In the week leading up to the premiere of the Carmen Sandiego Netflix animated series, Rockapella released a new recording of the song the television show ended up using a different song. In 2015, Mashable invited the group to reunite to sing the song for their website. The theme song was a hit and Rockapella's popularity skyrocketed they appeared Jay Leno's New Year's Eve "Tonight Show" broadcast in 1992. The inspiration for the song was a Janes Addiction song called Caught Stealing with a "hip groove" that Rockapella aimed to replacate, instead coming out with a do-woob sound. The song was co-written by Rockapella co-founder Sean Altman.
On the game show, the song was performed each and every week by the a cappella group Rockapella, preceded by the studio audience chanting 'Do It Rockapella!'. It has been praised for its catchiness, for skyrocketing Rockapella's career, for increasing interest in a cappella music, and for being arguably the most internationally recognisable piece of the Carmen Sandiego franchise.Īfter performing in a 1990 Spike Lee production called Spike Lee and Company: Do It Acapella, the producers of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? contacted the group and asked if they wanted to audition to be house band they were ultimately successful. The song is part of the larger Carmen Sandiego franchise. " Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" is a song by Rockapella that was written as the theme song to the PBS game show of the same name. 7: Cable Ready at Amazon.1992 song by Rockapella "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"įrom the album Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? / Primer / In Concert / Live in Japan Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego at.Rockapella has included it on their albums Primer, In Concert, and Live in Japan. The Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? soundtrack features the song on track 10. In some shows, the lyric "taste for thievery" is replaced with "lust for larceny". This was changed again with the 2019 series' interactive special, To Steal or Not To Steal, when the line was changed to the Czech Republic due to the nation's Senate recommended ministries start using Czechia in 2004. Once they became two different countries, the song lyrics were changed to reflect that.
Originally, Czech and Slovakia was Czechoslovakia. Whoa, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Whoa, tell me where in the world, yeah, where can she be? Oh, tell me: where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Whoa, tell me: where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations! She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery Well, she glides around the globe, and she'll flimflam every nation The Warrant, the Warrant, the Warrant, the Warrant Whoa, tell me where in the world, come on, tell me where can she be?īotswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam, She put the "Miss" in "misdemeanor" when she stole the beans from Lima Then she’ll stick 'em up Down Under and go pickpocket Perth Well, she’ll ransack Pakistan and pull a scam in Scandinavia She goes from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe, Well, they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry "uncle"įrom the Red Sea to Greenland, they’ll be singing the Blues Tell me: where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China
She’s a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
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