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  Hi everyone, and welcome back to Sesame Seeds, the show where we look at the progression of a Sesame Street character from humble beginnings to the present day. Today, we’re looking at someone who definitely helps bring the music to the street: Bob Johnson. Bob is a music teacher who is known for singing many great songs from the Sesame catalog. Bob has been through a lot over the years, so let’s go for a walk and see if we can find out more about this person in our favorite neighborhood. Bob was the one of the four human characters Joan Ganz Cooney thought up for the first season of the show. An male singer of any race named Bobby who would help with most of the music lessons the show wanted to teach. Around this time, young adult singer Bob McGrath was busy being a hit in Japan, and when his friend told him about the audition, he didn’t want anything to do with the show. … That is until he actually saw Jim Henson and his muppets at work. Once he got a chance to view the magic that