Sesame Street Fever

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.

Sesame Street Fever
Soundtrack album and concept album by
Sesame Street and Robin Gibb
ReleasedAugust 1978
RecordedMay 1978
StudioCBS 30th Street Studio and Mediasound
(New York, New York)
GenreDisco, Children's music
Length32:02
LabelChildren's Television Workshop
ProducerJoe Raposo

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[1]) 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.

A follow-up album, Sesame Disco! was released in 1979.

Track listing
  1. "Sesame Street Fever" by Robin Gibb, Bert, Count von Count, Big Bird, Ernie, Cookie Monster
  2. "Doin' The Pigeon" - Bert & The Girls (preceded by a short hidden track that features Bert and Ernie debating the dance craze)
  3. "Rubber Duckie" - Ernie & His Rubber Duckie
  4. "Trash" - Robin Gibb
  5. "C Is For Cookie" - Cookie Monster & The Girls (preceded by a conversation between Cookie Monster and Robin Gibb)
  6. "Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" - Marty & Grover (Cookie Monster makes a brief cameo.)
  • Both "Doin' The Pigeon" and "Has Anybody Seen My Dog?" have overextended instrumental outros (the former's is broken up with one more singing of the chorus by the girls), possibly to help pad the album's sides.

Personnel

Chart performance

The album ended up being a surprise commercial success both in terms of chart performance and sales. It peaked at #75 on Billboard's Pop Albums Chart,[2] and was certified Gold by the RIAA.

See also

References
  1. "Sesami Street Fever | HMV&BOOKS online : Online Shopping & Information Site - SRCS5595 [English Site]".
  2. The Bilboad Albums, 6th edn. Joel Whitburn. 2006. Record Research Inc. p. 1366. ISBN 0-89820-166-7.


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