This shows that it really doesn't matter who voices Kermit or the other characters. Jim Henson created something that has outlived himself and will continue to carry on his legacy throughout many generations to come.
Ok I legit started bawling like a baby watching this. I really lost it when Paul Williams came onstage and then completely melted down into a blubbering mess when the other Muppets popped up. I've been a huge Muppets fan since the 70s. I grew up on The Muppet Show.
Same here but too me Kermit will never be the same with out Jim Henson and Steve Whitmire. I will admit this is beautiful and this some is really really amazing as well.
me too...I cry every time...like you said into a "blubbering mess" and I'm a Grandmother thinking about my children..and my grandchildren..it's a beautiful song and touches my heart
I was born in 1963 we grew up watching sesame Street so when The Muppets had their own weekly show we were huge fans. My kids were also raised watching the Muppets & fraggle Rock. I can never listen to this song without thinking of my father and my son. Dad is like the biggest kid I know & My son loved this song so much when he was a little fella, he passed away in 2019 at 34 yrs of age from cancer. When I sing this song I always see him in front of me, a little boy singing along with the Muppets smiling and enjoying the Muppets as if they were his real friends. Hold on to your precious memories... Miss you Hector, remember mommy loves you 💝🌈🥰
I'm not crying, you're crying. Muppets bring everything that's positive, love,friendship, hope and karate chops. I'm longing for this sort of entertainment. It really touches my heart ❤
This song is from the first movie my mother took me as a child, and a few months after her death the "new" muppet movie came out, and it was the the first movie I've went to my daughter! That song always brings me to tears since than....
@@TheMelody911 think about it that way ,your mum is no longer with us (which I'mso sorry to hear),but the new muppet movie came out, so it's kind of blessing and I bet she was there around . My dad passed away few years ago ,so I can only imagine how those memories can bring some tears now and then qnd I can so relate to this, but personally I try to connect those memories with good things and it helps,in your case muppets. In my ,to some extent, but it's too long story. Sending big hugs ❤❤❤
@@nosferatukh and it's truly some big, and sad memory's! My mom died of copd and every now and then she had an light moment and said: this is my rainbow connection. I cry every time I hear that song ( and I'm an almost 50year old metal guy)
I was ecstatic when this played (I was at a live performance for these guys last summer). You can't do an end to a live Muppet performance without the Rainbow Connection. When I have kids, I'm gonna raise them on the Muppets. And have the Rainbow Connection be a lullaby. Thank you for uploading this.
The muppets have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, I remember watching the first three seasons all the time as well as the movies. Seeing this lets me know that the muppets aren’t going anywhere soon and I’m so glad. I do have to admit Matt did pretty outstanding in this song and he sounded pretty close to the legend himself Jim. They have just filled my life with so much magic. I don’t think I will ever not adore the muppets💚💖🤎💙
Wow proof that when Matt digs deep he can do Kermit. Let's give him time, this is a tough role as Jim perfected it, Steve kept it going honorably, and Matt is still crafting.
Some fans are never gonna accept Vogel and we are just gonna have to accept that. Personally, I think Matt is doing great as Kermit. His Kermit is going back to Jim's.
This brings a tear to my eye since I grew up on the muppets show and just reminiscing about the memories when I watched it with people I’ve watched it with who are no longer with us is sad.
Matt Vogel's Kermit voice might be a bit off, but if this is anything to go off of, MY GOD he still has that spirit Jim passed into that frog all those years ago.
I always loved this song since I was a kid in the early ‘80’s. I cried watching Ally McBeal, when a child cancer patient (Haley Joel Osmond) died, Vonda Shepherd singing this song made Haley’s character’s death sadder, but also make me ugly cry like this 😭. This beautiful piece of nostalgia from my childhood watching “The Muppet Show” I’m the late ‘70’s-early ‘80’s, making me weep and say like I always say whenever I make a comment of a video that makes me cry, “Damn waterworks!”. 😭
Remember how they ended The Muppet Movie with THE MAGIC STORE and panned out to a whole bunch of Muppets? They had over 250 characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Emmet Otter’s Jugband, and The Land of Gorch. All characters that were released in the 70s. But now it is 2022 and there are decades worth of new Muppets, over 3,400. I don’t know for what, maybe for a finale for a Jim Henson bio film or concert movie, but I hope they redo that scene this time with exactly 1,000 Muppet characters from all the muppet TV shows, movies, and specials.
Paul Williams was a fairly young man when he initially worked on this song. Decades later, and here he is singing with Kermit again. Goes to show, you don’t outgrow the muppets.
people have given disney shit (and rightfully so) for using this song so much that its lost its impact, but lets be real, who on earth would go to a live muppet show and NOT wanna see them sing this song?
I WANT TO MEET KERMIT THE FROG IN PERSON AND HAVE A TV TALK SHOW WITH HIM SO I CAN BE ON TV BECAUSE KERMIT IS MY FAVORITE MUPPET CHARACTER WHEN I WAS LITTLE KID AND IT STILL IS
There’s actually 8 wonders of the worldTaj Mahal, the Colosseum, the Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, Petra, the Great Wall of China and the muppets
Hey! do you have any of the "Beat Box" sketch that Scooter did right before this? I've been looking everywhere for a single video that had both, the way they dimmed the light mid-sketch then had it lit slowly to reveal the set for The Rainbow Connection was the most heart-wrenching moment of the performance, I'd do anything for it.
Matt did a great job as Kermit at the Hollywood Bowl. But there is no comparison between him and Jim. Jim created, Kermit, The Muppet show, and the Muppets themselves. Matt is great as Kermit, and so was Steve, but neither compare to Jim. Matt and the other puppeteers are just there to continue what Jim, and the rest of the original performers started.
True, but when you play this and the original Rainbow Connection(sung by Jim) simultaneously(with a few pauses in Jim's version to get it to better sink up to this), it's like they're the same voice(with the exception that this has better audio), which would make Matt the modern day Jim Henson.
Yo soy del 2007 ,me gustan los Muppets (en España, de donde soy yo se llaman los teleñecos). yo vi las películas en castellano. Kermit=gustavo, voz Juan Antonio Arroyo
Would it be cool for a crossover like this? List of my Characters. Finny, Leah, Dave, Hazel, Patch, Chief Clyde, Jelly, Leonard, Obesey, Stayput, Nursr Bridget, Primrose, Robin, Sparrow, Catboy, Owlette, Gekko, Luna Girl, Tex the Robot, Bob the Drone, Bob the Builder, Wendy, Spud, Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Lofty, Roley, Scrambler, Scratch, Pilchard, Bird, Farmer Pickles, Travis, Wallace, Gromit, Remy, Emile, Dusty Crophopper, Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucmber, Thomas the Tank Engine, Manny, Sid, Diego, Scrat, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien
Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what’s on the other side Rainbows are visions but only illusions And rainbows have nothing to hide So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it I know they’re wrong wait and see Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection The lovers the dreamers and me Who said that every wish would be heard and answered Wished on the morning star Somebody thought of that and someone believed it Look what it’s done so far What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing And what do we think we might see Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection The lovers the dreamers and me All of us under it spell We know that it’s probably magic Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices I’ve heard them calling my name Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailor The voice might be one and the doctor
Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what’s on the other side Rainbows are visions but only illusions And rainbows have nothing to hide So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it I know they’re wrong wait and see Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection The lovers the dreamers and me Who said that every wish would be heard and answered Wished on the morning star Somebody thought of that and someone believed it Look what it’s done so far What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing And what do we think we might see Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection The lovers the dreamers and me All of us under it spell We know that it’s probably magic Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices I’ve heard them calling my name Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailor The voice might be one and the same I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it It’s something that I’m supposed to be Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection The lovers the dreamers and me La da da di da da ooh La da da da da di da ooh
THE MUPPETS ARE BACK THIS WILL BE THE LEGACY OF JIM HENSON THAT HE CREATED AND WILL NEVER EVER FORGET AND MATT VOGEL DOES A GOOD JOB WITH KERMIT BUT ITS STILL NOT THE SAME WITHOUT STEVE WHITMIRE WHO VOICE KERMIT FOR 17 YEARS BUT JIM HENSON IS BACK AS KERMIT AGAIN VOICE BY MATT VOGEL TRYING TO COPY HIM
This shows that it really doesn't matter who voices Kermit or the other characters. Jim Henson created something that has outlived himself and will continue to carry on his legacy throughout many generations to come.
Ok I legit started bawling like a baby watching this. I really lost it when Paul Williams came onstage and then completely melted down into a blubbering mess when the other Muppets popped up. I've been a huge Muppets fan since the 70s. I grew up on The Muppet Show.
Same here
Copy that! This one and Emit Otter get me every time.
Same here but too me Kermit will never be the same with out Jim Henson and Steve Whitmire. I will admit this is beautiful and this some is really really amazing as well.
me too...I cry every time...like you said into a "blubbering mess" and I'm a Grandmother thinking about my children..and my grandchildren..it's a beautiful song and touches my heart
I know
I was born in 1963 we grew up watching sesame Street so when The Muppets had their own weekly show we were huge fans. My kids were also raised watching the Muppets & fraggle Rock. I can never listen to this song without thinking of my father and my son. Dad is like the biggest kid I know & My son loved this song so much when he was a little fella, he passed away in 2019 at 34 yrs of age from cancer. When I sing this song I always see him in front of me, a little boy singing along with the Muppets smiling and enjoying the Muppets as if they were his real friends.
Hold on to your precious memories... Miss you Hector, remember mommy loves you 💝🌈🥰
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Muppets bring everything that's positive, love,friendship, hope and karate chops. I'm longing for this sort of entertainment. It really touches my heart ❤
This song is from the first movie my mother took me as a child, and a few months after her death the "new" muppet movie came out, and it was the the first movie I've went to my daughter! That song always brings me to tears since than....
@@TheMelody911 think about it that way ,your mum is no longer with us (which I'mso sorry to hear),but the new muppet movie came out, so it's kind of blessing and I bet she was there around . My dad passed away few years ago ,so I can only imagine how those memories can bring some tears now and then qnd I can so relate to this, but personally I try to connect those memories with good things and it helps,in your case muppets. In my ,to some extent, but it's too long story. Sending big hugs ❤❤❤
@@nosferatukh and it's truly some big, and sad memory's! My mom died of copd and every now and then she had an light moment and said: this is my rainbow connection. I cry every time I hear that song ( and I'm an almost 50year old metal guy)
@@TheMelody911 aww thats so precious and that’s a wonderful tradition to have and it always pulls at my heart
40+ years this song still tears me up
Freaking Tearz ty Forever Kermit Muppets i sang thiz in elementary talent show i crie still❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤Especially the World Now We Need Thiz
I wish I gotten to see this live. 😩😭
MoonwalkerLewisBottoms they are coming to London
Omari Chung but I live in California 😢
I'm glad uncle deadly is finally good and singing the rainbow connection too I bet It made jerry Richard hunt and Jim Henson cry
I wouldn’t say Jim would cry cause he was pretty upset when he got fired
@@SMZues25 fired?
@@ValkyrieCain123 you mean steve right?
@@SMZues25 Jim died. Steve got fired.
@@MissBoxxx why did steve get fired?
I was ecstatic when this played (I was at a live performance for these guys last summer). You can't do an end to a live Muppet performance without the Rainbow Connection. When I have kids, I'm gonna raise them on the Muppets. And have the Rainbow Connection be a lullaby. Thank you for uploading this.
Well goodluck singing it to them
I agree I’m gonna do the same
everyone missing steve but matt sounds just like jim here singing so much I almost cried good job matt you are going to be an amazing kermit
Because it is Jim singing. They used a track
@@crankypancakes3904 No, that's Matt
Yeah I will admit even tho I don’t like Matt’s Kermit voice this was spectacular
Steve Whitmire is the Kermit I grew up with. I only have vague Jim Henson, but from what I can remember, Matt sounds eerily similar to Jim. I love it
The entire _Muppet Show_ is on home video; you should watch it.
Unless my math is wrong, Steve ended up playing Kermit longer than Jim did. Not as frequently, though, probably.
@@ttintagel Jim did Kermit from 1955 until his death in 1990.
The muppets have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, I remember watching the first three seasons all the time as well as the movies. Seeing this lets me know that the muppets aren’t going anywhere soon and I’m so glad. I do have to admit Matt did pretty outstanding in this song and he sounded pretty close to the legend himself Jim. They have just filled my life with so much magic. I don’t think I will ever not adore the muppets💚💖🤎💙
Wow proof that when Matt digs deep he can do Kermit. Let's give him time, this is a tough role as Jim perfected it, Steve kept it going honorably, and Matt is still crafting.
Some fans are never gonna accept Vogel and we are just gonna have to accept that. Personally, I think Matt is doing great as Kermit. His Kermit is going back to Jim's.
@@patrickmanway290I still miss Steve a lot. I can't even watch the new Fraggle Rock because he's not in it.
I think Jim Henson would be more than proud.
Agreed
Not gonna lie you pulled my heartstrings with this comment
Yes. Yes he would. 🥲
This brings a tear to my eye since I grew up on the muppets show and just reminiscing about the memories when I watched it with people I’ve watched it with who are no longer with us is sad.
This song always bring tears to my eyes.❤️
Before this song was popular to use as a wedding song We danced to it as our wedding dance! I love this song that was 32 years ago. Next month!
Best video of this event I've seen so far! Thanks for keeping focus and not switching wildly between stage and screen!
I am so happy the Muppets are back together.
💓👏
It's wonderful it's just like Steve whitmire & jim Henson from before 😄😄😄😄
Matt Vogel is the current puppeteer as Kermit the Frog right? 😁
Brian Rumbaoa right.
Awww I love the Muppets
I see Beautiful Day Monster returned for this!
It's like a Pavlovian response. The instant I see Kermit with his banjo my tear ducts go into overdrive.
Matt Vogel's Kermit voice might be a bit off, but if this is anything to go off of, MY GOD he still has that spirit Jim passed into that frog all those years ago.
This is special.
this is literally the most beautiful disney song ever!
I Love this song on that moment don't have any problem in home 🏡 so peaceful 😊☺️❤️💖💕😍
One of my absolute favorite songs from The Muppets.
This brings tear drops in my eyes
I was there and singing along that song never makes me cry at all
Magical and timeless
That song was beautiful. 🥲
I always loved this song since I was a kid in the early ‘80’s. I cried watching Ally McBeal, when a child cancer patient (Haley Joel Osmond) died, Vonda Shepherd singing this song made Haley’s character’s death sadder, but also make me ugly cry like this 😭. This beautiful piece of nostalgia from my childhood watching “The Muppet Show” I’m the late ‘70’s-early ‘80’s, making me weep and say like I always say whenever I make a comment of a video that makes me cry, “Damn waterworks!”. 😭
2:41 I
AM CRYING😭
This is amazing!!!
I wish they still have that show😊
Absolutely awesome❤
the only song that's better when everyone sings it
Remember how they ended The Muppet Movie with THE MAGIC STORE and panned out to a whole bunch of Muppets? They had over 250 characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Emmet Otter’s Jugband, and The Land of Gorch. All characters that were released in the 70s. But now it is 2022 and there are decades worth of new Muppets, over 3,400. I don’t know for what, maybe for a finale for a Jim Henson bio film or concert movie, but I hope they redo that scene this time with exactly 1,000 Muppet characters from all the muppet TV shows, movies, and specials.
Evrey stage show of The Muppets should end with a big picture of Jim Henson who created it all.
I love the muppets too
I love this song
Paul Williams was a fairly young man when he initially worked on this song. Decades later, and here he is singing with Kermit again. Goes to show, you don’t outgrow the muppets.
Right now in 2023 or 2024 will they have a show i miss them do thank u but I am still sad the are missing
I'm not crying your crying 😭❤️
I had the pleasure of working with Matt Vogel. He's the real deal!
He seems like a nice person. Steve Whitmire had nothing but good things to say about him. In fact he was the one that brought him in.
@@Asukenick I was also at the live show too.
It's been 43 years when are we going to find the rainbow connection?
i like matt vogel’s kermit
i like the Muppets
And i wanna go to see the Show
I really like this. He’s bring Jim Henson’s Kermit personality hack, a humbleness Steve’s Kermit was kind of lacking.
people have given disney shit (and rightfully so) for using this song so much that its lost its impact, but lets be real, who on earth would go to a live muppet show and NOT wanna see them sing this song?
I like muppets 😍
I LOVE YOU KERMIT ❤️❤️❤️KEEP BEING AMAZUNDSJ
I WANT TO MEET KERMIT THE FROG IN PERSON AND HAVE A TV TALK SHOW WITH HIM SO I CAN BE ON TV BECAUSE KERMIT IS MY FAVORITE MUPPET CHARACTER WHEN I WAS LITTLE KID AND IT STILL IS
@@Salebolen HE'S ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT KERMIT!!!
@@gary6267 thank you that was rude what the only guy comment
Paul willam sing this song in yo gabba gabba episode called weather
…………beautiful
There’s actually 8 wonders of the worldTaj Mahal, the Colosseum, the Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, Petra, the Great Wall of China and the muppets
so.......................cool
Good job Walter
I never heard Walter singing with the muppets!😲 Only whistling.......
Man or Muppet? 😂
@@RepuMansion Darn I have no idea 😫🤚
It would be so awesome to have been there and seen this live.
Seems like only yesterday when Paul Williams guest starred on the Muppet Show 😌
I love it
Am I the only one who noticed that of all the main Muppets, only Rowlf from the orchestra was there and where's GONZO?
Hey! do you have any of the "Beat Box" sketch that Scooter did right before this? I've been looking everywhere for a single video that had both, the way they dimmed the light mid-sketch then had it lit slowly to reveal the set for The Rainbow Connection was the most heart-wrenching moment of the performance, I'd do anything for it.
wheres fozzie
who the f*** disliked this video
F### The Peson who Dislike
It was hopper and the moopets
Steve Whitmire
lil gisha 4 people
@@jaredsquires2260, to put it more accurately.
Is rainbow connection but different lyrics
Yes! (In a way)Jim Henson is back!
Jim henson is in 1990 ok that is matt for america got talent as kermit the frog in the hollywood bowl in los angles
Dillon Wright how ?
And jerry,Richard,and ozker and the executive producer
Matt did a great job as Kermit at the Hollywood Bowl. But there is no comparison between him and Jim. Jim created, Kermit, The Muppet show, and the Muppets themselves. Matt is great as Kermit, and so was Steve, but neither compare to Jim. Matt and the other puppeteers are just there to continue what Jim, and the rest of the original performers started.
True, but when you play this and the original Rainbow Connection(sung by Jim) simultaneously(with a few pauses in Jim's version to get it to better sink up to this), it's like they're the same voice(with the exception that this has better audio), which would make Matt the modern day Jim Henson.
Yo soy del 2007 ,me gustan los Muppets (en España, de donde soy yo se llaman los teleñecos). yo vi las películas en castellano. Kermit=gustavo, voz Juan Antonio Arroyo
Monster 👿
Freeze Dance 💃 💃 💃 💃
Wowwwwwwwwwwww
2:38
I lost it when Sweetums showed up.
Here we go there's a lot of the puppies we are knowing one of and show everyone
Go kermit go
Imagine if The Runaways band appeared on The Muppet Show in 1976 where Kermit performed 🎭 Rainbow 🌈 Conection with both Cherie Currie and Joan Jett
Would it be cool for a crossover like this? List of my Characters.
Finny, Leah, Dave, Hazel, Patch, Chief Clyde, Jelly, Leonard, Obesey, Stayput, Nursr Bridget, Primrose, Robin, Sparrow, Catboy, Owlette, Gekko, Luna Girl, Tex the Robot, Bob the Drone, Bob the Builder, Wendy, Spud, Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Lofty, Roley, Scrambler, Scratch, Pilchard, Bird, Farmer Pickles, Travis, Wallace, Gromit, Remy, Emile, Dusty Crophopper, Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucmber, Thomas the Tank Engine, Manny, Sid, Diego, Scrat, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien
3:08 who's that guy ???
Bobby, he’s the special guess of the muppets o2
360 101 it's muppets take the bowl
no Fozzy or Gonzo?
Can see Fozzie bearly (pun intended) behind Paul Williams.
Gonzo's behind Paul. You can see him in other videos
I think the Muppets were pre recorded, Kermit didn't sound live except for introducing Paul Williams and the song intro
It’s really hard to operate a puppet in sync to a recording, so most likely this is live from the puppeteer himself.
Is that Camilla next to Walter or is that one of the chickens?
Not even Gonzo would know.
2018
Who's the bearded fellow?
Is there a cactus among the Muppets?
Soaring!
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side
Rainbows are visions but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
I know they’re wrong wait and see
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
Wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it
Look what it’s done so far
What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me
All of us under it spell
We know that it’s probably magic
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices
I’ve heard them calling my name
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailor
The voice might be one and the doctor
Is there an album version of this?
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side
Rainbows are visions but only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
I know they’re wrong wait and see
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
Wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it
Look what it’s done so far
What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me
All of us under it spell
We know that it’s probably magic
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices
I’ve heard them calling my name
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailor
The voice might be one and the same
I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it
It’s something that I’m supposed to be
Someday we’ll find it the rainbow Connection
The lovers the dreamers and me
La da da di da da ooh
La da da da da di da ooh
Where was Fozzy? Was he not in the show?
3:56
Henry 🐙 Dorothy 🦖
What the heck happened to Gary
Probably moved on with his life with Mary
Where's Fozzie and Gonzo?
Roberto Montoya Fozzie was in the middle side from miss piggy and I didn’t see gonzo or Animal
The DarkPitMain Gonzo is there, but you probably can’t see him because of the angle
Come on is no one talking about Peter Davison and David tenant
I guess one man, or frog, can change the world. The world is a better place now because of Jim Henson and Kermit.
I don't see gonzo
THE MUPPETS ARE BACK THIS WILL BE THE LEGACY OF JIM HENSON THAT HE CREATED AND WILL NEVER EVER FORGET AND MATT VOGEL DOES A GOOD JOB WITH KERMIT BUT ITS STILL NOT THE SAME WITHOUT STEVE WHITMIRE WHO VOICE KERMIT FOR 17 YEARS BUT JIM HENSON IS BACK AS KERMIT AGAIN VOICE BY MATT VOGEL TRYING TO COPY HIM
Chase Thompson Steve Whitmire did Kermit from 1990-2017
@@jedi328 I know I like matt Vogel's Kermit because he sounds like Jim Henson's Kermit
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