Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert

Released in 1972.

ALBUM CONTENT

 * SIDE ONE
 * Lots of Stuff (J. Raposo) Ernie & Bert and Everybody
 * Marching Song (J. Raposo) Big Bird, Ernie & Bert and Everybody''
 * The Listening Game (J. Henson/J. JuhL) Ernie & Bert and Cookie Monster
 * Just Three Colors (J. Raposo) Big Bird and Oscar
 * Name the Animal (J. Juhl) Ernie, Grover, and Everybody
 * Y'all Fall Down (J. Raposo) Big Bird, Ernie & Bert and Grover
 * Imagination (J. Raposo) Ernie
 * Clink, Clank (J. Raposo) Bert


 * SIDE TWO
 * Tiger Hunt (J. Juhl) Ernie and Mr. Tiger
 * Simple Song (J. Raposo) ''Oscar, Big Bird, Grover, Ernie and Friends
 * The Magic Cookie (J. Juhl) Herbert Birdsfoot, Cookie Monster and the Magic Cast
 * Pat Pat Patty Pat (J. Juhl/J. Raposo) Bert, Herbert Birdsfoot, Big Bird, Prairie Dawn, Grover and Ernie
 * Grover Takes a Walk (J. Juhl) Grover
 * The Drawing Song (J. Raposo) Ernie & Bert, Prairie Dawn, Farley, and Everybody
 * Put It Away (J. Raposo) Ernie & Bert and Everybody

PRODUCTION CREDITS

 * Produced by:
 * Jim Henson
 * Album conceived by:
 * Jerry Juhl and Jim Henson
 * Written by:
 * Jerry Juhl and Joe Raposo
 * Musical Direction by:
 * Joe Raposo
 * ''The talents of:
 * Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, Jerry Nelson, Frank Brill and Jim Henson
 * Produced for CBS by:
 * Arthur Shimkin
 * Studio Control and Editing by:
 * Jim Timmens
 * Visuals by:
 * Smollin Associates Inc.
 * Cover Photograph by:
 * Chuck Rowan
 * Engineered by:
 * Arthur Kenbdy, Stan Tonkel and Jim Greelan
 * Sound effects by:
 * Barabara wood and Ed Blainey
 * Ernie and Bert were build by:
 * Donald Sahlin
 * Associate Producer:
 * Diana Birkenfield

THE CAST

 * The Muppets created by Jim Henson
 * Frank Oz as Bert, Grover, and Cookie Monster
 * Jerry Nelson as Herbert Birdsfoot and Farley
 * Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar
 * Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn and The Magic Cast
 * and
 * Jim Henson as Ernie

ALBUM NOTES

 * Dear Parents (or other grown up people),
 * Usually when a child puts a record on the phonograph he just sits down and listens to it.
 * Not this record! (At least that's not the way we've planned it.)
 * In this record we will be asking your child to play gaesm and sing and dance and march and play musical instruments and use his or her imagination.
 * It's great fun!
 * Now there are a few simple objects that your child will want to have to play with while he's listening to the record. He doesn't have to have them - but it will help.  On the other side of this record you will find a list of things that he might need.


 * Here's the list - maybe you can help gather the things together:
 * 1. The album cover this record came in. That's easy enough.  On the album cover is a special color wheel that's fun to play with while listening to the song "Just Three Colors."  And there's a big picture map that make it easier to follow the story "The Magic Cookie."
 * 2. For "Clink Clank" you'll need a toy whistle. Or a couple of Kitchen pans.  Or something that rattles - like a tin can with a few marbles or stones inside.  Better yet, have all three things handy.
 * 3. For "Simple Song" something to play a melody on. A toy piano or xylophone is fine, but you don't really need them.  Three pansor pots or tin cans will do.  Just so they make three different musical notes -high middle and low - when you tap them with a spoon or pencil. (Better not us glasses though.  I tried that and broke one.)
 * 4. Something to draw with. We'll be needing that for "The Drawing Song" as you might guess.  Paper, pencil crayons, marker pens...blackboard and chalk...anything like that.
 * And that's all there is to it. By the way, don't worry about the kids making a mess on the living room rug with all this stuff.  At the end of the record we even have a clean up song.  That was Bert's idea.  He's a very tidy person.
 * Have fun,
 * Ernie

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