Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? is the theme song of the children’s television series Sesame Street. The Sesame Street theme song was composed by Joe Raposo, a writer and composer of many of television show’s songs. In his book on the history of Sesame Street, Michael Davis called the theme “jaunty” and “deceptively simple”.[1] Raposo wrote the lyrics to the song with Jon Stone and Bruce Hart. Stone considered the song “a musical masterpiece and a lyrical embarrassment”.[1] Raposo enlisted jazz harmonica player Jean “Toots” Thielemans, as well as a mixed choir of children, to record the opening and closing themes.[2] “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street” has since become a “siren song for preschoolers”.[1] For the first 23 seasons of Sesame Street the theme song in the opening credits and the show’s start was untouched. The first version in the opening credits has the melody played by Thielemans while children sing the lyrics. In each episode’s beginning storyline,
