![]() ![]() Raposo performed joke characters for film segments on The Electric Company similar in style to what he had done on Sesame Street. Raposo served as the musical director of the show for its first three seasons, and contributed songs throughout the show's run, until 1977. In 1971, Children's Television Workshop created the show The Electric Company, meant to help teach reading to children who had outgrown Sesame Street. One of Raposo's Sesame Street compositions, "The Square Song", was used in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. His widow Pat Collins-Sarnoff celebrated his life with a milk and cookies reception. It has been rumored the Wheel-Eating Monster created for commercial advertisers in the 1960s by Jim Henson may have been altered by Henson specifically into a "cookie" monster after Henson observed Raposo's unusual propensity for cookies this has never been substantiated. Raposo was very fond of sweets according to many who knew him. The Sesame Street character Don Music maintained a framed and autographed glamour photograph of Raposo on the wall of his Muppet atelier. He also did voice-overs for a few animated segments. According to his son Nicholas in a 2002 telephone conversation, Joe Raposo usually chose to portray anonymous, silly characters in these segments, which were nearly always produced on 16 mm film. For many years, most of the music used in Sesame Street's film segments was also written - and often sung - by Raposo.Īside from his musical contributions, Raposo performed several uncredited stock characters on Sesame Street during the early 1970s. A version of "Sing" recorded by The Carpenters in 1973 reached #3 on the Billboard top singles chart. He wrote the " Sesame Street Theme" – various versions of which have opened every episode – as well as many of its most popular songs, such as " Bein' Green", " C is for Cookie", " Sing" and " ABC-DEF-GHI". Raposo is best known for the songs he wrote for Sesame Street from its beginning in 1969 through the mid-1970s, and also for a time in the 1980s. He was also responsible for the memorable theme music for New York City television station WABC-TV's The 4:30 Movie the piece, called "Moving Pictures," was also used for the station's other movie shows, and subsequently by ABC's other owned-and-operated stations. ![]() Raposo was the musical supervisor and arranger of the original off-Broadway run of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and he contributed additional music to that show. Raposo's decision to take Schwartz's suggestion and move in 1965 eventually led him to his fated meeting with Henson, to Sesame Street, and toward international fame. Upon hearing Raposo's musical skill, Schwartz claims in his autobiography he urged Raposo to give up piano bar playing in Boston and move to New York City. According to Jonathan Schwartz, during the mid-1960s, before Sesame Street, Raposo performed side music in piano bars in Boston to make ends meet, and also served as pianist and music director for a jazz trio working at Boston's WNAC-TV. Raposo worked in musical theater both before and after his work for the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street musical theater was where he first encountered future collaborator Jim Henson. He was also a graduate of the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. A 1958 graduate of Harvard College, he was well known for writing the scores for several Hasty Pudding shows there. ![]() was an accomplished musician, classical guitarist, violinist, flutist, pianist, music teacher and Joe's first music teacher. "Aunt" Sarah) da Ascenção Vitorino Raposo. Raposo was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the only child of Portuguese immigrant parents Joseph Soares Raposo and Maria (a.k.a. Seuss TV specials in collaboration with the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises: Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980), and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982). In addition to these works, Raposo also composed extensively for three Dr. He also wrote music for television shows such as The Electric Company, Shining Time Station and the sitcoms Three's Company and The Ropers, including their theme songs. Joseph Guilherme Raposo, OIH (Febru– February 5, 1989) was an American composer, lyricist, songwriter, singer, and pianist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as " Bein' Green", " C Is For Cookie" and " Sing" (later a #3 hit for The Carpenters). ![]()
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