Originally published at: It was the Pointer Sisters that sang Sesame Street's funky pinball counting song! | Boing Boing
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That’s awesome.
My wife and I were just discussing this animation. We were at a minor league baseball game where the Harrisburg Senators were playing. The printing of their numbers was reminiscent of the pinball animation.
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Oh yeah!
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I liked this as little a kid since my birthday is on the 12th. It came back into my life with my kids and is still a favorite tune that crosses my mind with some regularity. I found out it was the Pointer Sisters a few years back, and am really glad to read some more about the production of this wonderful animation. Thanks for posting!
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As a brit of a certain age (living in a particular TV region!) this is one of my strongest USA-ian touchstones. Sesame Street was such a huge thing in my childhood - It had muppets, was way longer than other kids shows, I learnt some Spanish (Our Cowboys were always hunting for agua!) and it was and is huge fun.
But the Pinball Counting sequence is something that still brings a huge smile to my face even many years down the line.
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Yeah, how ARE you just now finding this out?
I love this bit as a kid, and I have had that song stuck in my head randomly past the last month for some reason.
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Fabulous slice of awesomeness.
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I can’t count without this song immediately coming to mind and playing back in my head it in that cadence.
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This is absolutely how I count to twelve. And I, too, had no idea it was the Pointer Sisters.
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On the same general subject… can you ID the group doing this movie theme song?
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This got included in a Ninja Tune remix album in the 90’s - along with the video (CD ROM technology! - video on your music disc!) I probably still have it in a trunk somewhere in my home.
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Is… is that the Surpremes?!
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‘Count’ me among those who knew it was the Pointer Sisters.
Not only did I grow up with this, but I used the Pinball Countdown to teach my own kid to count when she was two or three…
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Well now I want to know just how bananas that movie was.
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I remember hearing Janelle Monáe’s Many Moons for the first time and perking up at her interpolation of this song.
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It’s Vincent Price and a bunch of Beach Party actors making a 60’s spy spoof about honeypotting female robots. So, yeah, very campy and silly. But it’s still a fun little flick if you like that sort of thing. I’d say its major flaw is that it ends with a painfully rear-projected chase scene around San Francisco that goes on way too long.
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Love the 11 and 12 part of the song
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You know, I’m not the only one who didn’t know. So that’s why I shared it even if it meant facing shame!!
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Ok, that’s fun.
