Music by | Christopher Cerf |
Lyrics by | Norman Stiles |
Date | 1974 |
Publisher | Splotched Animal Music Company Sesame Street Inc. |
First | Episode 0733 |
"Telephone Rock" is a Sesame Street song performed by Little Jerry and the Monotones in Season 6.
Little Jerry gets into a telephone booth, where he (joined by the Monotones) starts singing to the operator. They end up harassing her until she shows up with a cop, who arrests them (by shutting the telephone booth door and carrying it away as they continue the song).
Notes[]
- In initial airings of the segment in Season 6, the song audio becomes intentionally muffled when the officer closes the doors of the phone booth. Subsequent airings leave the audio untouched.
- Jerry Nelson voices Big Jeffie in both the televised and album versions of the song.
- The police officer has no dialogue in the original sketch, but has a spoken line on the Signs! album (voiced here by Jerry Nelson). He reappears with the band at the end of the Rock & Roll! video (where he was performed by Martin P. Robinson). Both performers gave the character an Irish accent.
Releases[]
- Audio
- Signs! (1977)
- Letters, Numbers and Signs (1977)
- Video
- Rock & Roll! (1990, new sound effects added, beginning and ending cut)
- Shalom Sesame: Aleph-bet Telethon (1991, edited)
- Old School: Volume 2 (2007)
- Old School: Volume 3 (2012)
- 50 Years and Counting (2019)
Sources[]
- ↑ Documents provided by trusted source