The Loudest Lullaby (You've Ever Heard)

"  The   LOUD est   Lullaby   You ' ve   EVER   Heard  " is a  SESAME STREET  song performed by  GRUNDGETTA . She sing s how the latest lullaby goes against the convention s & is  VERY   LOUD .

Write r  Norman Stiles  reflected on t he song ' s original intent :

" We wrote this great song, “ La la la , la la la , it ’ s the  LOUD  est lullaby you ' ve  EVER  Heard . ” It had sound effect s of  GARBAGE  truck s , traffic & horn s . It was  LOUD  . Jon Stone  , the  director  , absolutely hate d it ! He had power at the time to change thing s that he really felt strongly about . The bit that ended up on the  show  is nothing like the one I wrote ,  GRUNDGETTA  singing it at night time to  OSCAR  in  his   TRASH CAN  , who fall s asleep while everyone else on SESAME STREET , who had been sleeping , yelling & complaining about all the  NOISE  that woke them up. It ended up being  GRUNDGETTA  alone, on SESAME STREET a t night , singing for only 15 to 20 second s of the lullaby to no body. It had  NO  purpose & made  NO  sense, but I  love d it. It was so the perversity of  OSCAR  that he  would fall asleep to this while every body else was saying, “ Keep quiet ! ” . "

The song ended up also being use d in a season 22 episode, where  OSCAR  , Snuffy & Alice listen to a truncated version playing on the radio ( as performed b y  GRUNDGETTA  & her  back - up band , t he  GRUNG  ette s ).