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Alan Thomas
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No word on Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno...or Spider-man.
Baal_T'shuvah
Any word on whether there'll be an update of this classic (and disturbing) Electric Company song?




Try getting that one outta your head....
Peter T Chattaway
To quote what I wrote at my blog a few weeks ago:


I don't know what it says about me, but this song evidently made a much, much bigger impression on me when I was a child than just about anything else on The Electric Company; even as an adult, after all but the most famous elements of that show had faded from my memory, I would sometimes find myself singing a few lines from this song for no particular reason -- though in my memory the song became 'It Always Rains Where I Go', which may be a slightly more accurate description of what happens here.

At any rate, when mp3s became all the rage several years ago, I made a point of searching the internet for a copy of this song -- and I found it! But it was not until today that I actually watched this segment, for the first time since I was in grade school.

I actually cheered today when Freeman appeared at the end of the segment and spoke his punchline -- which is not included in the mp3 that I found several years ago. The segment ends exactly the way I remember it, except I had forgotten that Freeman was playing someone so classy (note the cane, the suit, the accent). As one who often doubts his own memories, it was nice to know that I had gotten this detail right, at least, after all these years.
Here are a couple other videos that I watched today for the first time in decades, possibly ever; I have dozens of Electric Company songs on mp3 now, and the songs contained within these videos are among my absolute favorites:



CrimsonLine
I always liked the 1-2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9-10, 11, 12 song.
Alan Thomas
That's a Sesame Street song. At least it's on their CD boxed set... (assuming it's the that goes 1-2-3 FOUR FIVE 6-7-8 NINE TEN, ELEVEN TWELVE....). IIRC.

CrimsonLine
I am mistaken. I always thought it was on Electric Company! Weird.
ejp
Two volumes of classic "Electric Company" episodes have been released on DVD incidentally. If you remember the show, they're worth picking up.

My favorite segment that stuck with me was two split screens of Bill Cosby trying to top each other with ch words. Finally, one Cosby thought he'd come up with the best one with "Chimpanzee" but the other Cosby with a sly grin suddenly flips over his card and says, "Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Charlie!"
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