In 48 seasons on the air, the kids and characters on Sesame Street have played host to a number of celebrities. None were more funky than Stevie Wonder, who appeared on the show on April 12, 1973.

Patti LaBelle reinvents the alphabet song on Sesame Street. (Photo courtesy of Sesame Workshop) Long before The Simpsons, an unspoken benchmark in terms of whether a celebrity had made it or not was ...

Apart from the giant yellow bird, the red furry monster and the blue Muppet with an insatiable appetite for cookies, “Sesame Street” appears as real as the New York City streets that inspired it.