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big bird sings ABC as one word

El Sesame

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Remember that song where big bird tried pronouncing the ABC's as one long word? Does anyone here remember what year that was?:stick_out_tongue:
 

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It goes back to the early days and the first SS album has a version of it though I don't know when exactly it was used on the show.
 

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This looks like a perfect question for BEAR or The Count.

I personally don't have any idea, but it sounds hilarious!
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Anthony
 

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I'm guessing it was the first season since Big Bird had more of a dopey voice at the time. I heard it on MC Radio when he asked Susan and Gordon what it was.

While we're on the subject, I saw a sketch on You Tube the other day with Elmo singing it to Preston Rabbit. That was interesting, because I sort of thought Elmo's version of the song was just made for that CD. I never knew he really sang it on the show. I wonder how he could have known the song if he hadn't heard Big Bird sing it before.
 

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It's on the "Whats The Name Of That Song?" DVD released a few years ago as one of the bonus classic segments.
 

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The Big Bird song "ABC-DEF-GHI" made its recording debut on the 1970 Sesame Street Book and Record.

Not sure when it premiered on the show, though.
 

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I remember an episode where Big Bird goes to a school and sees the alphabet spread acoss a blackboard and he pronounces it as one word, he then sings the song we all know. I think that episode was early 1980's. Not the actual debut of the song though I think.
 

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Mickey Moose said:
It's on the "Whats The Name Of That Song?" DVD released a few years ago as one of the bonus classic segments.
Yeah. That's actually the one that they played when I watched the show as a kid with BB showing the kids stuff in his nest and one of them was the alphabet.
 

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I believe the song is from 1971. Big Bird performed the song on the Flip Wilson show, so it's an oldie but a goodie.
 

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jeffkjoe said:
The Big Bird song "ABC-DEF-GHI" made its recording debut on the 1970 Sesame Street Book and Record.

Not sure when it premiered on the show, though.
No the song's a year older than that.
 
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