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The Children’s Television Workshop and Warner Bros. Records
Present The Electric Company/Original Cast
Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
BS2636 0598
(S40, 224)
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Starring:
Lee Chamberlin
Bill Cosby
Morgan Freeman
Judy Graubart
Skip Hinnant
Rita Moreno
Jimmy Boyd as Lorelei the Chicken and J. Arthur Crank and Paul, the Gorilla
And The Short Circus
June Angela
Stephen Gustafson
Irene Cara
Douglas Grant
Melanie Henderson
With Special Guest Stars
Victor Borge
Mel Brooks
Tom Lehrer
Ken Roberts
And the Kids from The Electric Company
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Original Full Cast Album! Full Color Book! And a real, working Fargo North, decoder, crypto-spectrometer! All for you!
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Produced by Joe Raposo
1972 Children’s Television Workshop
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Side One:
Electric Company Theme (:41)
(Raposo)
Short Circus and Friends Jelly Belly (1:33)
(Raposo-Laron)
Bill Cosby and Short Circus
Giggles Goggles (1:15)
(Raposo-Laron)
Rita Moreno and Judy Graubart
Old Double “e” (1:01)
(Raposo-Laron)
Bill Cosby
An “un” Song (1:27)
(Raposo-Stevens)
Rita Moreno and Short Circus
Another “un” Song (:39)
(Raposo-Thurman)
Skip Hinnant
Easy Reader (2:25)
(Raposo-Laron)
Morgan Freeman and Lee Chamberlin
JJ to Brenda to Mark (1:33)
(Raposo-Whedon)
Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Boyd, Skip Hinnant, Judy Graubart, Rita Moreno and Lee Chamberlin
Silent “e” (1:30)
(Lehrer)
Tom Lehrer
A Mysterious Phone Call (:54)
(Raposo-Brooks-Whedon)
Mel Brooks and Skip Hinnant
Be Kind to the Letter “s” (1:20)
(Raposo-Dunsmuir)
Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Boyd, Skip Hinnant, Judy Graubart, Rita Moreno and Lee Chamberlin
Hard Hard Hard (2:09)
(Raposo-Stevens)
Short Circus
Sign Song (2:04)
(Gesner)
The Kids
Love of Chair (1:15)
(Raposo-Dooley-Whedon)
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Side Two:
“D” (1:51)
(Raposo-Whedon)
Mel Brooks, Rita Moreno and Short Circus
Downright Uptight (2:00)
(Raposo-Whedon)
Bill Cosby and Short Circus
My Street (1:01)
(Raposo-Boni)
Jimmy Boyd
Punctuation (2:48)
(Raposo-Laron)
Rita Moreno, Lee Chamberlin, Short Circus and Victor Borge
Jennifer of the Jungle (2:04)
(Raposo-Whedon)
Judy Graubart, Morgan Freeman and Skip Hinnant
The Clown Song (1:35)
(Raposo-Laron)
Short Circus
The Clam Song (1:57)
(Raposo-Dunsmuir)
Skip Hinnant
Fight Song (1:34)
(Lehrer)
Entire Cast
My Name is Kathy (2:40)
(Raposo-Laron)
Melanie Henderson and Short Circus
Electric Company March (:48)
(Raposo)
Your Rich Uncle Died (:31)
(Raposo-Dunsmuir)
Entire Cast
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Produced by: Joe Raposo
Project Director: Christopher Cerf
Written by: Tom Whedon
Music Composed and Directed by: Joe Raposo
Special Music and Lyrics by:
Clark Gesner
Tom Lehrer
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Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
Engineer: Fred Christie
Associate Engineer: Joe Jorgenson
Art Director: Michael Frith
Editor-at-Large (without portfolio): Amy Ephron
Associate Editor: Judy Ross
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Contributing Designers:
Antupit & Others
Tony Ferrera
Ray Lundgren
Charles White III
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The Inventor of the Wheel: Christopher Cerf
Chord Subtender: Genevieve Charbin
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Contributing Artists:
Lorraine Bodger, Lowell Bodger, Carol Bouman, Jack Davis, Robert Fuhring, Michael Frith, Edward Gorey, Michael Gross, Mary Hanson, Leon Jason, Joe Kubert, Stan Mack, Frank Mell, Julia Noonan, Bob Oksner, Joe Orlando, Judy Ross, Larry Ross, Rene Schumacher, Mike Smollin, Curt Swan, John Trotta, Charles White III
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Children's Television Workshop:
President: Joan Ganz Cooney
Executive Producer: David D. O'Connell
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The Electric Company:
Executive Producer: Samuel Y. Gibbon
Producer: Andrew B. Ferguson
Head Writers: Paul Dooley, Tom Whedon
Electric Company Lyricists:
John Boni, Sara Crompton, Tom Dunsmuir, Elaine Laron, Thad Mumford, Joe Raposo, Jeremy Stevens, Jim Thurman, Tom Whedon
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Warner Bros. Records, Inc. a subsidiary and licensee of Warner Bros. Inc.
4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank California 91505 – 44 East 50th St, New York, NY 10022
Made in U.S.A.
This educational product was created in cooperation with the Children’s Television Workshop, producers of The Electric Company. Children do not have to watch the television show to benefit from the pictures, songs & printed material in this package. Workshop revenues from this product will be used to help support CTW educational projects.
