SPINNEY: (As Oscar the Grouch, singing) Oh, I love trash.
SHERRIE WESTIN: Big Bird has always been the sweet character looking out for everyone else on "Sesame Street," and that really was the heart of Caroll. At last night's Kennedy Center Honors, she said Spinney, like Big Bird, had the hugest heart. LIMBONG: Sherrie Westin is a president at Sesame Workshop. SPINNEY: (As Big Bird) Oh, it's not a word. And he began to learn the alphabet - because when we started, he couldn't read or write.
Spinney died at his home in Connecticut at the age of 85, and NPR's Andrew Limbong has this appreciation.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Big Bird was originally envisioned by Muppets mastermind Jim Henson as goofy and bumbling, but Caroll Spinney told NPR in 2003 that he had a better idea for the character.ĬAROLL SPINNEY: Within a week, I kind of faded the voice away from the goofy guy to Big Bird being a - more of a childlike creature. He gave life to Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street." Through them, he taught so many kids about letters and numbers and happiness and sadness. As we heard, puppeteer Caroll Spinney died yesterday.
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