Who are/were your favourite muppets/puppets?

Saw this thread on a Canadian music board today & it's hilarious. Fraggle Rock, Waldorf & Statler . . . There were some Canadian ones mentioned like "The Friendly Giant" -- check out the rooster playing the harp. He was the coolest! Ah, the 70s!

An underrated man was DON MUSIC

Composer Don Music was a character on the children's television show Sesame Street.

The typical sketch would have him become frustrated by his inability to think of the final line to well known songs such as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and react by banging his head on his piano. However, a reporter observing him, typically Kermit the Frog, would then help Don by suggesting some suitable lyrics. As a result, Don would be inspired to suddenly come up with a whole alternate lyrical composition to the familiar children's songs with which he immediately plays a full arrangement without any rehearsal with a line of a backup singers that suddenly appear from the next room.

Don Music debuted in 1973, and would soon be discontinued, as parents complained to the Children's Television Workshop that their kids were imitating him by banging their heads against things. Concerns were also raised that Don was teaching inappropriate ways to vent their anger when things weren't going right.

He kept a picture of Sesame Street songwriter and composer Joe Raposo on the wall, although it was never actually identified as such. Don Music also maintained a bust of Ludwig von Beethoven on his piano, and often apologized to "Ludwig" for his failure as a composer.

Don Music was performed by Richard Hunt.

Also, on the Simpsons in 1995 has a similarity of Don Music in an episode "Bart Sells His Soul" a tribute to Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in which that the organist banged its head on the organ.

http://www.cmug.org/articles/DonMusic.html

check him out in a wicked clip

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I love Grover.

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statler and waldorf and of course - Beaker!

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the first is gonzo not grover

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Grover http://karinski.blogs.com/photos/un...nsidegrover.jpg

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Doh! I even double checked your post & I swore it said Gonzo! My bias in muppets was thusly revealed.

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I didn't know he had a name...the one & only time I saw him was when he was trying to compose the Sesame St jingle, of course Kermit comes along & suggests changes that turned it into "Can you tell me how to get to Yellowstone Park"...& then asks him how to get to Sesame Street...but also I noticed when Don started saying "Never, never, never", the voice seemed very similar to the voice of Junior on Fraggle Rock...yeh, I was a fan of that too, I had HBO when #1 son was little, & that gave me an excuse to watch it with him on Sunday mornings...

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