Frustrated Muppet piano player?
James Garfield
Does anyone remember the name of the "Seasame Street" character who
played the piano, but could never get the tune right and eventually would
get so upset that he would start banging his head on the piano keys?
And I think he said things like "It's ruined, ruined, ruined,
RUINED!"
Any other info on this character? Who did his voice? Is he ever on
the show anymore (I haven't watched it for 10 years)? Any WWW pages on
him?
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ZHELDER
composing well known tunes, with great difficulty. When he ran into a problem,
he would scream, "I'll never get it right! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! " and bang his
head on the piano. The variations on the tunes he came up with were always
hilarious. ("Mary Had a Bycycle" was my favorite. )
Don Music was performed by Richard Hunt, who passed away in early 1992. He
has not been featured in any sketches since Richard's death.
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while Don banged his head on the keys and generally got melodramatic. Don
would "compose" a fairly common tune, get one key word wrong, then the next
line wouldn't rhyme, so he'd fix that, then the next line after that would
need to be fixed until the song was finished, usually to Kermit's disgust.
The song I remember best was Mary Had a Little Lamb. Don does the whole
song, but can't come up with the word go. What do lambs do? They run. Run
doesn't rhyme with snow so he changes the lamb's color to yellow as the sun.
But, lambs aren't yellow. After many frustrated head bashes, he comes up
with letting Mary have a bicycle, then realizes bicycles don't run.
Eventually, the song ends up:
Mary had a bicycle
It was painted red as fire.
And every time Mary wanted to take a ride
The bicycle had a flat tire.
Don sings it in kind of a breathy, meaningful rock voice complete with backup
singers who miraculously pop up from behind the piano.
I know he changed other songs. Anyone else remember the others?
Yvette
Klskcs1
Star". I can't remember all the words but it had something to do with cherry
pie and ham and cheese on rye (anyone care to assist on this one?) Oh yes, and
once he even did a version of the SS theme song, which started like this:
"Stormy night, not even a star in sight..."
He he he.
Kristin
Kim Fisher
I never heard the "Stormy night" one, but Don's version of Twinkle
Twinkle is one of my favorites, it goes something like this:
Whistle, whistle little bird
Isn't eating crumbs absurd?
Try a ham and cheese on rye
And a piece of cherry pie
If those crumbs are all you want
Don't come in my restaurant!
Kim
Michael Kotler
> Oh yes, and
>once he even did a version of the SS theme song, which started like this:
>
>"Stormy night, not even a star in sight..."
On my way, to where the air is dark
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Yellowstone Park.
There was also a version of Yankee Doodle. It began
"Yankee Doodle stayed at home..."
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Riko
>I always loved the one where Don Music did a version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little
>Star". I can't remember all the words but it had something to do with cherry
>pie and ham and cheese on rye.
<ahem>
Tweet Tweet Little Bird
Isn't eating crumbs absurd?
Would you like a ham and cheese on rye
Or a piece of cherry pie?
And if those crumbs are all you want
Then don't come in my restaurant
THE END
-Riko
Sesame Street Wizard
JonLentz69
>
>"Yankee Doodle stayed at home..."
Yeah he does the entire song right but wonders who the hell sticks a feather in
his hat and calls it macaroni, so Kermit tells him to say "put fat spaghetti
in his hat", but you don't do that, so it became "...in a pot" but who does
that while riding a pony, so Kermit suggests "...cooking for his pony" instead
of "...riding on a pony" and Don pretty much flips out, "BUT HE'S GOING TO
TOWN! HOW CAN HE COOK AND GO TO TOWN AT THE SAME TIME?!!!!!!!" (as he yells
the question he slams his head on the piano on 'cook' rolls it to the right
twice then stops at the end) Kermit is yelling for him to calm himself, then
tells him he's not going to town. He's staying home. So the song basically
became:
Yankee Doodle stayed at home,
cooking for his pony.
He puts fat spaghetti in a pot,
and calls it macaroni.
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JonLentz69
>>I always loved the one where Don Music did a version of "Twinkle Twinkle
>Little
>>Star". I can't remember all the words but it had something to do with
>cherry
>>pie and ham and cheese on rye.
>
><ahem>
>
>Tweet Tweet Little Bird
>Isn't eating crumbs absurd?
>Would you like a ham and cheese on rye
>Or a piece of cherry pie?
>
>And if those crumbs are all you want
>Then don't come in my restaurant
>
>THE END
>
>-Riko
>Sesame Street Wizard
>
yeah it becomes "..a diamond in a pie", but why would a diamond be there, so
it became "..a cherry in a pie", but why would a cherry pie be in the sky.
(Kermit: "Maybe it's an advertisement") It then became "would you like a ham
on rye or a piece of cherry pie" but stars don't eat, so it became an animal.
BTW the words you wrote aren't right. Someone wrote the right lyrics in this
topic.