Do-Op Hop

Music by	Christopher Cerf
Lyrics by	Norman Stiles
Date	1984
Publisher	Splotched Animal Music Sesame Street Inc.

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The on-screen title differs from the legal name registered with ASCAP.

"Do-Op Hop" is, appropriately, a doo-wop song sung by Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street. The music video takes place on a countryside setting featuring Kermit as the main singer and two cows from the band How Now Brown and the Moo Wave (only this time with blonde toupees) as back-up singers. Some other animals are seen in the background during the main chorus and are supposedly trying to hop like Kermit (which is really the puppeteers tossing the animals into the air). At the end, Kermit himself is tossed so crazily that his bottom ends up high in the air (see picture).

An a capella version was also sung in the Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration! video, although Kermit was not one of the singers.

Notes

• Although the song is legally titled "Do-Op Hop", in Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street the on-screen MTV-style captions spell it as "Doo Wop Hop".
• The captions' faux album and label credits are I'm Green and I'm Proud and Polywog Records.
• Lyrics to this song were released on a songbook in the original release of the Count It Higher VHS.
• The dog was puppeteered by Noel MacNeal, who also did a lot of the animal tossing.
• An instrumental version of the song can be heard in the video trailer for The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street.

Releases

Video

• Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street (1988)
• Shalom Sesame: Kids Sing Israel (Grouches Don't) (1990)
• The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street (1998, ending cut)

Online

• Sesamestreet.org Template:SSvideo
• Hulu Template:Hulu
• SesameStreet's YouTube Channel (YouTube)
• Sesame Street Classics: Volume 2 - Included in Episode 3137.

See also

• Kermit's Sesame Street Songs