Sesame Disco!


Songs from	Sesame Street
Released	1979
Format	LP
Label	Sesame Street Records
Cat no.	CTW 79008

Sesame Disco! is a 1979 Sesame Street album, a follow-up to the previous year's Sesame Street Fever. The album features the Sesame Street characters performing disco versions of classic Sesame songs, along with some new songs written during the disco era. All of the album's songs were written by Joe Raposo.

The Sesame characters are backed up by a chorus of female singers, credited on the album as "the Girls".

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children, but it lost to the soundtrack album of The Muppet Movie.

Track listing

Side One

What Makes Music? - The Entire Cast
Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco - Cookie Monster and the Girls
The Happiest Street in the World - Big Bird, the Kids and the Girls
Sing - The Girls

Side Two

Disco Frog - Kermit the Frog and the Girls
Doin' the Trash - Oscar the Grouch and the Girls
Bein' Green - Kermit the Frog and the Girls

Note

Side Two concludes with a reprise of "The Happiest Street in the World", although it is not listed on the album cover, or the record label.

Cast

Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Grover, and Bert
Jerry Nelson as Sam the Robot, The Count and Herry Monster
Carroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog and Ernie
And the voices of the Girls: Maretha Stewart, Ullanda McCullough and Yvonne Lewis

Credits

Executive producer: Joe Raposo
Produced by Joe Raposo and Michael DeLugg
Engineered by Michael DeLugg
Mixed and edited by Michael DeLugg and Joe Raposo
Conceived by Arthur Shimkin and Joe Raposo
Continuity by Joe Raposo
Musical direction by Joe Raposo
Arranged and conducted by Dick Lieb, Leon Pendarvis, Jack Cortner, and Joe Raposo
Art director: Robert Pierce
Photography: Neil Selkirk

The Band

Drums: Richard Crooks
Bass: Gordon Johnson
Guitars: Jack Cavari, Jeff Layton
Keyboards: Leon Pendarvis, Cliff Hannon, Jack Cortner
Conga: Errol Bennett
Percussion: George Devens
Trumpets: Mel Davis, Joe Shepley
Trombones: Alan Raph, Wayne Andre
Reeds: Wally Kane, Phil Bodner
Strings: Julius Brand, Fred Buldrini, Peter Dimitriades, Max Hollander, Carmel Malin, Joe Malin, Anthony Posk, Michael Spivakowsky, Anthony Sophos
Cellos: Jonathan Abramowitz, Jesse Levy