This article or section is missing citations or needs footnotes. Using inline citations helps guard against copyright violations and factual inaccuracies. (September 2007)

"Bein' Green" is a popular song originally written by Joe Raposo in 1970 for the first season of the children's show Sesame Street where it was performed by Kermit the Frog (voiced by Jim Henson). This article is about the BBC2 programme. ... Joseph Raposo Jr. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... Kermit the Frog is a Muppet, one of puppeteer Jim Hensons most famous and beloved creations, first introduced in 1955. ... James Maury Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was the most widely known puppeteer in American television history. ...

"It's not easy being green" is a phrase that appears in pop culture as an expression of melancholy. In the song, Kermit begins by lamenting his green coloration, expressing that green "blends in with so many ordinary things." Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Melancholia (Greek μελαγχολια) was described as a distinct disease as early as the fifth and fourth centuries BC in the Hippocratic writings. ...

The song is associated with problems with identity, and failure of individuality. It can also be interpreted in terms of social alienation, and more specifically, the inequalities created by race. This article is about a concept in social science. ... Individualism, in general, is a term used to describe a theoretical or practical emphasis of the individual, as opposed to, and possibly at the expense of, the group. ... For other uses, see Race. ...

By the end of the song, Kermit recalls positive associations with the color green, and concludes by accepting and embracing his greenness ("It's beautiful! And it's what I want to be...") Research by Sesame Workshop in 1989 discovered that "many preschool children failed to recognize that Kermit felt happy about being green by the end of the song." Other material created as part of Sesame Street's race relations curriculum was better understood. Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Childrens Television Workshop (or CTW), is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational childrens programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world (including PBS in the United States). ...

Recordings of Bein' Green

• Kermit the Frog, B-side of 1970 Sesame Street single "Animals" also The Sesame Street Book and Record, 1995 album Sesame Street Platinum: All Time Favorites, 2000 album Kermit Unpigged with Don Henley, 2002 album The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem and More - 25th Anniversary, 2003 Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music remastered original recording

• Frank Sinatra, 1970 album Sinatra & Company.
• Buddy Rich, 1972 album Stick It
• Van Morrison, 1973 album Hard Nose the Highway, jokingly described by Rolling Stone as "a landmark of Muppet soul."
• Diana Ross, 1974 Album Diana Ross Live at Caesars Palace
• Ray Charles, 1975 album Renaissance; this version gained popularity thanks to an episode of The Cosby Show. Charles then sang a duet with Kermit on Sesame Street.
• Jackie McLean, 1978 album New Wine in Old Bottles.
• Keith Harris and Orville the Duck, 1983 single
• Mandy Patinkin, 1990 album Dress Casual
• Rowlf the Dog, 1993 album Ol' Brown Ears Is Back
• Jill O'Hara, 1993 album Jill O'Hara, titled "Green"
• Shirley Horn, 1993 Album Light Out of Darkness (A Tribute To Ray Charles)
• Stan Kenton, 1992 album 7.5 on the Richter Scale, titled "It's Not Easy Bein' Green", includes what has been described as a "monotonous group vocal" [1]
• Don Henley with Kermit, 1994 album Kermit Unpigged
• Mike Campbell, 1994 album Easy Chair Jazz; leans to almost spoken word
• Urbie Green, 1994 cassette Bein' Green
• Vanessa Rubin, 1995 album Vanessa Rubin Sings
• Paul Schmeling, 1995 album One for the Road
• Boston Pops Orchestra, 1996 album Wish Upon a Star/All-Time Children's Favorites
• Daboa, 1997 album From the Gekko
• Johnny Lytle, 1997 album Easy Easy, completely instrumental
• Tony Bennett, 1998 album The Playground
• Bob McGrath, 1998 album Bob's Favorite Street Songs
• Manfred Krug, 2000 album Schlafstörung, titled "Frosches Lied (Bein' Green)" with German lyrics
• Lemuel West, 2000 album In Good Company
• Donna Leonhart, 2001 album Bein' Green
• Maestro Pocero (Josele Santiago), 2002 album, Patitos feos, titled "Ser verde (Being Green)"
• 2003 album Drew's Famous Kids St. Patrick's Day Party
• Andy Hallett, 2004 album, Angel - Music from The Original TV Series
• Mark Murphy, 2005 album Once to Every Heart
• Oscar the Grouch, 2005 season of Sesame Street
• Till Brönner, German jazz bugler, 2005 album That Summer
• Audra McDonald, 2006 album Build a Bridge
• Sophie Milman, 2007 album Make Someone Happy

Kermit the Frog is a Muppet, one of puppeteer Jim Hensons most famous and beloved creations, first introduced in 1955. ... Kermit Unpigged was a music and comedy record released by The Jim Henson Company through BMG Kidz in 1995, and is the last album released by Jim Henson Records. ... Donald Hugh Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band Eagles. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... Sinatra & Company is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music). ... Bernard Buddy Rich (September 30, 1917 Brooklyn, New York – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. ... Stick It is a teen comedy film starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, and Vanessa Lengies. ... George Ivan Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) (born August 31, 1945) is a Grammy Award-winning Irish singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s. ... Hard Nose the Highway is a Van Morrison album, released in 1973. ... This article is about the magazine. ... For the author-illustrator, see Diana Ross (author). ... For Ray Charles, the composer and conductor of the Ray Charles Singers, see Ray Charles (composer). ... This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ... The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, first broadcast on September 20, 1984 and ran for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. ... John Lenwood (Jackie) McLean (born May 17, 1932) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and educator, born in New York City. ... For the Australian rugby league player, see Keith Harris (rugby league footballer). ... Orville with Keith Harris Orville the Duck is the puppet of ventriloquist Keith Harris and was named after Orville Wright, (one of the Wright Brothers). ... Mandel Bruce Patinkin (born November 30, 1952) is a Tony Award winning and Emmy Award winning American actor of stage and screen, as well as a renowned tenor. ... Rowlf the Dog Rowlf the Dog is a Muppet character, a scruffy brown dog of indeterminate breed with a rounded black nose and long floppy ears. ... Shirley Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. ... Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. ... Donald Hugh Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band Eagles. ... Kermit Unpigged was a music and comedy record released by The Jim Henson Company through BMG Kidz in 1995, and is the last album released by Jim Henson Records. ... Michael (Mike) Campbell (born February 1, 1950 in Panama City, Florida in the U.S.) is a guitarist and record producer, best known for his work with Tom Petty. ... Urbane Clifford Urbie Green (born August 8, 1926 in Mobile, Alabama, USA) is a noted jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, and Frankie Carle. ... The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ... For other persons named Tony Bennett, see Tony Bennett (disambiguation). ... The Playground Theater is a theater in Chicago, Illinois, at 3209 North Halsted. ... Bob McGrath, when he was big in Japan. ... Manfred Krug (born February 8, 1937 in Duisburg) is a German actor and singer. ... In Good Company is a 2004 film written and directed by Paul Weitz, the co-director of About a Boy. ... Andy Hallett (born August 4, 1975) is from the tiny Cape Cod village of Osterville, part of the town of Barnstable. ... For the South Korean TV series of the same name, see Angel (2007 TV series). ... Mark Murphy is the name of two American Football safeties, an ice hockey player and one singer. ... An Oscar the Grouch puppet, at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Oscar the Grouch, reading to Slimey. ... Till Brönner (born 1971 in Viersen) is a German jazz musician, trumpet player, singer, composer, arranger and producer. ... That Summer is Sarah Dessens first book. ... Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... Sophie Milman is a Russian born jazz vocalist who currently lives in Canada. ...

Cultural references

• A 2006 Super Bowl advertisement for Ford automobiles featured Kermit adventuring through the wild, while singing the song. Later Kermit comes across a Ford Escape Hybrid, and comes to the conclusion that "maybe it is easy being green."
• David Brin novel Kiln People: The title of Chapter 6 is "It's Not Easy Being Green".
• Sara Elizabeth Lewis' Waterfront Property: The first line of the song is quoted at the start of Chapter 26.
• Lois Lowry novel Rabble Starkey: Gunther quotes the line, while in his pyjamas.
• Robert Schoen book What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism: The Preface begins "Kermit the Frog has said that it's not easy being green."
• Articles with reference to the song in their titles were published in American Way (1990), Annual Review of Energy and the Environment (1999; later published in The Earthscan Reader in Business and the Environment), Harvard Business Review (1994), Newsweek (1990), Voice Literary Supplement.
• ALF, Season one, episode 22: "It ain't easy bein' green".
• It's Not Easy Being Green is the title of a 2006 BBC TV documentary series about a family's attempts to take on a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
• Apple uses the song in an iMac commercial.
• A Weezer shirt issued in 2002 stated "It's not easy being weez" with a photograph of the band and the Muppets. [2]. The shirt was based on the video for Weezer's song "Keep Fishin'," which features the Muppets.
• In his comedy special No Cure For Cancer, Denis Leary mentions, in passing, Kermit singing the song at Jim Henson's funeral. However, at that event, the song was performed by Big Bird, not Kermit.^[1]
• In the game World of Warcraft male Orc's have the joke emote "It's not easy being green".
• EDF Energy uses the song, re-recorded by boys from Trinity Boys School in Croydon, for its latest advert on British TV.
• The ER second season episode title "It's not easy being Greene" is a reference to the song (with the extra E)

Date February 5, 2006 Stadium Ford Field City Detroit, Michigan MVP Hines Ward, wide receiver Favorite Steelers by 4 National anthem Aaron Neville, Aretha Franklin and Dr. John, ASL performed by Angela LaGuardia Coin toss Tom Brady Referee Bill Leavy Halftime show The Rolling Stones Attendance 68,206 TV in... “Ford” redirects here. ... The Ford Escape Hybrid, launched in 2004, is a gas-electric hybrid powered version of the Ford Escape SUV developed by the Ford Motor Company. ... Glen David Brin, Ph. ... Kiln People is a 2002 science-fiction novel by David Brin. ... Lois Lowry (born March 20, 1937) is an author of childrens literature who has been awarded the Newbery Medal twice: first for Number the Stars in 1990, and again in 1994 for The Giver, her most famous and controversial work. ... Rabble Starkey is a 1987 fictional novel by two time award-winning author Lois Lowry. ... The American way of life is an expression that refers to the lifestyle of people living in the United States. ... December 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... ALF ALF is the name of a popular TV sitcom series produced by NBC between 1986 and 1990, inspired by and spoofing the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). ... This article is about the BBC2 programme. ... Apple Inc. ... For the albums, see Weezer (1994 album) and Weezer (2001 album). ... Keep Fishin is a popular single by Weezer. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ... EDF Energy is an energy company that provides gas and electricity to homes throughout the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Croydon (disambiguation). ... ER is an Emmy-winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ...

References

1. ^ Goofs for No Cure for Cancer. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.