WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:06.519 Hudson River Radio dot com. You notice place only cost 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 me one hundred bucks. 3 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.439 Has a better deal than that Aaron Neville megaphone I bought. 4 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.679 Okay, I want to thank you guys for making me 5 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.600 activity director for the day. Okay, first of all, can everybody. 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:19.239 There hell? 7 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:20.719 Hell's wrong with this thing? 8 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:22.079 Okay? 9 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:23.440 We're about to start the. 10 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.079 How does Sasa, Jonnithansberry Jukes. 11 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:31.320 Hey, this is Tom Chapin. 12 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.759 Hello, this is preaching in Rock and Roll History Show. 13 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:34.799 You're listening right now. 14 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:40.439 Hello, everybody, Welcome back to the Rock and Roll History 15 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:43.560 Show on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. Tonight it's 16 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.039 part two of Celestial Bodies. In between our shows, we 17 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.000 have come to the conclusion, the unequivocal conclusion that the 18 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.600 Earth is not flat. If you believe it is good 19 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:58.679 luck changing our minds before we hop in, and allow 20 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.320 me to introduce all the crambell joining us here this evening. 21 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.959 First and foremost from the Richter Observatory. He accidentally glued 22 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.840 his thumb and first finger together, but it looks okay. 23 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:10.359 Neil Richtor is here. 24 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:16.200 Okay, how you doing, everybody? 25 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.120 And from paranormally yours, she figured out that even though 26 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:23.280 they breathe fire, a dragon will not explode, but a 27 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.640 dino mighte Gil Nuklem is here. 28 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:34.239 Oh boy, the deafening silence. 29 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.879 From the silver screen. She took a yogurt to a 30 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.599 fancy bar because it's cultured. Mercedes Ken be here. 31 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:45.280 Gotta be a little ritzy. 32 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.719 Mm hm, take it up a notch. That's right, hey, 33 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:54.439 everybody joining us from his home studio. He's our resident teacher. 34 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.280 One of his students ate her homework because he told 35 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.000 her it was a piece of cake. John Kelly is here. 36 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:05.719 Can't hear you? 37 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:06.000 John? 38 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:09.199 Hey? 39 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.199 Everybody, you know, sometimes comments like that are not too 40 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:12.960 far from the truth. 41 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:13.439 Yep. 42 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:17.879 That's the level of humanity for the most part. And last, 43 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:20.319 but not least, the host of shaving Cream. She heard 44 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.719 that cows don't laugh at jokes because they're not amused. 45 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:25.280 Barbara Deal is here. 46 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:27.240 Wow. 47 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:35.680 Wow, speachless, hey, everyone, and without further ado, let us 48 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:37.800 just hop right in. Barbara, you're gonna lead us off 49 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:38.319 this week. 50 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.479 Okay. Well, I was trying to find something that I'd 51 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.199 never heard before, So I'm wondering if anybody else has 52 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.240 heard this song. The title of the song that I 53 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:57.120 chose for our celestial bodies. Part two is called Uranus 54 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:02.319 and it's by a band call Nano War of Steel. 55 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:07.319 I would expect no less and here. 56 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:16.599 Okay, uh, I'm so glad I don't surprise too many 57 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:22.199 of my friends anymore. But hey, do you guys remember 58 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.560 that Christmas when I was gifted those plates? Every single 59 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.759 plate was a planet and the first thing I said was, Hey, 60 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:30.159 who gets to eat off Uranus? 61 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:39.319 So again insert middle school humor. 62 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.919 Here, Yes, my brain is only eight years old. 63 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.919 So as a star trek as a star trek man, 64 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.599 are they're klingon certain Uranus? 65 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.199 Very good joke, an old joke, but a good one. 66 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.240 I'm sure a classic is a classic. 67 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.800 Classic is a classic. You get to do the dad, 68 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.319 and an old joke is an old joke, as as 69 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:07.719 we're gonna find out with the song. So. Nano War 70 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:11.520 of Steel is a comedy heavy metal band from Rome, Italy, 71 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:16.879 formed in two thousand and three. They're famous for satirizing 72 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:21.720 what they refer to as true metal, and they poke 73 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:25.199 fun at the way power metal bands tend to take 74 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:31.560 themselves too seriously. I can't wait love it band members. 75 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:34.879 I'm going to try not to trip over these names 76 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:41.040 uh Our guitarist Mohammed Abdul only normal named guy here, 77 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:48.800 bassist s Gatto Pansery six six six, drummer Olmona Raider, 78 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:59.800 lead vocal vocalist Hotoo Minimac and mister Boffo on sound effects. 79 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.439 Did they were in that song from hair from last week? 80 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.600 I was just I kind of wish they were. 81 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.319 I'm just gonna say, what were their parents thinking? Who 82 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:12.240 names their kids? 83 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:22.240 They've released seven studio albums, one live album, one compilation, 84 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:28.199 two EPs, and twenty five singles. They're a single. Urinus 85 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:32.399 was featured on the twenty twenty album Stairway to Valhappa 86 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:37.399 on Napalm Records. So let's hear it and we'll. 87 00:05:37.160 --> 00:06:00.240 Return but some more out there spacey thoughts. 88 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.399 I like it bag, I like it cool, I like. 89 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:06.720 It blue, I like it. 90 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.199 Book, I like it, Wait to do the sands of me. 91 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:14.279 Things I wanted, I see I wanted large. 92 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:21.279 Water is spicy with electric charge, fluid outside the rockets. 93 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:26.480 You can't go on a pleasure. 94 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.079 But things. 95 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.079 I want it can't ride to you. 96 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:55.480 And say a fishy and on her Ally Shop says 97 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:01.040 like I talk mer. 98 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.759 See point two sweet stirs came held the windown her shirts. 99 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:06.959 Half a lot of the. 100 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:12.920 Worlds you see all wise, no bad for the deal 101 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.439 thanks to the ashore Am shirts. 102 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.519 I'm finally can't join the. 103 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:23.360 Go read for that. 104 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:34.079 Are you gonna long? 105 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.360 I gotta say it long, y'r. 106 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:54.879 So sisters, baby all right and I'll chuck some sides 107 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.800 of song say no loud? Wow? 108 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:32.159 Who when. 109 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:41.840 Jade your Radjarade, your rade, your rade, Garada your rad 110 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:21.960 I want to all reader. 111 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:28.159 I mean. 112 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:44.159 A quote from the Nano War of Steel official website reads, 113 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:50.240 we spread the gospel of parody nationwide. We take comedy seriously, 114 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.320 and I wanted to read some comments from the Uranus 115 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.639 YouTube official video page. Quote one an old joke. Still 116 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:01.879 these are of the song, and I'm impressed by the 117 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:06.639 amount of scientific accuracy put into this old joke. Good job, 118 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:12.240 nan o' war book two. The song lyrics I'll send 119 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:17.960 my probe Voyeer two nineteen aus deep, using the Voyager 120 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.519 two as a sexpun reference while knowing that it was 121 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:26.039 exactly nineteen aus far from Earth. When it reachs Youurinus 122 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:30.639 in nineteen eighty six is not only epic, it reaches sublimity. 123 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:36.639 Thanks guys, and to get a little knowledge here, because 124 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:40.720 we are supposed to learn an au stands. Anybody know 125 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:46.399 this for astronomical unit? Yeah, and it's a unit of length. 126 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.000 Does anybody know what the unit of length is? One 127 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:55.200 hundred and forty nine billion, five hundred ninety seven million, 128 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:59.039 eight hundred seventy thousand, seven hundred miles. 129 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:04.440 That would have been my second guess. Yeah, okay, that's. 130 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:09.679 The extra credit question. So that's okay, all right. Another 131 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:15.120 quote reads a zero percent nudity, zero percent swearing, five 132 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:19.440 percent hot girls, forty five percent methane, fifty percent useful 133 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:25.360 astronomical trivia, one hundred percent talent. And finally, this song 134 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:30.639 should be played while someone is having a colonoscopy. Oh 135 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:34.679 my god, Mike, my gastroentrologist, would love this. 136 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.519 Not the same twisted sense of humor I have. Oh 137 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.480 my gosh, I'm gonna have to send that to her seriously. 138 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.559 And I wanted to close by adding that, in order 139 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:51.000 to research this topic, I googled songs called uranus. 140 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:53.080 Of course you did. 141 00:11:53.600 --> 00:12:02.039 Starting of course, I think you won the category. Yeah, 142 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.080 you set the bar pretty high to lead us off 143 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.120 this week. That was good. Yes, all right, Well, I 144 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:12.360 need a break. Anybody else? I think so, I think so. Yeah, 145 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.759 all right, we'll be back right after this, Hudson River 146 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.759 Radio dot Com. It beats listening to nothing. 147 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.039 This concludes the first part of this cassette. 148 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.279 Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side to. 149 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.600 Hudson River Radio dot Com. 150 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.559 And welcome back to the Rock and Roll History Show. Neil, 151 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.639 you get to follow Barber selection. 152 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:44.559 Come up behind you. 153 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.759 It is a tough act to follow, man. Oh wow, yeah, 154 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.320 all right, but anyway, my celestial out of this world 155 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:57.360 choice for today's topic is a song called Another Girl, 156 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:02.519 Another Planet by the band The Only Ones. The Only 157 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.279 Ones are an English rock band. They formed in London 158 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:09.440 in August of nineteen seventy six. Although they're generally labeled 159 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.080 as a punk band, they also incorporated power pop, hard 160 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.440 rock and a little bit of psychedelia into their sound 161 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:21.440 as well. Original members are songwriter Peter Parrott on rhythm, 162 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:26.240 guitar and vocals, bassist and songwriter Alan Mayer. He had 163 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.120 previously had success with a Scottish band called The Beatstalkers. 164 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.799 John Perry, originally a bass player, he switched to guitar 165 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.559 when he joined the band and drummer Mike Kelly, no 166 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:42.039 relation to John formerly of the band Spooky Tooth, who 167 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.360 had had success pretty much mainly in the UK in 168 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.559 the late sixties and early seventies. And I actually got 169 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:51.759 to see Spooky Tooth in New York somewhere in the 170 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.080 early seventies. It's all kind of lost in a haze 171 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:00.279 right now, but anyway. Their first self released single, called 172 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:04.120 Lovers of Today, came out around nineteen seventy seven, and 173 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.360 it immediately became the record of the week in several 174 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.080 major music publications. Now this led to their signing with 175 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.000 CBS Records about a year later in nineteen seventy eight, 176 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.720 and their next single, which We're about to Hear Another Girl, 177 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:22.279 Another Planet, became the band's best known song. The song 178 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.919 itself is widely to be believed to be a love 179 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:32.240 song about heroin and not really about a girl from 180 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.159 another planet, with lyrics like I always flirt with death, 181 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:39.200 I look ill, but I don't care about it, and 182 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.639 you get under my skin. I don't find it irritating. 183 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.320 You always play to win, but I won't need rehabilitating. 184 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:52.279 Coupled with space travel, is of course a metaphor for 185 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:58.200 getting high an all song with Peter Parrott's heavy heroin 186 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:02.440 addicted inflection pretty much gives it away, at least to me, 187 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.799 but in a twenty fifteen interview, Parrot claimed that the 188 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.799 song was not about drugs and actually had been inspired 189 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:14.080 by a girl, although he also admitted that he liked 190 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:18.480 writing ambiguous lyrics that could be taken in many different directions. 191 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.519 So let's leave it up to you, the listener. So 192 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:25.440 let's get ready for take off with another girl, another 193 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.519 planet by the only ones. 194 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:15.000 I always flat with deck. I look killed, but I 195 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.240 don't care about it. I can't face your threats and 196 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.320 stand up straightened. 197 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:24.919 Toll and shout about it. I think, come on another 198 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:32.159 world with you, with you. I'm on another planet with you. 199 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:39.240 With you, you get under my skin. I don't find it. 200 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.320 Ritat and y'all always played within. 201 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:46.399 But I won't need me no bell. 202 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:47.399 Take no no. 203 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:52.639 I think, come on another world with you with you. 204 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:58.799 I'm on another client with you, with you. 205 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:42.720 Another girl, another planet, another girl, another packet, space. 206 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:46.880 Travels in my blood. That ain't nothing I could. 207 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:47.599 Do about it. 208 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.480 Long Johnny swearing me out, but I don't know. 209 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.720 I can't live with that, said I know, I think 210 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.000 I'm on another world with you, with you? 211 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:21.400 So what is it? A drug? 212 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:22.400 A girl? 213 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:24.599 Both? 214 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.160 Yeah, A drugged girl could never know. 215 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:30.440 I don't get what it is. 216 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.160 It's cute, which is really good. 217 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.680 That guitar solo in the middle, I think is just brilliant. 218 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.519 It just it just kicks that song right in yourinus, 219 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:46.079 so you know it's yeah. People say, oh, punk music 220 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.119 is very old. It's as simple as it. No, you 221 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.119 listen to that? That that was? That was brilliant, brilliant 222 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:55.079 stuff in my not so humble opinion. Now, The song 223 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:59.559 was included on their self titled debut album, which the 224 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.599 band forced along with some help from Robert Ash and 225 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.160 some engineering by Steve Lillywhite, who was just starting out 226 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:09.759 his career, and lily White, of course, would go on 227 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.279 to become a Grammy Award winning record producer, so that 228 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:16.799 may have had something to do with it. The record 229 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.759 was well received by critics and fans, and reached number 230 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:24.440 fifty six on the UK Album's Chart. Now The Only 231 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:27.799 Ones released two more albums before disbanding in nineteen eighty two. 232 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:31.279 Another Girl, Another Planet is often featured on box set 233 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.960 compilations that feature punk rock and new wave music, and 234 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:38.519 after being included on one such compilation in nineteen ninety one, 235 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.920 Another Girl, Another Planet was re released as a single 236 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.160 and reached number fifty seven on the UK Singles Chart. Now, 237 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:50.119 after this resurgence of public interest, The Only Ones reformed 238 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:54.000 in two thousand and seven and continued performing live through 239 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.519 two thousand and nine. All three of their studio albums 240 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.599 were re released with bonus tracks also in two thousand 241 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.160 and nine, and new material was recorded, although unfortunately it's 242 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.400 never been released because the band ceased activity after their drummer, 243 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:13.240 Mike Kelly passed away in twenty seventeen, but the surviving 244 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:18.319 members have reunited periodically to play live shows. Yeah, The 245 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.000 Only Ones have been cited as an influence on many 246 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:24.680 indie and alternative rock bands, and several bands have even 247 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:28.279 covered Another Girl, Another Planet, such as The Replacements and 248 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.960 Blink one two. So there you have it, folks. A 249 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:34.400 little space travel from The Only. 250 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.279 Ones excellent, I recommend. When it got to the course, 251 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:39.680 I recognized it. Yeah, I've heard that one. That's good. 252 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:42.960 Love that yeah, Yeah, that's you know, it's like a 253 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:45.400 forgotten gem you know in my book. You know, it's 254 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:47.759 like yeah, like I said, you knew it, you heard it, 255 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:49.920 but yeah, wow, I haven't heard them all more time. 256 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:52.640 Part of the reason I love doing this is because, 257 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.559 you know, you rediscover things you haven't heard in so long. 258 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:01.480 Exactly awesome. Thank you, Neil. All right, one more to go, Crambones. 259 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:05.039 Can you tell me how to get how to get 260 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:08.079 to Sesame Street? 261 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:11.359 I say street? Thank you? 262 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:12.480 Okay? 263 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.880 From Uranus to Sesame Street. Oh my gosh, this episode 264 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:16.960 I do. 265 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:18.279 It's what we do. 266 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.319 What I cut my micro off? 267 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:21.440 I I. 268 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.519 I can't say what I'm thinking. No, I can't. 269 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:32.039 Maybe that's for the best, all right. The children's educational 270 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:35.000 show was first conceived in nineteen sixty six with the 271 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:39.559 unique approach of creating a truly educational show for young children. 272 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:43.240 The name came from the phrase open sesame, as in 273 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:47.680 opening the doors into something exciting. The show was produced 274 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.279 by the newly formed Children's Television Workshop, which was funded 275 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.480 by grants from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation as 276 00:21:55.559 --> 00:22:00.799 in the Cars, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting money kicked 277 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.160 in from the federal government. It launched in nineteen sixty 278 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:07.240 nine and spent its first year on the National Education 279 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.960 Television Network, which was owned by the Ford Foundation. Then 280 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.079 it became co owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 281 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.759 and that all got folded into PBS, probably the Public 282 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.039 Broadcasting service that we are all familiar with now PBS. 283 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:25.839 They put a lot of effort into the quality of 284 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.400 the material. They used child psychologists, they used teachers, they 285 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:34.160 used TV experts to make sure that they kept the 286 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:36.519 quality high and that they could get their message across. 287 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:40.920 The show is set in an urban setting, a city, 288 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.200 and they made a point to include a diverse cast, 289 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.599 which was something that was not being done at the time. 290 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:50.359 They tested segments with kids and made adjustments to make 291 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.279 sure that what they were producing was effective and again 292 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.519 could get their message across to younger kids. The most 293 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:01.440 memorable episode was in nineteen eighty three when the local 294 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:04.960 shop owner mister Hooper died. If you guys may remember 295 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.000 that the actor who played him, Will Lee, actually died 296 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.759 in nineteen eighty two, and most shows would just either 297 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:15.480 recast or write off their cast member or change the story. 298 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.680 But instead of doing that, instead of saying he retired 299 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.039 and moved, they actually made an episode about death that 300 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.720 was appropriate for the young age group that they were 301 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.200 that they were reaching for They spent a full year 302 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:30.720 putting that episode together and then it aired in nineteen 303 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.720 eighty three. Another well known episode is one that actually 304 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.039 didn't air. Do you remember the character snuffle up Agus. 305 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.039 It was the Willie Mammoth looking thing. Originally Big Bird 306 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:44.440 was the only one that could see him. Eventually they 307 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:47.640 did away with that because they felt that, you know, 308 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:49.920 if kids had something to tell their parents, they wouldn't 309 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:53.000 believe them, you know, because big Bird kept telling everybody 310 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.079 that since a Philopagus was here, and the adults didn't 311 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:58.680 believe him even though he really was there. So they 312 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:01.359 got rid of that. Kids could actually feel like they 313 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:03.680 could come forward and tell grown up stuff and actually 314 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.680 be believed. But Snephalopicus's parents were going to get a divorce, 315 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:12.039 so they put together an episode to address divorce, and 316 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:15.039 they tested it showing that younger kids just couldn't wrap 317 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.160 their heads around the concept, and instead of trying to 318 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:20.680 make it work, they actually just dropped the episode altogether, 319 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:22.519 which I give them credit for it. They put a 320 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.160 lot of work into it and said this isn't working, 321 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:28.880 so they actually just dropped it. In two thousand, the 322 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:34.359 Children's Television Workshop was renamed Sesame Workshop. Funding was always 323 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:36.880 an issue, especially for not for profits, so they started 324 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:41.720 licensing merchandise and allowing short advertisements before and after the episodes. 325 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:46.400 In twenty fifteen, they made an agreement with HBO where 326 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:49.160 HBO could run each episode. First they pick up the 327 00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:51.559 majority of the bill, and then it would go over 328 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:55.000 to PBS. A lot of people got upset because the 329 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.440 idea of Sesame Street was that it was geared towards 330 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.279 lower income urban kids, and now it was going to 331 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.759 be shown on an expensive pay channel first, and then 332 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:08.119 in twenty twenty it went to their streaming service, Max, 333 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.359 HBO's streaming platform. I will say that for the most part, 334 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:14.319 people who got upset that it went over to HBO 335 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:17.319 were not being seen walking around with their PBS tote bags, 336 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:19.920 so I'm guessing they didn't open up their wallets. They 337 00:25:20.039 --> 00:25:24.000 just complained about it afterwards. Jim Henson's muppets, of course, 338 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:27.319 played a huge role still do on Sesame Street. They 339 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:31.359 interact with the cast as regular people. Jim Henson died 340 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.480 in nineteen ninety at age fifty three from toxic shock 341 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.200 syndrome from a staff infection that he got. His best 342 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.799 known character was, of course, Kermit the Frog, and Kermit 343 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.519 was the only Muppet that crossed over between The Muppet 344 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.359 Show and Sesame Street on a regular basis. The other 345 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:50.720 Muppets would make you know cameo appearances, but Kermit was 346 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:53.880 the only regular on both. Henson did a number of 347 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.880 characters on Sesame Street, including Kermit. He did Guy Smiley, 348 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:01.079 the game show host if you may remember that, and 349 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:04.920 he did Ernie as in Burt and Ernie. Burt and 350 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.640 Ernie are roommates. They have opposite personalities, kind of like 351 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:10.920 the odd couple. You know, Burt's the straight lace guy 352 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.400 and Ernie's kind of the dopey one. Ernie had a 353 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.079 very popular song that's still popular, Rubber Ducky. That's probably 354 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:20.640 the best known one. We all know it, even though 355 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:22.759 you don't want to admit it. You know all the lyrics. 356 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:28.000 Even Neil knows all the lyrics. Another song that had 357 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.960 staying power and is still around it still pops up 358 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:33.599 is I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, which 359 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.960 was written by Jeff Moss in nineteen seventy eight. Moss 360 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:40.279 also wrote rubber Ducky. He wrote I Love Trash, and 361 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:42.880 he wrote the people in Your neighborhood, all songs that 362 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:44.720 we know, whether we want to admit it or not. 363 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.799 It was first recorded for the nineteen eighty Sesame Street 364 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:51.640 album The People in Your Neighborhood. Then it was included 365 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:55.160 in Season fifteen and nineteen eighty three. They did a 366 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:59.079 new version in nineteen ninety three with guest star Aaron Neville, 367 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.519 used Jim Henson's original vocals from nineteen eighty three and 368 00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.519 then edited in Aaron Neville to make it look like 369 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:10.519 he was sitting there singing a duet with Ernie. What 370 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:12.799 got me is that this is the opposite of a 371 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:15.200 lot of kids songs. You know, kids songs talk about 372 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:17.519 you can do anything you want, keep working at it, 373 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:19.920 keep plugging away, all that kind of stuff, encouraging kids 374 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.880 to do stuff. This one is a little more pensive. 375 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.200 It's a little slower, a little deeper. Ernie sings that 376 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:28.279 he would like to visit the moon, but he wouldn't 377 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:30.799 want to live there. He could visit the depths of 378 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.839 the ocean, but he would want to come back to 379 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.160 his family and friends. It's a song that it's okay 380 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.079 to not want to do stuff, not want to do everything. 381 00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:39.319 You know. 382 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:42.079 It's kind of the opposite message, and I think it's 383 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.200 a great example of how good the material is on 384 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.400 Sesame Street because kids get the straight shot message. You know, 385 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:48.920 I don't want to live on the Moon. I want 386 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.279 to live here with my family, And then adults kind 387 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:52.880 of think about it a little bit deeper, So you 388 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.000 got two different levels going on at the same time. 389 00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.480 I thought we would check out Ernie's version with Aaron Neville, 390 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.039 which I think I think is excellent, except it leads 391 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:06.839 off with Aaron Neville's trademark Whiny Little Eye, which just 392 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:09.279 right off the bat kind of takes you out of it, 393 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:11.880 but then it comes back around. So tell me what 394 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.720 you think. Let's check out I Don't want to Live 395 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.720 on the Moon by Ernie and Aaron Neville. 396 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:27.960 Well, i'd like to visit Theule on a rocket ship 397 00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:29.559 high in the air. 398 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:35.680 Yes, I'd like to visit the move, but I don't 399 00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.680 think i'd like to live there. 400 00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:41.160 Though I'd like to look down at. 401 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.079