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 changed yet again when it was reissued as part of the 2-LP set Just Friends. See that album's page for details.

The second edition of this album was released on CD for the first time on the 3-disc set Old School: Volume 1, on March 23, 2010, along with The Sesame Street Record and Bert & Ernie Sing-Along.

Track listing[]

Side One

ABC-DEF-GHI - Big Bird
Music by Joe Raposo, Lyrics by Joe Raposo and Jon Stone
from The Sesame Street Book & Record
The Noodle Song - Big Bird and Oscar
Script by Jerry Juhl, Music by Joe Raposo
from The Muppet Alphabet Album
The "J" Poem - Big Bird
from The Sesame Street Book & Record
Very, Very Special Letter - Big Bird
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
from The Muppet Alphabet Album
Big Bird Writes a Poem - Big Bird, Snuffle-upagus and Herbert Birdsfoot
How Do I Know I'm Here? - Big Bird
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
from Sesame Street LIVE!
Everyone Likes Ice Cream - Big Bird, Three Friends and Monster
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss

Side Two

Y'all Fall Down - Big Bird, Bert and Cookie Monster
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
from Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert
Everyone Makes Mistakes - Big Bird and Farley
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
from The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album
The Sound of the Letter A - Big Bird
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
from The Muppet Alphabet Album
Just Three Colors - Big Bird and Oscar
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
from Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert
Ha Ha - Big Bird, Harvey Kneeslapper and Herry
Lyrics by Jerry Juhl, Music by Joe Raposo
from The Muppet Alphabet Album
No Matter What Your Language - Big Bird and Luis
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss
from ¡Sesame Mucho!
Big Bird's Poem - Big Bird

Although a song title of "If I Could Fly" appears on the front cover, no such song appears on the album.
Everyone Likes Ice Cream contains a confusing edit at the beginning, of Big Bird asking "Is everybody ready?", spliced in from the beginning of "Hee Hee Ha Ha". The rest of the track is the soundtrack of the song as broadcast, where Caroll Spinney plays one of the "three friends", who are actually siblings. Some of the dialogue establishing them as siblings was cut from the track.
Though the second version of the album is used for Old School: Volume 1 CD set, some promotional materials, as well as the track listing on Windows Media Player, mistakenly use the first version's track list.