Sesame's Treet

"Sesame's Treet" is a 1992 remix of the Sesame Street theme song "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" by the English rave group Smart E's. The song reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart.[3][4] The title is a pun on "Sesame Street".

"Sesame's Treet"
Single by Smart E's
from the album Sesame's Treet
Released29 June 1992 (1992-06-29)
Genre
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Joe Raposo, Jon Stone, Bruce Hart
Smart E's singles chronology
"Loo's Control"
(1992)		 "Sesame's Treet"
(1992)

At the time of its creation, dance music was not played on major radio stations. London radio station Kiss FM soon became legal, but developed a slightly more commercial style. According to Luna-C of Smart E's, “It was good, because now our music was getting the recognition it deserved, but it was crap, because the money men forced it to be less than it was trying to be.”[5]

Kiss FM DJ Steve Jackson obtained the record and played it on the radio. Its popularity dramatically increased, and Smart E's was signed to Atlantic Records.

"Sesame's Treet" followed a trend at the time of releasing tracks based on samples of children's TV themes. The first notable song that did this was "Summers Magic" by Mark Summers (January 1991), featuring the theme tune of the BBC's The Magic Roundabout. The Prodigy's "Charly" and Urban Hype's "A Trip to Trumpton" were two similar rave tunes of that era, also sampling from children's programmes (collectively known as "toytown techno").[6]

Video

The video displayed an A-Z of the rave scene as follows (in the following order):

A is for 'Ardcore
B is for B.P.M.
C is 4 Chill Out
D is for Dance
F is for Flyerz
G is for Get Down
H is for Handz In The Air
I is for In The Mix
J is 4 Jack
K is for Kosmos
L is for Love (Summers Of)
M is 4 MC
N is for Nine-0-9
P is for Pumpin'
Q is for Q-Bass
R is for Rave
S is for Smart E's
T is for Techno
O is for Oops
U is for Ultra Violet
V is for Vinyl
W is for Warehouse
X is for X-press Yourself
Y is for Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Z is for Zero Gravity

Notable is the absence of the letter E. Presumably, this implied ecstasy, and its absence was either due to not wanting to promote drug use in a commercial music video, or it was deliberately left out to imply that whether or not a raver took ecstasy was their personal choice. The video was filmed in Victoria Park, London.

Track listings
Suburban Base Records (UK) and Possum Records (Australia)
  1. "Sesame's Treet" (Edit) – 3:33
  2. "Sesame's Treet" (Krome & Time Remix) – 5:22
  3. "Magnificent" – 4:36
  4. "Sesame's Treet" (12" Version) – 5:10
Pyrotech Records (US)
  1. "Sesame's Treet" (Edit) – 3:33
  2. "Sesame's Treet" (12" Version) – 5:10
  3. "Sesame's Treet" (Krome & Time Remix) – 5:22
  4. "Sesame's Treet" (Beltram Mix) – 5:04
  5. "Sesame's Treet" (Hardcore Mix) – 3:22
  6. "Magnificent" – 4:36
ZYX Records (Germany)
  1. "Sesame's Treet" (Edit) – 3:33
  2. "Sesame's Treet" (Krome & Time Remix) – 5:22
  3. "Sesame's Treet" (12" Version) – 5:10
  4. "Magnificent" – 4:36

Chart positions

Weekly charts
Chart (1992) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 6
Ireland (IRMA)[8] 4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] 4
UK (CIN)[3] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 60

Year-end charts
Year-end chart (1992) Position
Australia (ARIA)[11] 74

References
  1. "The Best of Techno, Vol. 3 - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. Best of Rave [Westwood] - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic
  3. "Official Charts > Smart E's". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  4. David Roberts (Managing Editor) et al., Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles & Albums (Eighteenth Edition), 2005, ISBN 1-904994-00-8
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-09-10. Retrieved 2007-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Toytown Techno". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  7. "australian-charts.com > Smart E's – Sesame's Treet (song)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  8. "The Irish Charts – All there is to know > Search results for Smart E's (from irishcharts.ie)". Imgur.com (original source published by Fireball Media). Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  9. "charts.nz > Smart E's – Sesame's Treet (song)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  10. "Billboard > Artists / Smart E's > Chart History > The Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  11. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1992 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 152)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 2016-10-13.
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