Your Sesame Street VHS tape collections

[Luke kun]

Three Sesame Street Stories. "Hold on to your feathers, Little Bird!"

(IT'S A TWISTER! IT'S A TWISTER! IT'S A TWISTER!)

 

[Luke kun]

I just got Sesame Sings Karaoke from eBay! Also now own Five Sesame Street Stories. (Big Bird Brings Death to Sesame Street!!! )

 

[cjd874]

I have a lot of videos that I watched religiously as a kid.

With video sleeves:

• Learning About Letters (1986, with booklet that was colored in)
• Learning About Numbers (1986)
• Sing Along (1987, with Big Bird illustration and small photo)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play (2000)
  
• Big Bird's Story Time (1987, w/BB illustration & small photo)
• The Best of Ernie and Bert (1988, with booklet)
• The Best of Elmo (1994)
• Big Bird in China
• Big Bird in Japan
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
• Cinder-Elmo
• Dance Along! (1990)
• Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)
• Elmopalooza! (1998)
• Imagine That! (1996, with booklet that was colored in)
• Monster Hits! (1990)
• Put Down the Duckie/The Sesame Street Special (1988)
• Rock and Roll! (1990)
• Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1993)
• Sing Yourself Silly (1990)
• We All Sing Together (1992)

No video sleeve:

• Bedtime Stories and Songs (1986)
• Getting Ready to Read (1986)
• Play-Along Games and Songs (1986)
• Getting Ready for School (1987)
• Learning to Add and Subtract (1987)
• Sesame Street Visits the Hospital (1990)

 

[DePingPong]

I have a lot of videos that I watched religiously as a kid.

With video sleeves:

• Learning About Letters (1986, with booklet that was colored in)
• Learning About Numbers (1986)
• Sing Along (1987, with Big Bird illustration and small photo)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play (2000)
  
• Big Bird's Story Time (1987, w/BB illustration & small photo)
• The Best of Ernie and Bert (1988, with booklet)
• The Best of Elmo (1994)
• Big Bird in China
• Big Bird in Japan
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
• Cinder-Elmo
• Dance Along! (1990)
• Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)
• Elmopalooza! (1998)
• Imagine That! (1996, with booklet that was colored in)
• Monster Hits! (1990)
• Put Down the Duckie/The Sesame Street Special (1988)
• Rock and Roll! (1990)
• Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1993)
• Sing Yourself Silly (1990)
• We All Sing Together (1992)

No video sleeve:

• Bedtime Stories and Songs (1986)
• Getting Ready to Read (1986)
• Play-Along Games and Songs (1986)
• Getting Ready for School (1987)
• Learning to Add and Subtract (1987)
• Sesame Street Visits the Hospital (1990)

As a kid, The Best of Elmo and Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game were watched religiously. I had four VHS copies of TBoE and 5 DVD copies, all Sony Wonder 1996 version. And one of ESAGG, I eventually got my hands on it sometime last Winter though. I had many others I watched almost as much as the Elmo ones:
Kid's Favorite Songs 1&2
Learning About Letters and Numbers
Bedtime Stories and Songs
Sing Yourself Silly (Sony Wonder VHS and DVD copies)
Play Along Games and Songs
Do the Alphabet
The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street
Elmopalooza!
The Best of Ernie and Bert
Fiesta!
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
Getting Ready to Read


What I currently own is:
With sleeve:
Learning About Letters (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Learning About Numbers (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Getting Ready to Read (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Bedtime Stories and Songs (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video w/ booklet)
I'm Glad I'm Me (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Play Along Games and Songs (1986, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Getting Ready For School (1987, My Sesame Street Home Video)
The Best of Ernie and Bert (1988, My Sesame Street Home Video)
The Alphabet Game (1988, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Big Bird's Favorite Party Games (1988, My Sesame Street Home Video w/ BB illustration)
Sing Along (1987, My Sesame Street Home Video)
The Best of Elmo (1994, My Sesame Street Home Video)
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration (1994, Sony Wonder)
We All Sing Together (1993, Sony Wonder)
Fiesta! (1997, Sony Wonder)
Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game (1991, Sesame Songs/Random House)
Sing Yourself Silly! (1990, Sesame Songs/Random House)

Without sleeve:
Sing Yourself Silly! (1996, Sony Wonder)

 

[Luke kun]

How did Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game work again, sonicruler100? I found the tape in my garage along with the Best of Elmo.

 

[DePingPong]

How did Elmo's Sing Along Guessing Game work again, sonicruler100? I found the tape in my garage along with the Best of Elmo.

What do you mean? Like, what the concept of it was?

 

[Luke kun]

What do you mean? Like, what the concept of it was?

Yeah.

 

[DePingPong]

Yeah.

Elmo hosts a game show, ask questions with a clue given, and show video clips of said question. http://www.muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Elmo's_Sing_Along_Guessing_Game

 

[Schfifty]

Has anyone noticed the information on the tiny flaps inside the sleeves? There's lots of videos by Random House that show a number, some sort of logo, and even (for some copies) the month and year the cassette was produced!

Since this could be an advantage to figuring out when the re-releases of the My Sesame Street Home Video series were first produced, as well as when the later videos were produced, I'll go ahead and list the dates for my copies:

The Alphabet Game: 5/92
The Best of Ernie and Bert: 5/92
Count it Higher: 5/92
Getting Ready for School: 6/92
Don't Eat the Pictures: 8/92
Sing-Along Earth Songs: 1/93
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: 1/93*
Learning About Numbers: 8/93
Sing Along: 8/93
Elmo's Sing-Along Guessing Game: 8/93
The Best of Elmo: 10/93*
A New Baby in My House: 11/93*

*Sesame Street's 25th Birthday was originally released in October 1993.
*The Best of Elmo was released in August 1994
*A New Baby in My House was released in January 1994

 

[DePingPong]

The Best of E&B - 8/92
Sing Along - 8/92
Getting Ready to Read -4/93
Getting Ready for School - 7/94
Bedtime Stories and Songs - 8/93
Learning About Numbers - 8/93




Copies with no date:
The Best of Elmo (Tiny flaps missing, but it's original My Sesame Street Home Video release)
Big Bird's Favorite Party Games (original release with Big Bird illustration on front sleeve cover.)
Learning to Add and Subtract (original release with Big Bird illustration on front sleeve cover.)
Play Along Games and Song
The Alphabet Game (Missing tiny flaps)

All have sleeves, all from My Sesame Street Home Video release, none of the Sony Wonder re-releases.