Talk:Bein' Green
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As regards association with issues of race (as claimed in the article), actually what I find impressive about the song is precisely that it's not about race, but quite literally about being green. Not black, not Jewish, not native american... just green. A lesser songwriter would have tried to shoehorn race into the song, and would have destroyed it, because it's purely a song about Kermit himself. And it's a great song. --Bonalaw 08:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] umm... date?
"Frank Sinatra, 1970 album Sinatra & Company, and Greatest Hits Volume 2" Did Sinatra actually perform it two years before Kermit? -FZ 01:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes. He did. Possibly three: some more research will be needed on that. --Telarc 10:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
No, No, No. Kermit the Frog performed it first. It was written in 1970 for Sesame Street. It was on their first album, The Sesame Street Book & Record (realeased in 1970). So Kermit performed it first and Frank Sinatra recorded it less than a year later.
