Who was Mobity Mosely and who was his band???!!!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

So the Sesame Street presents record, "My Name Is Roosevelt Franklin" has some insane guest spots by Roose's buddy Mobity Mosely. Especially on the cut, "Mobity Mosely's Months." This record came out in '71 and Mobity is basically rapping over this VERY funky backing track.

I'm trying to figure out who was the performer playing Mobity and who his backing band was.

I can't seem to figure this out. Am I just a shit Googler?

― Pharmaceutical Executive, Friday, 11 November 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, but was one of Mobity's exact quotes not, "Nobody knows me... I'm Mobity Mosely"?

― belle.haleine, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I know, I know. He's the Jandek of the CTW.

― Pharmaceutical Executive, Friday, 11 November 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

According to the liner notes:
"First of all, there's Matt Robinson. He sings all of the boy voices and he wrote all of the words to all of the songs." and "Joe Raposo...he arranged all of the music and he led the band..."

It was engineered by Frank Laico, John Guerriere, and Ed Michalski, and produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.

http://www.sesame-encyclopedia.com/Alphabet/SesameR/RooseveltFranklin.html

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

Right on Mike. Thanks.

Apparantly the photo in the background of this "Don Music" skit is a shot of Joe Raposo.

http://www.cmug.org/img/DonMusic.mov

Don Music... dare we explore the tortured artist archetype he ingrained in all of our young minds?

― Pharmaceutical Executive, Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.