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| Written by | Christopher Cerf |
| Date | 1990 |
| Publisher | Splotched Animal Music |
Sesame Street Elmo's Debut
"Happy Tappin' with Elmo" is a Sesame Street song from Episode 2832. Elmo is waiting for Savion to start tap dance class, and he decides to make believe he's a professional tap dancer. Elmo envisions himself showing his skills on a stairway (seen in full-body via chroma key) and invites the viewer to join him in a peppy tap dancing session.
The song is a nod to Fred Astaire's performance of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' on the Ritz" in the 1946 film Blue Skies.
The original script titles the segment "Elmo's Debut,"[1] a title that carried over to Sesame Street’s official YouTube upload of the segment. The title refers to Elmo's imaginary debut as a world-famous tap dancer, not his actual debut as a character.
Releases[]
- Audio
- Sesame Street Celebrates! (1994)
- Platinum All-Time Favorites (1995)
- The Best of Elmo (1997)
- Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs (1997)
- Get Up and Dance (2003, CD sampler)
- Just Me! Music (2007)
- Elmo's Dance Party (2012)
- All-Time Favorites 2 (2018)
- D is for Dance! (2019)
- It's Time to Rock & Rhyme (2020)
- Video
- Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years (1993)
- The Best of Elmo (1994)
- Stage shows
- Christmas Makes Magic (2009)
- Online
Sources[]
- ↑ Documents provided by trusted source