Beep

Music by	Sam Pottle
Lyrics by	Emily Perl Kingsley
Date	1974
Publisher	Sesame Street, Inc. (ASCAP)
First	Episode 0768

C-3PO sings to Big Bird.

Two Anything Muppets discuss how to learn numbers in the song "Beep". The first character (voiced by Northern Calloway) has learned that he can beep for each number to keep them straight; one beep for the number one, two beeps for two, etc. For each beep he says, a circle appears at the top of the screen. The second character (performed by Jerry Nelson) keeps asking about bigger and bigger numbers and begins to beep along; eventually both characters are beeping nonstop and the circles fill the whole screen.

C-3PO and R2-D2 later sang the song in an insert with Big Bird using the same music as the Anything Muppet version. (First: Episode 1495) In a Play with Me Sesame scene, Prairie Dawn sings the song with the viewer and Grover.

An abridged version of the song was performed by the Muppet cast of Iftah Ya Simsim in a series of segments in the 2019 season. (YouTube)

Play With Me Sesame

Releases

Audio

• The Count Counts (1975)
• The Count Presents Numbers (1981)

Video (Big Bird, C-3PO and RD-D2 version)

• 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)

Online

• SesameStreet's YouTube Channel Star Wars version (YouTube)