The Muppet Show - Something Missing

It's time to light the lights!

You can blame The Muppet Show for this blog.  The classic 70s series was in reruns on Nickelodeon throughout my childhood and taught me everything I needed to know about music, comedy, and entertainment.  I had a crush on Diana Ross back from before she looked like the Cryptkeeper and I thought Steve Martin and John Cleese were the funniest men alive (they still are).  Watching the Bug Band sing "She Loves You" (Meet the Beetles, you might say) or Elton John performing "Crocodile Rock" with a chorus made up of- you guessed it- crocodiles spurred my fandom of both artists that persists to this day.

Celebrities aside, the Muppet team could craft quite the song, as evidenced throughout their series, films, and other projects.  "Rainbow Connection", "Movin' Right Along", and "When the River Meets the Sea" have been classics since they were first released.  No less classic are a number of tunes that aren't sung by the marquis characters, and one that always stuck in my head was "Something Missing".  Blending jokey puns with poignant love song sensibilities, the song encapsulates everything that was great about The Muppet Show, even when the stars (both human and Muppet) were stripped away, leaving only the huge amount of heart present in each and every performance.  Enjoy "Something Missing", embedded below.