In commemoration of Sesame Street's 50th anniversary this year, here is my self-made tribute to many of the program's cast and crew members who are no longer with us, but whose legacies and contributions to the show's ongoing success this past half-century will never be forgotten (updated to add Caroll Spinney, who passed away December 8, 2019):
Joe Raposo
Jeff Moss

Jon Stone

Will Lee

Matt Robinson

Northern Calloway

Alaina Reed Hall

Bill McCutcheon

Leonard Jackson

David L. Smyrl

Jerry Nelson

Richard Hunt

Jim Thurman

Judy Fruedberg

Tony Geiss

Michael Jeter

Dave Connell

Emily Squires

Lisa Simon

Arlene Sherman

Michael Earl Davis

Jeff Hale

Bud Luckey

Don Hadley

Sam Pottler

Danny Epstein

Dave Conner

Toots Thielemans

Bob Cranshaw

Thad Mumford

Edith Zornow

Clark Gesner

Mark Zeszotek

Robert Myhrum

Donald Alan Siegal

Bruce Hart

Chet O'Brien

Jane Aaron

Kermit Love

Jerry Juhl

Don Sahlin

Bob Phillips

Nina Elias Bamberger

Dr. Gerald Lesser

Jim Henson
Caroll Spinney
Thank you all for your contributions; you will never be forgotten!

Music:

"Somebody Come And Play," music, lyrics, and vocal by Joe Raposo

"I Don't Want To Live On The Moon," music and lyrics by Jeff Moss, sung by Ernie (Jim Henson)

I own neither song listed above; all coyprights go to the composers and performer's estates and publishers.

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