User talk:ErnieBert

Talk thread titles
By the way -- seeing your "Hi!" message on my talk page reminded me of something that I wanted to mention. You tend to title all of your talk page conversations "Hi!" -- which makes it hard to tell what they're actually about. When I look at My Home, I see a lot of people responding to conversations titled "Hi!", and I have to click on the pages if I want to see what the topic is. Just as an example -- on Paul's talk page, there are nine different conversations called "Hi, Paul!" or "Hey, Paul!", which makes the table of contents pretty redundant. :)

So -- when you start conversations on talk pages, would you mind using the heading to describe what the conversation is about? I'd really appreciate it -- you talk about lots of interesting things, and I want to be able to follow along! -- Danny (talk ) 05:59, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, okay, I'm sorry about that. It's just that I usually jump into what I want to say in my first sentence, and saying "Dutch book and tape sets" in the heading, and then saying, "Hey, Paul, I have a question about the Dutch book and tape sets" seemed redundant to me.  But if it's messing up My Home, I'll make it a little clearer.  Sorry about that! -- Ken  (talk ) 06:04, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

New videos?
Are these the new Warner Home Video releases? I just noticed that Amazon has a ton of these -- more than 30 that I can find. -- Danny (talk ) 04:34, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure yet. I was in Target last week, and they had some Genius copies with a sticker pasted on the bottom of the back cover with some copyright information that mentioned Warner Home Video.  So I think until they sell off old stock, this is what they'll do during the transition.  It remains to be seen how different the Elmo one will be next month.  (Part of me actually wants to buy it, just to compare the actual disc and inside packaging, because Sony pressed the Genius ones!)  I know that catalog numbers will change to a whole new series, but as far as the outside, I'm not sure.  I know that Amazon sometimes would have a Sony cover for a Genius entry, and vice versa.  Genius was a little unusual, because they carried over Sony numbering for titles that had been on Sony, but the new ones started with SS.  Plus, I've never seen a Genius pressing of Old School 1, and I don't know if Warner is going to reissue both Old Schools.  I hope they do!  So the short answer is, yes, I think Amazon is treating these as "new" Warner titles if they have the transition sticker, but for our purposes, I wouldn't count it unless they actually change the catalog number and copyright information. -- Ken  (talk ) 04:45, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * So where are these covers coming from? We don't have them on the wiki, as far as I know... -- Danny (talk ) 04:46, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's another thing that's been weird. People (like Michael) have been reporting seeing Genius versions of things (like Christmas Eve) that I've never seen before.  So I think there were Genius reissues in the pipeline, but then things seemed to stop when they announced the Warner deal, and now all of a sudden I'm seeing Genius boxes with Warner stickers on the back.  If we don't have them, then we can use them, but we'll have to unravel who actually put them out.  Transitions are always a mess.  I have some Random House VHS titles with Sony barcodes pasted on the back! -- Ken  (talk ) 04:51, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was really surprised to see these -- more than 30 "new" releases, all at once. It does feel like a floodgate opened as soon as it became 2010. I guess we could put all these on the Sesame Video category talk page until we figure out where they're coming from; we can wait for them to show up in stores and then look at the boxes. :) -- Danny (talk ) 05:44, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

By the way, getting back to Warner DVD's, it's nice to know they'll be handled by a major again. There are also a bunch of entries at www.wbshop.com. -- Ken (talk ) 05:31, January 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, well, that clinches it for me. It's 2010, these are new covers, and Warner's selling them on their site. I think it's okay to draw the obvious conclusion -- these are the new Warner Bros editions. Let's enjoy them. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:52, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

The MTV reference to "Wet Paint"
Just for the record: I know the song actually didn't air on MTV, but it had a parody of the channel, as you can view here. It's basically like the same deal with "The Letter N" by Nick Normal and the Nickmatics (or the official title, NTV), since even though the song never aired on MTV, it had its own MTV parody intro. Wattamack4 20:42, January 15, 2010 (UTC)Alex


 * Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention "A New Way to Walk" by the Oinker Sisters in my last summary (it's basically the same deal as well). Wattamack4 20:44, January 15, 2010 (UTC)Alex


 * Oh, okay, then you're thinking of Broadcasters, not Broadcasting. Broadcasting is for the real places that have aired Muppet content, like ABC and CBS.  "Broadcasters" is for the fictional stations like KMUP and MuppeTelevision.  And the MTV page is already in Broadcasters, and the MTV page also mentions the various parodies.  So the song page itself wouldn't go in the Broadcasters category, but the MTV page would. -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:05, January 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, ok. I noticed you did put "Broadcasters" in the page for the song, but you took it out pretty quick. Wattamack4 03:21, January 16, 2010 (UTC)Alex


 * That was me messing up. I realized that songs themselves don't go in the Broadcasters category.  Only the names of real networks. -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:24, January 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see. There's some articles like "Bushman Bill", "Nora Nicks", and "NTV" that have the same deal with "broadcasting" as one of the categories... do you think we should take them out? Wattamack4 03:27, January 16, 2010 (UTC)Alex


 * Actually, I was just looking at that. I think we may have some confusion as to what goes where.  Let me bring it up on the talk page. -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:29, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Obscure Joe Raposo
It's not really wiki-relevant, but I thought you might like to see this off-broadway recording of a Joe Raposo/Erich Segal musical from 1961... just for fun :) -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:01, January 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Joe started in musical theater. He also did the Raggedy Ann and Andy movie from 1977.  Thanks for showing me that!  That's a really little-known show and album!  (I had to look it up in one of my reference books!) -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:19, January 14, 2010 (UTC)

Soul Sesame Street
I found this album on a Japanese auction site -- Soul Sesame Street, by the Village Soul Choir. I don't think we have it on the wiki, so here's the pics that I took from the auction listing. I also found some information about the album on Franklin Mint Blog. What do you think? -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:16, January 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, there are 3 Peter Pan LP's. The 1st one has pre-existing songs from Season 1, the 2nd one has songs from SS1, and the 3rd one has songs from SS2.  There are also a bunch of singles that go to these albums.  I didn't know if you wanted to get into cover versions on 45's, because there are also singles that go to the other Sesame cover albums from children's labels during that period. -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 07:34, January 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it would be cool to put information on the 45s on the corresponding LP pages... -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 07:44, January 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Except that some 45's have songs pulled from 2 different albums. Plus, if somebody comes across a random 45 on Peter Pan, and tries to look it up here, they wouldn't always know where it came from.  I think we should build something called "Album Appearances on Singles", or something like that.  It would look like Sesame Street Singles, but they'd link to the Peter Pan album pages, and they'd all be on one page, so anybody looking for all cover singles will see them all together.


 * And just to add to your earlier comment about the audience of the time, a lot of people were very impressed (and are still impressed) with the unashamed funkiness of early Sesame music, especially the Roosevelt Franklin album. A lot of DJ's still look for used copies so they can sample it in clubs! -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 08:00, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, cool -- I posted this stuff on your talk page because I knew that you would know the right thing to do with it. :) You should follow your heart. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:07, January 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Danny! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:43, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

A Late Merry Christmas
Hey Kenny babieeeeeeee!! (slaps Ken on the back) It's Kyle (which hasn't been around in long time) A very late Merry Christmas too you and your family. I've been meaning to come by ever so often but i forget to. Plus my parents computer is still has that thing going on with the pictures i save. It messes up everytime i want to look or do soemthing my pics i've saved. But i wanted to stop by and say A Late Merry Christmas to you and all so Very Late Merry Christmas, Ken!! Talk to you soon. -- <font color="Blue">Kyle (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:02, December 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, Kyle! A late Merry Christmas to you too!  I was just thinking about you this week, and I'll send you an e-mail soon! -- <font color="Blue">Ken  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 22:11, December 28, 2009 (UTC)
 * Talk to you soon. -- <font color="Blue">Kyle (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 10:39, December 30, 2009 (UTC)