Animal House Sings and Plays Hits from The Muppet Movie and Sesame Street.Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration (1991).The Muppets: Original Soundtrack (2011).Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets (1986).Mahna Mahna/Sax and Violence (single, 1977).The Muppet Show recording can be heard playing in a car in the official movie trailer. The Muppets ends with a montage of celebrities performing the classic number with the Snowths. The number became popular enough that it was spoofed by the Muppets themselves in a sketch on Muppets Tonight, in which Kermit the Frog complained to his psychiatrist that the Snowths would appear every time he said the word "phenomena."
Although the back-up singers attempt to bring order back to the number, their effort is ultimately futile. Regardless of who is singing, the basics of the performance remain the same: a central character starts out conforming to the structure of the song, but falls into improvisational scat passages whenever possible. This version of the skit was restaged many times on a number of variety shows before being featured as the opening number in the premiere episode of The Muppet Show. It is a nonsense song that achieved widespread fame as a classic Muppet sketch.Īlthough it was first performed in a Henson production on Sesame Street by the character who would become Bip Bippadotta and two Anything Muppet girls, the most famous Muppet rendition of the song debuted on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969, where it was performed by Mahna Mahna and his back-up singers, the Snowths. " Mah Na Mah Na" was written by composer Piero Umiliani for an Italian "mondo" film (exploitative pseudo-documentaries) about life (mostly sex-related) in Sweden, titled Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso ( Sweden, Heaven and Hell). Frank Oz and Jim Henson performing the song on The Muppet Show.
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