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==Music== With the exception of [[Tom Lehrer]], all the individuals listed below were [[Children's Television Workshop]] in-house composers. * [[Joe Raposo]], who was famous for his work on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', was the music director of the series for Seasons 1β3 and wrote songs for the show during its entire run. * [[Gary William Friedman]], who wrote the music for the hit [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[rock opera]] ''[[The Me Nobody Knows]]'', was the music director and composer for Season 4, composer for an additional 260 episodes, and wrote some 40 songs, including the popular Spider-Man theme song. * [[Tom Lehrer]], a satirist and pianist, wrote 10 songs for the series. Two of those songs, "L-Y" and "[[Silent E]]" (whose visual segment was directed by Clark Gist and animated by Tony Benedict), were included as bonus tracks on the CD issue of [[Revisited (Tom Lehrer album)|his second live album]], while the boxed set ''[[The Remains of Tom Lehrer]]'' included five songs from the show, with the original recordings of "L-Y", "Silent E", "O-U (The Hound Song)", and "S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)", along with a new recording of "N Apostrophe T". * Dave Conner was the music director for Seasons 5β6. * [[Clark Gesner]] wrote several songs for the series, including most of the sign songs but never served as the show's official music coordinator, a position that fell to Raposo's ensemble percussionist Danny Epstein. * [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]], who composed the music for the DePatie-Freleng cartoons in the '70s. He was the additional music composer for 260 episodes of ''The Electric Company'', and wrote some new songs, including the arrangement from ''The Electric Company'' theme song. The original soundtrack album, released on [[Warner Bros. Records]], won a [[Grammy Award]] for the show's cast.
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