The Muppets (soundtrack)

The Muppets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Soundtrack album by Various artists

Released

November 22, 2011

Recorded

2011

Studio

Ocean Way Studios

Genre

Musical theatre, popular music, rock

Length

40:05

Label

Walt Disney

Producer

Kaylin Frank, Mitchell Leib

The Muppets chronology

Muppets: The Green Album
(2011)

The Muppets: Original Soundtrack
(2011)

Muppets Most Wanted: Original Soundtrack
(2014)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]

The Muppets: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is a soundtrack album released by Walt Disney Records on November 22, 2011 for the musical comedy film The Muppets. The soundtrack features five original songs, four re-recordings and remasterings of popular Muppet songs ("The Muppet Show Theme", "Rainbow Connection", and "Mah Nà Mah Nà"), two cover versions of existing songs (Cee Lo Green's "Forget You" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), two standalone songs (Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" and Starship's "We Built This City"), and fifteen dialogue tracks.^[3] It also features the song "Man or Muppet", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The soundtrack was also nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 55th Grammy Awards.

Songs not included in the album, but featured in the film include Gary Numan's "Cars", AC/DC's "Back in Black", George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone", Jeff Moss' "Together Again" (from The Muppets Take Manhattan) and Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes' "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".

A Spanish version of the soundtrack was released as Los Muppets: Banda Sonora Original de Walt Disney Records on December 6, 2011.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"The Muppet Show Theme" (featuring Joanna Newsom)	Sam Pottle, Jim Henson	The Muppets	0:51
2.	"Muppet Studios, I Can't Believe It"	Dialogue	Walter	0:04
3.	"Life's a Happy Song" (featuring Feist and Mickey Rooney)	Bret McKenzie	Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter	4:29
4.	"I Haven't Seen the Old Gang"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog and Jason Segel	0:20
5.	"Pictures in My Head" (produced by Bret McKenzie)	Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis, Chen Neeman	Kermit the Frog and the Muppets	2:36
6.	"We Drive"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog and Walter	0:11
7.	"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"	Paul Simon	Simon	2:42
8.	"That Spells Reno"	Dialogue	'80s Robot and Amy Adams	0:18
9.	"Rainbow Connection (Moopets Version)"	Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher	Fozzie Bear and the Moopets	1:02
10.	"Welcome Back"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Walter, and Dr. Teeth	0:20
11.	"We Built This City"	Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, Peter Wolf	Starship	4:54
12.	"Party of One"	Dialogue	Sarah Silverman and Amy Adams	0:09
13.	"Me Party"	McKenzie, Paul Roemen	Amy Adams and Miss Piggy	1:53
14.	"We Humbly Ask"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog and Chris Cooper	0:09
15.	"Let's Talk About Me" (featuring Nathan Pacheco)	Ali Dee Theodore, McKenzie	Chris Cooper	2:33
16.	"The Answer is No"	Dialogue	Chris Cooper and Kermit the Frog	0:06
17.	"Are You a Man or a Muppet?"	Dialogue	Amy Adams	0:08
18.	"Man or Muppet"	McKenzie	Jason Segel and Walter with Muppet Gary and Jim Parsons	2:58
19.	"Down at the Ole Barbershop"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog	0:07
20.	"Smells Like Teen Spirit"	Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic	The Muppets Barbershop Quartet (Beaker, Link Hogthrob, Rowlf the Dog, Sam Eagle)	2:23
21.	"Princesses of Poultry"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog	0:06
22.	"Forget You"	Christopher "Brody" Brown, Peter Hernandez, Cee Lo Green, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine	Camilla and the Chickens	2:29
23.	"It's Time for Our Song"	Dialogue	Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy	0:04
24.	"Rainbow Connection"	Williams, Ascher	Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and the Muppets	3:09
25.	"Get Out There and Help Those Guys"	Dialogue	Jason Segel	0:06
26.	"The Whistling Caruso"	Andrew Bird	Walter	1:15
27.	"How Charming, a Finale"	Dialogue	Uncle Deadly	0:06
28.	"Life's a Happy Song (Finale)"	McKenzie	The Muppets, Jason Segel, Amy Adams, and Chris Cooper	2:23
29.	"Mary, Marry Me"	Dialogue	Jason Segel and Amy Adams	0:09
30.	"Mahna Mahna"	Piero Umiliani, George Shearing, George David Weiss	Mahna Mahna and the Snowths	2:05

iTunes U.S. bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
31.	"Rainbow Connection^[5]"	Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher	Kermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire)	3:06

iTunes U.K. bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist(s)	Length
31.	"Dance with Me Tonight" (from The X Factor)	Olly Murs, Claude Kelly, Steve Robson	Olly Murs and The Muppets	3:27

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart^[6]	57
U.S. Billboard Soundtracks^[7]	4
U.S. Billboard Top 200^[7]	38
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums^[7]	11

The Muppets: Original Score

The Muppets (Original Score)
Film score by Christophe Beck
Released	April 15, 2014
Recorded	2011
Studio	Sony Scoring Stage, Culver City, California
Label	Walt Disney / Intrada
Producer	Mitchell Leib

An album containing Christophe Beck's scores for The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted was released by Intrada Records on April 28, 2014. The track listing below represents the album's section for The Muppets (tracks 25-47).

All songs written and composed by Christophe Beck.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"To Hollywood"	2:53
2.	"Maniacal Laugh"	1:07
3.	"The Search for the Frog"	1:22
4.	"Moral Support"	0:56
5.	"Getting Gonzo"	0:43
6.	"Rebuffed"	1:22
7.	"Traveling by Map"	0:53
8.	"Man of Muppets"	0:46
9.	"Muppet Man"	0:48
10.	"The Muppet Party"	1:02
11.	"Got the Show"	0:27
12.	"Theatre in Ruins"	1:04
13.	"Piggy vs. Poogy"	0:48
14.	"Under the Stars"	1:55
15.	"Breakneck Driving"	0:41
16.	"Jack Black Attack"	1:33
17.	"The Telethon Takeoff"	0:45
18.	"Tex Reciprocates"	2:19
19.	"The First Call"	0:49
20.	"Scooter Takeover"	1:10
21.	"Photo Reunion"	1:28
22.	"The Last Act"	2:15
23.	"We Fail Together"	3:42

Personnel

Muppet performers

Steve Whitmire – Kermit the Frog, Beaker, Statler, Rizzo the Rat, Link Hogthrob
Eric Jacobson – Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs
Dave Goelz – Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Zoot, Beauregard, Waldorf, Kermit Moopet
Bill Barretta – Rowlf the Dog, The Swedish Chef, Dr. Teeth, Pepé the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Muppet Gary
David Rudman – Scooter, Janice, Miss Poogy, Wayne
Matt Vogel – Floyd Pepper, Camilla the Chicken, Sweetums, '80s Robot, Lew Zealand, Uncle Deadly, Crazy Harry, Rowlf Moopet
Peter Linz – Walter
Jim Henson – Mahna Mahna (archival)
Frank Oz - Snowths (archival)

Production

Christophe Beck – composer
Bret McKenzie – composer, producer, music supervisor
Kaylin Frank – producer
Mitchell Leib – producer, executive in charge of music
James Bobin – executive producer
David Hoberman – executive producer
Todd Lieberman – executive producer
Peter Rotter – orchestra contractor
Jasper Randall – choir contractor

Orchestration

Tim Davies – score coordinator
Dave Metzger – score orchestration
Chris Caswell – orchestration
Zach Robinson – arranger, orchestration
Doug Walter – orchestration
Joanne Kane – music preparation
Booker White – music preparation

Technical

David Bianco – engineer, vocal engineer
David Boucher – engineer, vocal engineer
Mike Klein – engineer
Brian Malouf – engineer, mixing
Rick Ruggieri – engineer, mixing
Casey Stone – engineer, mixing
Joseph Magee – engineer, mixing supervisor
Nick Wollage – engineer, vocal engineer
Ed Mitchell - vocal producer
Mickey Petralia – mixing
Patricia Sullivan – mastering
Richard Ford – score editor
Brett Pierce – music editor
Lisa Jaime – supervising music editor

Art

Steve Gerdes – art direction, design
Steve Sterling – art direction, design

References

↑ Truitt, Warren. "New Muppet Movie Soundtrack Not as Great as the Movie". Retrieved 25 March 2012.
↑ Cherrie, Chrysta. The Muppets (soundtrack) at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
↑ Gallo, Phil (10 October 2011). "'Muppets' Movie Soundtrack Features Feist, Flight of the Conchords, Andrew Bird". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
↑ "The Muppets' Movie Soundtrack Goes Spanish". Hispanic Business. December 1, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
↑ iTunes - The Muppets Soundtrack
↑ ARIA Report 1143. Retrieved 2012-03-24
1 2 3 Billboard. Retrieved 2012-04-12

The Muppets

Characters

Muppet
performers

Television

Series	Sam and Friends (1955–61) Our Place (1967) The Muppet Show (1976–81; episodes) Muppet Babies (1984–91) Little Muppet Monsters (1985) The Jim Henson Hour (1989) Muppets Tonight (1996–98) Bear in the Big Blue House (1997–2007) The Muppets (2015–present)

Segments	The Jimmy Dean Show ("Rowlf the Dog", 1963–65) The Mike Douglas Show (1966–79) The Ed Sullivan Show (including The Great Santa Claus Switch, 1966–71) Saturday Night Live (The Land of Gorch, 1975–76)

Specials	Hey, Cinderella! (1969) The Muppets on Puppets (1970) The Frog Prince (1971) The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972) The Muppets Valentine Show (1974) Out to Lunch (1974) The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979) The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979) The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981) The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show (1982) Rocky Mountain Holiday (1983) The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986) The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (1986) A Muppet Family Christmas (1987) Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) The Earth Day Special (1990) The Muppets at Walt Disney World (1990) The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990) Studio DC: Almost Live (2008) A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008) Lady Gaga and the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular (2013)

Films

Feature	The Muppet Movie (1979) The Great Muppet Caper (1981) The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Muppets from Space (1999) The Muppets (2011) Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

TV	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)

Direct-to- video	Muppet Sing-Alongs: Billy Bunny's Animal Songs (1993) Muppet Classic Theater (1994) Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)

Music

Albums	The Muppet Show (1977) The Muppet Show 2 (1978) The Muppet Movie (1979) John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979) Ol' Brown Ears is Back (1993) Muppet Beach Party (1993) Kermit Unpigged (1994) The Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, and More (2002) The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas (2006) Muppets: The Green Album (2011) The Muppets (2011) Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Songs	"The Muppet Show Theme" "Rainbow Connection" "Bein' Green" "Mahna Mahna" "When the River Meets the Sea" "Never Before, Never Again" "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along" "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" "Bohemian Rhapsody" "Man or Muppet"

Web series

Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony (2005–06)
The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora (2010)

Video games

Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival (1989)
Muppets Inside (1996)
Muppet RaceMania (2000)
Muppet Monster Adventure (2000)
Spy Muppets: License to Croak (2003)
Muppets Party Cruise (2003)
Disney Universe (2011)

Other media

Muppet*Vision 3D (1991–present)
Muppet Mobile Lab (2007–present)
Comics series
Before You Leap

Muppets portal

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