M'na M'na (doot dooo di doo doo)?

Question

This is a little odd, but I'm looking for an MP3 of the M'na M'na song from Sesame Street, the one that the little space muppets that looked sort of like cows did. Any idea where I can find a recording of that song?

Answer 1

I don't know about an mp3 but I found it on Youtube...

Answer 2

That's actually from The Muppet Show. It's one of my favorite skits. The space aliens are singing the song and the little dude with the orange hair keeps popping in with M'na M'na.

I found it on a P2P service like Kazaa or Limewire. Additionally, all of the old Muppet Show seasons are available on DVD now. I don't know which season that was from exactly but it is available.

*** I don't know if I should thank you or curse you for sticking that song in my head all day. It's now about 3 hours after answering your question and I have not been able to shake it.

Answer 3

Amazon.com sells a 3 Disc Boxed Set of Seasme Street music.

Answer 4

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" is a well-known pop music song, written by Piero Umiliani. It was a hit in many countries, including the USA, in 1968–1969. The song's lyrics contain no actual words, only nonsense words resembling scat singing. The original version interpolates melodies from "Swedish Rhapsody" ("Midsommarvaka" ("Midsummer Vigil")) by Hugo Alfvén, "Santa Lucia", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", the jazz standard "Lullaby of Birdland", and others.

"Mah Nà Mah Nà" debuted as part of Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian softcore pornography movie Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden, Hell and Heaven) (1968), a pseudo-documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behavior in Sweden. ("Mah Nà Mah Nà" played under a portrayal of lesbian BDSM in the film.) (In a coincidental third link to Sweden, songs based on "Santa Lucia" (the well-known Neapolitan song) are traditionally sung in Sweden every year on St. Lucia Day.) A soundtrack album, "Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso" was released in 1968. The movie was also released under the English title Sweden Hell and Heaven.

In 1969, Henri Salvador recorded a variation titled "Mais Non, Mais Non" ("But No, But No"), with lyrics he had written in French to Umiliani's tune.

The song became familiar to many from its renditions by the Muppets on national television. On November 30, 1969, "Mahna Mahna" was performed on the The Ed Sullivan Show by a Muppet also known as Mahna Mahna, and the Snowths. Also in 1969, "Mahna Mahna" was performed on Sesame Street by Bip Bipadotta and two Anything Muppet girls.

In 1973, a rendition of "Mah-na-Mah-na" on the Moog synthesizer was released on the album "Hot Butter" (Musicor MS 3254), best known for the pop tune "Popcorn". It was re-released on CD in 2005.

In 1976, the first episode of The Muppet Show to be recorded (featuring Juliet Prowse) used "Mahna Mahna" as the first sketch. It was performed by the Muppets "Mahna Mahna and the Snowths". As a result, the original Piero Umiliani recording finally became a hit in the UK, where the Muppet Show soundtrack album featuring the Muppets' version went to number one.

The original, the Muppets', and other versions of the song are available on various collections and recordings.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4668196322523357460&q=muppets

Don't know if you can save it, but there are lots of places out there that have it.

Answer 5

Kazaa

Answer 6

Sesamestreet.com

Answer 7

i think CAKE does a rendition of that song