Remember that song from sesame street? Manamanop doo doo doodoo doot, manamanop doo doo doo doot, manamanop doot doo dododo doodoodoo doo dododododododooododododooot Thats about the best I can do. We were walking down the street and some guy yelled out of a car something that sounded like manamanop.. god only knows what he really said, and there were four of us.. all four went doo doo doodo doot right then.. classic moments in "you had to be there" history.

that song wasn't from sesame street. when you're singing "manamanop" you gotta be thinking of the muppet show theme song. (as in "manamanop, doot dooo do-do doo") sesame street s a totally different groove all together. that's the "sunny day" song.

oh... you're right! Hahaha.. oh... now I feel old, so old I'm forgetting my childhood shows... I'm so embarrassed...

it wasn't the muppet show theme song, it was just a number they did. the Warlock Pincers also do a version.

"Mahna Mahna" (sung by Mahna Mahna and the Snowths) Mahna mahna (ba dee bedebe) mahna mahna (ba debe dee) mahna mahna (ba dee bedebe badebe badebe dee dee de-de de-de-de) (repeats) mah mama na mahna mah namwomp mwomp ma mo mo mana mo mahna mahna (ba dee bedebe) mahna mahna (ba debe dee) Mahna Mahna! (ba dee bedebe bedebe badebe debe de-de de-de-de) (long pause) ...mahna mahna? (Sheet music for this is available in Australia from Alberts Publishing, in Alberts Mammoth Folio 7 "Songs from the continent." The song was written by Piero Umiliani and is from the 1969 Avco Embassy Film, "Sweden Heaven and Hell." Thanks to Ian Williams for this information.)

Don't thank me.

I wonder what the genisis of that song was...remember the fat guy that would get junk thrown at him while he was dancing on every episode of the Gong Show..nerrr nert nert nert nert nerrr nert nert nert nert...while whats his face played with his stupid hat? Its got to be part of the same tree. If it roots out with Chuck Manjonie(didnt he wear a stupid hat?) I will definatly have to make a phone call.

Never mind...I have a problem finnishing shit and interrupting people in the middle of a sentance with a question they are just about to give the answer to if I just had the Patience...a little patience yeaaah yeah.

Is this the song they did on Space Ghost Coast To Coast? BTW - I'm Albatross. I'm new here.

As a matter of fact it is, little albatross, welcome here.

This is way off topic, but: When I was a kid, I read a book about a man named Albert Ross who was stranded on this sandbar between the shore and the sea, and this girl rescued him and thought he was a magical creature, an albatross transformed into a man. The girl's name was Felicity Tate. I can't remember the author or the title -- Joan Aiken? I think the author's last name began with an A. I think she also wrote a book about statues coming to life ("the Midnight Garden" or something) and "The Trials of Anna Cotman," about a girl who joins a secret society whose initiation ceremonies go horribly awry. That was a neat book. I still remember some of the society's passwords (Beggar, where is your begging bowl? In my heart and in my hand) because I think of them as I get communion during Mass. I had an argument with a friend who still believed you had to take communion on your tongue, and I used those lines as my reason I take it in my hands. Well! Thank you, Albatross. I apologize for interrupting.

*hehe* i just downloaded the manahmanah song. It makes me laugh cause at the end those two old guys go: 'that was wonderful' 'bravo' 'I loved that' 'It was great' 'Well it was pretty good' 'Well it wasnt bad' 'There were parts of it that werent very good tho' 'It could of been a lot better' 'I didnt really like it' 'It was pretty terrible' 'It was bad' 'It was awful' then they start yelling and booing.. it makes me smile everytime

I found this really cool version of mahnamahna one time with computer animated things that didn't look like the original creatures but I accidentally closed the window before I could get the site name!Anyway,I'm new here too and was wondering if anyone could perhaps find it for me?please?

the cover to Sweden Heaven and Hell

I do believe that the manamanop song was sung by the Banana Splits. Also where can I download that song?

Is that you,Taft Smith?

There is some fascinating information on this. The original composer of the "Mah na Mah na" song is a chap by the name of Piero Umiliani. Here is a nice like you will find more info on him and his legacy: http://www.geocities.com/pieroumiliani/ At any rate, a poster named "Swine" says that this wasn't from Sesame Street. Even though it's true that it isn't the Sesame Street theme song, Swine was wrong in saying that it wasn't on Sesame Street. Another poster says it was the Muppet Show theme, again incorrect. It did appear on The Muppoet Show, but it was done on Sesame Street first as one of their skits. I recall it from childhood, very early childhood. As children are very impressionable at an early age, this skit with a black-bearded muppet with a striped shirt, backed by two blonde muppet girls, they sang what I always thought was the word "Phenonmenon" has stuck with me to the present day. My sister remembers this, too. I didn't even know that it appeared on the Muppet Show until someone at worked asked me if I "had the manamana song from the Muppets". I said "Oh you mean the "Phenonmenon" song from Sesame Street! That was awesome! He's much younger than I so he did not remember the one from SS. What's interesting to note here is that my 3yr old daughter was watching Sesame Street recently and the episode was an anniversary edition of some sort. At the very end of the tribute they had a montage/collage of clips from the earliest years up to the present and one of the earlier clips was the "Phenonmenon" clip that I remembered from my childhood! For the rest of that day I was humming that tune!! What amazes me most is that as I grow older I have trouble with recalling things like what I ate for breakfast the day before but I can still remember something from when I was 4 as if it happened just a few minutes ago!

It was originally done on the Red Skelton Show in the 1970s. It was the Muppets. Although originally not done my any "named" Muppet characters. If I remember correctly The Muppets (Jim Hensen) got their/his first first national exposure in Red Skeltons show. The Muppets predate Sesame Street.

actually, the song plays at the end of sesame street, it sounds different from the one on the dr.pepper comercial

Anthony, speaking of "Seasame Street", is ernie and bert a brother or just a gay lover?

friends brother

anyone having the link to the mp3 of the Muppets "manahmanah song"? hoepfully ross

GOD DAMN IT WE WANT THE WHOLE VIDEO!!!!!!!!

It brings back good memories. I taught my kids and they love it. When they start with "mana mana" one of us has to finish it and it can go on for at least 30 minutes. Thanks. Chris

how the hell do people find this thread anyway?

like you've never just hung out at the message board listings and clicked any random title that looked vaguely interesting.

no, I get the impression that these folks are showing up after clicking something on google, or the like.

you're welcome, Chris! anytime!

i have both .avi video and .mp3 of great quality of the original muppet show manah manah act.just let me know...

ive turned my kid on to vintage muppet show. found an old video in a thrift store. with episodes of mark hamil, paul simon and that late 70s fitness chick....who's name i can't recall right now. recently at the video store, the kid spied the muppet section. we watched the trilogy with dudley moore, peter sellars and john cleese. the muppets are actually a brilliant show and im positive when my, at day care starts dropping the names fozzy and rowlf, shes the only one in.

you're right, the old muppet show was brilliant. i truly believe that if you can keep your child to the muppet show, the tex avery/chuck jones cartoons, and bullwinkle, he or she will be fine. look what it's done for me.

well, the thing is this, i dont have TV, at least, not local or national programming. its just not in my budget and im better off without it. so, for the most part, the only thing we watch are movies if anything. to top it off, i dont have a DVD player. so, in my crappy ghetto local video store, not only is the selection heavily favored towards the demographics (apparently, based on my video store, latinos watch nothing but chuck norris and jackie chan) but the VHS section is terribly retarded. so, in short we are extremely limited to crappy VHS sections and what we find in thrift stores, which can or cannot be interesting.

i notice that the movie choice on spanish-language tv is starting to get more interesting. i've seen "taxi driver" dubbed in spanish twice (estas hablando con mi?). i've also seen "airplane" a couple of times, but i haven't figured out how they coped with all the wordplay - like "don't call me surely" and stuff like that.

Muppet Show season one hitting stores Aug 9, Fraggle Rock follows a month later. I'm creaming myself in anticipation

i got a brilliant line from a muppet show episode we watched this weekend, with Elton John (have you heard a two year old say the name Elton John? I have.) the line was: "You dress like a stolen car." in reference to Elton. Fucking brilliant. Speaking of great lines, another one i extracted from the Sopranos... Tony is getting verbally chewed by a crackwhore and he reponds "whoa whoa the language lady. You blow your daddy with that mouth?"

OMG!! I've been looking so hard through bittorrent, and other file sharing sites for the video of "Manah Manah and the Snowths" sketch... i came across this from google. if anyone has it and wouldn't mind sharing, please e-mail me!

My original experience with the ManaMana song was when I was a kid watching the Red Skelton Show. There were a number of Stick-People under a black-light running around the stage playing on a see-saw, playing catch with a ball, etc. They would move sideways like a kid's drawing of stick-people, even disappearing when they turned their backs to the audience. It was the only time I ever saw any performance to the ManaMana song. I loved it so much that in high school I recreated the whole stick-people thing with black-lights and song for a talent show entry and the crowd loved it too!! The version of ManaMana I used was by the original Swedish singers and not the Muppets. Sadly, I have only just discovered that the Muppets had used this song for their very famous skit which, I think now, everyone and her brother has known about their whole lives except for me!! ManaMana.....