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Everyone has seen the old Sesame Street cartoons of a crazy pinball machine with funky Pointer Sisters music playing in the background. Well, it's been a little project mine to find clips of every single one of them online - I've learned that they only every produced up to 12 (of course, following along with the song), but mysteriously left out the number 1.

Anyway, I'd left it alone a few months ago (as cool as it is, you can in fact get sick of that riff) but for some random reason, picked it up again tonight and managed to find as many as I figure I'm going to get. As many as I'm going to get, for the record, is all of them except #8, which annoys the hell out of me, but so it goes.

Other notes: one of them has crappy audio quality and some idiot added pinball bell noises to #12, but otherwise they all should work. I used to be under the impression that they each had a different instrumental solo section, but apparently that's not the case.

For your viewing pleasure, the Pointer Sisters and the Pinball Number Count!

(first one is shown here, the rest are given as links)

#2
[youtube width=400 height=350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWjZM3TH28[/youtube]


#3


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#5

#6

#7

#8 (missing )

#9

#10

#11

#12

Is that all there is, you ask? Actually no - I'm not sure who the Russian equivalent to the Pointer Sisters were, but they didn't quite capture the same feel, in my opinion. I guess if they were looking for more of a 'creep out the poor little russian children' sound, they did alright:
#12
[youtube width=400 height=350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZCm0X2MrqY[/youtube]

The Dutch fortunately did a little better, but they took it to a new level, adding more 'white people who don't understand funk' flavour to the mix:
[youtube width=400 height=350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXbDQGCfGI[/youtube]




Not much of a 'blog post but hey, I'm sure someone out there enjoys this stuff as much as I do! For other old-school Sesame Street videos visit this link