I CANNOT express to you the feelings this film gives me. Its part of some of my earliest memories as a toddler. I was COMPLETELY entralled watching it when it would come on and TOTALLY excited when theyd randomly show it. From age 3 to about 7. Thank you so much for posting this. I STILL love it.
This is a masterpiece. I remember this from Sesame Street. As a standalone short it is great. And such a beautiful song also. The baby was always cute.
I remember this clip solely for the strange music... It popped in my head tonight and I remembered hearing it when I was a really little kid and watched a lot of Sesame Street. So weird that this stuck with me... And that I would actually find it on RU-vid... Haha
Yeah. Thought it must have been something I imagined. This confirms it was actually a thing. Anyone I ever tried to explain it to looked at me like I was nuts.
Its really amazing, just how much you remember when you see these like 25 years later. Your brain as a kid is just like a sponge. It amazes me that I still get these feelings when I hear the song or see something as detailed as the grills on the front of the truck. I cant believe I still remember some 30 years later. WOW
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Rhodes Piano is so awesome with it's warm bell-tones. This song proves it. Kudos to whoever was playing it!
First time seeing this in 20 years, I am in tears... The things you remember and hold with you from childhood is amazing, this brought back so many memories. Thank you for the post.
What a beautiful primordial memory for me--to see this after so many years, it's amazing. I have been telling my brother about this for years, but, until now, have not been able to find it anywhere. What an interesting musical arrangement--it is a very well done piece of jazz. Thank you.
More than 30 years later, a wellspring of nostalgia (& tears) have overcome this here Gen-Xer! This indelible SS short's score and vocals remain as hauntingly beautiful today as they were in the 70's.....almost lullaby-esque. It's very amazing & heartening to read how this clip touched so many as it harkens us back to a much simpler era. And seeing the innocent baby having her bottle still wells me up inside :) Thanks very much for posting this classic!
I've finally found the two songs that have been in my head for literally 30 years--this one and the sugar beets one. I have occasionally had those recycling through my head and have never actually seen the clips again. I never actually looked for them before. Glad I found them :)
The three-note "Milk... mi-ilk! ...milk" trill from this clip has stayed with me my entire life since the age of about 4. I'm glad some other people seem to remember it!
Wow, I thought I was the only person who remembered this song. My brother and I still talk about this like it was something we made up. VINDICATION IS OURS! We'd run around the house singing Milk Miiiilk. It drove our Mom nuts...
Wow...my eyes are still stinging after 10 min. of weeping. It's the baby and the music that literally rips your heart out...still teary as I'm typing this. Hats off to the the late Jim Henson and Co. Such a brillant, talented man that had such vision and love behind it all. He's still missed to this day. T.V. has gone to hell in a handbasket over the years. To the little girl in this clip: You've touched our hearts and hope life today is beautiful for you.
This song stuck in my head for a LONG time! I remember that in the 70's during my childhood watching sesame street! Wow ... This sure brings back memories! I wonder if that was Wisconsin in the winter?
Crisis is right. This used to stress me out so bad every time they played it on Sesame Street until the stupid kid was smiling again. GIVE THAT KID SOME MILK PLEASE!!!
What a wonderful clip. I remember this one. It makes me cry to watch it now. Thank you for the memories! Classic Sesame Street - a prime example of humanity at its best.
HEARTBREAKING though this film always was for me(still is)I just HAD to see it again--after all the times I have watched a SS RU-vid video, and have seen this one, in list of "recommended videos," I knew I could not resist it any longer. I forgot that the film opens in the wintertime--it seems to be winter, anyway, but I did remember the man calling,"Kitty, kitty, kitty!" to feed the cats some milk. And YES, of course I remembered the DESPERATE BABY, in latter part of film, CRYING for her MILK!!! "Milk,milk, milk-SO GOOD, SO WARM, AND WHITE! Makes everything ALL RIGHT!!!" And it SURE DOES, especially as far as babies are concerned. The heartbreaking part, of course, is the little desperate baby, CRYING OUT FOR HER MILK! But, fortunately, like in most movies, everything works out, in the end. Saw this many a time, in the 1970s; thanks for posting.
WOW. My sister and I were OBSESSED with this Sesame Street segment back in the day! (like 1979 maybe?) and Now, watching it 30 years later I have NO idea why! We would literally sit and PRAY that this clip would play whenever we watched Sesame street! When it would come on we'd be ALL excited! I think we got a kick out of how the singer is just all "Milk...MIIIIIIIILK....Milk...MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILK!!!" and the baby crying was our favorite part too. NO clue why!
I remember this very well from back in the mid 70's. I love the jesture the baby made at the end. Since there were glass milk bottles, this was probably filmed at the tail end of the milk man era.
OMG, I just had a floodgate of nostalgia burst open. My mom recorded this when I was a kid, but now the tape is so old and worn it probably wouldn't even play. Thanks for posting!
wow... I was just talking about this the other night. for some reason, this is one segment from sesame street that has stuck in my head for the last 30 years. the bit is pretty much as I remembered it. Over the years, I've always sang this little milk, milk song when anyone mentions milk. crazy. thanks so much f0r posting. and the music's killer!
Robert Dennis (piano, Rhodes) Paul Dunkel (flute) Leslie Scott (bass clarinet) Leslie Miller (vocals) Jonathan Thayer (engineer) Recorded Feb. 1975 at Chelsea Sound, E 14 St, NYC
I love this. I agree with Afansorge-Almost in tears over here...... My brother and I would do the little cow call the dude does in the beginning to some backyard dogs-and they'd actually come running. Not to mention the composition: fender rhodes, basson piano, flute-Ohhh the drama. I love it. Thank you
Thank you SOOOO much for posting this. I remember seeing this ONCE as a kid, about 30+ years ago. Even then, I wondered a bit why I never saw it again. So happy to see this once again!
Reportedly, when I watched this as a baby, I would become hypnotized. Afterwards, I would toddle into the kitchen, start hanging on the fridge door, and cry out for MEEEEELK. Now whenever I have a glass of milk this song instantly comes to mind. What a wonderful song.
OK, this is crazy. For 25 years whenever someone has milk or something I sometimes sing "milk, MIIIKL, milk". I never remembered where I saw this and I just landed on this today. FINALLY, some closure. I haven't seen this in 30 years.
This video was filmed in South Canaan, PA. My uncle is the man in the video & one of his brothers (my other unlce) runs the farm still to this day along with my Grandmother.
LOLOL!!! OMG I sing this song EVERY time someone mentions milk...or if I'm taking some out of the fridge...but I totally forgot the video! I decided to share this with my bf for him to understand why I sang "milk, miiiilk milk" and I almost died when I saw this! Thank God for RU-vid :D
This is one of the most memorable segments on Sesaem Street for me. It was that music and the screaming "milk" with the voice that sounded like a voice of a possessed kid from a horror movie screaming for milk lol.
I also have not seen this in 30 years, but it stuck with me all these years. I have showen this to my son and he loves it. We watched it every night for 2 weeks straight.
I never wanted to be a milk truck driver so bad in my life. A real life milk emergency. And Ron Burgundy would love the Jazz flute!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!
This segment pops into my head every so often but I never thought It would be on here! I always liked the part with the milk truck. Geez, I haven't seen this in like 29-30 years. XD thanks for posting this!
Loved this segment as a kid. Still love babies, kittens and bobtail International food grade tankers with the old school LOUD Detroit Diesel engines! That sound is unmistakeable. And I love hearing that engine roar and thinking it's for that little baby.
I remember this clip from my childhood, and I was too young to have all the details straight. I never forgot it featured a baby, but now that I have it put together, it's a heartbreaker seeing the hungry and/or thirsty baby needing more milk, but somehow the milkman sensed it, maybe the voice of God alerted him, and he came to the rescue. I just hate to think she was left by herself. Such a cutie pie!
Oh my goodness, I remember being a child and watching this many many times, and every single time feeling so totally distressed that the baby was crying and being deprived/neglected for so many minutes at a time-- this is a surprisingly long segment! SO EMOTIONAL.
i was driving my sister to the store and my cell went off (ringtone wonderpets "the phone is ringing") and she told me to get the milk song and she starts singing it....i busted a gut and told her i will find the clip to it and post it. when we were kids she use to sing it when it came on and we could not stop laughing. it still funny today...thank for da laughs. i luv it
suddenly had a flashback to this old song and jumped straight onto youtube...first search result! awesome! yeah I totally grew up to this era of sesame street
I looked very closely at the scene where the bottles are being filled up in the bottling facility. If you look closely at 3:56, it's Romberger's Modern Dairy. www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/223055056775_/Rare-vintage-square-1-qt-Rombergers-Modern-Dairy.jpg
ahhh i have heard this tune in my head for 30+ years whenever i ask someone for milk or make any mention of "milk"!!! i can't believe it's here! GREAT POST!!
I grew up on a dairy farm about the same time this video was first aired. This takes me back to my childhood. But I never saw a milk man running to complete his delivery. Still this was fun to watch. Thanks.
You know, I have decided in this moment that heaven for me will (please!) be a complete, endless saturation in the sensation these old clips give to me...and oh how i would welcome it! Esp the dairy nursery nostlagia of this masterpiece...
I remember this video vividly. I am nearly thirty now with my first child about the same age as the baby and as I was when I watched this and the tears kept pouring out...I've truly just realized I that I see myself in my child more and more, and I can NEVER go back.
Oh my god I LOVED this one. This was my favorite Sesame Street clip. I loved this and I always wanted to be that baby to have a parent who cared that much to go to all that trouble just to get me a damn bottle of milk. Even if he was the milk guy and probably had to do the run anyway. God I miss Sesame Street. This one always made me teary.
I remember watching this one a lot in the mid to late 70's. The woman singing "milk..miiiiillk milk" is etched in my brain so deep that when I saw this one, it was like I saw it yesterday, although it's been well over 23 years since I last saw it.
I think I remember this, especially the part with the milk truck. Anyway, this clip made almost me so thirsty I need to drink some milk myself. LOL! Great job posting this. :-)
Oh wow I so remember this...and to think that everytime my baby needs milk I go off in a hurry to get it and I can't help but remember this song and scened as I hurry down the aisles. Thanks Sesame Street for the memories!
i kept humming this milk song each time i get myself a milk and even told my girl that theres such a song and i will find it..and at last...its here..thanx...
I always remembered this, when I was in Kindergarten('76-'77)school year and every time I saw this it made me sad. I too thought POOR BABY. Hurry up already!!
Wow!! I never though I'd see this again. What a trip down memory lane. I never forgot the image of that little baby, although 20+ years have passed since I had last seen it!
This one never bothered me as a kid -- the one that did was the skit with the super creepy letter W that would attack Kermit. I'd have to leave the room whenever that one came on -- that and the one with the super creepy exploding lowercase 'e'.
haha man, you can't help but admire the editing on this video.. clearly they were having a laugh with the idea of a huge tanker of milk coming to the rescue of a hungry baby. You can even see the driver crack a smile as he jogs round to the back of the tanker, and runs the hose up to what appears to be a house door. Cut to baby crying. Hilarious stuff. The whole thing is just so magical.
