User talk:ErnieBert

It's raining promos
Apparently. I found a listing thusly: "45 RPM L5028 BIG BIRD/KERMIT FROG HAPPIEST STREET N WORLD DISCO FROG SESAME SD1-A $8.50" The number would put it in sequence with the Loretta Lynn, which was SC-1.... and suggest there are at least two more out there! -- Wendy (talk ) 17:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * They also have 2 Bob McGrath singles I hadn't seen before, on Juno and Epic??? -- Wendy (talk ) 18:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. Actually, I think the SD stands for Sesame Disco, and SC stands for Sesame Country.  It wouldn't make sense to put a promo out 2 years later.  Plus, that coupling is different from the regular releases, so I think they were trying for a "hit" with those 2 songs.  Disco Frog was one of the rare songs that got performed on SS and TMS in the same period, and Happiest Street is featured on the album twice.  But the store stock 45 of Disco Frog is backed with the disco version of Green, so that would have been sold as a Kermit single (I'd love to see the cover; it's the only disco one we're missing).  So I'll move it up a little.  Thanks for finding that site!  I can see myself wasting lots of time there!


 * Now Bob is even more interesting. "Love is Blue" was a huge hit around 1967-1968, and a bunch of people recorded versions around that time, so that makes sense for Bob to be in that group.  That one side is a Christmas song means that this would have been Christmas 1967.  But I thought he was still signed to Columbia at that point.  Plus I've never heard of Juno Records, but I'll see what I can find.  Also, Epic was a sister label to Columbia, and 10562 is right around 1969-1970, so he was already on Sesame Street at that point.  I don't know if we resigned but got moved from Columbia, or if they issued something that hadn't come out in the US before.  It looks like some of his stuff was Japan only, after the first album didn't do anything here.  So I'll move those up too, and I hope we find pictures! -- Ken  (talk ) 03:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)