Letter B
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| Written by | Christopher Cerf |
| Music by | |
| Lyrics by | |
| Date | 1981 |
| Source | |
| Publisher | Splotched Animal Music Company |
"Letter B" is a song parody of The Beatles' song "Let It Be," sung on Sesame Street by The Beetles. Richard Hunt provided lead vocals. As the title implies, the song teaches about B words.
The Anything Muppet bugs who performed the song were puppeteered by Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Brian Muehl and Michael Earl Davis.
When the Beatles' catalogue was still owned by Northern Songs, the company attempted to sue Children's Television Workshop for $5.5 million. They cited that the song too closely resembled "Let It Be." Before the case came to trial, Michael Jackson purchased the Beatles catalogue and the suit was dropped. The Children's Television Workshop was only fined $50, which was paid out of Chris Cerf's own pocket. Paul McCartney, who was not involved in the lawsuit, wrote to Cerf saying that he liked the song.[1]
Trivia
- On the "Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street" vhs, the video has MTV-Captions that refer to as "Lemon Records", and also had an album name that would later be released onto cd 5 years later (Sesame Road).
Releases
- Audio
- Born to Add (1983 edition only)
- Sesame Road (1993)
- Sesame Street Best (1997)
- Video
- Other
- Letters CD-ROM (audio)
Sources
- ↑ Chris Cerf at a book signing for Street Gang, 1/5/09 [1]
