Telephone Rock

Music by	Christopher Cerf
Lyrics by	Norman Stiles
Date	1974
Publisher	Splotched Animal Music Company Sesame Street Inc.
First	Episode 0733

Rock & Roll home video.

"Telephone Rock" is a Sesame Street song performed by Little Jerry and the Monotones in Season 6.

Little Jerry gets into a telephone booth, where he (joined by the Monotones) starts singing to the operator. They end up harassing her until she shows up with a cop, who arrests them (by shutting the telephone booth door and carrying it away as they continue the song).

Notes

• Jon Stone directed this segment.

• In the original airings of the segment in Season 6, the song audio becomes intentionally muffled when the officer closes the doors of the phone booth. Subsequent airings leave the audio untouched.

• The police officer that arrests the band at the end of the song was performed by Martin P. Robinson at the end of the Rock & Roll! video. On the Signs! album, he was voiced by Jerry Nelson.

• As Jeff Moss had left the previous season, Jerry Nelson voices Big Jeffie in this song, later supplying bass vocals for Jeffie again in the album version of the song on the Signs! album.

Releases

Audio

• Signs! (1977)
• Letters, Numbers and Signs (1977)

Video

• Rock & Roll! (1990, new sound effects added, beginning and ending cut)
• Shalom Sesame: Aleph-bet Telethon (1991, edited)
• Old School: Volume 2 (2007)
• Old School: Volume 3 (2012)
• 50 Years and Counting (2019)