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| - He wrote the theme song for Shining Time Station. He was better known for his work on "Sesame Street" which Raposo also wrote the theme song for, he also wrote one of the shows most famous songs One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other). He also wrote music for "The Electric Company", "Three's Company" and "The Ropers". He also sang and wrote a few songs for the series including, Learn From Your Mistakes. Raposo was born in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts and died in Bronxville, New York of non-Hodgkins lymphona. Raposo was buried at Union Cemetery in Chatham, Massachusetts.
- Joseph Guilherme Raposo (born February 8, 1937-died February 5, 1989) was the pianoist, man for all Sesame Street favorites; such as: "Bein' Green", "C is for Cookie", and "ABC-DEF-GHI". He also wrote music for some Dr. Seuss cartoons; such as: "Halloween is Grinch Night", "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?", and "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat". In 1989, Joe Raposo passed away for 5 days.
- Joseph Guilherme Raposo was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, of Brazilian Portuguese heritage. His father was a music teacher and conductor, but Raposo initially majored in law at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1958. He soon began performing as a jazz piano accompanist and then studied at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris instead of going on to law school. While still at Harvard, he conducted an out of town tryout for a Broadway show, with his first scored musical Sing Muse! opening in 1961. Raposo subsequently moved from Boston to New York where he provided dramatic underscoring for Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man, served as musical director of Truman Capote's House of Flowers (1968) and wrote incidental music for Jackie Mason's Broadway comedy A Teaspoon Every Four Hours (1969
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| - Joseph Guilherme Raposo was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, of Brazilian Portuguese heritage. His father was a music teacher and conductor, but Raposo initially majored in law at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1958. He soon began performing as a jazz piano accompanist and then studied at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris instead of going on to law school. While still at Harvard, he conducted an out of town tryout for a Broadway show, with his first scored musical Sing Muse! opening in 1961. Raposo subsequently moved from Boston to New York where he provided dramatic underscoring for Bertolt Brecht's A Man's a Man, served as musical director of Truman Capote's House of Flowers (1968) and wrote incidental music for Jackie Mason's Broadway comedy A Teaspoon Every Four Hours (1969). It was Sesame Street that brought Raposo widespread fame, however.
- He wrote the theme song for Shining Time Station. He was better known for his work on "Sesame Street" which Raposo also wrote the theme song for, he also wrote one of the shows most famous songs One of These Things (Is Not Like the Other). He also wrote music for "The Electric Company", "Three's Company" and "The Ropers". He also sang and wrote a few songs for the series including, Learn From Your Mistakes. Raposo was born in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts and died in Bronxville, New York of non-Hodgkins lymphona. Raposo was buried at Union Cemetery in Chatham, Massachusetts.
- Joseph Guilherme Raposo (born February 8, 1937-died February 5, 1989) was the pianoist, man for all Sesame Street favorites; such as: "Bein' Green", "C is for Cookie", and "ABC-DEF-GHI". He also wrote music for some Dr. Seuss cartoons; such as: "Halloween is Grinch Night", "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?", and "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat". In 1989, Joe Raposo passed away for 5 days.
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