Sesame Street singles



As Sesame Street began to make record albums that featured songs from the show, they also released 45 RPM singles from those albums. The first series of Columbia and Warner Brothers albums led to a similar series of 45s, which were packaged as book and record sets, with pictures and drawings either taken from or similar to the albums, and lyrics to the songs. Some of these titles were also packaged into boxed sets, with cover artwork similar to the album covers.

Some of the songs, such as "Rubber Duckie" and "Sing", proved to be so popular with adults, that they were also released as adult "pop" singles. These records were produced between 1970 and 1973. The "Rubber Duckie" single was so popular that it reached number 16 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles" chart in 1970.

Although the Sesame Street Records label started to release their own albums in 1974, their first singles didn't appear until 1976, with a new series of releases. Nearly all of the early songs were re-released in the new series, although they only had simple picture sleeves, with no lyrics.

The last commercially released 45s were produced in 1979, although several promotional releases were produced until 1984.