Old Sesame song tugging at my memory

[snuffleloragus]

does anyone remember a sketch and song (fairly certain it was joe raposo, b/c in my mind it's very early 70's ish) with a little boy and i think his baby brother maybe, live action very 70's looking home movie-ish, with lyrics including a spanish phrase that went something like "como hermanos(?) we are brothers. we have the same father. we have the same mother. we love each other..." it was very old and not particularly phenomenal, but i must've seen it repeated enough that it has stuck in my mind. i wish i could remember more detail from SS, but having not had the chance to rewatch much of it as i have muppets, my memory fails me more when related to sesame than any thing else Henson. thanks! any help will be appreciated!

 

[ssetta]

Actually, it's from the early 80s. 1983, to be exact. The song is called "Brothers Song (English/Spanish)". And it was written by Phillip Namanworth and Benjamin Goldstein. I loved that song, too. In fact, I cry whenever I hear it now, because it reminds me of the good old days of Sesame Street.

 

[The Count]

Yes, I have a soft sport for this song in my heart as well. There's one line from it that keeps playing in my mind: "somos familia" (we are or we're family).
The reason why this song sticks in my mind is cause of the video that accompanies it. Back when I still had sight I was a little awed by the kid seen as the older brother, a little bigger than the other kid in the film. Would have to view it with my mom to make sure, but I always thought that older kid looked like me when I was younger.
Hope this helps and have a good night.

 

[snuffleloragus]

i want to thank you 2 for sharing your remembrances of this song! i'm so sorry count about your eyes. i'm glad you can still enjoy sitting and eperiencing the memories with someone else while listening to the sounds. the song and visual snippet have been in my head for many years, and i'm so glad you told me it's actually early 80's b/c that makes much more sense for me for when i was old enough to really remember watching sesame street. i also find it tugging the way you shared ssetta. i can't help but feel that inexplicable emotion i always get when i hear something tied to a memory i can't quite articulate and/or so intrinsically tied to my childhood, that still pulls the associated emotion to the front of my consciousness. it's 1 of the reasons i was so happy to start reacquainting myself w/ remembered muppet watching. the 1st time i heard Follow Me from an old cassette copy a friend made me off an old Fraggle Rock record, i cried as well. and i had no idea why. just from pure emotional association with the innocent and pure happiness i felt during my life when i had last heard it all those years ago i suppose. i even sent many firends the lyrics in e-mail b/c i was so personally moved. same thing for rainbow connection and I Don't Want to Live on the Moon. maybe it's b/c after JIm Henson passed away there was that period of time where if you had watched his creations when you were too young to be registering them at the adult consciousness level and then had that period of no continued input b/c of his sad absence and then got old enough to try and start tracking down the old memories, it made the associated emotions even more intense. i also looked up phillip namanworth and saw he's now involved in a jewish music project and torah teaching....interesting. glad i can share my musings w/ kindred spirits

 

[snuffleloragus]

even more nostalgia...

I was so happy to have others help me remember the old song/skit that has been in my head for so many years, and it has continued to put a smile on my face that others shared their own thoughts with me about something that may seem so small to some but means something to me. i had this same experience all over again tonight. i had a cassette copy of the original sesame street record which i wore out, including all the names of the songs listening to it so often when i was little, and having just received a copy from someone today and listening to it after so many years, went right to that place inside, that place i wish i could pin down. that pure and innocent emotional trigger that just causes me to tear up for no other reason than i'm happy just hearing it again. no matter how often this happens, i am always amazed by it! it is even more incredible to me when it's something i don't remember consciously until hearing at all, like the Brothers Song...i realized tonight it can happen even hearing the musical motifs of muppet related writers, those 1st few bars that just give you that feeling of kind of knowing what's coming... joe raposo in particular. tonight i heard J-Jump...joyful, jumble around... and there they were again, the tears... i knew i'd cry a bit in hearing that old original version of Somebody Come and Play, but i was not prepared for the pure raposo-esqueness of this little song that was so much bigger than it's small theme. to hear these happy words strung together without even any huge message was so powerful to me for some reason...to hear those kids singing jingle, jangle, junk summer day, big j swingin', flyin', singin'...

it just seemed to be that absolutely incredulous thing so intrinsic to sesame of purifying an emotion in a musical moment in time... those 70's esque bells and flutes (i think) that just define something so lovely. every time i have 1 of these sorts of surreal pure beautiful moments, i feel it's like a gift from jim henson and joe raposo and muppets all over again. I almost can't believe the strength of my emotional connections with things that sometimes seem like they shouldn't create such a reaction. I just wondered if anyone else experienced this same kind of wonder over and over again at rediscovering their muppet moments. it's happened to me so many times, i just hope it never comes to an end...same thing the 1st time i heard rainbow connection since being very young, ushering in my entire rediscovery of my love of muppets, and then followed by Follow Me. it's surprised me too that my only replies since rejoining have been about Sesame Street, my least remembered muppet show, and the one i've been unable to rewatch. i guess it's just that magical. thank you everyone for being out there and sharing in the ramble! it is really special to me that there are people who completely get where i'm coming from w/ these little pseudointellectual emotional diatribes and want to wander there with me

...somebody come and play doo de doo...

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Actually, it's from the early 80s. 1983, to be exact. The song is called "Brothers Song (English/Spanish)". And it was written by Phillip Namanworth and Benjamin Goldstein. I loved that song, too. In fact, I cry whenever I hear it now, because it reminds me of the good old days of Sesame Street.

Yeah. I remember that one. I believe it went like this:

Dos hermanos. We are brothers.

 

[ceecee]

It's funny the things that stay in your brain for so long that you don't even think about. And then it gets brought up. I haven't thought about that song in SO long, and then all of a sudden I can hear the tune and see the images.

I get emotional too, when I see or hear things from Sesame Street. I just remember all the happiness associated with those things.

 

[mikebennidict]

do you think that same person who was singing the song to thew film might have been the same person who sang a song called i'm summer. went like i'm summmer i'm a hummer i'm summer i'm a hummer yes in deed yes in deed i'm a however the rest of the song went.

 

[DeeT]

is the singer Nancy Cassidy

I heard the "we are brothers" Sesame Street song recently and I think the singer might be a lady named Nancy Cassidy. She sings folk songs and children's songs and her voice is fairly distinctive.

Here are some sound clips. Let me know what you think.

http://www.nancycassidymusic.com/soundclips.html

-DeeT