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Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street

Ryan's Smashing Life · 12.5M views · 2007-04-04 · 6:48

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Overview

Stevie Wonder performs 'Superstition' on Sesame Street in 1973, with kids dancing along. It is a feel-good live music performance.

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Recommended in Sesame Street and children's TV threads as a favorite example of the show's funkier past.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2022

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Music performance & songs
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peatmoss · 2018-03 · Strong recommendation

Sesame Street is like a fossil record or tree cross section for attention span in television. Some of the older Sesame Street clips like the one about milk, are trippy long format art pieces. Very very different than the quick cuts / short segments that happen today. Whether that’s good or bad is up to you. I suspect the old style simply wouldn’t compete for viewers today. A bonus: Stevie Wonder playing Superstition on Sesame Street might be my favorite “music video” of all time. [VIDEO]

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alamortsubite · 2022-04 · Recommendation

We received two PBS stations at the farmhouse where we lived in the early '70s, so obviously I watched Sesame Street twice a day. If you haven't seen Stevie Wonder's performance of Superstition on the show in 1973, I highly recommend it: [VIDEO]

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dang · 2021-05 · Recommendation

How could they include that and not this? [VIDEO] Edit: Youtube commenter claims the kid rocking out on the stairs is "my cousin Lenny Kravitz". Plausible. Am I being naive?

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