Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration



Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration was the television title for the special celebrating Sesame Street's 25th anniversary. Released in a slightly different form on video in October 1993, the special was shelved for its broadcast premiere on PBS in 1994, during pledge drive season, and in many markets, aired as part of a marathon block with three show episodes. The special was a companion to the prime-time network special, Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!.

Sesame Street Jam is now more commonly known as Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration!, the title used for the VHS and DVD releases. Both specials have the same linking footage but different clips. However, they both end with the cast and Ladysmith Black Mambazo performing "Sing".

There was at least one difference between the broadcast and video versions (besides title and segments): When Savion points out to Telly Monster and Prairie Dawn that there are dancers everywhere, on the broadcast version Telly says "and pigs, too", leading to "A New Way to Walk", but on the video release, after Savion says that there are dancers everywhere, Elmo appears and says, "And little red monsters, too!", leading to "Happy Tapping with Elmo".

Televised Version

 * Adventure with En Vogue
 * C is for Cookie (opera version)
 * Rubber Duckie with Little Richard
 * That's the Letter O with Queen Latifah
 * I Don't Want To Live on The Moon with Aaron Neville
 * That's My Name with Maya Angelou
 * A New Way To Walk (1990s version)
 * Elmo and The Lavender Moon with Los Lobos
 * Monster in the Mirror (celebrity version)

Home Video Version

 * Adventure
 * The Batty Bat
 * The Alligator King
 * Count It Higher
 * I Love Trash
 * Rubber Duckie medley: Rubber Duckie, The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree, Put Down the Duckie and Do De Rubber Duck.
 * C is for Cookie
 * Monster in the Mirror
 * Happy Tapping with Elmo
 * Dance Myself To Sleep
 * Doin' the Pigeon
 * Feel the Beat
 * I'm an Aardvark
 * Fuzzy and Blue
 * Skin
 * Bein' Green
 * We Are All Earthlings

Cast

 * Muppets: Big Bird, Telly Monster, Prairie Dawn, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herry Monster, The Amazing Mumford, Davey Monkey, Joey Monkey, Count von Count, Merry Monster, Humphrey Monster, and Baby Natasha.


 * Background Muppets: Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, Bert, Forgetful Jones, Buster the Horse, Roxy Marie, Kingston Livingston III, The Oinker Sisters, and Hoots the Owl.


 * Muppets in inserts: Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Grover, Herry Monster, Count von Count, Little Chrissy, The Alphabeats, Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, Hoots the Owl, Gladys the Cow, Biff, Telly Monster, The Honkers, Dinger, Elmo, and Baby Tooth and the Funky Funk.


 * Humans: Savion, Jamal, Angela, Gina Jefferson, Maria, and Celina.