They Call the Wind Maria

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Written by
Music by	Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by	Alan Jay Lerner
Date	1951
Source	Paint Your Wagon (musical)
Publisher	Chappell & Co. Inc.

"They Call the Wind Maria," from Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical Paint Your Wagon, was almost performed on episode 212 of The Muppet Show.

Robin the Frog, who had been feeling small and neglected, was inspired by guest star Bernadette Peters' rendition of "Just One Person" to ask his uncle Kermit to sing "They Call the Wind Maria" on the show. Kermit let him sing "I'm Five" instead.

The persistent Robin does manage to sneak a few bars of the song in, first when "auditioning" for Kermit backstage and again after he finishes "I'm Five." This onstage performance, however, is aborted before he can get very far, as he is pulled offstage by a vaudevillian cane.

The song was also referenced on an installment of Global Grover on Sesame Street. Grover had just returned from Arizona, which he described as a place "where they call the wind Maria, for some reason I do not understand."