Sesame Street ‎– Sesame Street 1 Original Cast Recording Vinyl LP Record

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Children's Classic
150g - 180g vinyl in original Gatefold album cover. NM less couple of smudge marks (maybe clean?) otherwise wonderfully well kept over the years
Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called the "CTW model" (after the production company's previous name), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers. The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or "co-productions", of Sesame Street broadcast in twenty countries. In 2001, there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of Sesame Street, and by the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries.
Sesame Street was by then the 15th-highest-rated children's television show in the United States. A 1996 survey found that 95% of all American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old. In 2018, it was estimated that 86 million Americans had watched the series as children. As of 2018, Sesame Street has won 189 Emmy Awards and 11 Grammy Awards, more than any other children's show.
Sesame Street Fever is a concept album made by the cast of Sesame Street in 1978. It follows the characters as a love of disco sweeps Sesame Street.
The album heavily parodies Saturday Night Fever, and the cover features Grover where John Travolta should be, and Ernie, Bert, and Cookie Monster in the place of the Bee Gees.
Bee Gee Robin Gibb also appears on the album, and according to the LP's liner notes, "appears courtesy of his children - Melissa and Spencer Gibb".
The recording was released in the LP, cassette, and eight-track audio formats; it has never been commercially released on compact disc (except for a 1991 Japanese re-release but is available to download on Amazon, iTunes and file sharing sites. Singles of "Sesame Street Fever"/"Trash" and "Doin' the Pigeon"/"Rubber Duckie" were released as promotional items.
Sesame Street ‎– Sesame Street Fever Label: Sesame Street ‎– CTW 79005, Children's Television Workshop ‎– CTW 79005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul, Children's, Stage & Screen Style: Disco, Novelty Tracklist A1–Robin Gibb, The Count (5), Grover (4), Ernie (4), Cookie MonsterSesame Street Fever Written-By – Raposo* A2–Bert (3) And The Girls (4)Doin' The Pigeon Written-By – Raposo* A3–Ernie (4) And His Rubber Duckie*Rubber Duckie Written-By – Moss* B1–Robin GibbTrash Featuring [Special Guest Appearance By] – Robin Gibb Written-By – Raposo* B2–Cookie Monster And The Girls (4)C Is For Cookie Written-By – Raposo* B3–Marty (4) And Grover (4)Has Anybody Seen My Dog? Written-By – Raposo

Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Distinguished Productions, Inc. Distributed By – Distinguished Productions, Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Children's Television Workshop Copyright (c) – Children's Television Workshop Recorded At – CBS Studios, New York Recorded At – Mediasound Mixed At – CBS Studios, New York Mixed At – Mediasound Produced For – Sesame Street Records Produced For – Children's Television Workshop Record Company – Children's Television Workshop

Credits Arranged By, Conductor – David Horowitz, Dick Lieb, Joe Raposo, Leon Pendarvis Art Direction – Robert Pierce (3) Baritone Saxophone – Dave Tofani Bass – Herb Bushler Cello – Jesse Levy, Kermit Moore Co-producer, Engineer – Michael Delugg Concept By [Conceived By] – Joe Raposo Concept By [Concieved By] – Arthur Shimkin Concept By [Created By], Voice [As Ernie] – Jim Henson Concept By [From An Idea By], Other [Continuity By] – Norman Stiles Congas – Jimmy Maelen Drums – Richard Crooks Guitar – Cliff Morris, Jack Cavari, Jeff Layton Keyboards – David Horowitz, Pat Rebillot Mixed By, Edited By – Joe Raposo, Michael Delugg Other [Muppet Disco Attire] – Calista Hendrickson, Sherry Amott Percussion – George Devons* Photography By [Cover] – Neil Selkirk Producer, Directed By [Musical Direction] – Joe Raposo Reeds – Lou Marini Strings – Gene Orloff, Gerald Tarack, Harold Kohon, Joe Malin, Matt Raimondi*, Paul Gershman Trombone – Alan Raph Trumpet – Joe Shepley Voice [As Big Bird And Oscar The Grouch] – Carroll Spinney Voice [As Grover, Cookie Monster And Bert] – Frank Oz Voice [As The Count And Marty] – Jerry Nelson Voice [The Voices Of The Girls] – Maretha Stewart*, Ullanda McCullough, Yvonne Lewis