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
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning Yaphank", and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1918", as well as in 113 Broadway performances of "This Is the Army" in 1942. Jack Haley sang "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in the 1938 movie "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and in 1938 Alice Faye and Ethel Merman also sang the song at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. It was sung at a 1941 war rally against the America First Committee by New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Philadelphia. The song is sung in the 1932 Betty Boop short entitled "Oh! How I Hate to Get