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The single of this song reached #25 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles" chart in 1979 and the American Film Institute named Rainbow Connection the 74th greatest movie song of all time in AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1979, and was performed at the awards ceremonythe following year. In 2021, the...
When Williams and Ascher started work on the songs for The Muppet Movie, they met at Williams' house with Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Frank Oz to talk about the direction about the songs. Knowing they needed an "I am song", they looked at the setting. Williams and Ascher had a discussion about a film they both loved, Walt Disney's adaptation of Pin...
Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams performed the song in The Muppets Go Hollywood(1979)Bob McGrath with the All-American College Orchestra (conducted by Jim Christensen) at Epcot Center's American Gardens Theater (1987). McGrath later recorded the song with Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati...Paul Williams, as Benjamin Weedon, in the third season Picket Fencesepisode "Cold Spell" (1994)Vera Lynn on her Thank You For The Musicalbum (1997)On March 20, 1996, "Rainbow Connection" was the basis of a bizarre crime in Wanganui, New Zealand. A twenty-one-year-old overly enthusiastic Muppet fan took a radio station manager hostage claiming...
"Rainbow Connection" is a song from the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, with music and lyrics written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher. The song was performed by Jim Henson – as Kermit the Frog – in the film.
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The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring the Muppets. The film is a movie-in-a-movie, as we see Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppets gathering for the first screening of "The Muppet Movie." Kermit notes to his nephew Robin as the lights dim that the movie is a somewhat fictionalized account of the true story of how the Muppets first got ...
Watch the classic scene of Kermit the Frog performing Rainbow Connection in this clip from The Muppet Movie: The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition.
