Stephen Lawrence

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Stephen Lawrence has been a composer for Sesame Street since 1980.

In addition to his work composing for film, theater and television, he composed the title song and others for Free To Be...You And Me, the landmark Gold Record, book, and Emmy-winning ABC television special. He composed the million-selling song "You Take My Breath Away," which earned two Gold Records. He composed over 250 songs and scores for Sesame Street for which he received three shared Emmy Awards.

Selected credits

1974: Composer (lyrics by Bruce Hart), Music Director, Free to Be... You & Me

1974: Composer, score for motion picture Bang The Drum Slowly, starring Robert DiNiro

1983: Composer (with Dick Lieb), Don't Eat the Pictures

1984: Composer, three songs for A...My Name Is Alice

1993: Composer, Sesame Street Stays Up Late

1994: Composer, Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

2000: Composer, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss

2003: Composer, Chanukah on Planet Matzah Ball (with lyricist Cathi Rosenberg-Turow)

Song credits

"All I Really Want is a Home"

"At the Bus Stop Sign"

"Baby Blankie Blues"

"Bats"

"Bears, Bears, Bears"

"Best Friend Blues"

"Be the Count"

"Big Kids Cry"

"The Bird Family"

"Boogie With Your Buddy"

"Broken and Beautiful"

"Celebrate"

"Charmin' (song)"

"Come Along with Me"

"Come to My Casa"

"Cookie Subtraction Song"

"Cooperate"

"Counting One to Five"

"Crawling"

"Danny's Birthday"

"Disgusting"

"Don't Be Afraid to Try"

"Drink Your Carrots"

"Elmo Wrote His Name"

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"Everything in the Wrong Place Ball"

"Faces That I Love"

"Feathers and Fur"

"Feel the Beat"

"A Few of My Grouchiest, Yuckiest Things"

"Firefly"

"A Fish Outta Water"

"For Broccoli Hurray-Hurrah"

"From Here to There"

"Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)"

"Get Your Body Busy"

"Getting to Count You"

"Gina (song)"

"Gina's Dream"

"Girl of La Mancha"

"The Grouch Explorers"

"A Grouchy Place"

"A Grouchy Song"

"Gus Rhyme"

"Heart of a Frog"

"How Hard It Is to Go"

"How to Pretend"

"I'm Not an Elephant"

"I'm Takin' a Break"

"I'm Under the Weather Over You"

"I'm Your Mommy Now"

"I Am the World"

"I Could Have Counted All Night"

"I Feel Yucky"

"If I Were"

"If It Weren't for You, X"

"If Moon Was Cookie"

"I Love to Say No"

"I Say Banana"

"I'm Getting Married in the Trash Can"

"In Front Of, In Back of (At the Very Same Time)"

"Island of Emotion"

"It's Somebody's Birthday"

"It's You, Bird, It's You"

"Listen and Bounce it Back"

"Loving All Those Things"

"M is for Monster"

"Make Waves"

"Me and My Flowerpot"

"Me Llamo"

"Monster in Me"

Mothers and Children

"My Outer Space Friend"

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"Night Bug Boogie"

"Oh, Look What Our Baby Can Do!"

"On This Street Where I'm Grouchy"

"One Note at a Time"

"One Two Blues"

"Outside and Inside (At the Very Same Time)"

"Over and Under (At the Very Same Time)"

"Read Me a Story"

"Recycling Blues"

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"Remember"

"Save Your Energy for Me"

"Shark Song"

"Sir Count a Lot"

"Someone to Look Up To"

"Someone's Here With Us Who Wasn't Here Before

"Something Grouchy, Something Nice"

"Step and Stomp"

"Stinky Family Song"

"The Sublime Ms. M"

"T Dance"

"Take the Hand of Someone You Love"

"Telly's Aquarium"

"That's Pretending"

"There's a Baby Coming"

"Transylvania 1-2-3-4-5"

"Twig by Twig"

"Two for Two"

"Waiting for the Bell to Ring"

"We Are All Monsters"

"We're the Same

"What Comes After Three?"

"When I Grow Up (song)"

"Where's the Baby"

"Windy Day"

"X Train"

"You Ought to Meet My Uncle"

"A Yummyful Day"

External links

• Stephen Lawrence Music