Sesame Street: Platinum Too

Sesame Street

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 1, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 1, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony Wonder (Audio)
• ASIN: B000002BQ1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #137,966 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Somebody Come And Play

2. Just Happy To Be Me

3. What's The Name Of That Song?

4. Counting Is Wonderful

5. Caribbean Amphibian

6. All By Myself

7. The Word Is No

8. The Grouch Song

9. Imagination

10. Believe In Yourself

11. Everyone Makes Mistakes

12. The Ballad Of Casey MacPhee

13. Take A Breath

14. Reach Your Hand Up High

15. Mah Na Mah Na

16. One Of These Things (One Of These Sounds)

17. Little Miss Count Along

18. Me

19. Clink Clank

20. One Small Voice

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars slightly disappointing, November 17, 2000

By	Gila Drazen (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having purchased the first Platinum CD a couple of years ago, I decided to go for it with Platinum Too. I saw some of the songs on it and was so amazingly excited, particularly "Somebody Come and Play," "Take A Breath," and "Mah Na Mah Na." Unfortunately, the versions of these songs I know and love are not the ones which appear on this CD. I will admit to finding this more than a little disconcerting, but, after a couple listens-through, I didn't mind so much.

On the whole, it's a good mixture of Sesame Street old and new...but I still think the first one is better.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just as good as the first Platinum, December 9, 2002

By	Robin G. Wigdahl "cpa_med_mom" (Olathe, KS USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an awesome CD. My son loves both the Platinum albums and he seems to like them equally. He won't ride quietly in the car without Sesame or Raffi. I think that Platinum Too is just as good or better because it includes some absolute classics that they left off the first Platinum album (The Ballad of Casey MacPhee, Take a Breath, Believe in Yourself, etc.)

Instead of making ONE really outstanding Platinum Album that included all the best songs, Children's Television Workshop seemed to want to make sure that each character was included on each album and that none got more than just a couple of songs. I am guessing they planned to do two albums from the beginning and so they split up their best songs. For instance, I think that both "C" Is For Cookie and The Ballad of Casey MacPhee are major favorites but they are both performed by Cookie monster so they chose to put them on separate albums. They also have songs that I really dislike on both CD's such as Lambara and ABC-Def_Ghi (not the alphabet song) on Platinum and The Word is No and Little Miss Count Along on Platinum Too.

I do agree with other reviewers on the fact that they didn't always use the recording I expected to hear but that I soon got used to the version they did choose.

Overall, both Platinum and Platinum Too are very fine CDs. I would recommend them to anyone whose child enjoys Sesame Street.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just a Little Shy., January 29, 2004

By	tvtv3 "tvtv3" (Sorento, IL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

PLATINUM TOO is the follow-up album to the very popular PLATINUM. Both feature favorite songs from Sesame Street. PLATINUM TOO pretty much feels in the gaps left by the first album. Well that's not quite true because these albums only cover Sesame Street favorites through the early 1990s. Still, it's a great album and I've been giving it a lot of airplay on my webradio show. Some of my favorite tunes are:

"Counting is Wonderful"

"Caribbean Amphibian"

"The Grouch Song"

"Believe in Yourself"

"The Ballad of Casey MacPhee"

"Take a Breath"

"Mah Na Mah Na"

"One of These Things"

"One Small Voice"

This is a wonderful companion piece to PLATINUM and is a great album to own and play for kids.