Written by	Joe Raposo
Date	1987
Publisher	Jonico Music, Inc.

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"African Alphabet" is a Sesame Street song performed by Kermit the Frog and a group of Anything Muppets made up of five different patterns: Fat Blue, Lavender, Pumpkin, Purple, and Reddish Magenta, and voiced by the South African a capella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The creatures of the savanna, including numerous frogs and birds, sing along as well. Ladysmith Black Mambazo later performed the song with Paul Simon, this time appearing as themselves on-screen. (EKA: Episode 2480) A worm parody of the group, "Wormsmith Black Mambazo," sang the song in a 1996 episode.

Rather than simply recounting the letters of the alphabet, the song tells a short story in which each word begins with a consecutive letter of the alphabet.

ReleasesEdit

Audio

• Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration (1991)
• Sesame Street Celebrates! (1994)
• Sesame Street Best (1997)
• Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music (2003)

Video

• Shalom Sesame: Passover (1990)
• The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street (1998)
• The World According to Sesame Street (2006, excerpt)
• Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)
• ABCs with Elmo (2010)

Special

• The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990, clip)
• The Street We Live On (2004, brief clip during timeline sequence only)

Online

• Sesamestreet.org Kermit's version: (SSvideo)
• SesameStreet's YouTube Channel Kermit's version: (YouTube) Wormsmith version: (YouTube)

See alsoEdit

• Kermit's Sesame Street Songs