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"Windy" was a Sesame Street song that first aired during Sesame Street episode 0074 (during the first season), on February 19, 1970.^[1] It was originally a #1 hit for the Association in 1967, so it is one of the song covers performed during the first season of Sesame Street in 1969.^[2]

Tony sings about his girlfriend, Windy (played by Beautiful Day Monster), who can fly across the sky. After Tony's first singing line, Beautiful Day Monster sprouts his huge black bat wings and then tells Tony that he is about to fly all across the city (hence his legs are unusually seen during the song) and Tony looks in awe as he sees the monster flying and also dive-bombing the other Muppets while yelling "ZOOOM!". At the end of the song, Beautiful Day Monster falls down to the ground with a huge crash, gets cross-eyed and has a bandage on his chest.

"Windy" is one of the rarest and hardest classic clips in the show to find. According to a user on MuppetCentral, the German dub of the clip from Sesamstraße has once been posted on YouTube by a German user back in 2006,^[3] but the video got deleted as of February 2007, due to the German user who posted many other Classic Sesame Street clips taken from Sesamstraße had been terminated from YouTube. Because of this, there are no more copies of the song (despite only five screenshots found as shown above) and it is unknown if it will ever resurface on YouTube or be leaked from the Sesame Street vaults.

Another user, gavry3 posted a forum thread on MuppetCentral about the "Windy" song, stating that a user by the name BigPumpkinJFriend86 (a.k.a BigRedMonster86) had been trying to find the video for that sketch. The sketch also may have been included somewhere on a Castilian Spanish Barrio Sesamo "Espinete y Don Pimpon" 10-disc set that is only available in Spain. The forum thread has been left derelict and has not been bumped by any other users.^[4]

References

↑ muppet.wikia.com page on Sesame Street episode 0074. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.
↑ muppet.wikia.com page on the Windy song. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.
↑ muppetcentral.com forum thread on the "Surprise" song by proto-Little Jerry and the Monotones (1970 version). The "Windy" song was stated as one of the "holy grails" in one of the comments. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.
↑ muppetcentral.com forum thread on the "Windy" song. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.

[1] uppet.wikia.com page on Sesame Street episode 0074. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.

[2] uppet.wikia.com page on the Windy song. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.

[3] uppetcentral.com forum thread on the "Surprise" song by proto-Little Jerry and the Monotones (1970 version). The "Windy" song was stated as one of the "holy grails" in one of the comments. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.

[4] uppetcentral.com forum thread on the "Windy" song. Retrieved 26 Dec '16.

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 [[File:"Windy" (1969 Sesame Street) screencaps|thumb|right|335 px]] '''"Windy" '''was a ''Sesame Street'' song that first aired during ''Sesame Street'' episode 0074 (during the first season), on February 19, 1970.<ref>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0074 muppet.wikia.com page on ''Sesame Street'' episode 0074.] Retrieved 26 Dec '16.</ref> It was originally a #1 hit for the Association in 1967, so it is one of the song covers performed during the first season of ''Sesame Street'' in 1969.<ref>[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Windy muppet.wikia.com page on the ''Windy'' song.] Retrieved 26 Dec '16.</ref>
-Tony sings about his girlfriend, Windy (played by Beautiful Day Monster), who can fly across the sky. After Tony's first singing line, Beautiful Day Monster sprouts his huge black bat wings and then tells Tony that he is about to fly all across the city (hence his legs are unusually seen during the song) and Tony looks in awe as he sees the monster flying and also dive-bombing the other Muppets while yelling "ZOOOM!". At the end of the song, Beautiful Day Monster falls down to the ground with a huge crash, gets cross-eyed and has a bandage on his chest, and also hits the back of the set and knocks it over, revealing a solid white background.
+Tony sings about his girlfriend, Windy (played by Beautiful Day Monster), who can fly across the sky. After Tony's first singing line, Beautiful Day Monster sprouts his huge black bat wings and then tells Tony that he is about to fly all across the city (hence his legs are unusually seen during the song) and Tony looks in awe as he sees the monster flying and also dive-bombing the other Muppets while yelling "ZOOOM!". At the end of the song, Beautiful Day Monster falls down to the ground with a huge crash, gets cross-eyed and has a bandage on his chest.
 "Windy" is one of the rarest and hardest classic clips in the show to find. According to a user on MuppetCentral, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbCoWWzj7E the German dub of the clip from Sesamstraße] has once been posted on YouTube by a German user back in 2006,<ref>[http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/sesame-street-surprise-song.53243/ muppetcentral.com forum thread on the "Surprise" song by proto-Little Jerry and the Monotones (1970 version). The "Windy" song was stated as one of the "holy grails" in one of the comments.] Retrieved 26 Dec '16.</ref> but the video got deleted as of February 2007, due to the German user who posted many other Classic Sesame Street clips taken from Sesamstraße had been terminated from YouTube. Because of this, there are no more copies of the song (despite only five screenshots found as shown above) and it is unknown if it will ever resurface on YouTube or be leaked from the Sesame Street vaults.