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Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music
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Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Children's Music
 
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Songs from the Street, the boxed set that stretches back to "Sesame Street's" 1969 debut, is the kids' record of the year, if not the decade: Big Bird and the gang might've pulled it off themselves--for a crew of fix-it st...  more »

     
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All Artists: Sesame Street
Title: Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music
Members Wishing: 6
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony Wonder (Audio)
Release Date: 9/2/2003
Album Type: Box set, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Children's Music
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Educational, Sing-A-Longs
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 696998603028

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Songs from the Street, the boxed set that stretches back to "Sesame Street's" 1969 debut, is the kids' record of the year, if not the decade: Big Bird and the gang might've pulled it off themselves--for a crew of fix-it store workers, shopkeeps, and goofball monsters, the talent quotient's off the charts--but when you've got this many names to drop, they've got to land somewhere. What impresses most in three discs is the lack of a single thud. Cab Calloway, Pete Seeger, and James Taylor mosey in on disc one; Johnny Cash, BB King, and Tony Bennett take seats on the stoop for disc two; and the Dixie Chicks, Gloria Estefan, and R.E.M. raise the brownstone roof on disc three--and that's leaving out stars like Lena Horne, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, and Trisha Yearwood. When it comes to inspiring preschoolers and their parents to sing the praises of rubber duckies, bein' green, and the people in their neighborhood; "The Street" gets busy. --Tammy La Gorce

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I'd rather just the first 10 years, thanks
Shockadelic | Sydney, Australia | 05/25/2007
(2 out of 5 stars)

"About half the songs are the original television versions. But the liner notes for the other half list them as being "from" other COMPILATIONS released in the 1990s.

Nowhere is it stated whether those compilations used the original versions or re-recordings, so who knows? Even the TITLE theme is not the original (It might be the version they use nowadays, but it's not the version most people know from the 70s).

Sesame should have just used the original TV versions of all tracks as that's what collectors of vintage material would be looking for (and paying quite a lot for).

They also should have focused more on the early years when the show was the most innovative. And as music was a major element, I'm sure there's a lot more material that could have been used, particularly those odd demonstrational songs about the number 5 or the letter R. Instead they've focused on the celebrity guests, most of whom don't really add much value.

I personally hoped there'd be that funky counting to ten song that featured on almost every episode (not the Pinball one, which I love too).

Disappointing, but until a better option comes along, this will have to do."