Songs from | 1, Rue Sésame |
Released | 1978 |
Format | single |
Label | Disques Adès |
Cat no. | ALB-158 |
Le Reveil de Mordicus (The Awakening of Mordicus) is the first Rue Sésame single-and-booklet. The material from this album was also featured on side B of the second Rue Sésame LP, Vive... La Rue Sésame.
This book and single for 1, Rue Sésame, the French co-production of Sesame Street, was produced by Adès in 1978. It belonged to the series Le Petit Menestrel. The cover illustration is by Nadine Forster, who also illustrated two Sésame storybooks.
In this story, Toccata wants to take the bus with Mordicus to go into town, but can't wake him up. He decides to go around the street and collect all of the alarm clocks, so he can ring them all of them at once. First, he visits the grocery where Maxime gives him his alarm clock and a pineapple. Toccata then gives the pineapple to Clémence and visits Roger repairing Odile's refrigerator. He gives Roger Clémence's clock to fix, and Odile gives Toccata her own alarm clock to help him tell the time. With all the alarm clocks collected, Toccata then has all the kids help him ring them at once. Everyone else is startled, but Mordicus is still asleep. Maxime manages to wake him up with his scooter bell and the smell of apples, and Mordicus reveals that it's his stomach that helps wake him up, not his ears. However, he ends up eating so many apples that he and Toccata end up missing the bus going to town. Toccata is upset, but everyone comforts him, with Mordicus reassuring him that he'll have a lighter dinner next time.
Track listing[]
Side One
- Song: Generique 1 Rue Sesame (Sesame Street Theme) - Claude Sonneville
- Sketch: Toccata c'est moi (I'm Toccata) - Toccata
- Song: Chanson de Toccata (Toccata's Song) - Claude Sonnevile
- Sketch: Bon matin (Good morning) - Toccata, Mordicus
- Song: Ouvert le Epicerie (Open the Grocery Store) - Maxime
- Sketch: Fait un reveil (Wake Up) - Toccata and Maxime
- Song: Regarder a moi (Look at Me) - Clémence
- Sketch: Repares des refrigerateur (Repairing the Refrigerator) - Toccata and Roger
Side Two
- Song: Le chanson de Roger (Roger's Song) - Roger
- Sketch: Le reveil de Mordicus (The Awakening of Mordicus) - Toccata, Maxime, Clémence, Roger and Odile
- Song: Chanson de Mordicus (Mordicus's Song) - Denis Demoulin
- Song: Tiens, pardi (Hey, You're Gone) - Claude Sonneville and Denis Demoulin
- Sketch: On y va (Let's Go) - Toccata, Mordicus, Maxime, Clémence, Roger and Odile
- Song: Final (End Theme) - Claude Sonneville
Cast[]
- Lucien Morisse as Toccata
- Claude Sonneville as Toccata's singing voice
- Georges Mosca as Mordicus
- Denis Demoulin as Mordicus' singing voice
- Monique Tarbès as Clémence
- Edith Garnier as Odile
- Roger Elcourt as Roger
- Maxime Arcos as Maxime