Do you know what I just discovered????

[conuly]

I can download videos off of YouTube and save them to my computer and watch them in DivX. No, really.

Funnily enough, this coincided with me realizing that there's a ton (well, half a ton, anyway) of Sesame Street videos on YouTube, which culminated in my ephiphany that the show was better before now. (Don't get proper Sesame Street anymore, you young whippersnappers!)

And that caused me to start thinking two things. One, THEY ought to sell old seasons of Sesame Street on DVD, instead of all that Elmo, and two, I wish I knew the lyrics and music to some of those songs.

Now, the lyrics to a lot of fairly obscure Sesame Street are online, but where do I get the melodies? WHERE, I ask you? WHERE????

Help?

Comments

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

How do you do that?

[conuly]

http://vixy.net/

There's apparently other ways, but this is the simplest. Hopefully, it's not simultaneously destroying my computer/soul.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

They actually do sell a DVD collection of skits from the first five years of Sesame Street. I'd love to buy it someday when the price comes down a little, because the show really was much better when its target 'pre-school' age was five rather than three.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I beat you to it, here (http://fjorab-teke.livejournal.com/449325.html) and here (http://fjorab-teke.livejournal.com/451987.html). I have to TOTALLY agree! Do you want my favorites list? *giggles*

I think there's a "Best of Bert and Ernie" one somewhere, but I haven't searched it out yet.

Gah, Elmo took over and is more pervasive than Big Bird ever was. :-p

Now, how can I pirate download these gems, so that I can save a few of them before they potentially disappear like someone's ex-post of my favorite Marching Band clip?

As for the melodies, I don't know where to go. I think my parents or my sister have the Sesame Street songs record that we listened to as kids, and I think we're going to try to record some of those old obscure rare records digitally to coputer sometime.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Ah, just saw the downloading link, it's handy, and I will use it! Yay!

[conuly]

They do????

How much is it? Maybe we can go halvsies?

[conuly]

That link is turning into the BESTEST THING EVAH!

Seriously.

Ana and the baby may grow up the only children who watch TV almost exclusively on the computer....

Well, Jenn *is* getting an actual TV soon.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You can find it on Amazon here (http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-School-Vol-1969-1974/dp/B000H6SY8C/sr=8-1/qid=1171952878/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2693123-6299311?ie=UTF8&s=dvd). I found out about it while watching a really neat special on the process of developing Sesame Street programmes in other countries - it was definitely a trip seeing all those old sketches and realising I still knew the words to all the songs.

[conuly]

I... I think I love you.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Happy to help. :-D

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

w007! *bookmarks*

[adiva_calandia]

My parents and I were just talking about how much better kids' TV used to be -- old-school Sesame Street, Shining Time Station, Wishbone . . .

*nostalgic*

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

How did you d/l?!

[conuly]

I've got a link up there in comments. *points*

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

I always sing "Rubber Duckie" to my padawan at bathtime.

Wow. I should get that DVD too!

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, when I woke up this morning - long before reading this post - my first thought was "I wonder if I can download the first episode of Sesame Street off of youtube?"

I don't know about fairly obscure, but I was able to find "these are the people in my neighborgood" on Kazaa years ago...

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated, but I finally managed to find Hilari Bell books!! It was literally hopeless to find the English versions here in Hungary (and my last order from Amazon took a YEAR to arrive) but looks like while I was in Norway, Animus (a Hungarian publisher of quality children's and YA books, including Harry Potter) published two of her novels. I even found a sale and ordered them fast, I should have them before the weekend. (Don't ask me which, I think Goblin Wood and Prophecy, but I'm kind of unsure... the titles are different.) And if I like them, I can always order from Amazon via amazon.at when I am finally in Austria.

[conuly]

Prophecy is actually pretty meh, though it does give a quick review of how she writes, I suppose. Goblin Wood, now, I like that one.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street back in the day was awesome, if for no other reason than Buffy Sainte-Marie was in a bunch of episodes.

...I adore that woman.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

How do you do that?

[conuly]

http://vixy.net/

There's apparently other ways, but this is the simplest. Hopefully, it's not simultaneously destroying my computer/soul.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

They actually do sell a DVD collection of skits from the first five years of Sesame Street. I'd love to buy it someday when the price comes down a little, because the show really was much better when its target 'pre-school' age was five rather than three.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I beat you to it, here (http://fjorab-teke.livejournal.com/449325.html) and here (http://fjorab-teke.livejournal.com/451987.html). I have to TOTALLY agree! Do you want my favorites list? *giggles*

I think there's a "Best of Bert and Ernie" one somewhere, but I haven't searched it out yet.

Gah, Elmo took over and is more pervasive than Big Bird ever was. :-p

Now, how can I pirate download these gems, so that I can save a few of them before they potentially disappear like someone's ex-post of my favorite Marching Band clip?

As for the melodies, I don't know where to go. I think my parents or my sister have the Sesame Street songs record that we listened to as kids, and I think we're going to try to record some of those old obscure rare records digitally to coputer sometime.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Ah, just saw the downloading link, it's handy, and I will use it! Yay!

[conuly]

They do????

How much is it? Maybe we can go halvsies?

[conuly]

That link is turning into the BESTEST THING EVAH!

Seriously.

Ana and the baby may grow up the only children who watch TV almost exclusively on the computer....

Well, Jenn *is* getting an actual TV soon.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You can find it on Amazon here (http://www.amazon.com/Sesame-Street-School-Vol-1969-1974/dp/B000H6SY8C/sr=8-1/qid=1171952878/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2693123-6299311?ie=UTF8&s=dvd). I found out about it while watching a really neat special on the process of developing Sesame Street programmes in other countries - it was definitely a trip seeing all those old sketches and realising I still knew the words to all the songs.

[conuly]

I... I think I love you.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

Happy to help. :-D

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

w007! *bookmarks*

[adiva_calandia]

My parents and I were just talking about how much better kids' TV used to be -- old-school Sesame Street, Shining Time Station, Wishbone . . .

*nostalgic*

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

How did you d/l?!

[conuly]

I've got a link up there in comments. *points*

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

I always sing "Rubber Duckie" to my padawan at bathtime.

Wow. I should get that DVD too!

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, when I woke up this morning - long before reading this post - my first thought was "I wonder if I can download the first episode of Sesame Street off of youtube?"

I don't know about fairly obscure, but I was able to find "these are the people in my neighborgood" on Kazaa years ago...

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated, but I finally managed to find Hilari Bell books!! It was literally hopeless to find the English versions here in Hungary (and my last order from Amazon took a YEAR to arrive) but looks like while I was in Norway, Animus (a Hungarian publisher of quality children's and YA books, including Harry Potter) published two of her novels. I even found a sale and ordered them fast, I should have them before the weekend. (Don't ask me which, I think Goblin Wood and Prophecy, but I'm kind of unsure... the titles are different.) And if I like them, I can always order from Amazon via amazon.at when I am finally in Austria.

[conuly]

Prophecy is actually pretty meh, though it does give a quick review of how she writes, I suppose. Goblin Wood, now, I like that one.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street back in the day was awesome, if for no other reason than Buffy Sainte-Marie was in a bunch of episodes.

...I adore that woman.