User:ErnieBert/Talk Archive 08

This is the archive of Ken's talk page.

Part 8: July 2 - December 28, 2010

Tape info (reply to Ken and Andrew)
(Editor's note: This post is regarding the 1970 Columbia cassette edition of The Sesame Street Book & Record.)

This is not the cassette cover, this packaging is the size of a 12" LP. It is an LP jacket, and the poster and the book are inside. The jacket is shrinkwrapped in what I would judge to be the original shrink wrap. It is unclear of how the cassette would have been attached. I don't see any bagging, stretching or imprint in the cellophane indicating where exactly the tape had been fixed, perhaps it was removed a long time ago and not wrapped long enough to make an imprint. It would make sense that the tape had no box. I do not have the tape that goes with it, but I assume it was attached to this jacket. It might have been attached to the back, as the verso is just plain white, and the info is on the front.

I also imagine that this packaging was used for the tape just as the long box was once used for CDs. The purpose being that the cassette format at the time was a fairly new format - it was probably stocked in among the LP racks at that time.

There is no number anywhere on the jacket, the back cover and spine are blank, so the number you want could be on the tape itself, which I do not have. The book included has a Library of Congress cat # 79-128004. C. 1970, CTW. Is this the same number that appears on the book that goes with the LP?

Wish I had the tape, or that I knew more about the item. When I discovered this item at an antiques shop last month I figured I'd found something cool, and came to Muppet Wikia to find out more about it. I was surprised to find no picture of it, so I tried to upload one. (thanks for the help with that!) I didn't encounter any issues with the site nor my browser, I think my difficulties were due simply to my unfamiliarity with using your site. Again, thanks and glad to contribute something to the wikia - it's wonderful and I'll resource it often now that I know about it!

Karen (KarNYCLoAMR)


 * Hi, Karen! Thank you so much for sharing your find with us! I was able to find the catalog number a few years ago by searching the library site worldcat.org, but I've always been intrigued as to how they actually sold it. I remember getting the Warner Brothers book and tape of Sesame Street 2 out of the library when I was a kid, and they had shrunk down the booklet to a 7" x 7" size. I'm glad to know the Columbia tape had a full-size booklet. Thanks again, and I hope you find other neat Muppet items! -- Ken (talk ) 05:54, December 28, 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Just wanted to wish you a happy holiday! Thanks to my son, we've had daily doses of A Muppet Family Christmas; giggles abound over the icy patch, and we were told today to call him "Fozzie" if we wanted to ask him to do something. I think we are in the holiday spirit, so I celebrated by adding some Sesame xmas merchandise and an oddball cover album to the wiki. I hope you have a great day with your family! -- Wendy (talk ) 02:24, December 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Merry day after Christmas! Been busy and tired and still haven't been able to properly respond to the e-mail discussion with you and Tom, but I wanted you to know I had indeed not forgotten. I still owe you some goodies in the coming year, and since I didn't get it up in time for Christmas, I may as well tell you I have screengrabs and such for a Salvation Army page here in the near future (and of course, still need to get to the non-rodent Mickey). God bless! -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 05:54, December 27, 2010 (UTC)

What the underwear model's greeting was
A brief hello! (Wanted to update you and right now this seemed easier than e-mail).Been busy with It's a Wonderful Life (the play, not the page) since we have our first audience tomorrow (I forget if I told you, but after lots of changes, I'm at final count playing a full dozen parts: George for about four or five lines as a teenager, Harry and Sam "Hee-Haw" Wainright, Mr. "Don't talk to my wife like that" Welch, the chairman of the Building and Loan board, a bunch of one-liners, and my favorite bit, the bank teller, which the director let me do in a New England accent). Also took my first solo drive since the accident. Plus finally got all the insurance papers in and there've been drawn out problems (*finally* solved but multiple appointments were needed) re medication. But I may actually have time for a change tomorrow, so I hope to catch up on some things, including creating at least one holiday relevant but also generally interesting page, and one for a certain dimunitive celebrity we discussed recently. And other stuff here and there. Bye for now! -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 06:12, December 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi! Music at church has been keeping me busy, too! I owe you and Tom an e-mail, which I hope to get to soon. I'm glad to hear that the play is going well, and I hope your other stuff gets better, too! -- Ken (talk ) 06:47, December 9, 2010 (UTC)

Funky Cover Album
Hiya Ken. Found us a new one. Check out the auction -- it has clips from it here. It appears to have been intended for use in dance studios. Also I wasn't sure whether to title it by what's on the front or back of the album. -- Wendy (talk ) 01:39, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, man, I saw that last night, but it was late, and I didn't feel like starting a new page! Can you grab the back cover, just for my own reference? I think it's hilarious that it's on "Statler Records"! I'll be very surprised if there are any other titles on this label. Although having a number of SLP 1306 might mean there are other titles, and they do offer a complete catalog. By the way, that "Disco Frog" sounds like Frank Oz trying to do Kermit! I can hear a little bit of Bert and/or Fozzie in his voice. -- Ken (talk ) 03:27, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, now it gets more interesting. It turns out that that really is a label of records to play in dance classes. As a matter of fact, they're still in business (at statlermusic.com), and they still have the same address! Unfortunately, it looks like they don't offer this LP on CD, but I'm going to e-mail them, and maybe somebody will remember it, and maybe they'll have a copy lying around somewhere! So I guess being on "Statler Records" was only unintentionally funny to us Muppet fans!


 * By the way, according to discogs.com, they made singles, too, so be on the lookout! -- Ken (talk ) 04:12, October 22, 2010 (UTC)


 * Luckily I grabbed the back as well as the front. here you go. I thought it might be a fake label too but I google'd it before I put it up :). -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:43, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

new Sesame album reissues from iTunes
Hey Ken! Thought you might like to know about this. It's a screenshot of albums on iTunes listed as coming up in November. — scarecroe 00:42, October 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Interesting! I saw the conversation on ToughPigs. I hope they eventually release them all! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:31, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

Jermboy45 being blocked?
Hey, Ken, I really hate to bring this up, and I know it doesn't help to point it out and complain about it. But, can an administrator, like you, PLEASE block Jermboy45 from editing this site? He's been contributing for nearly seven months under his previous accounts about Hi-Tops Video and Lyrick Studios producing Sesame Street on video, which keeps ending up being reverted for being untrue or mixed-up and it seems like it's just not working out. Again, I'm sorry to complain, but I just think he's gone on for TOO long and I feel like something has to be done about it! -- Max (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 17:20, October 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey, Max! Actually, I'm not an admin, but thanks for pointing out the vandal! I'm sure the admins will take care of him. They've already blocked this new account, and I think they're also going to block his IP address in case he tries to come back. If you know of any other names he went by, please let them know about that, too. Thanks! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 21:16, October 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, Ken! I'll try to inform Aleal, Croebot, H rytter, Merrystar, MuppetVJ, Oscarfan, Pantalones, Scarecroe or Toughpigs next time Jermboy comes around. -- Max (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 21:33, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Sesame Videography
Hey babe -- I was looking at Sesame Street Videography today, and realized that it evolved into a really dense wall of text before you got to the pictures. I added sections, and split up the galleries so that you see text and pictures as you go. I hope you like it; obviously, feel free to change and revert as you wish, and please fix whatever mistakes I made. :) -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 00:27, September 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Danny, that's awesome, as usual! I don't know why I didn't think of that before! I had been wanting to put up the Sony Wonder covers that are reissues of the Random Houses, but I couldn't think of how to do it without getting confusing. Now I can put them in the Sony Wonder section, so if somebody has the Sony cover of Learning About Letters, it won't look like it's missing. Also, I'd like to adapt this to the Discography, because it's always been bugging me that the Sight & Sound tapes aren't on there because we can't figure out the exact release years on those, but we know that they came out between 1983 and 1990. Now we can put them all together under a heading about them, so all the covers from the last 40 years will all be in one place! Thanks for working on that! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:41, September 10, 2010 (UTC)

Re: John Denver Christmas
Can I ask my friend about this? I swear, if he answers, I'll let you know ASAP.

(TorranceMouse 23:35, September 4, 2010 (UTC))


 * What was the question about it? -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:39, September 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I have a friend named Chris from Brooklyn, and he has a LP collection.
 * (TorranceMouse 23:47, September 4, 2010 (UTC))


 * Well, we're missing some of the covers, so if he has any of those, that would be great! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:57, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Muppets from Space (video)
Hey, Ken. I got some international front covers of Muppets from Space from the UK and Japan that we can put on its video page. All you have to do is teach me that same lesson that you have teach me with Play With Me Sesame Videography, so I can understand it again. LegalizeAnythingMuppets 22:37, August 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay, that was a couple of different problems. Somebody put an extra bracket in the middle of the table, and that made the page get confused. Also, I think you forgot to put a quotation mark on the number 4 on your column span line. I also reworked how the whole thing is laid out inside the page, because it was kind of crammed. (That wasn't your fault; there were some people who were working on it before you.) -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:38, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

Emily Kingsley
Hey Ken. How is it know that these are the same people? —Scott ( talk ) 21:35, August 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * On some of the early records, and the 1971 Songbook, "High, Middle, Low" says, "Words by Emily Kaplin". But on Bert and Ernie's Greatest Hits it says Emily Perl Kingsley. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:42, August 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, nice work as always, detective! —Scott ( talk ) 02:43, August 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * It helps when you keep every Sesame Street record you've ever received, even the ones that are now unplayable! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:45, August 11, 2010 (UTC)

Unsere Buchstaben
I saw you created the page, so I was wondering if you have the CD itself. If you do, can you tell me what the songwriter/composer info it has for "I Get a Kick Out of U"? Thanks! - Oscarfan 17:02, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wow, I don't even remember creating that page! Sorry, I don't have any foreign Sesame CD's. (I wish I did!) I think I found all of the track data on a German CD site (I can't remember which one), and then Paul added the picture, so maybe he has it. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:01, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

Ernie's Little Lie
Hey Kid. I found the book part of the book and record set for Ernie's Little Lie. Do you need any information off it? We didn't have a scan here for it. -- <font color="Purple">Nate (<font color="Purple" size="1">talk ) 15:10, July 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wow, I didn't even realize we were missing that one! Can you scan the inside front cover, the inside back cover (the record pocket), and the back cover? It's a long story, but there were several editions of these, and I'm trying to see if I can tell which one this is without having the record. Thanks! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:02, July 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll scan it in the next few days and email it to you! :) -- <font color="Purple">Nate (<font color="Purple" size="1">talk ) 14:18, July 13, 2010 (UTC)

I've not forgotten. I still haven't come across it in the two boxes of books that I'm trying to go through, add to the wiki, and then put away on a shelf. When it comes up, I'll scan it. I swore it was with the ones I'm working on right now, but no sign of it. -- <font color="Purple">Nate (<font color="Purple" size="1">talk ) 17:21, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't worry. I'm sure you'll find it when you're looking for something else. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:59, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

All Around the World
Would "All Around the World" not be considered a Fraggle Rock Single? I didn't want to add it to the page if it wasn't, since it was an international release. You are much better with that sort of stuff. -- <font color="Purple">Nate (<font color="Purple" size="1">talk ) 17:17, July 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, we have a separate page for International Fraggle Rock Singles, and both the regular version and the picture disc version are there. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:30, July 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * I didn't think to look for an international singles page. My bad. lol Thanks though! -- <font color="Purple">Nate (<font color="Purple" size="1">talk ) 15:17, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

1994 BMG Cassette??
What do you suppose this actually is? Muppet Music Mix?? It vaguely resembles some version of Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets.... only it doesn't. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:42, July 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah, here's the page for Muppet Music Mix. It seems to be a cassette-only release from the Jim Henson Records/BMG Kids era. Normally the only tape-only stuff they made during that era was book and tape stuff or samplers. So I'm guessing this is another sampler, since every song can be found on other JHR/BMG titles. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:27, July 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * P.S. I just saw the note about the Peter Pan boxed set, and I answered below. -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:33, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

1972 UK Rubber Duckie Cover single
here. For some reason this amuses me. We don't really have a spot for cover singles though. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:36, July 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * AAAAHHHH! You are not going to believe this, but I already made a place for it! I can't believe you found it! I was messing around in discogs.com a while ago, and I saw this, and I couldn't figure out what it was, because they had no picture, and the fact that it said Buena Vista confused me, because the LP is on Disneyland. And as far as I can tell, no singles were made from the Disneyland LP's, at least in the US. So I put it at the bottom of Sesame Street Cover Singles. They must have just put that listing up, because I've never seen it before! The Geefle and The Gonk strike again! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:02, July 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Picture up. ebay is the great clearing house of EVERYTHING. It just requires patience. I should have known you'd have already made a place for international cover singles :p. I wasn't sure it was from the album because of the Minnie B-side or I would have put it on the album page at least. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:28, July 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Incidentally, I found a boxed set of Peter Pan 45s... very few SS songs on them although they are advertised as such in the title :). -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 03:42, July 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I'm trying to think of a way to rework that, so it's not buried at the bottom. It looks like it's related to the Hits from Sesame Street EP's, since some of the non-original SS songs are repeated, which may mean they were performed on the show, which may help in the future. Anyway, that "other TV hits" phrase sounds familiar. There may be another LP involved with this, and that means this item might be our first "cover album Carry About"! -- <font color="Blue">Ken (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 05:33, July 4, 2010 (UTC)