Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert

Songs from
Released	1972
Format	LP
Label	Columbia Records
Catalogue no.	CC 25506

Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert is a 1972 Sesame Street album in which Ernie, Bert and their friends get together to play games and sing songs. The songs from this album were also released simultaneously as seven consecutively numbered singles, packaged as individual book and record sets. It was also released as a "Carry About" boxed set of 45s, although the song groupings on each record were different from the individual single releases.

Track listing

Side One

Lots of Stuff - Ernie & Bert and Everybody
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Marching Song - Big Bird, Ernie & Bert and Everybody
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
The Listening Game - Ernie & Bert and Cookie Monster
Written by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl
Just Three Colors - Big Bird and Oscar
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Name the Animal - Ernie, Grover, and Everybody
Written by Jerry Juhl
Y'all Fall Down - Big Bird, Ernie & Bert and Grover
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Imagination - Ernie
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Clink, Clank - Bert
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Side Two
Tiger Hunt - Ernie and Mr. Tiger
Written by Jerry Juhl
Simple Song - Oscar, Big Bird, Grover, Ernie and Friends
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
The Magic Cookie - Herbert Birdsfoot, Cookie Monster and The Magic Cast
Written by Jerry Juhl
Pat Pat Patty Pat - Bert, Herbert Birdsfoot, Big Bird, Prairie Dawn, Grover and Ernie
Music by Joe Raposo, Lyrics by Jerry Juhl
Grover Takes a Walk - Grover
Written by Jerry Juhl
The Drawing Song - Ernie & Bert, Prairie Dawn, Farley, and Everybody
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo
Put It Away - Ernie & Bert and Everybody
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo

Notes

Although the front cover and label shows the title as "Havin' Fun with Ernie & Bert", the spine shows it as "Havin' Fun with Ernie and Bert".
The album was recorded in late July of 1972.^[1]

Cast

Frank Oz as Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster
Jerry Nelson as Herbert Birdsfoot, Farley, and Mr. Tiger
Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn and The Magic Cast
Jim Henson as Ernie

Production credits

Produced by Jim Henson
Album conceived by Jerry Juhl and Jim Henson
Written by Jerry Juhl and Joe Raposo
Musical Direction by Joe Raposo
The talents of Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, Jerry Nelson, Fran Brill and Jim Henson
Produced for CBS by Arthur Shimkin
Visuals by Smollin Associates Inc.
Cover Photograph by Chuck Rowan
Associate Producer: Diana Birkenfield

Other releases

International releases

Sources

↑ "Jim Henson's Red Book" entry, 7/25-28/1972 – Record Ernie and Bert album.

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[0] "Jim Henson's Red Book" entry, 7/25-28/1972 – Record Ernie and Bert album.

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