Sesame Street Soul
Forty years of funky television
by Kurt Iveson
Incidental Music
“Sno-cones in the City”
A fantastic early 1970s summer street scene mini-doc with kids playing basketball, skipping, rolling tires, and getting served sno-cones from a street cart. It’s only a minute long and perfectly accompanied by a powerful Tito Puente jam.
“Lost Wheel in the City”
Another mini-doc spot, in which a bike wheel rolls its way through the streets until it’s finally caught by a neighborhood kid. Accompanied by a simple but brilliant Rhodes and congas groove.
“A Drum From a Barrel”
Fantastic clip of a bunch of kids finding a steel barrel in an abandoned lot, rolling it through the city to a drum maker, and culminating in a steel drum show on a stoop. Exactly the kind of urban neighborhood scenes Jon Stone had imagined.
