Legalities aside, the album’s been out of print for over 25 years, and with the exception of two songs here, the album isn’t available on YouTube or streaming services like Spotify. If you want to listen along with me, I’ve put up the entire album here. Prominent member Sean Altman produces and co-writes most of the album with longtime collaborator David Yazbek, and does a handful of backing vocals on a lot of the album. So, you’d think an album based on the game show where a bunch of guys sing a capella would have Rockapella show up everywhere, right? Well, technically yes. Which is not a bad thing, children’s music can be fun and exciting like its adult counterparts without being fluff Yanni-esque fare. A lot of these songs have fairly simple, cutesy lyrics, which tells me this album is clearly aiming for a younger demographic. This album features 10 songs about various things, from pop-driven songs about geography, to twangy country about families, to songs about bugs and Carmen Sandiego herself. You can read about that tale over at Buzzerblog here, and it made me think about this album as a response. Christian Carrion of Buzzerblog, a noted blog about game show news, did some investigative journalism about a rumored long-lost episode of the show called “Auld Lang Gone,” where a contestant was visibly injured in the bonus round, causing it to be unaired. If you wanna see posts like these before everyone else, you can support my Patreon here.Īdmittedly, I’m writing about this primarily because of an article I read about the game show that has been making the internet rounds lately. This was available one week early to people who subscribed to my Patreon. Let’s talk about Carmen Sandiego: Out of this World. But there’s more than one soundtrack made for Where in the World…, and that one’s been mostly forgotten. Since the show featured a capella band Rockapella singing throughout the show’s 250+ episode run, naturally a soundtrack CD was also released.
The common T-shirts, video game adaptations, the works. Naturally for a show that’s modestly popular like Where in the World… is, there would be loads of merchandising.
#WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO SHOW SERIES#
It lasted about 4 years on PBS before pivoting from geography to history, with a follow-up series called Where In Time is Carmen Sandiego? lasting two more years before ending production. It definitely rivals some of the greats on that network, what with it’s cool style, entertaining form of education, and fun quiz elements, giving a silly but fun vibe to the whole show. This show holds about as much nostalgia for kids of the 80s and 90s as most of Nickelodeon’s well known game shows did.
Hosted by actor Greg Lee and featuring actress Lynne Thigpen as “The Chief,” it featured kids playing gumshoes at ACME Crimenet, answering geography questions to stop the theft of an artifact of the world from one of Carmen’s henchmen, with the final round having the winning gumshoe try to find Carmen herself to win a fabulous trip. This show was co-produced by PBS stations WGBH and WQED, and aired on PBS stations all around the country. Also called Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, it was a kids game show that was about the wonders of geography.
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