# Another 'what song is this I'm half remembering?' thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081 "2016-06-22T19:49:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/1 "2016-06-22T19:49:51Z")
I’m watching a documentary on the Space Shuttle and, as my old brain likes to do, am reminded of a song from my youth. I believe it was from a PBS children’s program and the only part I remember is . . . “a big, blue marble in spaaaaaaaaaace!” I went to YouTube to find Big Blue Marble but that show has a really lame theme song about togetherness. Maybe it was from 3 2 1 Contact? But no. That song was how I remembered it-- really cool '70s upbeat (Contact is the moment, is the second when everything happens. . .) Where? Where??? is this line coming from? Maybe not from PBS? Maybe not a children’s space program? Anyone remember? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/2 "2016-06-22T20:31:23Z")
Maybe the theme to The Great Space Coaster? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/3 "2016-06-22T20:45:46Z")
Nope, not Great Space Coaster. I don’t think I watched that, which is weird as it looks just like the trippy crap I loved as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/4 "2016-06-22T21:51:08Z")
[How about this one?](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sesame+street+big+blue+marble+song&src=IE-SearchBox&conversationid=&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dsesame%2bstreet%2bbig%2bblue%2bmarble%2bsong%26src%3dIE-SearchBox%26FORM%3dIENTTR%26conversationid%3d&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=523978E390B0FE0D1161523978E390B0FE0D1161&FORM=WRVORC) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/5 "2016-06-22T22:33:53Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > [How about this one?](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sesame+street+big+blue+marble+song&src=IE-SearchBox&conversationid=&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dsesame%2bstreet%2bbig%2bblue%2bmarble%2bsong%26src%3dIE-SearchBox%26FORM%3dIENTTR%26conversationid%3d&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=523978E390B0FE0D1161523978E390B0FE0D1161&FORM=WRVORC) Yes! That’s it. So, that’s a Sesame Street Earth Day song? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/6 "2016-06-23T17:38:07Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Yes! That’s it. So, that’s a Sesame Street Earth Day song? No, it’s the theme song to the TV show [_Big Blue Marble_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258339/). It aired on PBS for like 10 years from the early '70s to the early '80s. I remember watching it when I was a kid in the early '70s. [Here’s the opening sequence (with the theme song, natch)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIx0pdjp-Q). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-song-is-this-im-half-remembering-thread/758081/7 "2016-06-23T17:43:50Z")
Ah, when I YouTubed Big Blue Marble theme I got [this piece of crap.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kkx2m-JSg) Not the big blue marble in spaaaaaaaaace I was looking for.