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isn't guy smiley the game show host from sesame street? and isn't the guy that screams "i'll never get it right, never, never, never" the composer/ piano player (and i can't remember which composer or which song) from sesame street? maybe i'm old and senile....

As the sub I checked the reference to Guy Smiley on the web that is where the footnote comes from. Being a senile New Zealander it takes a lot of work to be a knowlegable (believable) Canadian coffee chain neutral.

As the sub I checked the reference to Guy Smiley on the web - that is where the footnote comes from. Being a senile New Zealander it takes a lot of work to be a knowlegable (believable) Canadian coffee chain neutral - and to get a posting accurate Maybe Guy is a coffee-loving, senile, Sesame Street fan (ex-writer?)

Yep, I was wondering whence that "blast from the past" feeling came when I read Guy Smiley and "I'll never get it right".

I can confirm with 100% confidence that Guy Smiley was the game show host on Sesame Street. I can't remember the piano composer's name either, but he would usually start off by 'composing' a nursery rhyme like "Mary Had a Little Lamb", then completely cock up the lyrics and rhymes. He would bang his head on the piano each line of the verse and say the immortal lines "I'll never get it right, never, never." As he went on, the nursery rhyme would mutate from its original verses and become something entirely different (and quite strange as I recall)

If I can stretch my memory, I think the composers name was Don something???

Can anyone else help out on this one?

they were both muppets, BTW

i asked jeeves...long url, but check this out.
http://www.ask.com/main/metaAnswer.asp?MetaEngine=Excite&logQID=515EDCEA1267D41180B5009027737F9C&qCategory=tv_&qSource=0&frames=yes&site_name=Jeeves&ads=&MetaTopic=Characters+on+Sesame+Street+and+the+Muppet+Show&MetaURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-cs-students.stanford.edu%2F%7Ecsilvers%2Fmuppet-characters.html&EngineOrdinal=3&ItemOrdinal=4&ask=name+of+the+muppet+song+composer+on+sesame+street+metasearch&origin=0&MetaList=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-cs-students.stanford.edu%2F%7Ecsilvers%2Fmuppet-characters.html&x=19&y=12

it's "don music"

Of course, why didn't memory serve better - well, at least I got his first name right

And thanks for the link - nothing like taking a stroll down the murky recesses of childhood recollections...

Hey people, I have emailed the editors at h2g2 Towers about the error. Hopefully the article will be updated and corrected in the near future. Thanks.

The reference to the jazz band being Guy Smiley could very well be correct, in that a band simply took their name from these characters - it was just funny to see them turn up in a discussion of coffee chain stores...

it's hard to tell from Australia as well