Big Bird Sings! (album)



Big Bird Sings! is one in a series of character-centered Sesame Street albums released in 1974. Although some of the material comes from the earlier Columbia and Warner Brothers albums, some tracks appear here for the first time, including Big Bird reading some of his poems. Later editions of this album remove two tracks, The "J" Poem and Everyone Likes Ice Cream, and replace them with I Just Adore Four and A Really Good Feeling.

This album was later released as part of the 2-LP set Just Friends, also with some tracks changed.

Track Listing
Side One
 * 1) AB-C-DEF-GHI - Big Bird Music by Joe Raposo, Lyrics by Joe Raposo and Jon Stone
 * 2) The Noodle Story - Big Bird and Oscar (Juhl-Raposo)
 * 3) The "J" Poem - Big Bird
 * 4) Very, Very Special Letter - Big Bird Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
 * 5) Big Bird Writes a Poem - Big Bird, Snuffle-upagus and Herbert Birdsfoot
 * 6) How Do I Know I'm Here? - Big Bird Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
 * 7) Everyone Likes Ice Cream - Big Bird, Three Friends and Monster Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss

Side Two
 * 1) Y'all Fall Down - Big Bird, Bert and Cookie Monster Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
 * 2) Everyone Makes Mistakes - Big Bird and Farley Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
 * 3) The Sound of the Letter A - Big Bird Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
 * 4) Just Three Colors - Big Bird and Oscar Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
 * 5) Ha Ha - Big Bird, Harvey Kneeslapper and Herry (Raposo-Juhl)
 * 6) No Matter What Your Language - Big Bird and Luis Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
 * 7) Big Bird's Poem - Big Bird

Note
Although a song titled "If I Could Fly" appears on the front cover, no such song appears on the album.

Other Releases

 * C 5059 (Sesame Street cassette)
 * T 5059 (Sesame Street 8-track tape)

Cast

 * Emilio Delgado as Luis
 * Loretta Long as Susan
 * Sonia Manzano as Maria
 * Bob McGrath as Bob
 * Matt Robinson as Gordon
 * Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar
 * Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Grover, Harvey Kneeslapper and Bert
 * Jerry Nelson as Herbert Birdsfoot, Snuffle-upagus, Farley, and Herry Monster
 * Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn
 * Jim Henson as Ernie

Production Credits

 * Album Produced by Joe Raposo
 * Project Supervisor: Arthur Shimkin
 * Words and Music Mostly by Jeffrey Moss and Joe Raposo
 * Additional material written by the Sesame Street writers: Jeffrey Moss, Jon Stone, Joseph A. Bailey, Jerry Juhl, Emily Perl Kingsley, Nina Link, Robert Oksner, Ray Sipherd, Norman Stiles and Daniel Wilcox
 * Project Directors for CTW: Christopher Cerf and Sharon Lerner