Little Jerry and the Monotones

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Little Jerry and the Monotones, singing their most famous song, originally detailed on Sesame Street Encyclopedia, "Telephone Rock".

The group's only single, "Mad"/"Sad".

Little Jerry and the Monotones is a rock group on Sesame Street that first appeared as a music group in 1970.

The members of the band were Little Jerry as the frontman, and backup singers Big Jeffy, Chrissy and Rockin' Richard. They had many evolution changes during their first few appeareances, but eventually, however, basic features, hair, and clothing were kept for the individual members in order to maintain the band's continuity, though some small changes (such as nose color or different eyes) were sometimes made. All members of the band are named after the people who performed their voices; Little Jerry is named after Jerry Nelson, Rockin' Richard by Richard Hunt, Christopher Cerf was Chrissy, and Jeff Moss supplied the bass voice for Big Jeffy, though sometimes, a few of the members (particularly Chrissy and Rockin' Richard) had different voice performers in a few of their songs.

Although there were usually four members of the band, an extra member, being an un-named Purple Anything Muppet, appeared in the song "A Body Full Of Rythym".

In an episode from 2000, the group, with the Pumpkin Monotone absent, made a comeback appearance in a concert to perform "When You Move the Mouse, It Makes the Arrow Go." The group shed most of their hippie garb and wore more contemporary, yet still flashy clothes. Little Jerry's dashiki was traded in for a white shirt, black vest, and sunglasses, while Big Jeffy wore a fringed leather vest instead of his bone necklace and triangle-patterned shirt. The Lavender member of the band appeared among the other two wearing an Elvis-like pompadour, and now wore a black coat and a yellow shirt, instead of his flowered-dashiki, black-velcroed vest, and medalion, and was introduced by Little Jerry as "Richie".

The band also appeared in two early 70s sketches with Grover, (although weren't really considered to actually be the group, but just your typical hippies). In one sketch, Grover demonstrates the word "Exit", with the band exiting and entering the door where the exit sign is. In another sketch, Grover demonstrates the word "Walk", with the band holding up the letters representing the word (the lead singer from "Surprise!" appears in this sketch).

Some of the group's songs can be found at the video section of sesamestreet.org.