To this this day I still remember singing "No left turn, no right turn, what do you do?" when I see one of those signs. It is weird how somethings stick in your head from childhood. It was nice to see it again and show it to my kids.
Beautiful song!. I must've watched it in a rerun in the mid 70's when I was 5-6 and that part "No right Turn, No Left Turn, What can you do?" has been stuck on my head for 40+ years, great to find it. Thanks for posting.
I remember the No right turn, No left turn part last night when I went to bed, I first saw this when I was 8, Now I'm pushing 60, Those memories are never coming back.
I remember a similar sign song sang by the same electric company kids. That goes 🎵 “pull , push , next car “ 🎵 etc. And another similar song that went 🎵 “ I love fish food you do too Dont look now Your hair is blue🎵 etc. Songs with the tune that kinda reverberated in our heads even long after hearing them. Just turned 50 a couple of months ago. Watched this as a young kid and will always remember for as long as I live.
To all those wondering, yes, I believe this segment was used on both Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Both shows were produced by Children's Television Workshop, and sharing of material as I recall was fairly common. Great memories of a simpler time as a child without a care in the world.
I love and remember this song from my childhood. I must admit something about it, and I hope I am not alone by doing so. When it's my turn to sing the song, I can barely get through it without crying. Please let me know if the same thing happens to you.
I thought I was the only one. Perhaps it's a yearning for the innocence of childhood once more. No mortgage, no job, no worries, and the biggest issue was wondering who would be available to go play that day.
@@JimTurnerTech that's it exactly, it's a yearning for the innocence of childhood. Having no bills to pay, nothing to worry about, just living life in a carefree easygoing fashion
No. you are not alone. I shed tears of nostalgia a lot about memories from 1969 to 1972. The wonder years. Innocence you cannot get back. I went LOOKING for this song on You Tube. Thank you, Jim Turner for leaving it up for so long. Please keep it there. The line that I remembered most was "No Parking - Tow Away Zone!" And as I child I also knew those places were in NYC. I finally moved to Manhattan when I was 47. Now 63 and thriving here.
I don't know what possessed me to think of this song some 40 years later. I remembered the lyrics "no left turn, no right turn, what do you do?" Googled that and it brought me here. Lol
Same here! So funny how that part of the song seems to be what everyone remembers the most! So catchy and the visual of the driver are such powerful things to a young, impressionable mind
I am always humming this to myself and haven't seen this in 30 some years. I just googled/youtube searched for this and found it! What a blast! I love it!
My husband, children and I live in NJ and my husband often gets frustrated and impatient by the infrastructure of the traffic regulations. When we are driving together and he flies into a rage at seeing a sign saying NO RIGHT TURN or NO LEFT TURN, it often reminds me of these lyrics in this song.
@Christopher Hagee those were the big three for me as a child. Channel 13 (PBS) in OKC would air them in a row every day: Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and The Electric Company in that order.
@@JimTurnerTech and a PBS station on 13. Along with KERA in DFW, KAET Phoenix, KCOS El Paso and WNET in New York. Just to name a few. All your life is Channel 13 Sesame Street What does it mean? I'll tell you what it means Pressure-Billy Joel
I was helping my son study for his learner’s permit, the no left turn melody popped in my head, so I gave Google a try, and found it!! Thank you for preserving this great memory!!💯
Thanks for that -- I did a search for "Sesame Street Home Sweet Home" and thought I got it wrong. It's funny, I haven't thought of this song for 30 years, and I just starting humming it today. One thing I thought I remembered was 5th Avenue, but it was 1st Avenue instead. But those old gold street signs I remember well.
I loved this song when I was a kid. To this day I remember my older brother deliberately butchering the lyrics. He would replace "No parking, tow away zone" with a dog related theme of "No barking, throw away bone" 🤣🤣🤣 I would giggle endlessly at that.
OK, I was 12 in 1971 but my little sister watched these shows constantly on our family's B&W (and only) TV. To this day, when looking for a parking spot and watching the signs, I still sing in my head "No Parking, Tow Away Zone". Don't tell me that people's behavior isn't influenced by what they see on TV - advertisers spend billions knowing it works.
There are two versions of The Out Of Towners. The first version starred Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. The second version starred Steve Martin. I personally prefer Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.
@@edwardwbalen The first, of course. never saw the second.. Accurrate? 11 months later after first comment, I am not so sure a big dog would have stolen a candy bar or what ever they found in the park.
This song just started playing in my head after 40 years! I watched this when I was about 8! I searched for it till I found it! So weird! I love the home sweet home 😊
I love this! I sing/hum this song all the time. Sometimes out loud! Everything I needed to know I learned from Alabama Public Television (aka channel 7!) in 1969-75.
I’ve actually been to Jones Street in New York. It’s more like an alley than a street. It’s only a block long and barely wide enough for two cars. Deep in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Jane Street is 10 streets away from Jones Street if you head north up West 4th Street in Manhattan. When I visited NYC in Dec. 2001 with my father, we got lost heading out of Greenwich Village and we found ourselves crossing Jane Street. And yes, I remembered it from this song!
All my kids watched Sesame Street and The Electric Company…remember this song for sure…. My baby sister was 2 when Sesame Street started….my youngest son had adhd and would literally sit still without getting up or distracted the whole time me.roger’s neighborhood was on….Theese shows made a difference in how kids learned regardless of having a disability or not.
Oh wow, haven't thought about this in forever! Was a fun glimpse into city life for this suburban/near-rural kid in the 80's! The confused cab driver, ahaha, I'd forgotten about him
They say that I started showing signs of literacy when I read, aloud, signs from the car en route to pre-school and home again. I wonder whether this spot, and others like it on "Sesame Street" prompted me to do it. Well, I imagine that the educators that worked on the program suggested that beginning readers look around them for words, and use what skills they had to read them. Not a bad idea! "Fun With Dick and Jane" has its place, but we don't even need to take a book off the shelf to find beginning reading material. Language constitutes part of the world we live in, so to learn it, we delve into it, as with other aspects of culture.
I read somewhere that he was just wondering why there were people with TV cameras walking around on the street. His gestures and expression were meant to convey, "What's going on with all these people with cameras?" One cameraman happened to capture this. Little did the cabbie know, he would be famous forever!
I had a poster in my room with the signs on it too. I wonder what ever happened to it? Wish I had kept it. My nephews aged 9, 4, and 2 would have liked it.
No left turn, no right turn...go straight ahead! Back in the day, this song would come on almost towards the end of the episode; before Love Of Chair. The cabbie looks confused, why I always sang, go straight ahead...
The "Yield" sign at 1:12 looks weird. When I was growing up, Yield signs were yellow with black letters. Today, Yield signs are red with a smaller white triangle in the middle bearing the word "YIELD" in red letters. I've never seen 'em as a red sign with white letters.
PICO T QUINTOS: According to thay video; A) who did the singing?...B) whose voice said , "We'll be quiet, & you sing it"?...C) where did that trumpet sound come from? 0:05
Who sings this? I do NOT think it's the Short Circus kids because they were teens and preteens. These kids sound like preschool and kindergarten age moppets. Maybe it's the Jimmy Joyce Children's choir
To this this day I still remember singing "No left turn, no right turn, what do you do?" when I see one of those signs. It is weird how somethings stick in your head from childhood. It was nice to see it again and show it to my kids.
And here I am finding this video and your post nine years later and thinking “me too!!!!!”
Omg it’s been in my head my whole life 😂
Of course now, no left turn, no right turn and many other signs have since been replaced by international symbols, but literacy is still important.
I was born in 1997 and my mom introduced me to this show through a couple of DVD sets.
Another similar song sang by the Sesame Street kids was the “ PULL PUSH, NEXT CAR SONG.”
I’m 52 years old and I feel like I’m 9 again. Thank you for the memories.
I'm 53 years old, and you're very welcome. Such fond memories of innocent days
Beautiful song!. I must've watched it in a rerun in the mid 70's when I was 5-6 and that part "No right Turn, No Left Turn, What can you do?" has been stuck on my head for 40+ years, great to find it. Thanks for posting.
I remember the No right turn, No left turn part last night when I went to bed, I first saw this when I was 8, Now I'm pushing 60, Those memories are never coming back.
I remember a similar sign song sang by the same electric company kids. That goes
🎵 “pull , push , next car “ 🎵 etc.
And another similar song that went
🎵 “ I love fish food
you do too
Dont look now
Your hair is blue🎵 etc.
Songs with the tune that kinda reverberated in our heads even long after hearing them. Just turned 50 a couple of months ago. Watched this as a young kid and will always remember for as long as I live.
To all those wondering, yes, I believe this segment was used on both Sesame Street and The Electric Company. Both shows were produced by Children's Television Workshop, and sharing of material as I recall was fairly common. Great memories of a simpler time as a child without a care in the world.
I THOUGHT so! I remembered it from BOTH shows! That's how it got lovingly ingrained in my head!😊❤
Yes i swore this was in my sesame street record! Ok so both yes makes sense. Wow such good memories.
Also made us more brave to tackle the streets of NYC on visits.
Yes, it was, a great song used on two, kickass, iconic shows.
So very glad to come across this song. Parts of it have run through my head once or twice month for over 40 years.
I love and remember this song from my childhood. I must admit something about it, and I hope I am not alone by doing so. When it's my turn to sing the song, I can barely get through it without crying. Please let me know if the same thing happens to you.
I thought I was the only one. Perhaps it's a yearning for the innocence of childhood once more. No mortgage, no job, no worries, and the biggest issue was wondering who would be available to go play that day.
It never choked me up, but reading that it did that to you, choked me up! Sweet memories.
@@JimTurnerTech that's it exactly, it's a yearning for the innocence of childhood. Having no bills to pay, nothing to worry about, just living life in a carefree easygoing fashion
Yes
No. you are not alone. I shed tears of nostalgia a lot about memories from 1969 to 1972. The wonder years. Innocence you cannot get back. I went LOOKING for this song on You Tube. Thank you, Jim Turner for leaving it up for so long. Please keep it there. The line that I remembered most was "No Parking - Tow Away Zone!"
And as I child I also knew those places were in NYC. I finally moved to Manhattan when I was 47. Now 63 and thriving here.
I don't know what possessed me to think of this song some 40 years later. I remembered the lyrics "no left turn, no right turn, what do you do?" Googled that and it brought me here. Lol
Me too!
Same here! So funny how that part of the song seems to be what everyone remembers the most! So catchy and the visual of the driver are such powerful things to a young, impressionable mind
I am always humming this to myself and haven't seen this in 30 some years.
I just googled/youtube searched for this and found it! What a blast! I love it!
Whenever I can't make a turn I want, that cab driver pops into my head.
LOL, me too!!!
Heard that the cabbie was portrayed by Jim Henson. Is this true?
Baar Bear...Looks a lot like him, but I think not..
Great being a kid in the 70s, 80s and 90s...Sesame Street gave us great gems like this. Love it.
My husband, children and I live in NJ and my husband often gets frustrated and impatient by the infrastructure of the traffic regulations. When we are driving together and he flies into a rage at seeing a sign saying NO RIGHT TURN or NO LEFT TURN, it often reminds me of these lyrics in this song.
Love this song! This song sold me on The Electric Company. Never watched Sesame Street!
@Christopher Hagee those were the big three for me as a child. Channel 13 (PBS) in OKC would air them in a row every day: Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and The Electric Company in that order.
@@JimTurnerTech ... Same here, but I was in Yonkers, NY during that time! Thanks SO much for posting this.
@@JimTurnerTech and a PBS station on 13. Along with KERA in DFW, KAET Phoenix, KCOS El Paso and WNET in New York. Just to name a few.
All your life is Channel 13
Sesame Street
What does it mean?
I'll tell you what it means
Pressure-Billy Joel
I was helping my son study for his learner’s permit, the no left turn melody popped in my head, so I gave Google a try, and found it!! Thank you for preserving this great memory!!💯
This song could have been written by Kander and Ebb. It’s so New York-y latchkey theater kid from the 70s.
No right turn, no left turn..what do you do?....We'd yell, Go Straight, at the television..
Love it!
Jim Turner you are a TRUE Amercican! Thank's for the memory...."Home Sweet Home" is the best part I recall.
My childhood! I remember watching this as a kid and marveling that a street had a person's name (Jane)! 😂😂
Thanks for that -- I did a search for "Sesame Street Home Sweet Home" and thought I got it wrong. It's funny, I haven't thought of this song for 30 years, and I just starting humming it today. One thing I thought I remembered was 5th Avenue, but it was 1st Avenue instead. But those old gold street signs I remember well.
I thought I heard it West Avenue in my childhood.
Oh my god....I haven't heard this since I was 6!!! But I didn't even have to THINK about the lyrics, they came right out!!!1
I loved this song when I was a kid.
To this day I remember my older brother deliberately butchering the lyrics. He would replace "No parking, tow away zone" with a dog related theme of "No barking, throw away bone" 🤣🤣🤣 I would giggle endlessly at that.
I haven't seen this in decades and thank you for posting it!!
OK, I was 12 in 1971 but my little sister watched these shows constantly on our family's B&W (and only) TV. To this day, when looking for a parking spot and watching the signs, I still sing in my head "No Parking, Tow Away Zone". Don't tell me that people's behavior isn't influenced by what they see on TV - advertisers spend billions knowing it works.
Add this to the list of shows and movies that made me want to go to NYC--before I saw the hilarious but accurate The Out of Towners.
There are two versions of The Out Of Towners. The first version starred Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. The second version starred Steve Martin. I personally prefer Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.
@@edwardwbalen The first, of course. never saw the second.. Accurrate? 11 months later after first comment, I am not so sure a big dog would have stolen a candy bar or what ever they found in the park.
This song just started playing in my head after 40 years! I watched this when I was about 8! I searched for it till I found it! So weird! I love the home sweet home 😊
My earworm this morning, so I had to search for it! 😂
Oh my goodness, I remember this from my childhood!
Same here. I still sing along with it at 56 years of age. LOL
I love this! I sing/hum this song all the time. Sometimes out loud! Everything I needed to know I learned from Alabama Public Television (aka channel 7!) in 1969-75.
I’ve actually been to Jones Street in New York. It’s more like an alley than a street. It’s only a block long and barely wide enough for two cars. Deep in the heart of Greenwich Village.
😯 OMG.
Jane Street is 10 streets away from Jones Street if you head north up West 4th Street in Manhattan. When I visited NYC in Dec. 2001 with my father, we got lost heading out of Greenwich Village and we found ourselves crossing Jane Street. And yes, I remembered it from this song!
Yes! Thanks for posting this. I always thought this was from sesame street. I've sang "no right turn, no left turn, what do you do" since the 70s!
Wow….smh the rabbit hole of nostalgia…emotions
All my kids watched Sesame Street and The Electric Company…remember this song for sure…. My baby sister was 2 when Sesame Street started….my youngest son had adhd and would literally sit still without getting up or distracted the whole time me.roger’s neighborhood was on….Theese shows made a difference in how kids learned regardless of having a disability or not.
Oh wow, haven't thought about this in forever! Was a fun glimpse into city life for this suburban/near-rural kid in the 80's! The confused cab driver, ahaha, I'd forgotten about him
This song came to my MIND...dknt know why...but there is a reason for everything. Thanks!❤
Thank you @Jim Turner! This was part of the sound track of my youth!!!
Thanks for posting this! I've been singing this in the car when I run into a sign that fits. I'm so happy to hear it again!
My favorite song! My baby brother was learning how to READ listening to this song. He was 2 in a half @ the time. Learning was FUN!😌👍🏾
They say that I started showing signs of literacy when I read, aloud, signs from the car en route to pre-school and home again. I wonder whether this spot, and others like it on "Sesame Street" prompted me to do it. Well, I imagine that the educators that worked on the program suggested that beginning readers look around them for words, and use what skills they had to read them. Not a bad idea! "Fun With Dick and Jane" has its place, but we don't even need to take a book off the shelf to find beginning reading material. Language constitutes part of the world we live in, so to learn it, we delve into it, as with other aspects of culture.
yes thank you so much for this.. Its been years!!
That cabbie probably was just sitting there on the street and they asked if he wanted to be in the film. He was a good sport.
I read somewhere that he was just wondering why there were people with TV cameras walking around on the street. His gestures and expression were meant to convey, "What's going on with all these people with cameras?" One cameraman happened to capture this. Little did the cabbie know, he would be famous forever!
Yes was beginning to think my childhood memories were wrong 😆❤️
I still know this song by heart.
i love the "no parking, tow away zone" part...a total toe tapper/finger snapper.
Same here!!! ❤️🥰❤️
I remember this from over 40 years ago. Now the electric company show doesn't come on anymore.
first heard that around 1969
Great memories!
Thank You Jim Turner...sniff
I had a poster in my room with the signs on it too. I wonder what ever happened to it? Wish I had kept it. My nephews aged 9, 4, and 2 would have liked it.
I always thought the part after 'no left turn' was 'watching the zoo.'
No left turn, no right turn...go straight ahead! Back in the day, this song would come on almost towards the end of the episode; before Love Of Chair. The cabbie looks confused, why I always sang, go straight ahead...
Jesus Christ I’m crying 😢
I'm in my mid 20's, and I'm singing along. Why are old shows so catchy? Especially childish ones?
To make them stick in children's memories so that they'd become happy adults.
It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out this was written by Clark Gesner, composer of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
thanks for posting .I will sub to you
Gotta love those signs.
geez, i remember this when i was watching this in kindergarten
Teaching my students this song!
The "Yield" sign at 1:12 looks weird. When I was growing up, Yield signs were yellow with black letters. Today, Yield signs are red with a smaller white triangle in the middle bearing the word "YIELD" in red letters. I've never seen 'em as a red sign with white letters.
Jane Street is terrific!!!
a solid red Yield sign?
Usually I see that in YELLOW!
@Todd Devenish They’ve always been yellow where I’ve lived!
A glimpse at the epitome of human hopelessness and despair @ 0:33
What can ya do???
it's like electric company's version of devil's haircut.
ps...i ❤ ny
Did anyone notice the cameraman going to the right when the one way sign was pointing to the left?
PICO T QUINTOS: According to thay video; A) who did the singing?...B) whose voice said , "We'll be quiet, & you sing it"?...C) where did that trumpet sound come from? 0:05
It's strange though... I remember them singing "I love you" at the end instead of "Home Sweet Home..."
You're thinking of this one:
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@@NJGuy1973 THANK YOU!😊 It's something, the small things that leave BIG impressions..❤ I really appreciate that!
@@lyndaunknown720 The Electric Company was my favorite show as a kid.
And there you have it.
The personification of hopelessness and despair @ 0:31.
💜💜
IKR
The cab driver looks sort of like John Astin (the original Gomez Addams) with long hair.
No left turn. No right turn. What do you do?
Who sings this? I do NOT think it's the Short Circus kids because they were teens and preteens. These kids sound like preschool and kindergarten age moppets. Maybe it's the Jimmy Joyce Children's choir
The cabdriver looks familiar; George Carlin, perhaps?
+Maxwell1901 I'm thinking a young Joe Flaherty from SCTV.
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i thought this was a sesame street song, too!
i was 8 years in 1971, & kqed was my #1 channel.