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"Five People in My Family" is a Sesame Street song that first aired in the eighth episode of Season 1.

In the original version of the sketch, the song was sung by an Anything Muppet family, as the father introduces his family to Gordon. The song has also been sung by Bob as "Five Fingers on My Left Hand", and was later remade as "Five Monsters in My Family". The performers differ slightly on the record and TV versions.

The family

• Father: Fat Blue
• Mother: Pumpkin
• Brother: Green
• Brother: Purple
• Sister: Reddish Magenta

Performers

Album version

Jim Henson - Father

Lorretta Long - Mother

Caroll Spinney (Green Anything Muppet) and Bob McGrath (Purple Anything Muppet) - Brothers

Frank Oz - Sister

Televised version

Jim Henson - Father

Loretta Long - Mother

Bob McGrath (Green Anything Muppet) and Frank Oz (Purple Anything Muppet) - Brothers

Caroll Spinney - Sister

Releases

Audio

• Number Five/Five People in My Family//I've Got Two (single, 1970)
• The Sesame Street Book & Record (1970)
• Letters ...and Numbers, Too! (1974)
• Five People in My Family/People in Your Neighborhood (single, 1976)
• My Record (1983)
• Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration
• Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music

Online

• Sesamestreet.org (SSvideo)

Publications

• The Sesame Street Songbook

Trivia

• A translated version of this song, with a different music score, was performed on the first soundtrack album for Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. It was preceded by a short sketch in which the father and mother explain to their children what the word 'family' means. This piece of dialogue reveals some background information on their identity: the family is known as the Rijnwinkel Family. Other family members who are mentioned by name include Uncle Co and Aunt Rose - whose current residence is in Limburg, a Southern province in The Netherlands - and cousins Wouter, Hans, Marlies and Alinda.

• The family from this song were made as finger puppets, with a number 5 accessory, as part of the More Sesame Street Finger Puppets set.

• This is the first song that Jeff Moss wrote for Sesame Street.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Moss, Jeff The Sesame Street Songbook introduction