Electric Company Sign Song

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Electric company sign song.

From a black and white season one 1971 72 kinescope. At the end of a few of the early episodes clark gesner s sign song would be followed by a nonsense version performed by the cast featuring several of the. A song with lyrics made up of the names of signs from enter and exit to home sweet home. Signs is a song by the canadian rock group five man electrical band.

The sign song is exactly that. It was first heard on the tv show the electric company and its soundtrack album and was later used on the sesame street album signs sung by big bird and a chorus of kids dubbed the lost generation on the album notes. It was written by the band s frontman les emmerson and popularized the relatively unknown band who recorded it for their second album good byes and butterflies in 1970 signs was originally released that year as the b side to the relatively unsuccessful single hello melinda goodbye 55 canada. Carmela rita moreno is raving about how much she likes clark gesner s sign song but lorelei jim.