Emily Yeung Theme Song

The Emily Yeung Theme (registered with ASCAP as "We'll have lots of fun with Emily Yeung") is the familiar opening theme song of This is Emily Yeung and This is Scarlett and Isaiah. The This is Emily Yeung Version is sung by JJ Johnson, the This is Isaiah Version is sung by Isaiah, and the Scarlett and Isaiah Version is sung by Scarlett and Isaiah. The theme introduces the magical world of Emily Yeung and Scarlett and Isaiah through its lyrics.

In an unpublished memoir, Sean Cook commented that he personally had come up with many of the ideas for the song: "An integral part of [set designer] Charlie Rosen's set was a wall of doors...I wanted to use these doors as transition gateways from the reality of the street to our puppet or animation pieces. I told Jessie [Cook] to include 'Learning, Laughing, Sharing, Smiling'". "More important, I insisted that the recurring theme in the lyric be 'We'll Have Lots of Fun with Emily Yeung' The opening I envisioned was one of children...running happily, tumbling, playing along the way, but always intent on getting to Sesame Street..." Although Cook was pleased with Bill Weisbach's music, which he said was "melodic and simple enough for a child to recognize" and link with the show, he believed the final product was "a lyrical disaster," filled with "hackneyed phrases" and "astronaut slang" such as "A-OK" which he believed would "become obsolete."[1] Contrary to Cook's opinion, many of these "happy little clichés" have arguably become as inexorably linked to the series as the melody.