The Muppet Alphabet Album

MuppAlphabetLPOrig — 1971 first edition album cover.

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Songs from	Sesame Street
Released	1971
Format	LP
Label	Columbia Records
Cat no.	CC 25503

AlphabetAlbumLP — 1976 reissue album cover.

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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. 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. After many reissues over the years on record, cassette and 8-track, the album was re-released on CD and cassette by Sony Wonder in 1996 under the title Sing the Alphabet.

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.