The song was written by Christopher Cerf and Thad Mumford.
The song was performed by Dr. Thad and the Medications with Dr. Thad (Thad Mumford) providing the lead vocals. What I like about this song is how the Fat Blue patient (Jerry Nelson) keeps memorizing Dr. Thad's lyrics, but keeps getting put down by one of the doctors. Also note that Christopher Cerf, Frank Oz, and Richard Hunt can also be heard as the backup doctors. This was a clever parody of "The Ten Commandments of Love," despite myself never hearing the actual song. Also, this is one of Thad Mumford's very few involvements with Sesame Street, his other involvements were "Oh, G (I Love That Letter)," "Me Going to Munch You, Munch You," as well as backup vocals by the Monotones in "With Every Beat of My Heart." He was also the writer for the other Sesame Workshop program, The Electric Company, and he later went on to write for various shows like Good Times, ALF, A Different World, The Duck Factory, and of course, M*A*S*H. Next number.
Here's my personal favorite song on the video. "Do-Op Hop!" it was written by Norman Stiles with music by Christopher Cerf.
From 1984, this particular song was performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) backed up by the Moo Wave cows. What I like about this song is that it's fun, it has a good rock and roll beat to it, as well as good choreography by all of the animals. Especially at the end when Kermit gets tossed up in the air as a way of hopping. In fact, Noel MacNeal, the voice of Magellan, Leon, and Kako provided most of the tossing of the puppets as well as the puppetry for the dog during Kermit's second verse. According to The Count, there were 62 hops!
After a celebrity appearance by Big Bird, we get Over the Top performing ZZ Blues. It's obvious that I've never heard the band, ZZ Top, these guys really knew how to parody the band with those long bears and everything like that. In my opinion, I just don't think this song kind of fits for my taste, it wasn't that catchy, but the visuals were at least interesting, like for example, the Zebra, the multicolor lighting, the zipper, and the dancing Z. The song was written by Christopher Cerf and Sarah Durkee.
This song was written by Christopher Cerf and Tony Geiss (who created the character of the Honkers)
This song, sung by Christopher Cerf, has the Honkers literally honking around the clock at the Sesame Street Fever disco palace. The song's title by be a parody of "Rock Around the Clock," but it sounds nothing like Bill Haley and the Comets' own song. All I can say is that it's pretty catchy.
This 1979 song was written by Christopher Cerf, as requested by Oscar the Grouch, and sung by The Sesame Street Beetles, with Richard Hunt provided the lead vocals. This is another song, that I refer to to be pretty weak, but on the plus side, there is a much better Beatles spoof song coming up in a few songs. I still like Richard Hunt as the lead vocals. Fun fact: This song is a parody of the Beatles song, "Let it Be." When the Beatles' catalogue was still owned by Northern Songs, the company attempted to sue Children's Television Workshop for $5.5 million. They cited that the song too closely resembled "Let It Be." Before the case came to trial, Michael Jackson purchased the Lennon/McCartney catalogue and the suit was dropped. The Children's Television Workshop was only fined $50, which was paid out of Christopher Cerf's own pocket. Paul McCartney, who was not involved in the lawsuit, wrote to Cerf saying that he liked the song This info was not by me, but I read it from The Muppet Wiki, just bare with me okay, the rest will still be my material, like for example, I will say that the name of their album, Sesame Road, would eventually become an actually Sesame Street album a few years later in 1993, now, with that out of the way,let's keep going.
Written by Christopher Cerf and Jon Stone and sung by How Now Brown (Christopher Cerf) and the Moo Wave This song is so cool, it's your stereotypical 1980's music video parody with some clever twists, the music has a cool rock and roll beat attached with the Moo Wave (Ivy Austin and Cheryl Hardwick) harmonizing during the chorus verses by How Now Brown. A fun fact is that I should mention is that this segment originally began with an intro by a Hot Pink VJ voiced by Fran Brill, heck, her name is even in the credits in the video.
Another song that was written by Christopher Cerf and Norman Stiles. It was performed by Ernie and his friends, Telly Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit the Frog, The Count, Biff, Guy Smiley, Gladys the Cow, Elmo, and Hoots the Owl. Fun facts I should mention is that Noel MacNeal actually did the puppetry for Oscar hear while Carroll Spinney dubbed it in later, and David Rudman, who helped Jerry Nelson in the framing material did the puppetry for Kermit in this song, while I guess Jim Henson was too busy performing Ernie. Another Muppet performing contribution I should mention is M. Elizabeth Huston (or her nickname, Michael Huston). I like the ending where everyone disappears and Ernie looks around and says, "Whoops! Where did everybody go?" They must've left one heck of a clog in the drain. And at the end of the son, The Count acknowledges his appearance and says that there were 247,561 bubbles in Ernie's bathtub.
And now, we saved the best for last.
This song according to the Count will always be number one, why? Because it's his favorite song, that's why, coincidentally, this is my favorite song too. Anyways, this song was from 1973 of Season 5, and it was the musical debut of Christopher Cerf and his band, Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats. The Alphabeats here are performed by Richard Hunt (the green one), Jeff Moss (the lavender one), and Jerry Nelson (the Hot Pink little one). And the best part is the song is so catchy that you could never get it out of your head. That explains why it would always be number one. Also, this song is a spoof on the hit song "Twist and Shout," originally covered by The Top Notes and The Isley Brothers, but it was made famous by The Beatles. This song will forever be one of my favorite Christopher Cerf songs on Sesame Street.
If you wanna see the video as a whole: Check it out in the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-PzWYsQX58
One more thing, the video was brought to you by the letters B, and Z, and by the number 10 (hence the songs.) Sesame Street is a production of the Children's Television Workshop.
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