The Electric Company – Sign Song

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   CanadaFamilyMan 10:35 am 2/01 of 2010

   You can almost dance to this!

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   bassbabe666 12:18 pm 3/01 of 2010

   Loved this ditty as a kid – still do!!! Thanks for posting it.

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   loveutoto 4:15 pm 4/01 of 2010

   Hear, hear!

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   pannoni1 8:30 pm 7/01 of 2010

   This video definately falls into the Forgotten NY mold with lots of stuff shown here.

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   NantoVision 3:03 am 9/01 of 2010

   If you watch my post of “Sign Song Parody #3″, that sketch is included at the end.

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   TnseWlms 9:45 am 10/01 of 2010

   Does anybody remember a sketch where Skip is sleeping on the sidewalk in a Tow Away Zone, so a policeman puts a ticket under his glasses and drags him away?

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   NantoVision 3:05 pm 13/01 of 2010

   Not really, but I used to think it was Joe Raposo years ago when I didn’t know what he looked like.

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   lurch321 3:38 pm 13/01 of 2010

   Doesn’t he kind of look like Joe Raposo?

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   microbusss 10:36 pm 16/01 of 2010

   good stuff! what you wanna bet if even 1% of these signs still exist! lol

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    PJoseph73 7:18 pm 17/01 of 2010

    How is is that I remember the words after 30 years. Now my son can sign it with me! Thanks for posting it.

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    jeffrey64 2:32 pm 21/01 of 2010

    Classic stuff! Nothing like what is on now, so simple and direct.

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    JGCooney 10:16 am 24/01 of 2010

    I would add the new Electric Company on PBS Kids and maybe Sprout?

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    RSG2006 1:16 pm 24/01 of 2010

    The cab driver probably wasn’t anyone famous, but just an actual cabbie whom the filmmaker asked if he’d like to be in a film.

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    RSG2006 7:01 pm 25/01 of 2010

    Dunno, but that’s nowhere near Jane Street and Jones Street.

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    TechnoNubian 6:42 pm 27/01 of 2010

    man, i still love NY, my home state. Channel 13 PBS!!!!

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    quirpco 10:13 am 28/01 of 2010

    I believe it was this film that started my life-long obsession with signs.

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    mhirtes12 6:50 pm 28/01 of 2010

    The second half of the song was sung by Charlie Brown’s teacher.

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    buzzlewie 10:11 am 29/01 of 2010

    Wow, bring back the good ol days.

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    NantoVision 5:09 pm 29/01 of 2010

    I agree about the show attracting genius, but that is absolutely, positively 100% not George Carlin. He does look somewhat similar to Carlin from that era.

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    ProfessorIgor 9:23 pm 30/01 of 2010

    the guy is George Carlin…. this show seemed to attract genius… Tom Lehrer, Joe Raposo, Morgan Freeman, the list goes on… very brilliant people

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    Qermaq 8:47 am 2/02 of 2010

    Bassoon with trumpet in harmon with stem extended doing wah-wah for the repeat chorus. Joe Raposo = freakin’ brilliant. No one else ever did that!

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    cherilynn64 2:42 am 5/02 of 2010

    LOL – I’m 44 and just sang 90% of it from memory! 70s kids tv ROCKED. I’m so glad I grew up when I did :-)

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    bdguile 12:17 am 7/02 of 2010

    hey japesjake……….I DID start singing it……….and I am 41!!!!! all these clips of TEC bring back so many memories!!!!!

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    firestepher72 9:33 am 10/02 of 2010

    I have always loved this song. TEC taught me so much.

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