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Songs from | Sesame Street |
Released | 1971 |
Format | LP |
Label | Warner Bros. Records |
Cat no. | BS 2569 |
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
- Sesame Street - The Kids
- Play Along - Gordon, Susan, Oscar, Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert
- Everyone Makes Mistakes - Big Bird
- The Garden - Susan and Oscar
- High, Middle, Low - Herbert Birdsfoot, Ernie, and Bert
- The Word Family Song - Gordon, Susan, Mr. Hooper, and Oscar
- What Do I Do When I'm Alone? - Grover
- Has Anybody Seen My Dog? - Marty and Grover
Side Two
- Sing - The Kids
- Mad! - Little Jerry and the Monotones
- Picture a World - Susan and Gordon
- The Grouch Song - Oscar
- Stop! - Gordon
- I'm Pretty - A Baby Seal
- Circles - Cookie Monster and Herry Monster
- Over, Under, Around and Through - Grover
- Someday, Little Children - Susan
Inserts
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