Sesame Street - milk crisis

[@krswan71]

I CANNOT express to you the feelings this film gives me. Its part of some of my earliest memories as a toddler. I was COMPLETELY entralled watching it when it would come on and TOTALLY excited when theyd randomly show it. From age 3 to about 7. Thank you so much for posting this. I STILL love it.

[@sderrickphotography]

This video was filmed in South Canaan, PA. My uncle is the man in the video & one of his brothers (my other unlce) runs the farm still to this day along with my Grandmother.

[@bhusar1]

This is a masterpiece. I remember this from Sesame Street. As a standalone short it is great. And such a beautiful song also. The baby was always cute.

[@KAK8327]

First time seeing this in 20 years, I am in tears... The things you remember and hold with you from childhood is amazing, this brought back so many memories. Thank you for the post.

[@gigababy]

I can't believe I finally found this. It brought tears to my eyes. I have sung this damn song my whole life.

[@cynthialynne]

My mom got emotional when I showed her this. It brings back memories for me at 36 years old, and obviously her too! Love it...

[@gregthegroove]

Its really amazing, just how much you remember when you see these like 25 years later. Your brain as a kid is just like a sponge. It amazes me that I still get these feelings when I hear the song or see something as detailed as the grills on the front of the truck. I cant believe I still remember some 30 years later. WOW

[@lindenprof]

What a beautiful primordial memory for me--to see this after so many years, it's amazing. I have been telling my brother about this for years, but, until now, have not been able to find it anywhere. What an interesting musical arrangement--it is a very well done piece of jazz. Thank you.

[@deerfish3000]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Rhodes Piano is so awesome with it's warm bell-tones. This song proves it. Kudos to whoever was playing it!

[@marybeth77]

I've finally found the two songs that have been in my head for literally 30 years--this one and the sugar beets one. I have occasionally had those recycling through my head and have never actually seen the clips again. I never actually looked for them before. Glad I found them :)

[@KrazyKittyTailz]

More than 30 years later, a wellspring of nostalgia (& tears) have overcome this here Gen-Xer! This indelible SS short's score and vocals remain as hauntingly beautiful today as they were in the 70's.....almost lullaby-esque. It's very amazing & heartening to read how this clip touched so many as it harkens us back to a much simpler era. And seeing the innocent baby having her bottle still wells me up inside :) Thanks very much for posting this classic!

[@aallgod]

I remember this clip solely for the strange music... It popped in my head tonight and I remembered hearing it when I was a really little kid and watched a lot of Sesame Street. So weird that this stuck with me... And that I would actually find it on KZbin... Haha

[@lindahook7056]

same thing happened to me! milk, miilk, milk

[@ChrisC11291980]

I know, right? I would get this stuck in my head all the time and it took me forever to find it here to prove it was real!

[@rsvp9146]

Kinda reminds me of Emerson, Lake and Palmer..

[@lootleo4022]

Same! Don’t know what made me think of this but I remember it being one of the most bizarre songs I heard as a small kid. Never leaves the mind.

[@irawhitlock1084]

Yeah. Thought it must have been something I imagined. This confirms it was actually a thing. Anyone I ever tried to explain it to looked at me like I was nuts.

[@tpirman1982]

Yep. Nicely done by Robert Dennis.

[@Groovytello]

LOLOL!!! OMG I sing this song EVERY time someone mentions milk...or if I'm taking some out of the fridge...but I totally forgot the video! I decided to share this with my bf for him to understand why I sang "milk, miiiilk milk" and I almost died when I saw this! Thank God for KZbin :D

[@ConglomerationCat]

Wow...my eyes are still stinging after 10 min. of weeping. It's the baby and the music that literally rips your heart out...still teary as I'm typing this. Hats off to the the late Jim Henson and Co. Such a brillant, talented man that had such vision and love behind it all. He's still missed to this day. T.V. has gone to hell in a handbasket over the years. To the little girl in this clip: You've touched our hearts and hope life today is beautiful for you.

[@ottieandeddie]

OK, this is crazy. For 25 years whenever someone has milk or something I sometimes sing "milk, MIIIKL, milk". I never remembered where I saw this and I just landed on this today. FINALLY, some closure. I haven't seen this in 30 years.

[@iwanttobelieve9496]

Only time to this very day I've ever seen a milk truck driver driving with all the urgency of a fire engine on its way to a four-alarm blaze!

[@wolphintv]

I noticed that too. Which is odd because the way I remembered this clip, they walked through the entire process of pasteurizing and so on (maybe I'm confusing it with another clip).

[@comgeek24]

OMG, I just had a floodgate of nostalgia burst open. My mom recorded this when I was a kid, but now the tape is so old and worn it probably wouldn't even play. Thanks for posting!

[@tpirman1982]

I looked very closely at the scene where the bottles are being filled up in the bottling facility. If you look closely at 3:56, it's Romberger's Modern Dairy. www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/223055056775_/Rare-vintage-square-1-qt-Rombergers-Modern-Dairy.jpg

[@ameliadiaz8040]

But, I wondered what dairy other than Romberger's belonged the bottle when the mother poured the milk into her baby daughter's baby bottle. 🍼

[@romeosantos9006]

I remembwr that song so well. "Milk, milk!"

[@doormandiaries8445]

Wow, I thought I was the only person who remembered this song. My brother and I still talk about this like it was something we made up. VINDICATION IS OURS! We'd run around the house singing Milk Miiiilk. It drove our Mom nuts...

[@bowerygirl]

M dying. Vindication is the perfect word for this moment 😄

[@vmitexe]

milk milk milk MILK MILK MILK MIIIIIIIIILLLLLKKKKKKK MMMMIIIIILLLKKKKK

[@KenoshiAkai]

Those warm fuzzy synths bring back such good memories.

[@DontCallMeChrissy]

What a wonderful clip. I remember this one. It makes me cry to watch it now. Thank you for the memories! Classic Sesame Street - a prime example of humanity at its best.

[@hidepada]

for smile baby.and for peace.this is good clip!

[@TheCircle000]

I randomly remembered/thought of this song the other day. I'm glad you uploaded this!

[@marthareckless]

This used to make me cry. Get that baby some milk!!!!!

[@josephbalan8384]

You not alone

[@oliverbendallcharles]

Baby already got a bottle of milk. Milk addict

[@MazAMaTaz]

Reportedly, when I watched this as a baby, I would become hypnotized. Afterwards, I would toddle into the kitchen, start hanging on the fridge door, and cry out for MEEEEELK. Now whenever I have a glass of milk this song instantly comes to mind. What a wonderful song.

[@Synixoddity]

Yeah!!!!!! I found it... This brings back fond memories of staying home from 2nd grade on rainy days

[@seldov]

The three-note "Milk... mi-ilk! ...milk" trill from this clip has stayed with me my entire life since the age of about 4. I'm glad some other people seem to remember it!

[@2706588]

Thank you SOOOO much for posting this. I remember seeing this ONCE as a kid, about 30+ years ago. Even then, I wondered a bit why I never saw it again. So happy to see this once again!

[@sha1om]

Robert Dennis (piano, Rhodes) Paul Dunkel (flute) Leslie Scott (bass clarinet) Leslie Miller (vocals) Jonathan Thayer (engineer) Recorded Feb. 1975 at Chelsea Sound, E 14 St, NYC

[@thejoshsings9280]

That’s 49 years ago this year because I’ll be 49 this month

[@DerekFrankBass]

wow... I was just talking about this the other night. for some reason, this is one segment from sesame street that has stuck in my head for the last 30 years. the bit is pretty much as I remembered it. Over the years, I've always sang this little milk, milk song when anyone mentions milk. crazy. thanks so much f0r posting. and the music's killer!

[@DreamDancer82]

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty! My favorite part of this video.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Mine too!

[@catmommajen]

Mine too, (I'm a crazy cat lady!)

[@ameliadiaz8040]

My favorite part, on the other hand, was the baby girl giggling with cheer and joy, while drinking her baby bottle filled with milk. 🍼

[@ameliadiaz8040]

How much love the baby girl giggling of cheer and joy, while drinking her baby bottle filled with milk! 🍼

[@SkyChaserCom]

This song stuck in my head for a LONG time! I remember that in the 70's during my childhood watching sesame street! Wow ... This sure brings back memories! I wonder if that was Wisconsin in the winter?

[@veltro75]

This segment pops into my head every so often but I never thought It would be on here! I always liked the part with the milk truck. Geez, I haven't seen this in like 29-30 years. XD thanks for posting this!

[@metalchick70]

Glad to know I'm not the only one that sings this song. So glad there's You Tube so I can prove to everyone that I'm not crazy.

[@mariacompton32]

Once in a while..ill serve myself a warm cup of milk and sing...Milk Miiilk Milk lol

[@Mysterycat74]

WOW. My sister and I were OBSESSED with this Sesame Street segment back in the day! (like 1979 maybe?) and Now, watching it 30 years later I have NO idea why! We would literally sit and PRAY that this clip would play whenever we watched Sesame street! When it would come on we'd be ALL excited! I think we got a kick out of how the singer is just all "Milk...MIIIIIIIILK....Milk...MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILK!!!" and the baby crying was our favorite part too. NO clue why!

[@chambert]

I remember this very well from back in the mid 70's. I love the jesture the baby made at the end. Since there were glass milk bottles, this was probably filmed at the tail end of the milk man era.

[@Zzyxzaa]

The Citizen Kane of short films about milk.

[@ScottNapolitan]

I remember this clip from my childhood, and I was too young to have all the details straight. I never forgot it featured a baby, but now that I have it put together, it's a heartbreaker seeing the hungry and/or thirsty baby needing more milk, but somehow the milkman sensed it, maybe the voice of God alerted him, and he came to the rescue. I just hate to think she was left by herself. Such a cutie pie!

[@babymoondancer]

"The old Johnson place is out of milk! Hurry before their baby dies!"

[@Cubby67]

Yeah, I suppose that's a dairy farmer's overstatement.

[@mickpork]

nothing beats fresh milk in glass bottles...

[@ameliadiaz8040]

Yeah, right, it's better than in plastic containers with all and lethal petrochemical substances.

[@GrayEyes123]

This is one of the most memorable segments on Sesaem Street for me. It was that music and the screaming "milk" with the voice that sounded like a voice of a possessed kid from a horror movie screaming for milk lol.

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

HEARTBREAKING though this film always was for me(still is)I just HAD to see it again--after all the times I have watched a SS KZbin video, and have seen this one, in list of "recommended videos," I knew I could not resist it any longer. I forgot that the film opens in the wintertime--it seems to be winter, anyway, but I did remember the man calling,"Kitty, kitty, kitty!" to feed the cats some milk. And YES, of course I remembered the DESPERATE BABY, in latter part of film, CRYING for her MILK!!! "Milk,milk, milk-SO GOOD, SO WARM, AND WHITE! Makes everything ALL RIGHT!!!" And it SURE DOES, especially as far as babies are concerned. The heartbreaking part, of course, is the little desperate baby, CRYING OUT FOR HER MILK! But, fortunately, like in most movies, everything works out, in the end. Saw this many a time, in the 1970s; thanks for posting.

[@fanostyx]

ahhh i have heard this tune in my head for 30+ years whenever i ask someone for milk or make any mention of "milk"!!! i can't believe it's here! GREAT POST!!

[@ehaaken]

I've always remembered this; it's a bit like a lullaby.

[@Cmonster2]

I love this. I agree with Afansorge-Almost in tears over here...... My brother and I would do the little cow call the dude does in the beginning to some backyard dogs-and they'd actually come running. Not to mention the composition: fender rhodes, basson piano, flute-Ohhh the drama. I love it. Thank you

[@jevrolet]

I never wanted to be a milk truck driver so bad in my life. A real life milk emergency. And Ron Burgundy would love the Jazz flute!!! Thank you so much for posting this!!

[@PenrodB]

Man, I'm glad this was on youtube. That song has been going through my head all week and it was driving me nuts. Now I can rest easy.

[@BlueMolly2024]

This one always made me cry for some reason. This brings back memories.

[@mspianomistress]

Wow, this brings back memories! I remember watching this and singing the "milk, milk milk" tune all day afterwards.

[@gurtygurt64]

I like how the dog runs in and tugs on the cow's tail at 0:09, that's just awesome.

[@Gwendys_Nostalgia]

Wonder where they are today? The baby, the milk truck driver...

[@tpirman1982]

I haven't seen this one in years. Quite a tearjerker, on account that the baby was so upset. When I found it here on KZbin, I had a tear in my eye.

[@nostalgiaprincess]

1:38 for the love of all that’s holy!! get this kid some milk!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺😫

[@erikthe10man]

The music was the coolest part of this short! We made fun of this film in school all the time! lol

[@DonDonP1]

Say, I remembered that segment! Oh, the memories! Thank you very much indeed for posting!

[@darksquirrel798]

i was driving my sister to the store and my cell went off (ringtone wonderpets "the phone is ringing") and she told me to get the milk song and she starts singing it....i busted a gut and told her i will find the clip to it and post it. when we were kids she use to sing it when it came on and we could not stop laughing. it still funny today...thank for da laughs. i luv it

[@davebo357]

This song just popped into my head two weeks ago for no reason at all. Thank goodness youtube allows me to revisit these childhood memories.

[@mjqkuku2abs]

When I was young and we would be playing football - if one of us got hurt (especially God forbid, if you started crying), one of the other kids would sing the frantic "millllllk" part of this song. That or they'd talk to you like Meow Meow Kitty from Mr. Rodgers. (e.g. "meow meow got hurt meow", "meow meow weener meow"). Damn we were cruel to one another. Good times.

[@ottieandeddie]

I also have not seen this in 30 years, but it stuck with me all these years. I have showen this to my son and he loves it. We watched it every night for 2 weeks straight.

[@tpirman1982]

This was filmed in February of 1975. I read about it from an interview with Robert Dennis.

[@tpirman1982]

Because of that guy is driving along the road throughout this clip until he arrives at the bottling place, sometimes I hum the piano pieces of this while I ride on my bike.

[@datsik]

haha man, you can't help but admire the editing on this video.. clearly they were having a laugh with the idea of a huge tanker of milk coming to the rescue of a hungry baby. You can even see the driver crack a smile as he jogs round to the back of the tanker, and runs the hose up to what appears to be a house door. Cut to baby crying. Hilarious stuff. The whole thing is just so magical.

[@Paolo8772]

This is the 1st time in at least 3.5 decades since I've seen this. My brother Mischa keeps asking me about this, Now I can tell him:" MILK CRISIS"! Thanks for posting I remember THIS, NOT the "Milk" segment from Episode #1

[@ThaGataNegrra]

Here's another one somone I once considered a friend thought I was the only one who remembered... wow, thanx for posting this...

[@tpirman1982]

Well, milk is one thing that oreos and all kinds of cookies and brownies would NEVER be complete without.

[@erko5000]

ive had this song in my head for 20 years. so good to see it on the tube.

[@Monomakh]

A lot of people have commented on the music, and someone even asked who composed it. It was my father, Robert Dennis. He is still active in New York, particularly in chamber and choral music. He also did the number painter segments. On the milk and on the number painter segments, he can be heard on the keyboards.

[@psilocide]

I'm glad they finally posted this - can't believe everyone else remembered it too.

[@faceman96]

I grew up on a dairy farm about the same time this video was first aired. This takes me back to my childhood. But I never saw a milk man running to complete his delivery. Still this was fun to watch. Thanks.

[@vdtour97]

Thanks for posting this video. My Kids and I made so much fun of my wife for the past six years or so because she would sing the "Milk, Milk" song and we all thought she was crazy. Then My son found this and now I remember the video. Thanks for proving to us that my wife is not Crazy.

[@tpirman1982]

Incidentally, because of that guy driving his truck, to me, I always thought that guy was driving to the rescue along the way.

[@marikeno]

dang, i haven't seen this milk video for more than 20 years. thank you love2register for sharing.

[@RealityRunsRampant]

Oh my goodness, I remember being a child and watching this many many times, and every single time feeling so totally distressed that the baby was crying and being deprived/neglected for so many minutes at a time-- this is a surprisingly long segment! SO EMOTIONAL.

[@tonypartida477]

Crisis is right. This used to stress me out so bad every time they played it on Sesame Street until the stupid kid was smiling again. GIVE THAT KID SOME MILK PLEASE!!!

[@bobby70077]

Tony Partida I remember this when i was little, man this was years ago, I'm 47

[@ripmowt]

Yess the music was so intense! I was like hurry up! Save the baby! Lol as a kid i wanted to jump into the tv i stood close to it wit anxious emotions.

[@pennysanchez7656]

Or else the baby’s is gonna STARVE!!!!

[@tpirman1982]

No, that was the bottling place where the milk is filled up into those glass bottles before they're shipped to supermarkets and milkmen dilverling them back then.

[@dawnieangel76]

I always wondered why they didn't just run to 7-11 & get some. *L* Seriously though, I really doubt the baby was going hungry until the milk truck arrived; at least, I HOPE it was just edited together to look that way.

[@toddjc]

now that i've rediscovered this video after 20 years, i'll be absolutely distraught if it disappears again.

[@mickpork]

Makes me sad...so many memories...oh and milk tastes so much better in glass bottles.

[@ameliadiaz8040]

I agree with that, because today's plastic containers, although unbreakable and recyclable, had lethal petrochemical substances.

[@videoguy100]

I think I remember this, especially the part with the milk truck. Anyway, this clip made almost me so thirsty I need to drink some milk myself. LOL! Great job posting this. :-)

[@dariaE]

I too am one of your milk-crisis loving ilk, and have been singing it my w. older bro (I am 34, he s 38) all our lives. Was bascially a religious experience to see again...miiiiiilk.....miiiillk...milk! So good, so warm & white...chill out beh-beh, its a-comin'!

[@beamheart]

GERARD WAY SENT ME HERE

[@Jguy27]

I do remember this too and the baby crying and the milk singing over and over. These are the good old classic sesame street clips.

[@fanostyx]

Tell him from some former kid who LOVED this video, "THANKS!" I have never forgotten it after 35 years!

[@Kulayyu]

Goodness me! All the memories are flooding back. My 3 year old son loves this song and sings it all the time.

[@drevsdre9]

one of my favorites. thanks for posting!

[@ottieandeddie]

I watch this almost everyday on my lunch break. Takes me right back to 6 years old.

[@douglaspatrie2469]

great memories here please post more and thanks

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Indeed there Douglas Patrie!

[@beatlegirl9977]

I haven't seen this one in about 25 years, but I still remembered the music from it the moment it started.

[@33chiliken]

I'm 37 years old and I remember this. Thanks for the post. :-)

[@edkwon]

suddenly had a flashback to this old song and jumped straight onto youtube...first search result! awesome! yeah I totally grew up to this era of sesame street

[@JodiNeu]

I remember this video vividly. I am nearly thirty now with my first child about the same age as the baby and as I was when I watched this and the tears kept pouring out...I've truly just realized I that I see myself in my child more and more, and I can NEVER go back.

[@davidheath3960]

Crazy, but you're old like me now. :(

[@dariaE]

You know, I have decided in this moment that heaven for me will (please!) be a complete, endless saturation in the sensation these old clips give to me...and oh how i would welcome it! Esp the dairy nursery nostlagia of this masterpiece...

[@arothmanmusic]

OMG! This song was stuck in my head for years and I'd totally forgotten about it. Damn you intarwebz!

[@mstatz]

I remember watching this one a lot in the mid to late 70's. The woman singing "milk..miiiiillk milk" is etched in my brain so deep that when I saw this one, it was like I saw it yesterday, although it's been well over 23 years since I last saw it.