Which would be one thing if Steve Whitmire was someone with only tangential ties to The Jim Henson Company and the puppeteer’s imaginative empire. But he took over as the key Kermit the Frog ...

25 on the Hot 100. Later in the decade, despite it not being easy being green, Kermit the Frog (with a hand, literally, from Jim Henson) hopped to the same mark with “Rainbow Connection,” his ...