Written by	Tony Geiss
Date	1983
Publisher	Ephemeral Music Company Sesame Street Inc.
First	Episode 1760

"When I Listen" is a Sesame Street song sung by Kermit the Frog.

Kermit sings about the lovely, quiet sounds that you can hear outside at night, including a bullfrog ("Hi, Uncle Ben"), a hoot owl and a mockingbird. At the end of the sketch, he starts to hear louder and more raucous sounds, and he ends up surrounded by a cat, a dog, a bear, and a tiger. It gets too much for Kermit, he decides to go find a quieter swamp.

Notes[]

• ASCAP catalogues the song as "When I Listen" with an alternate title of "(When I Listen) In the Quiet of the Evening"^[1] while Sesame Street scripts refer to the insert simply as "In the Quiet of the Evening".^[2]

• Performers for the song include Brian Muehl, Cheryl Blaylock, and Ed Christie.^[2]

Releases[]

Video

• Quiet Time (1997, introduction, second verse and bridge cut)

See also[]

• Kermit's Sesame Street songs

Sources[]