Sesame Street’s “How Crayons Are Made” might be stock music’s most beloved track

Richard Harvey was unemployed. He had been the woodwind player and keyboardist for the progressive rock band Gryphon, and their music—with its Medieval influences, album covers of wizards playing chess, and album titles like “Midnight Mushrumps”—was passe. Instead, punk was ascendant, and had destroyed Gryphon like a switchblade through a jester’s hat. Their company hadContinue reading “Sesame Street’s “How Crayons Are Made” might be stock music’s most beloved track”