Jeff Moss

Jeff Moss (June 19, 1942 – September 24, 1998The New York Times obituary, published Saturday, September 26, 1998: "Jeffrey A. Moss, a writer and composer whose accomplishments included dreaming up the Sesame Street characters Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, died on Thursday [September 24] at his home in Manhattan.") was a writer, composer, and lyricist for Sesame Street. His most notable songs include "The People in Your Neighborhood," "I Love Trash," and "Rubber Duckie," the latter of which achieved widespread fame when it was released as a single reaching number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. Moss also served as head writer for a few seasons during the early 1970s. Moss is credited for helping establish the characters Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.
Moss' work for Henson and the Muppets outside of Sesame Street included composing the songs and score for The Muppets Take Manhattan and writing music and lyrics for the television special The Christmas Toy.
===Early years===
Jeffrey Arnold Moss was born in New York City. His father, Arnold Moss, was a Shakespearean actor, college drama teacher, and creator of crossword puzzles for The New York Times, and his mother, Stella Reynolds, had given up acting to become a soap opera writer. Moss displayed an appreciation for music and literacy at a young age. His parents kept recordings of classical music and Broadway show tunes around their house. He loved reading, and remembered discovering crossword puzzles for the first time while on a road trip. On his love for words: "I have always loved them and I still love them. When I'm sitting around, I play with them in my head, the way other people think about - I don't know - cars. I think a certain amount of that is just born into you. I think I would love words no matter what I did for a living - if I were a factory worker, or a doctor, or whatever."Something About the Author Volume 73
Moss studied at the prestigious Browning High School, where he was number 1 in his class. He then transitioned to Princeton University, where he joined the Triangle Club, a student-run musical comedy group that toured major theaters across the country. Moss wrote the book and lyrics, and appeared in two of the Triangle Club revues.
After graduating from Princeton, Moss was offered two jobs at CBS as a writer for its news department or as production assistant on Captain Kangaroo. Moss chose the latter, the reason of which he explained in hindsight, "I've seen the news." Moss' stint on Kangaroo was cut short when he was called to serve in the army. While on a bus ride to a training session, he met future Sesame Street colleague Christopher Cerf. Moss returned to Kangaroo six months later as a staff writer, scripting sketches and songs until 1968. Among his contributions to the show is the song "When Ping Pong Balls Are Falling."
===Sesame Street===
In 1969, Moss joined the writing staff of Sesame Street, where he reunited with Captain Kangaroo alumni David Connell (executive producer), Sam Gibbon (producer), and Jon Stone (producer/head writer). Moss was also recruited by music director Joe Raposo to write songs. The first song Moss composed for the show, written to fulfill a script assignment to teach the number 5, was "Five People in My Family," performed by the Anything Muppets.Moss, Jeff. The Sesame Street Songbook introduction. Moss' other musical contributions such as the recurring "People in Your Neighborhood" song and Oscar's "I Love Trash" became enduring classics, but it was "Rubber Duckie," Ernie's ode to his favorite bath time toy, that received mainstream pop status. Moss also played a key role in the development of two major Muppet characters, helping establish the personality of Oscar the Grouch, and giving a previously unnamed voracious blue monster an obsession for cookies.
Moss became head writer of Sesame Street for the next few seasons, succeeding Jon Stone. Moss explains his approach to writing for children: "I don't look at writing for children as that different than writing for anybody else. The emotions that you write about are for the most part the same as you would write about for anybody. You just do it with a vocabulary of experience that children will understand." Moss was originally going to resign as head writer after season 3, using the extra time to work on his own theatrical projects.Alumni Adventurers: "The Rubber Duckie Man." Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 72, March 7, 1972. Ultimately, none of his proposed projects got past development stage. In the next two seasons of Sesame Street (both of which would be his last during the decade), Moss slowly shifted away from supervising the writing staff, eventually giving back the role of head writer to Stone.
Moss left Sesame Street in 1974, although in the interim, he produced several Sesame record albums, writing linking material and new songs (some of which would be repurposed on the show itself). Moss returned full-time as a staff writer and composer in 1982, and would remain with the show until 1998.
In addition to writing and composing, Moss occasionally lent his voice to several Muppet characters, including namesakes Big Jeffie, the bass singer of Little Jerry and the Monotones (for whom Moss wrote most of their songs), and Jeffy, who sang "I'm Going to Get My Hair Cut" with Cookie Monster. He also provided backing vocals for Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats in a few songs (most often being bass vocals for the Lavender member in their later songs), and he can also be heard as a Green Anything Muppet greaser in "Afraid," the older brother and a classmate in "Bells," a dove in the animated segment "Above It All," and a nurse in "Blood Test" from the educational resource video Lead Away!
===Later years===
In the intervening years away from his full-time Sesame work, Moss kept himself busy with numerous side projects, branching out into areas beyond television. He wrote the musical Double Feature with Mike Nichols and Tommy Tune.
For Henson and the Muppets, Moss composed songs and score for The Muppets Take Manhattan, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Original Song Score; he lost the award to Prince for Purple Rain. He wrote music and lyrics for the television special The Christmas Toy. Moss also wrote the songs "One Little Star" and "Upside Down World" for the first Sesame Street feature film Follow That Bird.
Moss collaborated with composer Stanley Silverman on A Good Life, a one-act musical theater piece based on Igor Stravinsky's "A Soldier's Tale" for the Kennedy Center's "Imagination Celebration" children's arts festival in 1986."Sesame Street to Kennedy Center." Ocala Star-Banner, October 30, 1985. He wrote the song "My Star" for the 1985 telefilm Ewoks: The Battle for Endor and composed songs for the stop-motion animated series Bump in the Night.
Moss wrote several children's books with illustrator Chris Demarest. The Butterfly Jar, a collection of poems, includes three of Moss' Sesame Street songs: "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon," "Lonesome Joan," and "Nasty Dan." The poem "Not the Best Feeling" is a reworked version of "Mad." His other book of poems, Bone Poems, inspired by dinosaurs and early mammals on display at the American Museum of Natural History, includes illustrations by Sesame illustrator Tom Leigh.
During the mid-1990s, Moss worked on a screenplay for an unproduced children's film entitled Zoo FantasyFestival Attractions.com - Jeff Moss biography (archived) with Francis Ford Coppola's production company American Zoetrope."ON SESAME STREET WITH: Jeff Moss; Making a Splash With Children From Morning Till Bathtime." The New York Times, January 6, 1993."Sesame Street Storyteller." The Washington Post, October 24, 1992.
In 1991, Moss married Annie Boylan, sister of Sesame Street writer Molly Boylan. Later that year, they gave birth to son Alex. Moss was previously married to actress Marian Hailey (1973-85).
Moss died on September 24, 1998 at the age of 56 following complications from colon cancer. On the same day of his death, he had been working on the song "You and You and Me," making it the last song he ever wrote.Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Viking, 2008, p. 334.Martin, Douglas. "Jeffrey Moss, 56, Writer and Father of Cookie Monster, Dies." The New York Times. September 26, 1998.
===Legacy===
In 2007, Princeton University ranked Moss as one of its 25 most influential alumni, citing the effect of his songs and characters on the Sesame Street audience.
A chair at New York City's Hayden Planetarium is dedicated to Moss, immortalized with his name, dates of birth and death and the caption "Beloved Star."
Recollections
According to Michael Davis, author of the book Street Gang: "In his prime, Moss was a force of nature, a wiry, strong, wild-haired, sometimes combustible, not always loveable, but dependably brilliant television writer, playwright, poet, composer, and onetime actor."Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Viking, 2008, p. 332.
Joan Ganz Cooney describes Moss as "a sort of child himself, and I don't mean he had a way with children. I mean he, himself, was a kind of a child. He could be very difficult, very prickly. He could write anything, he could imagine anything. He himself was a very sober guy, not funny at all ... I loved him."Princeton Alumni Weekly's 25 Most Influential - #12: Jeffrey Moss
Esther Newberg, Moss' friend and literary agent, remembers Moss as "a world-class perfectionist ... never compromising his sense of the way a character should act or feel or talk just for the sake of a convenient rhyme. And right to the end, he always found time to share his insights and his flawless editor's touch with his colleagues."
==Composer credits==
===Sesame Street===
Image:Song.Adding-CM.jpg|"Adding"
Image:3982o.jpg|"Adding, Adding, Adding"
Image:Folge2412-11.jpg|"Afraid"
Image:2421a.jpg|"Afraid of the Dark"
Image:AllByMyself02.jpg|"All By Myself"
Image:AllDressedUpBert.JPG|"All Dressed Up"
3962t.jpg|"Animal Books"
SavionKids.TheArm.jpg|"The Arm"
FirstTimeLP.jpg|"Baby Brother"
File:Bedoodledeedum.jpg|"Be Doodle Dee Dum"
File:AMSong-BeforeAfter.jpg|"Before and After"
Image:Listentothebells.jpg‎|"Bells"
Image:Bigroundnose.jpg|"Big Round Nose"
2812h.jpg|"Binoculars"
2084h.jpg|"Blow Out the Candles"
Image:Song.BlueberryMouth.jpg|"Blueberry Mouth"
1920d.jpg|"Boop-A-Doop!"
Image:Song.Bones.jpg|"Bones"
Image:BreakfastTime.jpg|"Breakfast Time"
2172d.jpeg|"Brewster Rooster"
2031b.jpg|"Broccoli"
Celina as Broccoli.jpg|"Broccoli Too"
Image:Song.brushboogie.jpg|"Brush Boogie"
Image:Butilikeyou.jpg|"But I Like You"
Image:CaptainVegetable.jpg|"Captain Vegetable"
Image:3960l.jpg|"A Cat Had a Birthday"
TimeLP.jpg|"Children in the Playground"
Circlegirl.jpg|"Circle the Girl"
Image:Circlessong.jpg|"Circles"
TimeLP.jpg|"Clean-Up Time"
Image:NumbersLP.jpg‎|"Climbing Nine Stairs"
CookieRockSong.jpg|"Cookie"
File:Song.countingtoes.jpg|"Counting Toes"
FirstTimeLP.jpg|"Crossing the Street"
Image:Deedeedee.jpg|"Dee Dee Dee"
File:DipDipShang.jpg|"Dip Dip Shangalanga"
Image:1708m.jpg|"Eight Beautiful Notes"
File:3333h.jpg|"Everybody Laugh"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"Everybody's Got a Brain"
Image:EverybodysSong1978.jpg|"Everybody's Song"
BBFrankie.jpg|"Everyone in My Family"
Image:Everyoneicecream.jpg|"Everyone Likes Ice Cream"
Image:Everyonemakesmistakes2.jpg|"Everyone Makes Mistakes"
ExerciseLP.jpg|"Exercise (on Sesame Street)"
File:NoblePrice-Experiment.jpg|"Experiment"
File:FatherSongMotherSongChildrenSong.jpg|"Fathers (Mothers and Children) Song"
Image:Mahnasesame2.jpg|"Fat Cat"
2643-03.jpg|"Finish My Rhyme"
Image:Youngcount.jpg|"The First Day of School"
Image:MonstersLP.jpg‎|"Five Monsters in My Family"
Image:5peopleinmyfamily.jpg|"Five People in My Family"
File:1709t.jpg|"Flying"
FirstTimeLP.jpg|"For the First Time"
LittleJerryandtheMonotones2.jpg|"Four"
File:Seasonssong.jpg|"Four Seasons"
Image:3979l.jpg|"From Your Head"
File:3084e.jpg|"Get Wet"
File:2629i.jpg|"Gina, Gina"
Image:Goinforaride.jpg|"Goin' for a Ride"
TimeLP.jpg|"Good Morning"
File:HerryGoodMorning.jpg|"Good Morning, Morning"
Image:GoodbyeFly.jpg|"Goodbye Fly"
File:TheGrouchSong.JPG|"The Grouch Song"
File:Folge2383-7.jpg|"Hands"
File:Happy.jpg|"Happy!"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"Happy Birthday from Sesame Street"
Image:Whenitsmybirthday.jpg‎|"Happy Birthday to Me"
2485t.jpg|"Happy That I Love Her"
Image:Happytomeetyou.jpg|"Happy to Meet You"
1805a.jpg|"He Says, She Says"
2616streetstory1.jpg|"Hello, My Name Is"
2052a.jpg|"Here"
Image:HiFriend.jpg|"Hi Friend"
Image:1396d.jpg|"High, Middle, Low"
File:Song.DescribeYourPet.jpg|"Homer"
Image:3085l.jpg|"Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash"
File:Folge2564-6.jpg|"How Did I Feel?"
Image:Howdoyougetfromheretothere.jpg|"How Do You Get from Here to There?"
0099 04.jpg|"How Many Wheels Has a Roller Skate?"
Image:ICanSingAnything.jpg|"I Can Sing"
Image:Ernieonthemoon.jpg|"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon"
File:1808f.jpg|"I Got Me a Rooster"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"I Have Feet"
File:IHeardMyDogBark.jpg|"I Heard My Dog Bark"
SS-ClementineandCows.jpg|"I Love Moo"
File:ILoveTrash1970.jpg|"I Love Trash"
Image:Song.loveyouspring.jpg|"I'll Love You In Springtime"
Image:1793a.jpg|"I L-O-V-E You"
Song.GettingDressed.jpg|"I Put My Leg in My Pants"
Image:Holdyourear1.jpg|"I Want to Hold Your Ear"
Image:Hairfurcut.jpg|"I'm Going to Get My Hair Cut"
TimeLP.jpg|"I'm Gonna Build the Biggest House You've Ever Seen"
3069l.jpg|"Imagine If You Would (A Ship Inside Your Mind)"
Image:Song.imaginethat.jpg|"Imagine That"
Image:3187k.jpg|"In My Book"
File:InMyNeighborhood.jpg|"In My Neighborhood"
Image:Song.meetinsects.jpg‎|"The Insects In Your Neighborhood"
Image:Ivegottwo.jpg|"I've Got Two"
Image:Jfriends.jpg|"J Friends"
Image:Just-One-Me.jpg|"Just One Me"
Image:2013f.jpg|"Knock Three Times"
File:LetHim_Play.jpg|"Let Him Play"
Image:Letsgodriving.jpg|"Let's Go Driving"
Image:3622a.jpg|"Let's Sing A Song That Everybody Knows"
2740c.jpg|"Letter H Song"
File:Librarysong.jpg|"Library"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"Listen"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"A Little Bit Bigger"
File:2965a.jpg|"Little Red Fire Truck"
USS1b.jpg|"London Bridge"
Image:FirstTimeLP.jpg|"Lonesome Joan"
File:2785a.jpg|"Loving All Those Things"
CTW1977NaptimeLunchtime.jpg|"Lunchtime"
Image:Monstermeal.jpg|"M-M-M Monster Meal"
Image:Mad Little Jerry.jpg|"Mad"
File:MomsAlphabetSong.jpg|"Mom's Alphabet Song"
File:Song.moonshine.jpg|"Moonshine"
Image:Molove.jpg|"Mountain of Love"
File:Pollydarton-musicsong.jpg|"Music"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"Musical Chairs"
File:2608a.jpg|"My Baby"
File:My_Name_0244.jpg|"My Name"
CTW1977SixSeven.jpg|"My Sister, My Father, My Mother, My Grandma, My Grandpa, My Dog and Me"
Image:Song.naptime.jpg|"Naptime"
Image:NastyDan.jpg|"Nasty Dan"
File:2485m.jpg|"Near to You"
Image:Song.NoMatterHowYouCountThem.jpg|"No Matter How You Count Them"
File:3140j.jpg|"No Matter What"
Image:0348g.jpg|"No Matter What Your Language"
File:NoNoNo.JPG|"The No-No-No!"
Image:SomeOfUsAreHere.jpg|"None Some All"
File:Nothingtocount.jpg|"Nothing to Count"
Image:Oatmealbox.JPG‎|"Oatmeal Box"
Image:2293f.jpg|"Octopus Blues"
Album.peopleneighborhood.jpg|"On the Very First Day"
Image:OneOne-MakeTwo.jpg|"One and One Make Two"
Image:OneBanana.jpg|"One Banana"
Folge2475-14.jpg|"One Bark (and Two Meows)"
Image:OneFineFace.jpg|"One Fine Face"
Image:Song.onepotato.jpg|"One Potato"
Image:3031d.jpg|"One Small Voice"
0097g.jpg|"Opposites"
Image:Song.OppositeStuff.jpg|"Opposite Stuff"
Image:Myfavoriteletter.jpg|"P Is My Favorite Letter"
Image:Peopleinyrnbhood.jpg|"The People in Your Neighborhood"
Image:2754f.jpg‎|"The Perfect Thing"
Image:Pct2.jpg|"Pigeons and Cookies and Trash"
File:Elmo.PlanetsMoon.jpg|"Planets, Moon and Stars"
File:2867-03.jpg|"Practice"
Image:SSProud.jpg|"Proud"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"Put a Cookie in My Mouth"
Image:SesameQuestionSong.jpg|"The Question Song"
QT-4.jpg|"Quiet Things"
Quiettimeart.jpg|"Quiet Time"
Image:Song.Rainfalls.jpg|"Rain Falls"
Image:RaiseYourHand.jpg|"Raise Your Hand"
Image:GroverElmoFavoriteColor.jpg|"Red and Blue"
Image:0413l.jpg|"Rhyme Song"
Image:Elmo.monalisa.jpg|"Right in the Middle of My Face"
RockNRollStar.jpg|"Rock 'N Roll Star"
Image:Rubberduckie1970.jpg|"Rubber Duckie"
Image:SSSad.jpg|"Sad"
0307 08.jpg|"Same/Different Song"
Image:Sammythesnake.jpg|"Sammy the Snake"
4116u.jpg|"School Rap"
Image:Song.scratchmyback.jpg|"Scratch My Back"
File:2031d.jpg|"See You Tomorrow"
SevenDaysSong.jpg|"Seven Days"
File:3577e.jpg|"Shake Your Head One Time"
Image:2803f.jpg|"Shake Your Wrist"
Image:Song.sharing.jpg|"Sharing"
Showmehowyoufeel.jpg|"Show Me How You Feel"
Image:EBSix.jpg|"Six (My Favorite Number Is)"
Image:Skin.jpg|"Skin"
2583a.jpg|"Slow Songs"
Cow.Sneezesong.jpg|"The Sneeze Song"
0522-Snufflelullaby.jpg|"The Snufflelullaby"
0340_03.jpg|"Someday, Little Children"
Song.Somethingsarelittle.jpg|"Some Things are Big"
Image:Songofthecount.jpg|"The Song of the Count"
Image:simonsoundmansong.jpg|"Sound Song"
Image:0524 Sound of the Letter A.jpg|"The Sound of the Letter A"
Image:0250g.jpg|"Special"
PlacidoFlamingoItsyBitsySpider.jpg|"Spider's Feelings"
2383h.jpg|"Stay"
Image:Song.stillwelike.jpg|"Still, We Like Each Other"
File:0295_04.jpg|"Stop!"
Image:SSSurpriseSong.jpg|"Surprise!"
Image:Song.tadpole.jpg|"Tadpole"
Image:1993TakeaRest.jpg|"Take a Rest"
Song-TakingCareOfYou.jpg|"Taking Care of You"
Whatbelongsheredavid.jpg|"Taking Turns"
Image:FirstTimeLP.jpg|"Tall Enough"
TenCookies.jpg|"Ten Cookies"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"Thanks for the Party"
0532a.jpg|"That's What My Song is For"
Image:Album.singalong-lp.jpg|"There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea"
Bae1.JPG|"Things That I Remember"
Think-Of-Fingers.jpg|"Think of Your Fingers"
Song.three.jpg|"Three"
0396 Three of These Things Luis.jpg|"Three of These Things"
File:3587b.jpg|"Tickle Song (I'm Gonna Tickle You)"
File:1808g.jpg|"Tongue Twister"
Image:ELY08.jpg|"Tu Me Gustas"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"Tummy Song"
Image:TwoGSounds.jpg|"Two G Sounds"
File:2Head.Love.jpg|"Ugga Wugga Lullabye"
Image:UpandDownMonsters.jpg|"Up and Down"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"Up Goes the Castle"
File:2084e.jpg|"A Very Unhappy Birthday (To You)"
Image:Very Very Special Letter.jpg|"Very, Very Special Letter"
Image:0252 03.jpg|"Walk Down the Street"
File:3675.ComingSoon.jpg|"Walkin' the Dog"
Image:Song.wally.jpg|"Wally"
Image:Song.earthlings.jpg|"We Are All Earthlings"
File:3745e.jpg|"We Three"
2485c.jpg|"Wedding Day"
2485y.jpg|"Wedding Pictures"
0431b.jpg|"We've Got to Work Together"
Image:Grover.jpg|"What Do I Do When I'm Alone?"
File:WhatDoTheyDo.jpg|"What Do They Do When They Go Wherever They Go?"
TimeLP.jpg|"What Do You Have For Dinner?"
2621a.jpg|"When I Was Little"
Image:2230a.jpg|"When It's Cold Out"
BirthdayLP.jpg|"When Will My Birthday Come?"
Rocky-WigglyTooth.jpg|"Wiggly Tooth"
Image:Everybodys.jpg|"With Every Beat of My Heart"
Image:WonderfulMeSingle.jpg|"Wonderful Me"
Image:WonderfulYucchy1.jpg|"Wonderful/Yucchy"
Image:Bobopfamilysong.jpg|"The Word Family Song"
Image:YoundYouandMe.jpg|"You and You and Me"
Image:YouTickleMe.jpg|"You Tickle Me"
===The Muppets Take Manhattan===
See also: The Muppets Take Manhattan soundtrack
Image:Marriage.jpg|"He'll Make Me Happy"
Image:Igaly.jpg|"I'm Gonna Always Love You"
Image:Rat_scat.JPG|"Rat Scat (Something's Cookin')"
Image:Rightwhereibelong.JPG|"Right Where I Belong"
Image:Sayinggoodbye.jpg|"Saying Goodbye"
Image:Somebodysgettingmarried.jpg|"Somebody's Getting Married"
Image:Togetheragain.jpg|"Together Again"
Image:Canttakeno.jpg|"You Can't Take No for an Answer"
===Other Productions===
Image:Onelittlestar.JPG|"One Little Star"(from Follow That Bird)
Image:Upsidedownworld.JPG|"Upside Down World"(from Follow That Bird)
File:ToysLoveToPlay.jpg|"Toys Love to Play"(from The Christmas Toy)
Image:RugbysSong.jpg|"The Greatest Christmas Toy of All"(from The Christmas Toy)
Image:TryTheImpossible.jpg|"Try the Impossible"(from The Christmas Toy)
Image:Meteora (song).jpg|"Meteora"(from The Christmas Toy)
Image:ChristmasToy.jpg|"Together at Christmas"(from The Christmas Toy)
==Credits==
===Episodes===
Sesame Street episodes written by Moss include (an added R indicates a main storyline repeat):episode scripts via a trusted source
* Episode 0406
* Episode 1714
* Episode 1726
* Episode 1727
* Episode 1728
* Episode 1732
* Episode 1737
* Episode 1777
* Episode 1808
* Episode 1846
* Episode 1852
* Episode 1858
* Episode 1859
* Episode 1867
* Episode 1871
* Episode 1875
* Episode 1903
* Episode 1911
* Episode 1929
* Episode 1931
* Episode 1937
* Episode 1941
* Episode 1950
* Episode 1952
* Episode 1953
* Episode 1972
* Episode 1976 (R)
* Episode 1981 (R)
* Episode 1991 (R)
* Episode 2007
* Episode 2013
* Episode 2014
* Episode 2031
* Episode 2052	
* Episode 2064
* Episode 2069
* Episode 2072
* Episode 2073
* Episode 2078
* Episode 2089
* Episode 2131
* Episode 2145
* Episode 2196
* Episode 2201
* Episode 2203
* Episode 2207
* Episode 2230
* Episode 2231 (R)
* Episode 2239
* Episode 2247 (R)
* Episode 2248 (R)
* Episode 2257
* Episode 2279
* Episode 2297
* Episode 2313
* Episode 2327
* Episode 2371 (R)
* Episode 2383
* Episode 2384
* Episode 2396
* Episode 2421
* Episode 2439
* Episode 2450
* Episode 2452
* Episode 2485
* Episode 2533	
* Episode 2552
* Episode 2557
* Episode 2583
* Episode 2587
* Episode 2598
* Episode 2604
* Episode 2608
* Episode 2621
* Episode 2629
* Episode 2633 (R)
* Episode 2637
* Episode 2643
* Episode 2652
* Episode 2708
* Episode 2715
* Episode 2740
* Episode 2742
* Episode 2754
* Episode 2760
* Episode 2774 (R)
* Episode 2785
* Episode 2800
* Episode 2803
* Episode 2806
* Episode 2817
* Episode 2867
* Episode 2900 (R)
* Episode 2935
* Episode 2954
* Episode 2955
* Episode 2965	
* Episode 2972
* Episode 3019
* Episode 3037
* Episode 3085
* Episode 3088
* Episode 3092
* Episode 3098
* Episode 3111
* Episode 3185
* Episode 3272
* Episode 3292
* Episode 3333
* Episode 3347
* Episode 3363
* Episode 3449
* Episode 3495
* Episode 3577
* Episode 3587
* Episode 3595
* Episode 3622
* Episode 3626
* Episode 3627
* Episode 3631
* Episode 3676 (R)
* Episode 3690
* Episode 3728
* Episode 3745
* Episode 3767
* Episode 3772
* Episode 3799
* Episode 3937 (R)
===Segments===
Sesame Street segments written by Moss include:
*Ernie and Bert: Milk and Cookie 
*Ernie and Bert: TV Chair 
*The King and the Fireman 
*Ernie and Bert: Q Game 
*The Geefle and the Gonk 
*The King's Nose 
*The Monster's Three Wishes 
*Ernie and Bert: Bert Almost Shops for Dinner 
*Sesame Street News Flash: How the Three Little Pigs Feel 
*The King's Apples 
===Books===
thumb|300px|Big Bird and Oscar with (clockwise from top) Dulcy Singer, Lisa Simon, Norman Stiles, Jeff Moss and Jon Stone.
* People in My Family (1971)
* People in Your Neighborhood (1971)
* The Sesame Street Storybook (1971)
* Cookie Monster's Circle Book (1972)
* The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
* The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
* Oscar's Book (1975)
* The Sesame Street Book of Fairy Tales (1975)
* Oscar-the-Grouch's Alphabet of Trash (1977)
* The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)
* The Sesame Street Library (1978-1979)
* People in My Family (1983)
* The Sesame Street Treasury (1983)
* The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures (1983)
* The Sesame Street Book of Poetry (1992)
* I Don't Want to Live on the Moon (2001)
===Albums===
Moss is credited as a writer on all albums, unless noted otherwise.
* The Sesame Street Book & Record
* The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album
* The Muppet Alphabet Album
* Sesame Street LIVE! - also directed
* ¡Sesame Mucho!
* Aren't You Glad You're You? - Musical Arrangements
* Numbers!
* Happy Birthday from Sesame Street
* What Time Is It on Sesame Street?
* Fair Is Fair - Executive Producer
* Every Body's Record
* The People in Your Neighborhood
* Exercise! - Project Consultant
*For the First Time
* Sesame Street Sing-Along!
* My Sesame Street Record
* Jim Henson: A Sesame Street Celebration - Music Consultant
==Sources==
==External links==
*Festival Attractions, Inc., Jeff Moss's publisher, on Internet Archive
*IMDb
*17 minutes with 'Sesame Street' co-creator and 'Rubber Ducky' writer Jeff Moss
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