The Year of Roosevelt Franklin (1971) | Matt Robinson and Rosalind Cash
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Full album THE YEAR OF ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN (1971 | Music by Matt Robinson and Joe Raposo), plus bonus clips of Matthew Thomas "Matt" Robinson Jr. (January 1, 1937 - August 5, 2002), the first actor to portray the character of Gordon Robinson on the long-running PBS children's TV program Sesame Street.
Presented for historical purposes.
Track listing
Side One
Roosevelt Franklin Counts - Roosevelt Franklin and Roosevelt Franklin's Mother
Days of the Week - Roosevelt Franklin and The Kids
Mobity Mosely's Months - Mobity Mosely
Keep on Trying - Baby Ray Franklin and Mary Frances Franklin
The Safety Boy Blues - Roosevelt Franklin
Just Because - Roosevelt Franklin
Side Two
The Skin I'm In - Baby Ray Franklin
A Bear Eats Bear Food - Roosevelt Franklin and Mary Frances Franklin
Halfies - A.B. Cito
Me and You - Roosevelt Franklin and Mary Frances Franklin
Old King Midas - Roosevelt Franklin
Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet- Roosevelt Franklin and Roosevelt Franklin's Mother
Take from bio at alchetron.com/Matt-Robinson-(...)
While with CTW, Robinson also played the voice of a reddish-magenta puppet named Roosevelt Franklin. Robinson worked closely with Jim Henson to accurately design the character, the first black-influenced Muppet. Other minority-based Muppets created by Henson and Robinson were Baby Ray Francis, Mobley Mose and a Hispanic Muppet, A.B. Cito. Roosevelt Franklin promoted ideals such as family, pride, respect and geography while also showing a passion for rhyming and blues music. By both creating the character and performing Franklin's voice for three seasons, Robinson helped his puppet become one of the show's main characters. In addition, Franklin continued to make appearances until 1975.
The puppet was pulled from the show because a negative perception of the character among African-Americans began to grow. This resulted from Franklin's frequently unruly behavior at the fictional elementary school, which was deemed a bad example for the audience. Additional arguments for the character's departure were rooted in its overly excessive black image, or lack thereof. Dolores Robinson has stated that Roosevelt Franklin became a televised vehicle for her then husband's anger with racism and pride in the black race.
Robinson recorded and released the first Sesame Street album to be focused on a single character, The Year of Roosevelt Franklin (Gordon's Friend from Sesame Street). Released in 1971, and then re-released in 1974 under the name My Name is Roosevelt Franklin, the album dealt with many appropriate behaviors for children; aside from basic topics such as numbers and letters, it also touched on traffic safety, sharing and getting along with others. All tracks were co-written with the help of Joe Raposo.
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I loved this album as a child. I still do. And being a black child in a majority white neighborhood, it really meant alot to me. It helped foster a love of music as well. I learned my months on this album!
The coolest Muppet on Sesame Street, Roosevelt Franklin.
@MsDisneylandlover
3 жыл бұрын
They should had kept him
AWWHH, the 70's Sesame Street; it was great to be a kid then.
That's my daddy, RIP!!!!!!!
@jeffmorris8528
3 жыл бұрын
Are you Holly ?
That Mobity Moseley song was fire!
I remember this! I am 50 and I grew up on Sesame Street, Free to Be You and Me, and THIS album. Our family is interracial and I loved this.
I had this album😍😍. I know I haven't heard this in almost 50 years😭
@germyw
4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it amazing????
I love Rosalind Cash! She was super talented.
@MsDisneylandlover
3 жыл бұрын
Who was her character I loved her too.
@caspercain2533
Жыл бұрын
@@MsDisneylandlover She did all the female characters on the record. Matt did the males.
This is so cute! Holly Robinson Peetes' dad was a talented guy.
@cocoaorange1
Жыл бұрын
Yes he was. Although I can barely remember him.
There is no words to express the joy I feel stumbling across this video. I was given a Roosevelt Franklin puppet as a child for Christmas from one of favorite aunts its still one of my most cherished memories. I had these records as well. This video truly made my day.
I just found this album at a flea market yesterday. This thing is awesome!
Thanks so much for this. I would get up just to see Roosevelt. I aspired to be the smartest kid in class because of him. Then he just faded away. No good bye explanation or nothing. I was heartbroken. No one could tell me where he went.
Roosevelt Franklin was the TRUTH!!! I loved him as a baby!!!
I had alllllll his record's when I was a child, but I still love it till this day, passing it to my grandchildren ❤
I was Today years old when I learned this. Old school Sesame Street still teaching US 🌈😊
Matt was ahead of his time introducing Roosevelt....and having Loretta, Northern, Sonia and Roscoe working with him for the time the character was on the show must have made it fun to do.
Matt was really ahead of his time.😊😊
This was before Sesame Street was gentrified.
Just realized that the Elemtery School scenes also taught about equality as the characters all were different colors and they got along great.😊😊
@keithcavanaugh2133
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, Elmo promotes "baby talk" and poor communication skills. At least with Roosevelt you learned something
I was 5, I loved this stuff. This and that mm nah mm nah guy.
This is great! I'm doing an article on Roosevelt Franklin and this is SUPER HELPFUL!!!
@reelblack
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
Along with the first Sesame Street album, I also had this this album. I feel soooo old.
@MadAngel209
5 жыл бұрын
collegeman1988 , that's was my first album when I was a kid, too.
Thank you so much for sharing this. You brought me back to the 70s. My mom, a librarian, purchased this album for me, and my sister. We played this album, sang, and acted out all the parts. I just called my sister and played “Roosevelt Franklin Counts”. Roosevelt did a great job…he is out of sight! We remembered most of the lines, including the extra lines we added to the song.
@reelblack
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome
Thank you for sharing this album.I didn't know it existed,I had owned other Sesame Street albums as a child.
That was a touching picture of Holley and Matt late in his life when he was very ill.
This was my favorite album as a kid I was born in 1972 This brings back such great memories listening to this record over and over !
My sister & I played this record every day when we were kids!!! My Mom bought it for our Brother but we stumbled upon it one day in the basement & we were hooked! #classic
@reelblack
Жыл бұрын
great story!
This is magnificent.
I love the elementary school segment it's flip Wilson meets welcome back kotter meets room 222 meets the white shadow.
I wore OUT this record when I was a little girl. Roosevelt Franklin was my favorite. I am white and I grew up on the blues, soul and funk. Passed it on to my kids. My 27 year old son does an amazing Barry White.
I need those outtakes.
Nice upload... Rosalind Cash was a bad mama jamma!!!!!
Such a hame that the Roosevelt Franklin character got 86'd in later years due to prejudice and misunderstanding. I never knew this album even existed, and I had the first two Sesame Street albums as a child. Thanks for posting and sharing. I remember seeing theses songs acted out on Sesame Street as a child. Brings back good memories.
Matt Robinson was my guess third crush he sings so down to the point, as for Michael and Gil Scott heron.
I swear Mobity Mosley sounds like Johnny Guitar Watson!
@riodonnell
Жыл бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/nn-jqNuLkpSumc4.html Check this out, it's The Boss-Tones doing their song "Moppity Mope". Mr. Matt Robinson is missed by myself and so many. Born in 1970, I grew up with Sesame Street and loved Roosevelt Franklin so much. 🧡💜🧡💜
Should never have gotten rid of Roosevelt Franklin.
My mom told me about him and I had to look it up I wanna know why he was taking off Sesame Street ??because I like him
@robertmonroejr1315
4 жыл бұрын
They took Roosevelt Franklin off the show in order to appeal to a white middle-class audience.
@chrisdragnet722
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertmonroejr1315 Actually it was Black Folk that wrote in against the character. Please check the SS doc on HBO now. Matt Robinson/Oscar left after the company decided to cave into the Black public.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I loooooove it!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow that's weired, no recommendations on the side panel of this page. I've seen renegade KZread channels get as little as 1 or 2 video recommends but never none.
I totally remember this album from my childhood. Especially Mobity Mosley. A cleaner copy: open.spotify.com/album/4lcKXy7ywvaipCPr4g8geo
I didn't know I Am Legend was a remake what year the 1st. one staring Charlton Heston and Rosalin Cash come out
@reelblack
6 жыл бұрын
Omega Man
@LigerFan
5 жыл бұрын
Actually, "I Am Legend" was the third movie based on Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend". The first was "The Last Man On Earth" starring Vincent Price.
@georgelee43211
4 жыл бұрын
the omega man came out in 1971.
Are you really telling me this what seseme street use to look like??
@germyw
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!! I am exactly sesame street years old. Lol. The show was actually created for children of color to get extra learning pre grade school that richer or whiter kids were usually able to receive. Sesame Street is supposed to be, basically, a clean "hood. And, yes, it got gentrified. Same thing happened to the pbs show Finding Our Roots.
@MsDisneylandlover
3 жыл бұрын
Woke
rosalind cash[the omega man,guyanna tragedy.]
@jeffmorris8528
4 жыл бұрын
This was the dooky
God made only one race--the human one.
I never know about this stay woke
Someone tell Roosevelt Africa isn't the biggest piece of land in the whoooole world.
When big Bird was woke n his show