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Windy and Tony.jpg

Screenshot from Sesamstraße

Status: Lost: English dub
Found: Castilian Spanish dub


"Windy" was a Sesame Street song that first aired during Sesame Street episode 0074 (during the first season), on February 19, 1970.[1] It was originally a #1 hit for the Association in 1967, so it is one of the song covers performed during the first season of Sesame Street in 1969.[2] This sketch is also known for being longtime sound engineer Dick Maitland's first sketch on Sesame Street that he worked on. [3]

Tony sings about his girlfriend, Windy (played by Beautiful Day Monster), who can fly across the sky. After Tony's first singing line, Beautiful Day Monster sprouts his huge black bat wings and then tells Tony that he is about to fly all across the city (hence his legs are unusually seen during the song) and Tony looks in awe as he sees the monster flying and also dive-bombing the other Muppets while yelling "ZOOOM!". At the end of the song, Beautiful Day Monster falls down to the ground with a huge crash, gets cross-eyed and has a bandage on his chest.

"Windy" is one of the rarest and hardest classic clips in the show to find like "Crack Master." According to a user on MuppetCentral, the German dub of the clip from Sesamstraße has once been posted on YouTube by an unknown German user back in 2006 (during YouTube's early days),[4] but the video got deleted as of February 2007, due to the German user who posted many other Classic Sesame Street clips taken from Sesamstraße had been terminated from YouTube. Because of this, there are no more copies of the song (despite only five screenshots found as shown below.) as this was before mostly anyone knew how to download YouTube videos, so it has not resurfaced since then and it is unknown if it will ever be leaked from Sesame Workshop's video vault (despite such other rare classic clips as "Cookie Bookie," "Kermit's R Lecture," and more having already been leaked from their vault; these can still be found on Tiny Dancer's YouTube channel).

Another user, gavry3 posted a forum thread on MuppetCentral Forum about the "Windy" song, stating that I, BigPumpkinJFriend86 (a.k.a BigRedMonster86) have been attempting extensive search efforts to find the video for that sketch. The sketch also may have been included somewhere on a Castilian Spanish Barrio Sesamo "Espinete y Don Pimpon" 10-disc set that is only available in Spain, but so far, no physical evidence of this has been put forward. The forum thread has been left derelict and has not been bumped by any other users.[5]

On June 22, 2017, YouTuber VINTAGE TV uploaded a Barrio Sésamo episode with the "Windy" song in it. The episode is in Spanish so currently the English version is still lost. And good news if you wouldn't know it, PumpkinJFriend has finally uploaded the rare clip in Castilian Spanish to YouTube recently today.

Gallery

The full episode containing the short uploaded by VINTAGE TV (starts at 15:50).

The Castilian Spanish version of the song (the only current version available).

References