Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" is the theme song of the children's television series "Sesame Street". It is the oldest song in "Sesame Street's" history, dating back to the show's very beginning on November 10, 1969. The "Sesame Street" theme song was composed by Joe Raposo, a writer and composer of many of television shows' songs. The opening riff is a variation from the "Good Vibrations" song by The Beach Boys, which was released 3 years prior. In his book on the history of "Sesame
Get Up and Bar the Door his musical entertainment, "No Song, No Supper", performed at Drury Lane in 1790. Among many things, this folk ballad talks about the sense of lasting competition in a relationship. The man tries to maintain his power but the woman refuses because she does not want to be treated like a doormat; each is too stubborn to do something that will benefit both. The ballad makes the point that being stubborn can be carried to ludicrous lengths, since by being stubborn they lost their Martinmas puddings and left their persons and household open to crime. Get Up and Bar the Door