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[sesamemuppetfan]

Henson Rarities just uploaded this goodie on YouTube yesterday. Someone originally posted it back in 2006, but only the 0:30-7:33 footage. Here it is in its entirety.

You MUST watch this tribute if you can! It's especially heartwarming at 5:55-5:58; there are some other heartwarming moments here, but you'll just have to watch it and see.

Enjoy!

 

[Mo Frackle]

How come no one brought this up yet? Check this whole thing out! Surely you've got a half-hour to spare. You won't believe the people they got for this:

From now on, every time someone mentions "Eric Jacobson," his Kanye impersonation is going to pop into my head.

 

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[MuppetDanny]

I am not sure if this has been posted before, but still.... Jim Henson on German TV in the 1980's

 

[MuppetDanny]

Here's something we haven't seen before, from 1974 "Wonderama":

 

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This audio is also from Wonderama; wish I had the video. This is Joe Raposo debuting a weird disco version of his song "Rag Dolly," from the 1977 Raggedy Ann film by Richard Williams, and his later, rather dark and unusual broadway musical.

 

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That's from my other Youtube account, dedicated to the animation work of the great Richard Williams. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Thief and the Cobbler)

While you might remember the 1977 Raggedy Ann film (which we have about five different 35mm prints of, if we can ever get the rights to release it on Blu-Ray), the Broadway musical version of Raggedy Ann - which also featured songs by Joe Raposo - is much more obscure. It was a darker, moodier piece, and audiences expecting something very light for kids weren't happy with it. It would probably play better today, if audiences knew what they were in for. [We have a few bootlegs of the songs, and judging from that it's more interesting than the film, if sometimes too scary for kids.]

It did have a successful run in the USSR, as part of a Reagan-era publicity effort to bridge the gap between the two countries. Here is a documentary about that.

 

[antsamthompson9]

This is funny: