i remember this song. Fascinating how music brings back memories in an instant.

This is a happy song! I can't believe I sing along at my age.

I recognize many of these signs from my New York childhood. I remember when "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Applause" were playing on Broadway, "Food" may have come from the old Daitch Shopwell, Gristede's or D'Agostino Bros. grocery stores, "WALK" was before the pedestrian traffic lights went pictorial, "RIGHT" came from The Right Bank restaurant (I saw them put the sign up!), "WAY" was from the "ONE WAY" signs, "AND" and "FRANCE" were from Rockefeller Center, "LEFT" and "RIGHT" were from traffic signs, and, of course, the final "you" was from the classic Uncle Sam poster, "I Want You for U.S. Army." Thanks for bringing back this lost era!

@jonathanwalburgh7560

2 жыл бұрын

As I posted above. "NIGHT" evidently came from a theater marquee advertising a showing of the Marx Brothers' film A Night At The Opera. If you squint you can just make out the bottom half of the "ARX BRO" above "NIGHT". I'd like to know where "BLUE" came from because, interestingly, that was the only one shot at night.

@kaitiscarlett9022

2 жыл бұрын

How interesting, Todd! The only thing I recognized were street signs and Uncle Sam. But I don't live in NY. Thanks for the great info!

@teletubetodd

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaitiscarlett9022You're very welcome!

@manofmanyinterests

2 жыл бұрын

D'Agostino I haven't heard that name in some time. I loved the Dag Dag Dag tv ad.

@er1c175

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the break down

I would have loved to visit New York at the time this was made. But I saw it on The Electric Company as a child, and that's good enough.

I can’t stop watching this , circa 1973 I was 3 & for the first time people other than my family saying I ❤️you. I believed it then as I do now, emotional feelings from a now older guy. Oh and the guy saying “now you sing with us, know wuddi mean”

loved this soooo much as a kid! So happy to find it now!

@harrystoller4147

Жыл бұрын

The song? I love it too!

I truly remember this as a child. It is so NYC and so beautiful. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.

40 year wait for this! thanks again!!

I remember seeing this when I watched Electric Company when I was 3 years old back in 1973. I really picked up literacy from the show. I don't remember a time before being literate, so I don't recall ever seeing text on the show that was bleeped out and not being able to read it. When they would have a "sneak preview" of text before or after the show and bleep out what it says on the screen, I can only remember always knowing what it said. I imagine that before a kid gets literate, they are anxious to find out what the text says if they understand that it will be revealed on the next episode. "Tune in next time when so-and-so says 'Wah, wah, wah!'"

Thank you! My two year old loves this and sings along. It is right at his reading level.

If this isnt the cutest thing ever, i didnt know cute until i sang along just now. A lot of the songs on The Electric Company were masterpieces. Perfect rhyme and music combo, lots of fun sounds. This one is a gem. (I love the Fiddler on the Roof billboard!)

Lots of nostalgic and sentimental feelings as I watch this. A lot of these places are gone now. I still go to this NY...in my heart and memories. Thanks for posting.

I`m 56 and this song never left my memory.

This brings back WONDERFUL memories of my childhood, this was & is still educational. 🥰🥰🥰

God Lovingly Bless New York City and all its people, animals, plants, and life!!!! LOVE!!!! :-)

I just love this song!!

@MrJamieMurph4141969

5 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

I love how I was taught as a child that learning is not only essential but FUN and it was okay to be just a little wacky sometimes!

Love the Ed Norton voice between the sung part and the instrumental! 😂🤣

Hearing these segments all these years later really impresses you on the time and quality that went into these musical pieces and film montages. Amazing! I get a kick out of the voice-over- the man sounds like Ed Norton from the Honeymooners. I also like that "you know what I mean?" he tags on.

@MVerdoux

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's composer Joe Raposo.

As I child I learned this song by heart hahaha loved it then and still love it :)

THIS IS IT! THE MUSIC USED TO MAKE ME CRY

@simps83

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, I just turned 47 and it still makes me cry...

@MrJamieMurph4141969

6 жыл бұрын

And me,too,even at age 48, but with tears of bittersweet joy,which I'm sure is your reasons,also. :)

@laurenfernandez1163

3 жыл бұрын

is not cry is need the help

And this was usually shown as the last thing on a Friday show, and it would leave a happy lump in my throat saying goodbye to the EC gang until Monday. (As it did with all my elementary school friends!) So many memories with this wonderful show!

@MrJamieMurph4141969

7 жыл бұрын

It's Labor Day,as I watch this and post this comment-to me,the end of this song,with last three words,"I love you!" with the triumphant hint of "Over the waves" at the very end,to me,can be a way of bidding farewell to "another summer of fun,under the sun." Happy Labor Day,and hope you had a great summer.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

6 жыл бұрын

And now it's Labor Day again,and thus another summer is over. Hope your summer was great,mine sure was. Happy Labor Day!

@MrJamieMurph4141969

5 жыл бұрын

And now it's New Year's Eve as I watch this and comment again, with just 2 hrs and 20 minutes to go until we welcome in 2019(I live in PA, in the same time zone as New York City,of course). Again, in reference to what you said and to what I had said, something about this song leaving you with that typical bittersweet lump in the throat feeling-well in this case, bidding another Christmas holiday season goodbye until next year(when Santa will visit each and every one of us again), and of course bidding 2018 farewell and saying hello to 2019. I' will hit the half century mark in 103 more days(April 14),born the year Sesame street premiered and of course I grew up with Electric Company as well. Hope you had a Merry Christmas, I sure did. Happy New Year. Peace. :)

@troyc4250

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJamieMurph4141969 thanks for sharing. Nice to see that you visit here and check in...its 4 18 2020 today...COVID 19 sucks. But it's allowed me to go way down this TEC rabbit trail...and I love it. All the best.

You can find this on the DVD box set, of Best of Electric Company, Volume 1--it was featured in the episode, which was first broadcast on February 3, 1977(during the show's final season, of course--it was later on that same April, when they ended production.)You can also find it, on the episode that aired in late Jan 1974(on Volume 2, of the box sets), only that one just has the chorus of kids singing the song twice, not the singalong part second time around, like here.)Great memories; thanks for posting!

@jkingvevo2472

7 жыл бұрын

This sign song first premiered in season two (1972-1973), on episode 142, which was aired on November 7, 1972, in which this sign song was repeatedly used in other episodes during later seasons like episode 79B, which was on the sixth and final season, in which that aired on February 3, 1977. But this song actually first premiered on November 7, 1972, during the show's second season.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

Жыл бұрын

Happy (belated) 50th anniversary to this EC segment(it’s Tuesday, 11/15/2022 as I make this post). Since as you said it premiered in Episode 142, originally broadcast on (Tuesday, 11/7/2022.)

Take a gander at all that 70s era signage! ;-)

Intensive Watching Observations: In the first shot, you can see a poster for the musical The Me Nobody Knows to the right of the one for Fiddler on The Roof. 5 of Me's cast and crew joined The Electric Company: cast members Irene Cara, Melanie Henderson and Hattie Winston; choreographer Pat Birch, and songwriter Gary William Friedman. (A 6th, Northern Calloway, moved to Sesame Street where he played David.) According to Wikipedia, Me Nobody Knows ended its run in Nov. 1971, so gives an idea of when this footage was shot. "NIGHT" evidently came from a theater marquee advertising a showing of the Marx Brothers' film A Night At The Opera. If you squint you can see the bottom half of the letters "ARX" and "BRO" above "NIGHT." Finally, on the bottom right of the fence/wall shown in the last shot are two large posters advertising a Gordon Lightfoot concert. (This is best seen on the DVD where you can freeze and zoom.) I wonder where the "BLUE" sign came from because it was the only one shot at night. Hopefully not in Times Square. (And it's not even blue.)

"Left is right and I love you."

I recall a similar segment such as this on Electric Company, also worth it in my childhood.

Technically, this is like the first karaoke song. ;)

@donmccullen1973

3 жыл бұрын

Well one of them.

@UNOwen1

2 жыл бұрын

Erm, N-O, and far from it. Yonge never heard of 'sing-a-longs'? You can see great sing-a-longs on the (original and ONLY one which counts) Alvin and the Chipmunks, which features them often. One of my favourites is Ragtime Cowboy Joe (kzread.info/head/PLX4-lNUIzcL8E8JdzyJ59DzUSvN27g1c4), and they also had sing-a-longs on the Bulleinkle show (kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJyIrZibcczFZ6Q.html, and here’s another; kzread.info/dash/bejne/aq1msbKHo9XMdrw.html). That’s as far back so can recall offhand, but even I wouldn’t be foolish enough to say ‘that’s IT’, a as far back as MY recollections go - neither should anyone.

This was the last clip of the last episode (130A) of Season Five (1975-1976) of THE ELECTRIC COMPANY before the last Friday credit roll of that season.

Life in NYC, 1970's

this is probably on the DVD!!

@MrJamieMurph4141969

6 жыл бұрын

It is,in fact.

@QBCNetwork I'm glad the instrumental is here; the DVD set doesn't have it, it just repeats the voice part

Also nice see the background of NYC was like and that is what I grew up with.

Happy Labor Day,to all of my fellow KZreadrs!!! Something about this song,the end,especially,to me is a symbol of bidding summer farewell. Hope you all had a good summer, I certainly did.

Thanks for posting.

This is sign song number 2

I SAW THAT FIDDLER ON THE ROOF AD

This as good as it gets.

I've never been to New York City at all, but kinda looks like this was filmed between central New York and the bronx.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

6 жыл бұрын

You don't know what you're missing,then; NYC is simply the best, especially Manhattan. I"ve been there many times,especially during the Christmas season,simply lovely time of year to be there.

@laurenfernandez1163

3 жыл бұрын

miss achmetha sings sign song

Like the instrumental, followed by a hint of Over The Waves @ the end.

@MrJamieMurph4141969

6 жыл бұрын

Yes,I also like that bit.

This was a karaoke video, 20 years before karaoke came out.

Congratulations on your one-hundredth "like."

Now you sing along with us, know what I mean?

I can sing it on my own.

Nice.

Episode 79B Season 6 (1977)

And it is now Labor Day again,as I post this comment. Happy Labor Day,again,to all of my fellow youtubers; another summer is now over.

I don't remember this sign song. I thought this was going to be the song of confusing street signs. (No left turn..No right turn, etc.) This is also a fun song from EC.

Neat song

trippy

PICO T. QUINTOS: Excuse me! Speaking of America's "Ellectric Company";I wonder who sang about signs & who narrated that video scene.

I like fish food you do too. Don't look now your hair is blue. Walk right in and see the zoo. Up is down and I love you. Stop and go and dance a dance. All the way from here to France. Day and night all bright & new. Left is right and I love you.

I love you

I used to think the voiceover telling the audience to sing along was Yogi Bear.

❤

Where is John Lennon and Yoko Ono? & why were they not in this?

1:23 I did not quite get this part. Was he talking or singing? What did he say?

This was the *Sign Song* I was looking for at the moment, but now I'm confused: isn't the other one also called "Sign Song", or is its official name "Home Sweet Home"? On all the audio albums where the other song appears (including its cameo on the *Sesame Street Signs* album), its title is "Sign Song". Maybe someone can sort this out.

@jonathanwalburgh7560

Жыл бұрын

The Electric Co. DVD boxed set (Volume 1) lists this as "I LIKE FISH FOOD."

@MonsterpieceTheatre

Жыл бұрын

Right,@Scott Luther.

Line 1 Do-Do not Enter Line 2 Don't-Don't walk sign Line 3 Walk-Walk sign Line 5 Stop-Stop sign Line 6 Way-One Way sign Line 7 All-All Traffic Must Turn Right sign Line 8 Left-No Left Turn sign Right-Keep Right sign

1:21 Who is speaking here? It sounds like the cartoon character Snagglepus.

I wonder if it was Joe Raposo who wrote/composed the song.

@arqivist2077

4 ай бұрын

Certainly he arranged it, but I'm wondering if Clark Gesner also did this one, as he did with the other Electric Company Sign Song (for which Joe Raposo also did the arrangement)

@TheBlackAce2

4 ай бұрын

Oh, I forgot about that one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3uOs8WGpdywnrA.html

0:57 I thought this is the skyline of France.

Tag and Baloo

Did any kid ever try to eat the powdered food they throw in the fish tank? Any idea what it's made out of?

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