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Songs from | Sesame Street |
Released | 1971 |
Format | LP |
Label | Columbia Records |
Cat no. | CC 25503 |
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Songs from | Sesame Street |
Released | 1976 |
Format | LP |
Label | Sesame Street Records |
Cat no. | CC 25503 |
The Muppet Alphabet Album was the first Sesame Street LP that was hosted solely by the Muppets without assistance from the human cast. It was originally packaged in a gatefold sleeve, featuring visualizations of each letter of the alphabet by Smollin Associates. The original package contained 26 small punch-out letter-shaped books illustrating the songs, plus a letter-shaping pipe cleaner, a blackboard and chalk. It was also released simultaneously in a "Carry About" boxed set of 45s, with a catalog number of CC 25504. The LP edition reached #189 on Billboard's Top LP's chart in early 1972. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Recording for Children", but lost to the cast album from The Electric Company.
The 1976 reissue dropped the inserts, and the gatefold contained new "Learn Your Letters" artwork which did not directly correspond to the content of the songs. In 1977, the album was reissued as part of the 3-LP boxed set, Letters, Numbers and Signs. Sesame Street Records later released the album on cassette, first with the title The Muppet Alphabet Album (C 5003), and later with the title The Muppet Alphabet Cassette (C 79010). Sight & Sound also released it on cassette, with a catalog number of GNL-206. Then Golden Music released it on cassette yet again, under the title The Sesame Street Alphabet Album (Golden Music 4107).
The album was re-released on CD and cassette by Sony Wonder in 1996 under the title Sing the Alphabet. The opening and closing tracks were combined with "The Sound of the Letter A" and "The Zizzy Zoomers," respectively, and a new version of "ABC-DEF-GHI" sung by Elmo was added to the beginning, before the album's introduction starts.
Track listing
Side One
- The Opening - Cast
- The Sound of the Letter A * - Big Bird
by Joe Raposo - Oscar's B Sandwich - Oscar
Lyrics by Jerry Juhl, Music by Joe Raposo - C Is for Cookie * - Cookie Monster
by Joe Raposo - Dee, Dee, Dee * - Ernie
by Jeff Moss - E What's My Letter * - Guy Smiley and Prairie Dawn
by Jerry Juhl - Four Furry Friends - Grover, Herry Monster, Oscar and Cookie Monster
by Joe Raposo - Two G Sounds * - Grover and George
by Jeff Moss - Ha Ha - Harvey Kneeslapper, Herry Monster and Big Bird
Lyrics by Jerry Juhl, Music by Joe Raposo - I Stand Up Straight and Tall * - Grover
by Joe Raposo - J Friends * - The Anything Muppets
by Jeff Moss - K Herbert's Silly Poem - Herbert Birdsfoot
by Jerry Juhl - La, La, La * - Bert and Ernie
by Joe Raposo - M-M-M Monster Meal * - Herry Monster and Cookie Monster
by Jeff Moss - The Noodle Story - Big Bird and Oscar
by Jerry Juhl
Side Two
- Would You Like to Buy an O? * - Lefty the Salesman and Ernie
by Joe Raposo - P My Favorite Letter * - The Anything Muppets
by Jeff Moss - The Question Song * - Grover and a Little Girl
Lyrics by Jerry Juhl, Music by Jeff Moss - The R Machine - Ernie and Bert
by Jim Henson - Sammy the Snake * - Sammy
by Jeff Moss - The Tale of Tom Tattertall Tuttletut - Herbert Birdsfoot and the Anything Muppets
by Jerry Juhl - U Lecture - Professor Hastings
by Joe Raposo - Very, Very Special Letter - Big Bird
by Jeff Moss - The National Association of W Lovers * - Bert
Lyrics by Jerry Juhl, Music by Joe Raposo - X Marks the Spot! * - Sherlock Hemlock
by Joe Raposo - Y Just Because* - Grover and a Little Girl
by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl - The Zizzy Zoomers * - the Anything Muppets
by Joe Raposo - The Closing - Cast
- * this track is known to have been performed on the show
Edits
On non-record editions of this album, the following section of dialogue has been cut from the end of side 2, after Big Bird says, "What's the alphabet?" and everybody groans:
- Bert: Well, don't just sit there. Turn the record over and let's start again.
- Big Bird: Hey, if they turn the record over, won't we all fall off?
Then the closing music plays, on all versions.
Other Releases
Credits
- Produced by:
- Associate Producer for the Muppets:
- Written by:
- with the talents of:
- Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, Jerry Nelson, Fran Brill and Jim Henson
- Original Concept and Design by:
- Visuals by: