Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in Sesame Street and children's TV threads as a favorite example of the show's funkier past.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Ryan's Smashing Life

Topic

live music performance

Format

music

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Sesame Street is like a fossil record or tree cross section for attention span in television. Some of the older Sesame Street clips like the one about milk, are trippy long format art pieces. Very very different than the quick cuts / short segments that …

• How could they include that and not this? [VIDEO] Edit: Youtube commenter claims the kid rocking out on the stairs is "my cousin Lenny Kravitz". Plausible. Am I being naive?

• We received two PBS stations at the farmhouse where we lived in the early '70s, so obviously I watched Sesame Street twice a day. If you haven't seen Stevie Wonder's performance of Superstition on the show in 1973, I highly recommend it: [VIDEO]