Dick Maitland

 Dick Maitland  is a sound effects/foley artist who has worked continuously on Sesame Street & its various spin - off specials since 1969. Maitland has won 11 Emmy Awards for his work. His sound effects were also heard on the vast majority of Sesame Street albums.

Maitland, then & now, created many of his sounds through manual foley , in the tradition of old - time radio sound men, including Cookie Monster's cookie eating noises, footsteps for Muppets , & crashes. A s Maitland recalled, " The 1 st job I had was for a song c a l l ed ' W i n d y . ' They want e d a b i g c r a s h a t the end [ . . . ] So I went & got all the stagehands , & we made this big pile of crap in the middle of the stage . & at the right point , I threw myself at the pile & smash ed it a l l over the floor . " Maitland is also the person who currently performs the squeaky voice of  Oscar the Grouch  ' s  pet   Slimey  ; the  Muppetry  is operated by  Martin P . Robinson.

When Maria 1st gave birth to Gabi on Sesame Street, Maitland 's newborn son was used for the initial episode.

Along with Barbara Wood, Roy Carch, Terry Ross, Bernard Fambrough, Bob Ring & others, he also provided the sound design for the Muppet specials The Muppet Show : Sex & Violence & Emmet Otter 's Jug - Band Christ mas. To date, along with the rest of the show ' s sound crew , Dick Maitland has received 11 Daytime Emmy Awards for either best sound mixing or sound editing ( & in 2012 , for both categories ) & multiple nominations.

Maitland has also supplied sound effects for such series as The Electric Company, 3 - 2 - 1 Contact , Maya & Miguel , the [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Nick_Jr. Nick Jr. ] show Wonder Pets, & Third & Bird. Maitland is also a live " sweetener " ( making sounds more audible ) whose credits include Macy ' s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Grammy Awards , A Capitol Four th ,  Christ mas in Washington  &  Fashion Rocks . He provided surround effects for the One World, One Sky : Big Bird ' s Adventure Planetarium grand opening in Beijing , China. For records, Maitland worked on comedian / impressionist David Frye ' s Richard Nixon albums  I Am the President  &  Radio Free Nixon .