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. 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