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The greatest Sesame Street success on Billboard's Hot 100 was when Ernie's "Rubber Duckie" blasted to #16 back in 1970. An online commenter said a local station in Massachusetts placed it at #1 on one of its weekly surveys.
Years later, an act called Smart E's hoped that this success could be replicated. Sadly, this effort only peaked at #60 on the Hot 100. But it appears as if it reached the top 10 in almost every other country in the world. America was supposed to be a superpower, yet this happened. Whatever the weather, "Sesame's Treet" is the third and final entry in what I call the Sesame Three.
"Sesame's Treet" heavily sampled the Sesame Street theme. So this track loomed large. But it wasn't an entirely new concept. A few years earlier, when I was about 13, I came up with a perfect way to annoy the living shit out of the rest of the family. One afternoon, I kept loudly singing the Sesame Street theme and substituting the words with just some syllables strung together. It was sort of like one part of "Holiday" by the Bee Gees.
I felt the annoyance was earned. Around that time, we kept going to places that everyone else inexplicably thought were great, but which I thought were a rather uninteresting affair. Much worse than this, I was forced to attend shitty schools, and my complaints were brushed off again and again.
Another way I would intentionally annoy the fam was to repeat some of my catchphrases in a Speak & Spell voice. Another way was to keep calling the dogs silly names.
Can you tell me how to get to "Sesame's Treet"? Can you?????
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