Sesame Street- Song - Count It Higher with little Chrissy
"Count It Higher" is a song about the thrill of counting all the way to 10. It was performed by Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats. It is the first single from their debut album, Love Letters to Life. And the music video first appeared on Episode 0553.
The Alphabeats were performed by Jeff Moss, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson and Little Chrissy was done by Christopher Cerf.
On a black background, we start at the side view of Little Chrissy playing on the piano while he mentions that they will count when the music is playing. When the counting starts, the number changes as three Alphabeats one by one stand up by the piano and sing the numbers they've came in. The Alphabeats join in and sing together as Little Chrissy sings to them to count higher. The Alphabeats in this part count up to five which the green Alphabeat spins his head after shouting 4 and the lavender yells 5 at that point. They reset twice to practice counting up to 10 and this time, the hot pink AM shouts the last number out. After doing so, they come around the piano dancing and singing "Count it Higher" during the end of the music video.
FX[]
The numbers appear and change on the screen as they count.
On a commercial aired in 1995, it shows a short clip of Chrissy playing the piano while the song titles scroll up.
On the Shalom Sesame episode "Passover", the captions appear with english and hebrew languages.
Sesame English carries edited versions of the song.
Music/Sounds Variant[]
In Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years, The cartoon whistle sound effect from Hollywoodedge is heard on transition to the song from the scene with Count Von Count estimating three wonderful songs. The sound effect used here even on other media may catch listeners into entering minds on Count it Higher.
In Count it Higher, Great Music Videos from Sesame Street, after The Count announces the song, the music opens with a crowd screaming and cheering sound effect along with the thunderclap ending. The cheering sound effect is actually the exact same one used in the music video itself.
On the Shalom Sesame episode "Passover", it uses partially dubbed Hebrew on some parts and English for the other.
Availability[]
Appears on episodes from 1973 until 1998 on the mainstream series and on a couple of Sesame English episodes.
The first home video release to feature the song was on the title based on the song name with "Great Music Videos from Sesame Street", but releases outside of the 1988 release on American productions pops up in 25 Wonderful Years (where the introduction starts with Count von Count pinching his nose and ducks down with the whistle sound effect playing during the beginning of the song) and makes a recent appearance on Best of Sesame Street Spoofs!. Two international co-productions have this intact.
Trivia[]
This music video is Little Chrissy's and the Alphabeats' debut appearance on Sesame Street. While the normal Chrissy debuted here, the monster one (two years later after this music video's debut and designed from the 1975 Harvey puppet as part of the backup Frazzletones) only appeared on The Frazzle Song who's revealed by the rip marks.
