Classic-era sound effect sources

[cjd874]

I also enjoyed listening to the sound effects from Sesame Street. Two of my favorite segments are "The Monster's Three Wishes" and "Ernie Imagines the Park at Night."
In the former, Cookie Monster eats a truck and the destructive sounds (breaking glass, crushing metal) are nothing short of amazing. In the latter, Ernie imagines the park at night...but the sound effects themselves are what make the sketch so funny: barking dogs, chirping crickets, the ice cream truck, vacuum cleaners, and zoo animals to name just a few!

 

[wiley207]

Eight Balls of Fur among other sketches used a +4 pitched/sped up variant the piano crash that comes from Crashes, Collisions and Catastrophies under the name of "piano crash, fall downstairs".

That was originally a BBC sound effect! Gateway Records reissued some of those sounds, including on their album you named. "Sesame Street" used quite a few sounds from the BBC library in the 1980s and 1990s. Another one that really stood out to me was in the "Mysterious Theater" installment "Dial M for Mother", when Big Ben strikes midnight. That was also a BBC sound effect, in clear stereo quality, compared to the older Major Records and Elektra Records recordings (the latter of which got used in Kermit's report about Cinderella leaving the ball at midnight).

Also regarding the 1980s and 1990s era, last year I found another sound library Dick Maitland used a lot during that time: OMI's "Universe of Sounds" sampler set for E-MU's Emulator II keyboard. This is where the door opening sound effect the show frequently used from the mid-1980s to the late 2000s originated! ("Doors - Open") It's a really diverse collection, and it also includes a bunch of lower-quality and/or lower-pitched Hanna-Barbera sound effects, some of which were also used at that time on the show. Benny Rabbit's teeth squeaking also comes from this sampler library ("Wood Squeaks, 05").
OMI's "Universe of Sounds" could be heard in a bunch of cartoons from the late 1980s to after the 1990s, especially in much of DiC's output, along with some 1990s Warner Bros. shows (especially "Tiny Toon Adventures" and the first season of "Animaniacs"). Some shows use sound effects from this sampler set today, like "Tiny Toons Looniversity".