Sleepytime Bird

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Released	1977
Format	LP
Label	Sesame Street Records
Cat no.	CTW 22082

Sleepytime Bird is a collection of bedtime songs, as the residents of Sesame Street sing some of their favorite lullabies to Big Bird to help him sleep. It was reissued on cassette by Golden Music as Sleepytime on Sesame Street in 1990.

Track listing

Side One

1. Big Bird's Lullaby - Big Bird
2. Simba, Simba - David and Maria
3. The Snufflelullaby - Mr. Snuffleupagus
4. My Lagan Love - Bob
5. Quiet Is - Gordon and Olivia
6. Snow White and the Hundred Dwarfs - Maria

Side Two

1. Golden Slumbers II - Olivia
2. The Grouch's Lullaby - Oscar
3. Katchke Green - Mr. Hooper
4. The Count's Lullaby - The Count
5. Count Ten - Susan
6. Mockingbird II - Maria, Gordon, Olivia and Bob
7. Sleep, Sleep Big Bird/Pajarito Grande - Maria and the Ortiz Family
8. Big Bird's Lullaby (Reprise) - Big Bird and the Cast

Notes

• "Katchke Green" is omitted from subsequent releases of the album. The outro to "The Grouch's Lullaby" is used during the beginning of the "The Count's Lullaby" track along with a new intro line removing references to Mr. Hooper.
• Some pressings of the album don't include Mr. Hooper in the "Cast" credits.

Cast

• Northern Calloway as David
• Will Lee as Mr. Hooper
• Loretta Long as Susan
• Sonia Manzano as Maria
• Bob McGrath as Bob
• Roscoe Orman as Gordon
• Alaina Reed as Olivia
• Carroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
• Jerry Nelson as The Count and Snuffle-upagus
• Fran Brill as Little Bird
• The Ortiz Family: Debra Lee, Geno, Joery, Paul Timothy, Sabrina, Sandra, Steve, Jr., and Steve, Sr.
• Uncredited: Christopher Cerf and Richard Hunt

Credits

• Written by Emily Perl Kingsley
• Produced by Jim Timmens
• Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
• Engineering by Frank Laico, Russ Payne and Don Young
• Associate Producer: Geri Van Rees
• Project Supervisor: Arthur Shimkin
• Project Director: Sharon Lerner
• Project Coordinator: Debbie Kovacs
• Art Director: Robert Pierce
• Cover photography by Neil Selkirk
• Executive Producer of Sesame Street: Jon Stone
• Musicians: Dave Conner, Bob Cranshaw, George Devons, Danny Epstein, Allen Hanlon, Wally Kane, Phil Kraus, Steve Little, Jim Mitchell, Margaret Ross and Jim Timmens
• Lee Norris, arranger ("My Lagan Love")

Other releases

cassette1990
Golden Music
4103
Sleepytime on Sesame Street (reissue title)

International releases

CDJapan, 1991
Sony Records
SRCS 5597
Sleepytime on Sesame Street (reissue title)

See also

• Sesame Street discography