{"product_id":"seth-macfarlane-seth-macfarlane-sings-the-muppets-black-lp","title":"Seth MacFarlane - Seth MacFarlane Sings the Muppets (Black Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Vinyl LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the standard black vinyl LP of \u003cem\u003eSeth MacFarlane Sings the Muppets\u003c\/em\u003e, released by Verve Records and Republic Records on September 18, 2026. All fourteen songs are here, seven to a side, opening with \"Together Again\" and closing with \"The First Time It Happens.\" Verve's own store also sells a green vinyl \"Bein' Green\" edition, which carries a different barcode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs come from the first three Muppet feature films, \u003cem\u003eThe Muppet Movie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Muppet Caper\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Muppets Take Manhattan\u003c\/em\u003e, with further selections from \u003cem\u003eSesame Street\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Muppet Show\u003c\/em\u003e. Verve's notes tie the album to the 50th anniversary of \u003cem\u003eThe Muppet Show\u003c\/em\u003e. The writers include Joe Raposo, Paul Williams and Jeff Moss. The first single was \"Bein' Green,\" which Raposo wrote for Kermit the Frog. Liz Gillies sings with MacFarlane on \"Movin' Right Along\"; the two had earlier made the 2023 holiday album \u003cem\u003eWe Wish You the Merriest\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Cottee wrote the arrangements, John Wilson conducted, Joel McNeely produced and Rich Breen engineered. The orchestra, drawn from players in London and Los Angeles, was recorded at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. MacFarlane has said the idea was to record the songs \"in the style that might have come out of orchestrators like Nelson Riddle and Billy May, had these songs existed in the golden era of arranging.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo of the songs carry long histories of their own. Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher wrote \"Rainbow Connection\" for \u003cem\u003eThe Muppet Movie\u003c\/em\u003e in 1979; it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and in 2020 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry. \"Halfway Down the Stairs\" is A. A. Milne's 1924 poem set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson; Robin the Frog sang it in the first season of \u003cem\u003eThe Muppet Show\u003c\/em\u003e, and that version reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1977.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is MacFarlane's tenth studio album and follows \u003cem\u003eLush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements\u003c\/em\u003e (2025). 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