I Love Trash

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Written by	Jeff Moss
Music by
Lyrics by
Date	1970
Source
Publisher	Festival Attractions, Inc.

Oscar sings "I Love Trash" to Gordon and a young visitor named Lance.

Earliest Known Appearance: Episode 0291

1973 version.

1991 version.

"I Love Trash" is Oscar the Grouch's signature song.

It was first sung in Sesame Street Season 1. The song was retaped several times as the Oscar puppet evolved.

In a Season 29 episode Oscar sang "Grouches Love Trash" a variation of this song to his niece Irvine. In episode 3891 his old friend Felix the Grouch sang a variation called "I Love Cleaning" while Oscar sang I Love Trash. Yet another variation occurs when Oscar's trash can was grown to a larger size and the lyrics were adjusted to accomodate (a clip can be seen in Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!).

Oscar sang this song in Here Come the Puppets!, accompanied by Bruno the Trashman on rollerskates.

K.d. lang also sang this song when she guest starred in The Jim Henson Hour episode about Garbage.

Steven Tyler recorded a new version for the album release of Elmopalooza.

A brief portion of the song was also sung by a group of socks in Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic, during Oscar's imagination sequence where Sesame Street is turned into a vast garbage dump.

Oscar also sang the song during an appearance on The Bonnie Hunt Show.

Trash mentioned

A sneaker that's tattered and worn. It's all full of holes and the laces are torn. Given to Oscar as a newborn baby by his mother.
Some newspaper 13 months old with smelly, old fish wrapped inside.
A clock that won't work
An old telephone
A broken umbrella
A rusty trombone