{"id":1303325,"date":"2019-02-06T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802735"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:36:19","slug":"thomas-rhett-and-his-sesame-street-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/thomas-rhett-and-his-sesame-street-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett and His Sesame Street Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:667423?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">3h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When I heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/thomas-rhett\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Rhett<\/a> had recorded a song for <em>Sesame Street<\/em>, my first thought was, \u201cI wonder what Willa and Ada think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because little kids \u2014 Thomas Rhett\u2019s and everyone else\u2019s \u2014 are a big part of why the show\u2019s been around for 50 years. Before it taught kids the basics of spelling and math and much, much more, it captured their hearts and became an American institution. And probably safe to say that all of us know all the words to the original theme, \u201cCan You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new song, which will be used throughout the show\u2019s 50th anniversary year, has Thomas Rhett singing about everything that makes Sesame Street feel like home. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtizbsagVLa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post<\/a> put is best, saying that the song was a celebration of laughs, lessons, and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Sesame Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtdS7nfgHNF\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared the song<\/a>, too, reflecting on the day in 1969, \u201con a street where colorful Muppets and humans lived \u2014 and learned \u2014 side by side. Today, 50 years later, we are excited to announce a yearlong anniversary celebration to mark the occasion!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics paint a colorful picture of what life is like on the fictional street:<\/p>\n<p>Where the air is sweet.<br \/>Where he can share a hug.<br \/>See ol\u2019 Bert, n\u2019 say hiya Ernie.<br \/>Sing a song with the people in the neighborhood.<br \/>Draw with Big Bird.<br \/>Hang out with ABC on the stoop in front of ol\u2019 123.<br \/>Where kindness is the way.<br \/>Learn new things each and every day.<br \/>See that old gang and never go away.<br \/>Play ball with Rudy and Abby.<br \/>Oscar if he\u2019s not feeling crabby.<br \/>Share a cookie right here in Hooper\u2019s Store.<br \/>Count with the Count to a hundred.<br \/>Come home to all my friends, where friendship never ends.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BtizbsagVLa\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1802735\/thomas-rhett-and-his-sesame-street-remix\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 3h ago When I heard that Thomas Rhett had recorded a song for Sesame Street, my first thought was, \u201cI wonder what Willa and Ada think.\u201d Because little kids \u2014 Thomas Rhett\u2019s and everyone else\u2019s \u2014 are a big part of why the show\u2019s been around for 50 years. Before it taught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1303325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 10:46:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}