Changes: Telephone Rock

Music by	Christopher Cerf
Lyrics by	Norman Stiles
Date	1974
Publisher	Splotched Animal Music Company (BMI); Sesame Street Inc.

Revision as of 01:16, 1 July 2013

Earliest Known Appearance: Episode 0733

"Telephone Rock" is a Sesame Street song performed by Little Jerry and the Monotones. In this song, Little Jerry gets into a telephone booth, where he starts singing to the operator (performed by Richard Hunt), and eventually the Monotones pop up and join him. They duck down before the operator asks who it is that's calling her. They do this again a few times, harassing the operator until she shows up and has a cop arrest them (by shutting the telephone booth door and carrying it away).

Notes

The police officer that arrested the band in the telephone booth at the end of the song was performed by Marty Robinson at the end of the Rock & Roll! video. On the Signs! album, he was voiced by Jerry Nelson.
Jerry Nelson voices Big Jeffy in this song.

Releases

Audio (album version)

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)

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+{{song|writer=|composer=[[Christopher Cerf]]|lyricist=[[Norman Stiles]]|date=[[1974]]|source=|publisher=Splotched Animal Music Company (BMI)<br>Sesame Street Inc.}}
-[[Image:littlejerryandthemonotones.jpg|thumb|300px|Original performance]]
+[[Image:littlejerryandthemonotones.jpg|thumb|300px]]
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-"'''Telephone Rock'''" is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' song performed by [[Little Jerry and the Monotones]].  In this song, [[Little Jerry]] gets into a telephone booth, where he starts singing to the operator, and eventually the Monotones pop up and join him. They duck down before the operator asks who it is that's calling her. They do this again a few times, harassing the operator until she shows up and has a cop arrest them (by shutting the telephone booth door and carrying it away).
+"'''Telephone Rock'''" is a ''[[Sesame Street]]'' song performed by [[Little Jerry and the Monotones]]. In this song, [[Little Jerry]] gets into a telephone booth, where he starts singing to the operator (performed by [[Richard Hunt]]), and eventually the Monotones pop up and join him. They duck down before the operator asks who it is that's calling her. They do this again a few times, harassing the operator until she shows up and has a cop arrest them (by shutting the telephone booth door and carrying it away).
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-This song was also included in the 1990 video ''[[Rock & Roll]]'', and was actually used as a plot point in that video. In that video, the opening scene with Little Jerry getting into the telephone booth, and the ending with Little Jerry acknowledging the fact that the cop is taking them away ("Hey, put that booth down!"), were cut.
-<gallery widths=200px>
 Image:LittleJerrystudio.jpg|The Monotones' performance in the ''Rock & Roll'' home video
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 ==Notes==
-*The police officer that arrested the band in the telephone booth at the end of the song was performed by [[Marty Robinson]] at the end of the "Rock & Roll!" vhs, and had a Scottish accent, while on the "Signs!" album, he was performed by [[Jerry Nelson]], and had an English accent.
+*The police officer that arrested the band in the telephone booth at the end of the song was performed by [[Marty Robinson]] at the end of the ''Rock & Roll!'' video. On the ''Signs!'' album, he was voiced by [[Jerry Nelson]].
+*Jerry Nelson voices [[Big Jeffy]] in this song.
 ==Releases==
-;Audio
+;Audio (album version)
+*''[[Signs!]]'' (1977)
-;(Album version):
-* ''[[Signs!]]'' (1977,)
+*''[[Letters, Numbers and Signs]]'' (1977)
-* ''[[Letters, Numbers and Signs]]'' (1977)
 ;Video
-* ''[[Rock & Roll!]]'' (1990, new sound effects added)
+*''[[Rock & Roll!]]'' (1990, new sound effects added, beginning and ending cut)
-* ''[[Shalom Sesame]]: [[Show 9: Aleph-Bet Telethon|Aleph-bet Telethon]]'' (1991)
+*''[[Shalom Sesame]]'': ''[[Show 9: Aleph-Bet Telethon|Aleph-bet Telethon]]'' (1991, edited)
 *''[[Old School: Volume 2]]'' (2007)
+*''[[Old School: Volume 3]]'' (2012)
 [[Category:Sesame Street Songs]]

Music by	Christopher Cerf
Lyrics by	Norman Stiles
Date	1974
Publisher	Splotched Animal Music Company (BMI) Sesame Street Inc.