A Composer’s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 25 | Muppet Melody

This one was designed to be a record of a cool guitar riff, but then my big, fat voice drowns it all out on my low-tech early generation cassette recorder. Still, you can hear the first couple of bars clean, and it also peaks out here and there throughout (but not much).

To me, this sounds a bit like some of Paul Williams’ work on the song, Rainbow Connection, in the first Muppet Movie. So I wondered, which came first: the Williams or the Phillips? I looked it up on Wikipedia. The Muppet Movie came out in 1979. So it looks like I invented this sound on my own, or rather stumbled into it while tooling around on my electric guitar.