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Now here's a find! I stumbled on this "clipping" on Newspapers.com whilst researching something else. This Sesame Street article on March 1, 1970, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's "Pictures" section includes a picture of what is captioned as Nina Simone watching a playback of her performing "To Be Young, Gifted and Black."
I'm including the picture for reference. Now, it's not the clearest picture and I'm unsure whether Nina is wearing the same dress in the video we've seen. Still, are there any other sources that indicated she was involved as far back as Season 1?
Oh, the article has some other images from Episode 0077 and what appears to be behind-the-scenes of Bob's "F" story with Kermit. (First: Episode 0095)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Visiting on Sesame Street" by Paul Berg, pp. 311-315, March 1, 1970
--Splurge (talk) 22:13, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- I haven't seen anything about Simone's segment being from the first season, but she is wearing the same outfit in the aired version. -- Tony (talk) 22:38, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's the same dress alright. And it's pretty definitive that she didn't do the song twice. So I guess they taped it and hung onto it until the third season. Here's the rest of that newspaper spread, by the way. —Scott (talk) 23:23, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- That's it. Thank you, sir, these downloads are of higher quality than mine. I can see Simone on the monitor more clearly now. --Splurge (talk) 00:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Update: Here are some color scans from that article but only Muppet-related photos which came from the jimhenson-themuppetmaster Tumblr.
- That's it. Thank you, sir, these downloads are of higher quality than mine. I can see Simone on the monitor more clearly now. --Splurge (talk) 00:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's the same dress alright. And it's pretty definitive that she didn't do the song twice. So I guess they taped it and hung onto it until the third season. Here's the rest of that newspaper spread, by the way. —Scott (talk) 23:23, 20 March 2023 (UTC)