Talk: Sesame Street/@comment-455627-20131213180709/@comment-10637-20150901104046

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Yeah, that all makes sense given what we currently know. There's so much material from that era we still don't have.

So, we've got multiple occurrences of Spinney telling that story. I'll think of a way to work that into the Elmo article as that's where people would most likely look for it.

For the record, here's the transcript of the Michael Davis/Caroll Spinney interview:

Davis: What did Picklepuss sound like?
Spinney: [does a gravelly voice] "Well, I sounded like sumpin' like this. Little kinda voice." I even used the same voice -- puppeteers generally only have a certain amount of voices. Otherwise they start sounding like... similar. For instance Yoda sounds a lot like Grover. And, uh, not my characters. So, Picklepuss, I used that voice for, uh, when Elmo, the puppet that's used for Elmo, first appeared... I was running it. He was called Baby Monster, part of a family of little monsters. "We Are Family" we'd sing. And, uh, I played him and he talked with Picklepuss's voice. [does the voice again] "Hi, I'm a baby Muppet" ... Baby Monster. But, uh, that was short-lived. You know, eventually it certainly became Kevin Clash who does wonderful things with Elmo.

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	* Davis: What did [[Picklepuss and Pop\|Picklepuss]] sound like?		* Davis: What did [[Picklepuss and Pop\|Picklepuss]] sound like?
−	* Spinney: [does a ~~gravely~~ voice] Well, I sounded like sumpin' like this. Little kinda voice. I even used the same voice -- puppeteers generally only have a certain amount of voices. Otherwise they start ~~sound~~ like... similar. For instance Yoda sounds a lot like Grover. And, uh, not my characters. So, Picklepuss, I used that voice for, uh, when Elmo, the puppet that's used for Elmo, first appeared... I was running it. He was called Baby Monster, part of a family of little monsters. "We Are Family" we'd sing. And, uh, I played him and he talked with Picklepuss's voice. [does the voice again] "Hi, I'm a baby Muppet" ... Baby Monster. But, uh, that was short-lived. You know, eventually it certainly became Kevin Clash who does wonderful things with Elmo.	+	* Spinney: [does a gravelly voice] "Well, I sounded like sumpin' like this. Little kinda voice." I even used the same voice -- puppeteers generally only have a certain amount of voices. Otherwise they start sounding like... similar. For instance Yoda sounds a lot like Grover. And, uh, not my characters. So, Picklepuss, I used that voice for, uh, when Elmo, the puppet that's used for Elmo, first appeared... I was running it. He was called Baby Monster, part of a family of little monsters. "We Are Family" we'd sing. And, uh, I played him and he talked with Picklepuss's voice. [does the voice again] "Hi, I'm a baby Muppet" ... Baby Monster. But, uh, that was short-lived. You know, eventually it certainly became Kevin Clash who does wonderful things with Elmo.