Monday, June 21, 2010

SST: African Alphabet

SESAME STREET TUESDAY

The eyes of the world are on South Africa during the World Cup, so today we're going to salute one of South Africa's best-known institutions, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They rose to superstardom through their appearance on Paul Simon's Graceland album, which lead to several Sesame Street appearances, this time in Muppet form:



P.S. - My sister finally had her baby 10 days after her due date. His name is Samuel, and I'd like to think that my previous SST post, a parody of Samuel Beckett, helped inspire the name (although I'm sure it didn't).

2 comments:

Kara said...

The video link doesn't work.
Congrats on the new nephew.

Emily said...

Braden, Sam and I have watched a few of the games together and are cheering for Brazil in your honor...and because they are good!