The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album

The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album front cover.

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Songs from	Sesame Street
Released	1971
Format	LP
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Cat no.	BS 2569

Back cover.

The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album is the second record album of Sesame Street songs. It was originally packaged in a gatefold sleeve that contained a 24-page book featuring illustrations by Michael Smollin, as well as lyrics to all of the songs. The package also included a sheet of stickers depicting various characters and song titles on the album, and a sheet of Sesame Street signs that could be punched out. The album was simultaneously issued as a boxed set of four extended play 45s, which included smaller versions of the book, stickers and signs. This album peaked at #78 on Billboard's Top LPs chart in early 1972. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children, but it lost to the cast album from The Electric Company. It was subsequently reissued without the book, first as Sesame Street 2: Original Cast, and then as a part of the 1977 Sesame Street Gold! limited-edition 2-record set, which also featured the first original cast recording from 1970.

Only the front cover has the long version of the album's title. The spine simply says "Sesame Street 2/Original Cast." The actual label says, "Sesame Street 2," with a picture of the Sesame Street sign on a regular Warner Bros. label, circa 1971.

Track listing

Side One

1. Sesame Street - The Kids
2. Play Along - Gordon, Susan, Oscar, Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert
3. Everyone Makes Mistakes - Big Bird
4. The Garden - Susan and Oscar
5. High, Middle, Low - Herbert Birdsfoot, Ernie, and Bert
6. The Word Family Song - Gordon, Susan, Mr. Hooper, and Oscar
7. What Do I Do When I'm Alone? - Grover
8. Has Anybody Seen My Dog? - Marty and Grover

Side Two

1. Sing - The Kids
2. Mad! - Little Jerry and the Monotones
3. Picture a World - Susan and Gordon
4. The Grouch Song - Oscar
5. Stop! - Gordon
6. I'm Pretty - A Baby Seal
7. Circles - Cookie Monster and Herry Monster
8. Over, Under, Around and Through - Grover
9. Someday, Little Children - Susan

Inserts

Sheet of punch-out Sesame Street signs.

Sheet of stickers.

Cast

• Matt Robinson as Gordon
• Loretta Long as Susan
• Will Lee as Mr. Hooper
• Frank Oz as Bert, Cookie Monster and Grover
• Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
• Jerry Nelson as Herbert Birdsfoot, Herry Monster, Farley, Marty and Little Jerry
• Jim Henson as Ernie
• The Voices of the Kids: Mario Figueroa, Andrea Giglio, Ana Iza Guerrero, Todd Graff, Althea Jackson, Clyde Otis, Tom Spiro, Christine Winter, Lois Winter

Credits

• Produced by Joe Raposo and Jeffrey Moss
• Words and Music by Joe Raposo and Jeffrey Moss
• Project Director: Christopher Cerf
• Album Designed by Mike Smollin
• Illustrations by Mike Smollin and Associates

Other releases

8-track1971
Warner Bros. Records
M8 2569

8-track1971
Warner Bros. Records
M8 2569

LP1977
Sesame Street Records
CTW 22074

LPAustralia
Summit Records
8024

CassetteAustralia
Summit Records
8024

See also

• Sesame Street Discography
• Listen to the Sesame Street 2 album