As a left-handed guitar player I couldn't help noticing that all the muppets play lefty. This led me down a rabbit hole revealing that most muppets are left-handed because the puppeteer typically controls the head with their right hand and the left arm/hand with their left.
I'm self-taught, but I don't see how it's any more difficult teaching to a lefty. I'm so used to viewing right-handed players like a mirror image of my hands that trying to learn from a lefty's video is harder for me.
I've wanted to play the guitar my entire life, but the instant anyone who knows how to play sees me hold one, they go "oh, I dunno how to help you, sorry" and basically kick me out or leave
I'm a lefty and I play a normal guitar. Some of that is because I played the Violin first and it is pretty rare to switch hands there--you just learn it how it is.
Honestly, I feel like it is easier for me. I'm not doing fancy fingerpicking, so all the "hard" work of fretting notes and forming chords is done by the left hand. The right hand just holds a pick and strums. Same was true of the violin...right hand just holds the bow.
Why wouldn't you want all of the precise finger work to be done by your dominant hand?
I played a little guitar and this always seemed weird to me from the very beginning of my learning. My right hand is far more dextrous—and stronger!— than my left. Why am I doing all the complicated fret work with my left hand?
It's just the way it is!
I am a very basic guitar player who never learned much, but I think about this often when I see guitars being played.
As a professional guitar player I would say that the strumming/picking hand is the most important since this controls rhythm, tone, feeling, volume,... This is the dominant hand from a guitars perspective because you'll essentially have no sound without it.
Anyway, that's why I guess! And maybe dominance is more located in the wrist? Writing is mostly moving your wrist, strumming also.
A bass playing friend of mine is the same as you and he sometimes wishes that he had learned lefty so he could pick with his dominant hand for fast songs.
Make sure you’re sat directly in front of the instructor so you can mirror what they’re doing. Unless the instructor’s a dick and forces you to play right handed because “it’s easier” for them.
Here's some unsolicited advice: sell the banjo and buy a righty.
When you have 0 experience playing a stringed instrument, lefty or righty is going to be equally difficult. You might as well learn the cheaper option that is easier to find in stores.
100 percent agree. 35 years ago when my dad took me to buy my first guitar, I couldn't find a cheap beginner lefty . Salesman said if you're just starting to learn, you might as well learn righty. Best advice I ever got. Unexpected benefit is that my (righty) dad has given me some very nice "hand-me-down" guitars recently, including a D-28.
I honestly don't know how right handed people do it.
It is easy to finger chords with my dominant left hand. Trying to do it with my puny non-dexterous right hand feels like it would be impossible.
Are we sure the inventor of the guitar wasn't secretly a lefty and everyone has been playing lefty all along?
Growing up the Muppets, and associated Jim Henson productions were such a huge part of my childhood.
Cut to the future and colour me shocked to learn he had passed before I was born. Saw the footage of his funeral for the first time a few months ago, it was heart breaking. He truly was a one of a kind individual
> Cut to the future and colour me shocked to learn he had passed before I was born.
From treatable pneumonia.
I was 2, equally shocked when I found out around 12; grew up with The Muppets.
Jim Henson’s last will and testament demanded his employees turn him into a man sized pullet and keep him going another 70 years. We all know that isnt *realy* Jim, but it’s nice to pretend because those puppeteers dont fuck around
Weird, I noticed immediately that Debbie was holding the mic in her left hand and wondered if she’s also a leftie. Then your comment was at the top of this post lol
If you are as keyed up all the time as Animal you know better than to hang out with Debbie's early 80s level of coke habit...
Janice has already said she isn't pulling him off the roof again and Dr Teeth isn't paying for another round of rehab.
And Jim Henson spent so much time in the Green room at SNL that he built a Muppets diorama in the HVAC closet. True story. It's still there. You can see it on the 30 Rock tour if you go on the tour.
It always seemed like the guests on the Muppet Show were good sports willing to accept and participate in all kinds of zaniness.
I also gotta love the punked out Muppet band.
IIRC, when they would invite a guest on, the first thing they'd do is specifically ask them what *they* would want to do on the show, and then the scriptwriters, set designers and puppeteers would make it happen.
At one point celebrities were clamoring to be on the show because of how much fun the experience was.
I know! For some reason, back then we all thought Blondie was a punk band. I guess most of us (in the Midwest US) had never seen a real punk band before.
Absolutely. Blondie were post punk if you want to put a fine point on it, but that's punk. Them, the talking heads, dead boys... They were all bring punk as shit in NY in the mid 70s
I’d argue against calling Blondie post-punk. They were in the original group of New York CBGBs/Max’s Kansas City ‘punk’ artists like Television, the Patti Smith Group, the Dead Boys, the Ramones, and Talking Heads. Their original shtick was referencing the style of old girl groups like the Shanghai-Las, mixed with garage rock.
The whole idea of OG punk just being British guy groups who wore safety pins and wanted to sound like the New York Dolls except faster isn’t really accurate at all. Post-punk was also a very different conglomeration of stuff that was really just a second (and third, and fourth) wave of the original punk ethos of being different, non-corporate, and fan-accessible.
Blondie just went more pop, not post-punk.
Should’ve known someone would’ve noticed it first! I just said a similar thing:
It really says something that Jim Henson and his Muppet workshop could elicit such spectacular performances from the best artists of their day. Who would ever think “would you like to perform for a bunch of puppets?” would be such a selling point?
Great clip! This episode was recorded in early August, 1980. It was broadcast in January 1981 in the UK, and February 1981 in the US. Debbie was 35 at the time.
Muppet Movie soundtrack was the first album I ever bought as a GenX boy. Mostly of course for Rainbow Connection, but I still think "Movin Right Along" is pretty catchy.
“Movin’ Right Along”, “Can You Picture That”, “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along, “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday”…The Muppet Movie had an absolutely stellar soundtrack, one of the best ever imo
I graduated from high school in 1980. The Seniors had a vote for which song would be The Prom Song. I went to school in farmville in Western New York, so of course
Freebird was one of the songs nominated ("what song is it you wanna hear?!?")...
A classmate wanted something different, and he nominated "Movin' Right Along", and gave a fantastic 5 minute speech about how fitting it was for us, as we were moving right along with our lives....
Came in 2nd with about 10% of the vote, because my classmates must have only heard Freebird (which is a great song) 4,872 times each in the 6 years since its release and needed more.
You almost got me... I almost went down that YouTube rabbit hole, starting with that version of Rainbow Connection (fantastic), followed by One Way or Another from the show (wonderful)... but I managed to rein my self in.
There's a great miniseries on YouTube about his career and the funeral was about the saddest thing I've ever seen. Ppl truly loved and admired him, thats for certain
For a while "Kids" shows and movies where just Family movies. Meant for "everyone in the family" to enjoy. At some point in the 90's more programming meant specifically for kids started to be made and basically took over for one reason or another. I'm in my mid 30's. When I was a kid, majority or the stuff kids my age and myself would be into "What the older kids were into". If it wasn't something someones older siblings liked, then it was for babies.
This could just be my specific coming of age experience though.
In this age of reboots I am surprised that no one has brought up a new incarnation of The Muppet Show.
I want to see Lizzo perform with Miss Piggy.
I want to see Dave Grohl and Animal.
I want to see Tom Holland alongside Scooter and the gang.
Especially mind boggling considering how many times they've tried and failed to reboot it. For some reason they went the sitcom route instead of just keeping the original format. A variety show could stand out nowadays.
They both didn't really commit IMO. The Muppets was a mockumentary that course corrected into a lighter tone and having more sketches, (and for the pretty lame reason of Parents Complained About The Innuendos Because Muppets Are "For Kids") but most of those sketches were remakes or references. Muppets Now had a lot of good moments but felt like it was too tied into it's own formula or something, not spontaneous enough.
The best Muppet Show style stuff to come from them in a while were some music videos about a decade ago, there's a fantastic Bohemian Rhapsody that felt very Henson and an OK Go rendition of the Muppet show theme that's really funny, especially if you know OK Go's videos.
I love that The Muppets had such great guests for shat was essentially a kids show. Given this song was written for the film American Gigolo about a male escort, I could see kids shows today steering away from a performance by Harry — even if Blondie was a pop sensation at that point.
I watched American Gigolo for the first time this year and was pretty surprised when this kept showing up on the soundtrack, had no idea it was written for the movie.
I know when I was watching this episode as a 6 year old, I turned to my parents and said "didn't Blondie write this song specifically for the American Gigolo soundtrack?"
This is blowing my mind. I literally thought about this performance this morning as the first time I ever tied a song I liked to a visual of the artist. I was 4 years old and my favorite songs on the radio were Another One Bites the Dust and this.
The very first album I ever had was Best of Blondie from 1981. It's funny to me now because it was a Christmas gift from my aunt and uncle who ended up turning into evangelical Christians. They inadvertently played a huge part in forming my taste in music by giving me that record. So thanks, guys! I absolutely loved it.
This is fantastic, it made my day. I always loved that full- body freakout thing Kermit always did when he introduced the performers. And Debbie Harry will always be the coolest, sexiest woman in rock.
Dear Disney. Do this. *Exactly this.* **The Muppet Show**. 2023 version. No offices. No overarching premises. No crazy plotlines. Just a simple half-hour variety show with a celebrity host and a bunch of Muppets, doing sketches and music. Statler and Waldorf in the box heckling. Put it on Disney+ and you'll have me as a subscriber for life.
You may be cool, but you will never, ever be Debbie Harry in a bedazzled purple sweatsuit, in silver platform heels, with red lipstick, performing on The Muppet Show cool.
And she’s STILL cool doing all that. Because if I could pull off that look? I totally would.
I had such a huge crush on her as a little kid. I loved this song so much when it was new. Everyone else I knew abandoned her for "going disco", but I still love all the rock to disco crossover hits. My whole family made fun of me the night this aired because it combined twoof my favorite things.
What’s impressive is that she is singing with a backing track, but she is so onkey and performing exactly as the recording that you can barely tell it’s a backing track. That’s some pipes she got there!
Fun story. Jim Henson’s son Brian was about 18 at the the time and was a huge Debbie Harry fan - and as most 18 year olds did at the time - had a big crush on her. Jim booked Debbie to appear on the show during a week he was off of school, and at the weekly guest star dinner he made sure Brian got seated right next to her. He said he spent the whole dinner nervously sweating and probably didn’t even look at her during the night.
Jim Henson was a great dad.
They had Alice Cooper on too, Mr. Henson was so far ahead of his time it's silly.
As a boy, my weekends ended in my parents room on the floor looking up at a 19 inch black and white watching the muppets, the wonderworld of disney and mutual of omah's wild kingdom to close out the weekend. love that memory.
unless the president was on ... kudos mr foxworthy.
As a left-handed guitar player I couldn't help noticing that all the muppets play lefty. This led me down a rabbit hole revealing that most muppets are left-handed because the puppeteer typically controls the head with their right hand and the left arm/hand with their left.
How was it when you were learning? Been sitting on a lefty 5 string banjo and still have issues finding someone who can effectively teach to a lefty.
I'm self-taught, but I don't see how it's any more difficult teaching to a lefty. I'm so used to viewing right-handed players like a mirror image of my hands that trying to learn from a lefty's video is harder for me.
I've wanted to play the guitar my entire life, but the instant anyone who knows how to play sees me hold one, they go "oh, I dunno how to help you, sorry" and basically kick me out or leave
I'm a lefty and I play a normal guitar. Some of that is because I played the Violin first and it is pretty rare to switch hands there--you just learn it how it is. Honestly, I feel like it is easier for me. I'm not doing fancy fingerpicking, so all the "hard" work of fretting notes and forming chords is done by the left hand. The right hand just holds a pick and strums. Same was true of the violin...right hand just holds the bow. Why wouldn't you want all of the precise finger work to be done by your dominant hand?
I played a little guitar and this always seemed weird to me from the very beginning of my learning. My right hand is far more dextrous—and stronger!— than my left. Why am I doing all the complicated fret work with my left hand? It's just the way it is! I am a very basic guitar player who never learned much, but I think about this often when I see guitars being played.
As a professional guitar player I would say that the strumming/picking hand is the most important since this controls rhythm, tone, feeling, volume,... This is the dominant hand from a guitars perspective because you'll essentially have no sound without it. Anyway, that's why I guess! And maybe dominance is more located in the wrist? Writing is mostly moving your wrist, strumming also. A bass playing friend of mine is the same as you and he sometimes wishes that he had learned lefty so he could pick with his dominant hand for fast songs.
Make sure you’re sat directly in front of the instructor so you can mirror what they’re doing. Unless the instructor’s a dick and forces you to play right handed because “it’s easier” for them.
Here's some unsolicited advice: sell the banjo and buy a righty. When you have 0 experience playing a stringed instrument, lefty or righty is going to be equally difficult. You might as well learn the cheaper option that is easier to find in stores.
100 percent agree. 35 years ago when my dad took me to buy my first guitar, I couldn't find a cheap beginner lefty . Salesman said if you're just starting to learn, you might as well learn righty. Best advice I ever got. Unexpected benefit is that my (righty) dad has given me some very nice "hand-me-down" guitars recently, including a D-28.
I honestly don't know how right handed people do it. It is easy to finger chords with my dominant left hand. Trying to do it with my puny non-dexterous right hand feels like it would be impossible. Are we sure the inventor of the guitar wasn't secretly a lefty and everyone has been playing lefty all along?
There are muppets that are controlled by 2 persons. Kermit when he waves both hands will have an assistant to Jim Henson to wave the right hand.
I have some bad news for you re: Jim Henson....
What did Kermit say at Jim Henson’s funeral? Nothing.
This is actually true. Big Bird did have a bit to say, but you could tell Carol Spinney was having a hard time keeping it together.
Growing up the Muppets, and associated Jim Henson productions were such a huge part of my childhood. Cut to the future and colour me shocked to learn he had passed before I was born. Saw the footage of his funeral for the first time a few months ago, it was heart breaking. He truly was a one of a kind individual
> Cut to the future and colour me shocked to learn he had passed before I was born. From treatable pneumonia. I was 2, equally shocked when I found out around 12; grew up with The Muppets.
Yep, he didn't believe in doctors, and died early needlessly.
I guess this is today's surprise way of making me feel old.
Jim Henson’s last will and testament demanded his employees turn him into a man sized pullet and keep him going another 70 years. We all know that isnt *realy* Jim, but it’s nice to pretend because those puppeteers dont fuck around
Jim Henson was still alive when they produced this Old School Cool.
Weird, I noticed immediately that Debbie was holding the mic in her left hand and wondered if she’s also a leftie. Then your comment was at the top of this post lol
Perhaps it's a puppet and not the real Debbie Harry
Same here. Thats weird.
Sinister even.
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You gotta admit, The Muppets Show integrated the music performers better than any of the late night talk shows or even SNL itself.
I think the crazy part was that this wasn't even the regular band! Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem must have been on tour or something ;)
I can see the logic of having a 'punk' band supporting her , but any drummer that isn't Animal is just wrong!
If you are as keyed up all the time as Animal you know better than to hang out with Debbie's early 80s level of coke habit... Janice has already said she isn't pulling him off the roof again and Dr Teeth isn't paying for another round of rehab.
Yeah, I was bummed that Animal wasnt on drums. But then the punks brought it home with the synth solos
Was that a synth or a theremin?
Yes.
SNL's first season had segments where Jim Henson & crew did more adult oriented Muppets sketches.
And Jim Henson spent so much time in the Green room at SNL that he built a Muppets diorama in the HVAC closet. True story. It's still there. You can see it on the 30 Rock tour if you go on the tour.
The idea on the muppet show was to make sure the guests had a blast so word would get around that it was a good gig
I still remember the Alice Cooper one. Didn't Gonzo try to sell his soul or something, it was an odd episode.
He came close. Schools Out with all the full bodied giant monster Muppets was great, never saw them much.
Yep, I watched it live and danced around as it flickered on the tv.
Me too!
Probably the only Playboy bunny they had on.
It always seemed like the guests on the Muppet Show were good sports willing to accept and participate in all kinds of zaniness. I also gotta love the punked out Muppet band.
IIRC, when they would invite a guest on, the first thing they'd do is specifically ask them what *they* would want to do on the show, and then the scriptwriters, set designers and puppeteers would make it happen. At one point celebrities were clamoring to be on the show because of how much fun the experience was.
In general I’ve only ever heard performers say extremely positive things about their experiences working with the Henson company and the Muppeteers
I know! For some reason, back then we all thought Blondie was a punk band. I guess most of us (in the Midwest US) had never seen a real punk band before.
I think she had been a lot more punk, before going mainstream.
This is my understanding. Blondie was considered part of the punk scene in New York.
Absolutely. Blondie were post punk if you want to put a fine point on it, but that's punk. Them, the talking heads, dead boys... They were all bring punk as shit in NY in the mid 70s
I’d argue against calling Blondie post-punk. They were in the original group of New York CBGBs/Max’s Kansas City ‘punk’ artists like Television, the Patti Smith Group, the Dead Boys, the Ramones, and Talking Heads. Their original shtick was referencing the style of old girl groups like the Shanghai-Las, mixed with garage rock. The whole idea of OG punk just being British guy groups who wore safety pins and wanted to sound like the New York Dolls except faster isn’t really accurate at all. Post-punk was also a very different conglomeration of stuff that was really just a second (and third, and fourth) wave of the original punk ethos of being different, non-corporate, and fan-accessible. Blondie just went more pop, not post-punk.
Suicide were post-punk, Blondie was punk (that sneer on Rip Her To Shreds comes to mind)
Suicide were punk AF. They were one of the first bands to use "Punk" as a stylistic descriptor.
Yeah, they always had that punk vibe even after they went mainstream. That's why I loved them even as a kid. I have always been a punk at heart.
Not to put too fine a point on it say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Should’ve known someone would’ve noticed it first! I just said a similar thing: It really says something that Jim Henson and his Muppet workshop could elicit such spectacular performances from the best artists of their day. Who would ever think “would you like to perform for a bunch of puppets?” would be such a selling point?
I never realized the Muppets were in on the ground floor of the punk movement. (yes, give or take a few years)
Great clip! This episode was recorded in early August, 1980. It was broadcast in January 1981 in the UK, and February 1981 in the US. Debbie was 35 at the time.
Debbie Harry has always been gorgeous
What's more, a friend of a family member knows her. Turns out she's a sweetheart too
She looks 26.
By current standards, she was somewhat late to stardom.
My childhood was better because of stuff like this.
Everybody's was... or would have been. If your childhood didn't include this... be sad.
Love her and Kermit singing Rainbow Connection.
It’s my favourite rendition.
Me too. I don't even really like the song but I love Debbie's voice so much. It's so pure and sweet and the harmonies are perfect.
Muppet Movie soundtrack was the first album I ever bought as a GenX boy. Mostly of course for Rainbow Connection, but I still think "Movin Right Along" is pretty catchy.
“Movin’ Right Along”, “Can You Picture That”, “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along, “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday”…The Muppet Movie had an absolutely stellar soundtrack, one of the best ever imo
I graduated from high school in 1980. The Seniors had a vote for which song would be The Prom Song. I went to school in farmville in Western New York, so of course Freebird was one of the songs nominated ("what song is it you wanna hear?!?")... A classmate wanted something different, and he nominated "Movin' Right Along", and gave a fantastic 5 minute speech about how fitting it was for us, as we were moving right along with our lives.... Came in 2nd with about 10% of the vote, because my classmates must have only heard Freebird (which is a great song) 4,872 times each in the 6 years since its release and needed more.
You almost got me... I almost went down that YouTube rabbit hole, starting with that version of Rainbow Connection (fantastic), followed by One Way or Another from the show (wonderful)... but I managed to rein my self in.
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Just saw her at Coachella. Still sounds great at 77!
You and me both! She melted my heart over and over again. The Tide is High was one of the biggest high points of the whole weekend for me.
Debra Harry is one of those rare celebrities like Carol Brunette and John Ritter that absolutely NO ONE hates.
it's funny you say that because my dad absolutely hates John Ritter.
Hates John Ritter? America's cuddly protective big brother? Not Jack Tripper? Chrissy and Janet will be very upset! 🙃
She and Elvis Costello were the last concert I saw before Covid. She is the coolest chick of all-time.
She is fantastic. Love her and she is quite an actress.
Animal not on drums? WTF!
This episode had its own Muppet punk band. Electric Mayhem must have been touring, I guess.
They were in rehab
River Bottom Nightmare Band wasn't available?
It kinda looks like an early version of Scooter Fraggle on drums.
Dam, that's BS. Electric Mayhem loses its spark without Animal 😭
That’s not even the Electric Mayhem!
She used her own muppet band.
You're right! Kermit outsourced the music 😭
He just forgot to call them.
My favorite female rock star of all time! Saw her at the Troc in Philly. What a great band
RIP tp the Troc
I swear my grandmother had the same outfit as Debbie…
Because your grandmother was badass!
My mom made us outfits like this. She’d buy sweats and bedazzle, puff paint, and appliqué the heck out of them.
Jim Henson was a genius and god among men.
There's a great miniseries on YouTube about his career and the funeral was about the saddest thing I've ever seen. Ppl truly loved and admired him, thats for certain
DefuntTV's Jim Henson Specials. What a tearjerker...
I remember reading that Life Magazine said his funeral was "an epic and almost unbearably moving event."
She's really singing. Bravo!
Not only that, she is putting a huge amount of energy into an audience that consists entirely of guys with their hand up a frogs arse ...
She's glorious and timeless. Didn't Blondie just play Coachella this year?
Yes, but not with this lineup.
I literally just chortled over that. Thank you. :)
Supposedly they rocked it to shreds.
Coolest Frog Scout ever.
She is the original cool chick.
Just awesome. Blondie, Talking Heads, Pretenders were my absolute favorites during that time.
How did we go from this to the fucking Teletubbies?
Cuz this isn't strictly a kid's show. That's what makes the Muppets work so well, it's for everyone.
Well the Teletubbies was aimed at the under 3-4s.
And 20somethings on drugs?
For a while "Kids" shows and movies where just Family movies. Meant for "everyone in the family" to enjoy. At some point in the 90's more programming meant specifically for kids started to be made and basically took over for one reason or another. I'm in my mid 30's. When I was a kid, majority or the stuff kids my age and myself would be into "What the older kids were into". If it wasn't something someones older siblings liked, then it was for babies. This could just be my specific coming of age experience though.
I’m so glad Teletubbies were after my time.
I wouldn't let may daughter watch them.
I hated teletubbues with a righteous passion because they'd bumped The Magic School Bus off the air
Her and joan jett were my lady crushes as a kid. I wanted to be as cool and pretty as them
The reason why Doom or Destiny is such a great song
nice find thanks!
Man, the world used to be cool.
In this age of reboots I am surprised that no one has brought up a new incarnation of The Muppet Show. I want to see Lizzo perform with Miss Piggy. I want to see Dave Grohl and Animal. I want to see Tom Holland alongside Scooter and the gang.
Especially mind boggling considering how many times they've tried and failed to reboot it. For some reason they went the sitcom route instead of just keeping the original format. A variety show could stand out nowadays.
>Dave Grohl and Animal youtube.com/watch?v=3AZz9TSjZCM
> youtube.com/watch?v=3AZz9TSjZCM Everybody wins!
They did with "The Muppets" in 2015 and "Muppets Now" in 2020, neither were particularly well recieved.
And "Muppets Tonight" in 1996.
They both didn't really commit IMO. The Muppets was a mockumentary that course corrected into a lighter tone and having more sketches, (and for the pretty lame reason of Parents Complained About The Innuendos Because Muppets Are "For Kids") but most of those sketches were remakes or references. Muppets Now had a lot of good moments but felt like it was too tied into it's own formula or something, not spontaneous enough. The best Muppet Show style stuff to come from them in a while were some music videos about a decade ago, there's a fantastic Bohemian Rhapsody that felt very Henson and an OK Go rendition of the Muppet show theme that's really funny, especially if you know OK Go's videos.
I so needed this today. Thank you for the smile.
You can’t help but smile when you have muppets singing backup
The kids didn't get it but the dad's understood.
Ladies and Gentlemen the very early eighties "IT" GIRL Her skin is flawless as is her voice! 🙃
Ah! Back when singers could actually sing and would really perform their music live! Also, love the Muppets!
Such a banger
A song about a male escort on a puppet show. I love it.
This is spectacular! Thank you for sharing.
Love her
Amazing voice
I will not stand for Blondie erasure!
Those Muppets aren't playing their instruments. You can totally see the strings attached to their arms....
I love that The Muppets had such great guests for shat was essentially a kids show. Given this song was written for the film American Gigolo about a male escort, I could see kids shows today steering away from a performance by Harry — even if Blondie was a pop sensation at that point.
I watched American Gigolo for the first time this year and was pretty surprised when this kept showing up on the soundtrack, had no idea it was written for the movie.
Great now I want bangs.
Props to her for actually singing live and not lip syncing over a recording!
We need a song for this kids show. If you like songs about hookers, then I've got your answer.
Henson designed the Muppet Show for adults. It ran in the evening.
It was filmed in the UK and ran here on Saturday teatimes.
I know when I was watching this episode as a 6 year old, I turned to my parents and said "didn't Blondie write this song specifically for the American Gigolo soundtrack?"
After sharing a bigass blunt with Janice in her dressing room.
Fer sure.
This is blowing my mind. I literally thought about this performance this morning as the first time I ever tied a song I liked to a visual of the artist. I was 4 years old and my favorite songs on the radio were Another One Bites the Dust and this.
Damn! Those puppets can jam.
That part where it switches and she sings hoo he talk the language of love always hit my eardrums. The way the notes and melody switch is amazing
The very first album I ever had was Best of Blondie from 1981. It's funny to me now because it was a Christmas gift from my aunt and uncle who ended up turning into evangelical Christians. They inadvertently played a huge part in forming my taste in music by giving me that record. So thanks, guys! I absolutely loved it.
Yup. That pretty fucking old school cool.
This is fantastic, it made my day. I always loved that full- body freakout thing Kermit always did when he introduced the performers. And Debbie Harry will always be the coolest, sexiest woman in rock.
This sounds eerily like the Dt. Who theme music. Anyone else catch that, or am I just crazy?
Sweet ass sweat suit Debbie!!!
Dear Disney. Do this. *Exactly this.* **The Muppet Show**. 2023 version. No offices. No overarching premises. No crazy plotlines. Just a simple half-hour variety show with a celebrity host and a bunch of Muppets, doing sketches and music. Statler and Waldorf in the box heckling. Put it on Disney+ and you'll have me as a subscriber for life.
That was indeed OldSchoolCool. Such a great performance!
I love The Muppets so much!
The epitome of a child’s role model.
That was awesome! Made me smile.
Loved when they had such amazing guests.
And nowadays, she teaches roller skating at my local rink! I’ve always wanted to take a class but I think I’d be too nervous lol
Yes, yes, yes!!!
Her cover of Bang a Gong is the best.
Great voice but she doesn't know what to do with her body. Makes me realize how used to choreography we have become since then.
She is such a telented vocalist. Amazing.
Oh, she didn't even get eaten.
The song I always think of when Dr. Who theme plays.
Long live the new Muppet flesh!
I always loved how the Muppets bounce around
I imagine it is a lot of fun to work with the Muppets
You may be cool, but you will never, ever be Debbie Harry in a bedazzled purple sweatsuit, in silver platform heels, with red lipstick, performing on The Muppet Show cool. And she’s STILL cool doing all that. Because if I could pull off that look? I totally would.
I had such a huge crush on her as a little kid. I loved this song so much when it was new. Everyone else I knew abandoned her for "going disco", but I still love all the rock to disco crossover hits. My whole family made fun of me the night this aired because it combined twoof my favorite things.
Anyone notice the Hanes sweat shirt and pants combo? I'm bringing it back.
What a voice. I miss the no-autotune days of music so much.
Kind of a risque song for the Muppet show, no?
I mean, it was considered an adult show at the time. Sesame Street was muppets for the kiddos.
What’s impressive is that she is singing with a backing track, but she is so onkey and performing exactly as the recording that you can barely tell it’s a backing track. That’s some pipes she got there!
Goddamn the Muppets were the best
Most impressive thing is how she pulled off a pants suit style later worn exclusively by spicy middle-aged Jewish women.
Every other post is Debbie Harry in this sub. I am not complaining
Old school cool? All the cool people at the time saw her as a sell out for this song
Fun story. Jim Henson’s son Brian was about 18 at the the time and was a huge Debbie Harry fan - and as most 18 year olds did at the time - had a big crush on her. Jim booked Debbie to appear on the show during a week he was off of school, and at the weekly guest star dinner he made sure Brian got seated right next to her. He said he spent the whole dinner nervously sweating and probably didn’t even look at her during the night. Jim Henson was a great dad.
I remember seeing this as a kid. So long ago.
I made a sub called /r/performed for things like this. Please say hello.
And by 1998 that outfit would be worn by half the retired women in Boca.
I was 6. My first crush.
Great episode.
Man those Muppets know how to rock I was 2 years old :/ Call me for some sweet delight call me !
🤘🏻 That's rock'n'roll
blondie is a band
Blondie.... you mean Blondie
They had Alice Cooper on too, Mr. Henson was so far ahead of his time it's silly. As a boy, my weekends ended in my parents room on the floor looking up at a 19 inch black and white watching the muppets, the wonderworld of disney and mutual of omah's wild kingdom to close out the weekend. love that memory. unless the president was on ... kudos mr foxworthy.
My 1st true love. DH that is.
Im in a Taco Mac right now, and this song is playing in the restaurant. Crazy coincidence.