Talk:Up and Down
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This article states that Beautiful Day Monster and the early Grover puppet are featured on the album cover. However, I see no such depiction on the cover of The Sesame Street Book & Record. If it was meant that they appear somewhere else in the gatefold, that needs to be clarified. "Cover" usually implies the front. — Scott (talk) 16:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- From what I've seen on eBay, there are two different covers for the record (or it's the back of the record). The evidence is depicted here. -- User:MuppetDude 12:51, November 7, 2006
- Yeah, that's the second edition without the book. Hey, Scott, can you copy this picture over at The Sesame Street Book & Record? It looks a lot better than what's there now (there's a blue stripe on the bottom), plus I think this one can be made to be a lot bigger than what's there now. Thanks! -- Ken (talk) 02:16, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- This article speculates that Grover and Beautiful Day Monster might have sang this song, due to them being pictured on the back cover. However, in that same cover, there was an image of the Anything Muppets who sang "Consider Yourself", and that song isn't on this album. So that image could be froma different song or sketch (or somebody could have just taken pictures of the two monsters, which happened to be used on the album). --Minor muppetz 04:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- That's a good point. Should we take out the information that the article interprets as an implication? With the mixed signals sent by questionable imagery, it doesn't really seem to suggest that proto-Grover and BDM sang the song anymore. What's more likely is that the team who did the graphics for this early album art just grabbed a picture of any two monsters. Either way, not very conclusive. —Scott (talk) 23:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'd say remove all the speculation. Since the recorded song came first, and since absolutely no names are given (just "Two Monsters"), it's quite likely that no specific characters were intended, since at this time Sesame Street Monsters were well established as a species, just not so much as individual personalities. Sort of like "I Want a Monster to Be My Friend", which on the album was credited to "A Little Girl," but later on the show, the same recording was used for Betty Lou. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 00:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)