The C&I cover star is the latest country great to join the beloved gang for a song.
Here’s our favorite video clip of the week: Country music superstar and C&I cover star Chris Stapleton recently took a detour onto Sesame Street to harmonize with Elmo, Abby, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Grover. “You’ve Got a Friend in Music” is the sweetly engaging song they sang, and we can’t wait for them to get together again real soon.
Of course, Stapleton is by no means the first country great to visit the Sesame Street neighborhood. Johnny Cash joined Oscar the Grouch for a duet of “Nasty Dan” back in 1985.
In 1992, The Man in Black returned to sing his classic “Five Feet High and Rising" with a little bit of illustrative help from Biff.
More recently, Grammy-nominated country artist Mickey Guyton joined Elmo and other Sesame Street characters for the celebratory “Community Song.”
The Sugarland duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush became a trio with Elmo to sing “All You Need is a Song.”
After appearing alongside Big Bird in the 1985 movie Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Waylon Jennings reunited with his feathered friend in 1992 to duet for “Blocks,” sung to the tune of Jennings’ own song titled “Wrong.”
Kacey Mulgraves dropped by in 2021 to ask Elmo’s help in picking her favorite color — and wound up deciding that you really can’t choose just one from “All the Colors in the World.”
And who could ever forget “Count on Me,” Loretta Lynn’s charming 1984 duet with none other than ... The Count?
