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| Written by | Jeff Moss |
| Date | 1969 |
| Publisher | Festival Attractions, Inc. |
| First | Episode 0060 |
Season 1 version
Sesame Street Up and Down
Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down."
1996 remake.
"Up and Down" is a Sesame Street song that demonstrates the concepts of up and down, illustrating the different things one can see when looking in either direction. The song was originally featured in a Season 1 segment performed by a pair of Muppet monsters (proto-Grover and Billy), who sing it as part of "Silly Song Time." The segment is intercut with a sequence featuring Buddy looking up for something he dropped (a balloon), and another of Ernie pouring a glass of milk while hanging upside down, despite Bert's warning.
The song was then recorded for The Sesame Street Book & Record, credited to "Two Monsters" performed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. This audio sketch features one monster (Oz) looking upward for a cookie he dropped. The other monster (Henson) thinks he doesn't know what up and down means, and they launch into the song, but the first monster reveals afterwards that a bird had taken his cookie when he dropped it. While the monsters aren't named in dialogue (though Henson's monster calls the other "fuzzy face"), Oz is credited on the album with playing "Cookie Monster," marking one of the earliest uses of the name. Later album releases credit the song to "Cookie Monster and another Monster."
In 1970 (for Season 2), the song was videotaped with Cookie Monster and an early Herry Monster (First: Episode 0154). The soundtrack from The Sesame Street Book & Record was used for this version, so Jim Henson's voice is heard instead of Herry's regular performer, Jerry Nelson. This version has the bird dropping the cookie into Herry's hand, who eats it.
In 1996, a remake of this song was taped with Herry and Cookie Monster in a park. (First: Episode 3532) This version of the song marked the debut of a revised version of Herry, with a thinner eyebrow. Some lyrics were altered slightly to reflect the fact that they were singing outdoors (looking at the sun/grass instead of ceiling/floor, respectively) and that Herry doesn't wear shoes.
Releases[]
- Audio
- The Sesame Street Book & Record (1970)
- One of These Things/Up and Down (single, 1970)
- I Love Trash/Up and Down (single, 1970)
- C is for Cookie (LP) (1974)
- 60 Favorite Songs from Sesame Street (1975)
- 25 Greatest Hits (1975)
- Cookie's Rhyming Song/Up and Down (single, 1976)
- The Best of Cookie Monster (1983)
- C is for Cookie (CD) (1995)
- Imagination Collection (2012)
- Cookie Monster Mix! (2019)
- Video
- C is for Cookie Monster (2010, remake)
- Publications
- Sesame Street Songbook Vol. 1
- The Sesame Street Songbook (1971 edition only)
- Songs of Sesame Street (1977)
- The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures (1983)