C Is For Cookie

"C Is For Cookie", by Joe Raposo, is a song performed by Cookie Monster, a muppet character from the television series "Sesame Street". It was first performed on the show on March 28, 1972, although it had been released on record a year previously, on "The Muppet Alphabet Album". Along with Kermit's "Bein' Green" and Ernie's "Rubber Duckie", it is one of the show's most recognisable songs. The original version of the song is now hard to come by; the lyrics "C is for cookie, and cookie is for me" have been updated to "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."Fact|date=June 2007

History

According to the Muppet Central articles on the "Songs from the Street Boxed Set", "In 1971, Jim Henson and his performers teamed with Jerry Juhl, Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss to write a sketch on each letter of the alphabet". [cite web
url=http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/reviews/merchandise/songs_from_the_street.shtml
title=Muppet Central Articles - Songs from the Street Boxed Set
publisher=www.muppetcentral.com
accessdate=2008-05-19] "C is for Cookie" derives from this project. Actress Candice Bergen sang the song when she visited "Sesame Street".

Since then, numerous authorized and unauthorized versions of the song have been produced, including "funky" and "sweet" versions released on the 2003 record "Cookie Monster & The Girls". [cite web
url=http://web.archive.org/web/20051130094425/http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/7506.html
title=C Is For Cookie - Cookie Monster & The Girls: Available at www.tunes.co.uk, the dance specialists
publisher=web.archive.org
accessdate=2008-05-19 (via Internet Archive)] Laura Pace's review of the home video ' noted 'the bizarreness of C is for Cookie" done in "Aida"-style opera'. [cite web
url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374529.stm
title=DVD/video shelves overflow with children's favorites and also-rans
publisher=www.post-gazette.com
accessdate=2008-05-19]

Concerned about increased obesity rates in children, PBS has announced that for its 36th season Sesame Street will have Cookie Monster promoting a more healthy approach to diet and nutrition. Cookie Monster listened to another character's song about cookies being a sometime food. At the end, Cookie Monster declared 'Now is sometimes!' and ate a cookie. This is nothing new however, as Cookie also did a rap music video called "Healthy Food" in the early 1990s where he sings with assorted muppets talking about healthy food like bread, fruits and vegetables. [cite web
url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1112985326449_58/?hub=Health
title=CTV.ca | Cookie Monster advocates healthy eating
publisher=www.ctv.ca
accessdate=2008-05-19]

Sheet music of the song has been published by the Hal Leonard Corporation, and others. The toy "Letter of the Day Cookie Jar" features Cookie Monster saying a short phrase about each letter. For "C", he says "C is for Cookie".

Lyrics

At the beginning of "C is for Cookie" Cookie Monster asks "Now what starts with the letter C?", answering with the reply, "Cookie starts with C!" He then says, "Let's think of other things that starts with C," before casually dismissing their merits, replying "Oh, who cares about the other things?" Several times Cookie Monster emphasizes that "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me!" A chorus group of monsters (including Grover, Herry Monster and Oscar the Grouch) then appear in the background to sing. Furthermore, he compares the letter C to partially-eaten round donuts, and Earth's moon during its crescent phase. He concludes by biting into a large cookie. "Oh, cookie cookie cookie starts with C!"

Covers

The song has been covered by:
* The Independents on their album "Live From Murder Beach" [http://www.theindependents.net/albumslivefrommurderbeach.htm http://www.theindependents.net/]
* Red Jezebel [http://www.redjez.com/ http://www.redjez.com/]
* Slapshot [http://www.oldtimehardcore.com/ http://www.oldtimehardcore.com/]
* Kooties [http://www.myspace.com/kootiefunk http://www.myspace.com/kootiefunk]

ee also

* C - The Letter "C"

References

* Raposo, Joe: [http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/cookie.html C Is For Cookie] .

External links

* [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/C_is_for_Cookie_%28song%29 C is for Cookie] on Muppet Wiki