This Country Music Legend Once Set Big Bird From 'Sesame Street' on Fire

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...
Whiskey Riff

Waylon Jennings Once Accidentally Lit Big Bird On Fire While Filming The 1985 Sesame Street Film, ‘Follow That Bird’

Classic Waylon... The country icon has so many iconic songs, and stories, to his name, and recently, we got to hear some brand new Waylon music on the album Songbird, which is a tracklist full of ...
Time

Big Bird’s Big Words on the Power of His Home

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...