The Ten Commandments of Health



The Ten Commandments of Health is a Sesame Street song performed by Dr. Thad and the Medications, a group of singing doctors.

This song is about the top ten things that someone should do to stay healthy. The Fat Blue Anything Muppet patient keeps sitting up and repeating some of Dr. Thad's lines but keeps getting pushed back down into his bed by one of the doctors.

The song is a parody of the 1958 song "The Ten Commandments of Love" as recorded by Harvey and the Moonglows.

The song was written by Christopher Cerf and Thad Mumford.

Origins
In 2017, Thad Mumford was interviewed about the song by the Archive of American Television, in the interview, he explains he met Christopher Cerf after The Electric Company was canceled, at Joe Raposo's house for a party. And for some reason, Raposo went on a break and didn't come back, so, Cerf and Electric Company writer Jim Thurman start playing rock and roll and Thad starting singing, and Joe came back and he "lost his party," and went to bet angrily. Mumford also explained that they recorded the song at 9:00 with no sleep. Mumford clearly stated that he never worked with Sesame Street, but he did write lyrics for some songs, and he never went on set to perform Dr. Thad.