird & Mr Snuffleupagus all were. Kermit, being a frog, was unsurprisingly green...
There's a new documentary about the origins, early years & continuing mission of Sesame Street, celebrating not only the off-the-wallness of Henson, Oz & their Muppets, but also the creators of the show's determination to be as racially & socially inclusive & educational as they could be. I think I need to go back to where the air is sweet one more time...
Here in Australia, the ABC must have started showing Sesame Street not long after it debuted in the USA in 1969, as I can't remember it not being on television & I was 2 in the Summer of '69 (though it would be many, many years later, that I got my first real 6-string!!) & I can remember seeing the show in black & white for a few years (Australia didn't get colour broadcast until 1975) & even though I was 7 years old by that time, I still watched this amazing 'kids show' & was amazed to see what colours Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird & Mr Snuffleupagus all were. Kermit, being a frog, was unsurprisingly green...
There's a new documentary about the origins, early years & continuing mission of Sesame Street, celebrating not only the off-the-wallness of Henson, Oz & their Muppets, but also the creators of the show's determination to be as racially & socially inclusive & educational as they could be. I think I need to go back to where the air is sweet one more time...
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https://youtu.be/EHTmI1zpzMg