Sing After Me

Written by	Sam Pottle and Tony Geiss
Date	1977
Publisher	Sesame Street Inc.
First	Episode 1112

"Sing After Me" was first performed on Sesame Street by Madeline Kahn and Grover in 1977. It is an echo song, where the first singer croons a verse and the other performer repeats it.

Other versions

Image	Year	Description
	1979	Big Bird sings an a capella version of the song with Shields and Yarnell in front of an audience of children, in the television special On the Road to China.
	1982	Big Bird on Sesame Street Sing-Along! and The Best of Big Bird.
	1983	Led by Big Bird at the Cleveland Orchestra
	1983	Big Bird and the cast (Episode 1808)
	1994	Ruthie and Marilyn Horne (First: Episode 3198)
	1994	Ruthie and Wolfgang the Seal sing the song in a talent show act called the "Laughing Seal Duet" (episode 3213)
	1994	Big Bird, Ernie and Bert in When I Grow Up
	1997	Celina and Telly Monster in Episode 3622
	1998	Ernie and Elmo (First: Episode 3802) This is a rare example of Elmo referring to himself as "I" and "me" instead of replacing the song lyrics to do so in the third person.
	1999	Bob and the Kids (episode 3808)
	1999	Big Bird and Alan (episode 3830)
	2001	Zoe and her jacket. (Episode 3974)
	2001	Evening at Pops
	2002	Telly and Joshua Bell on the tuba and violin, respectively (First: Episode 3994)
	2002	Elmo, Zoe and Bob (episode 4020)
	2002	Elmo, Zoe, Alan and Aladdin, played by David Alan Grier (Episode 4025)
	2003	Grover, Prairie Dawn, Bert, and Ernie on Play with Me Sesame
	2005	Elmo and Ieniemienie as "Wees Mijn Echo", Open Huis in Sesamstraat
	2007	Horatio the Elephant and Chris as "Dance After Me" (episode 4136)
	2009	"Wees mijn echo" (literally Be My Echo) is sung by Ernst Daniël Smid and Ieniemienie. (YouTube)
	2009	Pancho and Isabel Lascuráin on Plaza Sésamo
	2010	Elmo, Zoe, Ernie, Bert and Cookie Monster in Elmo Rocks
	2012	Rachel Dratch and John Tartaglia at Jim Henson's Musical World
	2012	Elmo and Abby Cadabby at The White House Easter Egg Roll.
	2019	Big Bird and Abby Cadabby at A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration
	2019	Big Bird and Bert at Tiny Desk Concerts
	2019	Big Bird performed a special version of the song at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con with lyrics altered to appeal to the audience of pop culture enthusiasts. [1] References include: "Cowabunga" from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Utini", a Jawa word from Star Wars "Na-na-na-na Batman" "Beam me up, Scotty" from Star Trek "Scooby-Doobie-doo" "Wakanda Forever" from Black Panther "Robots in disguise" from Transformers "Pow, bam, boom" "Wingardium Leviosa" from Harry Potter "Excelsior", popularized by Stan Lee
	2020	Daniel with Julia and Samuel, in a Caring for Each Other segment, "Sing After Me". Daniel also plays the song at the end of "A Park Problem".
	2021	Rosita, Elmo, and Cookie Monster performed a bilingual version of the song in a 2021 YouTube video. (YouTube)

Releases

Sesame Street Sing After Me

"Sing After Me" as sung by Ernie and Elmo.

Audio (Grover and Madeline's version)

• The Stars Come Out on Sesame Street (1979)
• Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music (2003)

Audio (Big Bird's version)

• Sesame Street Sing-Along! (1982)
• The Best of Big Bird (1983)

Video (Grover and Madeline's version)

• Sing Along (1987)
• Old School: Volume 2 (2007)
• 50 Years and Counting (2019)

Video (Ernie and Elmo's version)

• Playtime with Ernie (2005, edited)

Publications

• The Sesame Street Songbook (1992 edition only)

See also

• Grover songs