Feist sings '1234' on Sesame Street

by Marcus on Jul 15 2008, 04:00PM

Chances are when Sally Seltmann a.k.a Melbourne's New Buffalo penned the tune '1234' and gave it to her then tour mate Feist, she might have suspected it would sound pretty good on her record. Chances are she might not have suspected it making Feist a global household name; via her synchronised video for the song, its iPod Nano ad and now...its appearance on Sesame Street.

Feist performed the song on the ubiquitous kids show, changing the lyrics to "counting to four" and dancing about with the lucky number. Appearing alongside all manner of singing chickens, penguins and monsters. Hot.

It's hard to fathom the lasting impact this simple song has made. According to Wikipedia, after the track appeared on the iPod ad, downloads of Feist's LP The Reminder jumped from sales of 6,000 copies a week to 19,000. The track itself jumped from 2,000 downloads a week to 73,000 a week! Similarly in the UK after the advertisement aired, '1234' went from No. 102 in the charts to No. 8. And if that wasn't significant enough, Time magazine named it the second best song of 2007, calling it a "masterpiece".

Suffice to say I imagine Sally doesn't have to wait tables anymore.



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Reader comments

1,2,3,4 counting to OUT OF CONTROL! Did that really happen?

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arielamazing ON 15 Jul 2008 04:57:24PM

1, 2, 3, 4 counting to where the funk is Grover? Sesame Street is the ultimate show to have a cameo in.

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KO ON 15 Jul 2008 05:06:11PM

That is the most brilliant video of the year. Makes you want to have kids just to have an excuse to dance to it.

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SS71 ON 15 Jul 2008 10:11:54PM

Makes you wonder what they could do with the ubiquitous "A B C" song

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KwerkyGirl ON 16 Jul 2008 09:26:37AM

'Chickens just back from the shore'... awesome.

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sirparmalot ON 17 Jul 2008 06:39:27PM

That is awesome- what a great song! She must be a good sport to sing on Sesame Street. My new favourite video of the week. I really like her voice.

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chickchickchicken ON 21 Jul 2008 05:34:05PM