Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage

Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage
Live Album
Released	November 6, 1996 (Tour) May 6, 1997 (Retail)[1]
Studio	Dallas Sound Lab[2]
Length	42:53
Label	Lyrick • Barney Music • Koch • HIT
Produced by	Sheryl Leach (exec.) Dennis DeShazer (exec.) Jill K. Hance (associate) Joseph Phillips[3]
Barney chronology
Preceded by Run, Jump, Skip and Sing	Followed by Happy Holidays Love, Barney
Barney studio album chronology
Preceded by Run, Jump, Skip and Sing	Followed by Happy Holidays Love, Barney

Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage is a live album with songs from the stage show of the same name. The album was originally sold on November 6, 1996 during the tour and was later released for retail on CD and cassette on May 6, 1997 by Lyrick Studios. The soundtrack was soon re-released by Koch Records and HIT Entertainment in 2004.

Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage was the fifth album released by Barney and the first live album to be released based on a live show.

The same year of the album's retail release, it commercially went on to peak at number six on Billboard's Top Kid's Albums on November 8, 1997.^[4]

Following the release of Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage a spanish language version, titled La Gran Sorpresa de Barney, was released in 1998.

Track listing

1. Barney Theme Song
2. If You're Happy and You Know It
3. Welcome to Our Treehouse
4. The Baby Bop Hop
5. Happy Birthday to Me
6. My Kite
7. Driving Medley (In the Car and Having Fun; Itsy Bitsy Spider; Mister Sun; and Mr. Knickerbocker)
8. Tinkerputt's Song
9. We Are Little Robots
10. Listen to the Night Time
11. The Rainbow Song
12. Hey, Look at Me! I Can Fly!
13. Four Little Ducks
14. Happy Birthday to Me (Reprise)
15. If All the Raindrops
16. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
17. Mother Goose Medley: Humpty Dumpty/Hey Diddle Diddle/Little Miss Muffet/Little Boy Blue/One Two Buckle My Shoe/Sing a Song of Sixpence
18. Old King Cole
19. Happy Birthday to You
20. I Love You

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak Position
US Billboard Top Kid Albums	6

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Various	November 6, 1996	Cassette • CD	Lyrick
	May 6, 1997
	2004	CD	HIT • Koch
South Africa	October 2007		HIT • NEXT
	2012

Trivia

• This is soundtrack marked:
  • The first time Joseph Phillips produces a Barney album.
  • The first album to contain the audience effects.
• Even though the songs, "The Airplane Song" and "I'm Mother Goose" are on the home video, they don't appear in this album.
• Even though "Listen to the Night Time" was sung in this album, it wasn't in the home video.
• During "I Love You", the audience can be heard singing, in the US and UK video they can still be heard singing but very faintly, in other versions the audience singing is removed due to the video being redubbed.

See Also

• La Gran Sorpresa de Barney

References

1. ↑ BARNEY ENTERS THE TRAVEL BIZ
2. ↑ Barney - Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage (1997, CD) | Discogs
3. ↑ Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage Credits
4. ↑ Barney Kid Albums Chart History