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DATE: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 09:58:48 CST
From:
Subject: Re: BHF '93 and such....

>
> Of course, one cannot forget Sesame Street, which I think still uses
> harmonica quite a bit. And wasn't there at least one Levi's 501 jeans
> commercial with harp in it? Something else which may or may not interest
> people is an Old Spice commercial (which I myself have not seen) featuring
> whistling by none other than Toots Thielmans. I heard that this was made
> soon after he came to the U.S., which was quite a while ago, but it
> apparently became pretty well known.
>
The Sesame Street theme is also played by Toots, on chromatic. Toots first
came to the U.S. from his native Belgium in 1948. His first job here was
with Benny Goodman.

george