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Muppets: The Green Album is a cover album

Cover Album

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The Muppets

The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference...

by various contemporary

Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1950s and 1960s vocal music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence, as well as a radio format that plays such music....

music artists. The album was released by Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records

Walt Disney Records is a family music record label owned by the Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Records was formed in 1956 as Disneyland Records. Before that time, Disney recordings were licensed out to a variety of other labels such as . It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O...

on August 23, 2011 on CD and as a digital download

Music download

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in the iTunes Store

ITunes Store

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.

The entire album was made available for preview through NPR

NPR

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's First Listen program a week before release.
The official music video for "The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show is a British television programme produced by American puppeteer Jim Henson and featuring Muppets. After two pilot episodes were produced in 1974 and 1975, the show premiered on 5 September 1976 and five series were produced until 15 March 1981, lasting 120 episodes...

Theme" was released online and for purchase on August 19, 2011. The video features OK Go

OK Go

OK Go is a rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, USA, now residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band is composed of Damian Kulash , Tim Nordwind , Dan Konopka and Andy Ross , who joined them in 2005, replacing Andy Duncan...

attempting to produce their own music video until they are interrupted by the Muppets' antics.

Track listing

Reception

Muppets: The Green Album received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic

Metacritic

Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...

, which assigns a normalized

Standard score

In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...

rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average

Weighted mean

The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...

score of 63, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound, also known often as CoS, is a Chicago-based music website featuring news, album and concert reviews, and editorials. In addition, the website also features the Festival Outlook micro-site, which serves as an on-line database for music festival news and rumors...

wrote that; "All that's "green" isn’t necessarily gold here, but most of it shines. "

Chart success

Charts (2011)	Peak position
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	14
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	8
U.S. Billboard Alternative Albums	1
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums	5
U.S. Billboard Kids Albums	1
U.S. Billboard Rock Albums	1
U.S. Billboard Tastemakers Albums	11

Credits

1. "Muppet Show Theme"

Written by Jim Henson

Jim Henson

James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...

and Sam Pottle

Sam Pottle

Sam Pottle was an American composer, conductor, and musical director involved in many theatrical and television productions. He is perhaps best remembered for his work on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, having co-written the now-famous theme song for the latter...

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Produced by OK Go

OK Go

Mixed

Audio mixing (recorded music)

In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

by Dave Fridmann

2. "Rainbow Connection"

Written by Paul Williams

Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World",...

and Kenny Ascher

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Harp by Allison Allport

Additional guitar by Blake Mills

Mixed by Brian Malouf

3. "Mahna Mahna"

Written by Piero Umiliani

Piero Umiliani

Piero Umiliani was an Italian composer of film scores, and is most famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà".-Biography:Umiliani was born in Florence, Tuscany...

Edward B. Marks Music Company BMI

Produced by The Fray and Warren Huart

Mixed by Warren Huart

4. "Movin' Right Along"

Written by Paul Williams

Paul Williams (songwriter)

and Kenny Ascher

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Produced and mixed by Matt Allison

5. "Our World"

Written by Paul Williams

Jim Henson Productions Inc. and Spirit Two Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Produced by Yin Yames

Mixed by Kevin Ratterman

6. "Halfway Down the Stairs"

Written by Harold Fraser-Simon and A.A. Milne

Ascherberg Hopwood & Crew Ltd. (PRS)

Produced by Will Hunt and Amy Lee

Organ by Amy Lee

Mixed by Daniel Mendez

7. "Mr. Bassman"

Written by Johnny Cymbal

Johnny Cymbal

Johnny Cymbal was a Scottish born American songwriter, singer, and record producer who had numerous hit records, including his signature song, "Mr...

Jewel Music Publishing Company Inc. (ASCAP)

Mixed by Kato Ådland

8. "Wishing Song"

Written by Paul Tracey

Kunjani Music (ASCAP)

Produced by Pete Min & Mikel Jollett

9. "Night Life"

Written by Joseph Raposo

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Produced and mixed by Ryan Williams

10. "Bein' Green"

Written by Joe Raposo

Green Fox Music Inc. (BMI)/Jonico Music Inc. (BMI)

Produced by Andrew Bird

Mixed by Mark Nevers

11. "I Hope That Something Better Comes Along"

Written by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Produced by Mark Weinberg

12. "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday"

Written by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher

Fuzzy Muppet Songs (ASCAP)

Produced by Mike Viola

Mixed by Ducky Carlise

Executive Producer: Dani Markman
Business and Legal Affairs: Melissa Bolton
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen
Stephen Marcussen
Stephen Marcussen is the founder and chief mastering engineer of Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California. Marcussen is one of the most sought-after mastering engineers in the music industry and his expertise has been coveted by a wide range of artists over the years...

at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, California
Creative Direction and Album Design: Steve Gerdes

External links

Official website

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Track listing

Reception

Chart success

Credits

See also

External links