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10-30-2005, 12:01 AM
|  | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Schoolhouse Rock rocks!
I searched & was surprised to find no threads on this stuff. If you were alive & watching cartoons in the 70s(or not), you will trip. Check it out- some very funky bass all over it. I particularly dig 'I got 6', & though not funky(more Elton-esque), 'Hey Little 12 Toes' & 'Figure 8', a sweet Blossom Dearie number. Anyone else used to watch too much TV?
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10-30-2005, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Woodinville, WA | | I did a stage version of School House Rock, and it was a LOT of fun! Bought my first 5-string bass just before it and used it in the pit! Had a great time! I'm all for the School House Rock stuff! My wife's favorite is "I'm Just a Bill"
Good stuff! 
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10-30-2005, 12:51 AM
| | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Now we can talk!
Except I'm about to crash... 
I'll check back in. BTW, my kids(6, 4 & 5 mos)love it- they've got several of the tunes down!
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10-30-2005, 02:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: London, UK | | I am a MASSIVE Blossom Dearie fan, and came across a track called 'Unpack Your Adjectives' a while back somewhere on the net. Fun stuff. http://www.school-house-rock.com/ |
10-30-2005, 07:22 AM
|  | Sick and tired of being sick and tired. | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Belfair, WA | | | I bought the DVD awhile ago - my sons aren't really 'book' people (caught that from their mother, really - I read books by the gross). Started playing along with and really was impressed by the musicality of those songs. My fave is "rufus xavier sasparilla", personally, but "figure 8" is pretty hip too.
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11-01-2005, 07:44 AM
|  | Gin and Jukes | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicagoland | | | !
I love that Ween cover of "The Shot Heard 'Round The World".
"3 is the Magic Number" by Blind Melon is also awesome. |
11-03-2005, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Bay area, california | | | My 8-year old son was talking about schoolhouse rock the other day, said he saw it at school, so it seems to have held up well over the years. A great way to learn about otherwise mundane things using catchy music/lyrics and cartoons.
I still remember the words to some of those songs 30+ years later (yes, I am older than most of you whippersnappers here). |
11-04-2005, 12:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Woodinville, WA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Joshua Brought this today to listen to at work, slammin' stuff.
I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capital Hill...  | You're the man, Josh! It's fun stuff, isn't it? Gotta love it!
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11-04-2005, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Joshua If you like Schoolhouse Rock, you owe it to yourselves to check out:  |
Exactly why I came in here. Don't like all the bands, but it's cool to hear Alt Rock versions of the songs.
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11-04-2005, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Danbury, CT | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Joshua Conjunction junction, what's you're function? | My all time favorite! When I was a kid, I used to sing that song all the time. lol...  |
11-07-2005, 03:06 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: MetroWest Boston | | | Two more faves
Along with Conjuntion Junction, Interjection (starts a sentence with emotion, generally set apart from the sentence by an exclamation point or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong) was my favorite of the Grammer ones - I only remember what conjuntions and interjections are because of those songs.
I also like We, the People. Pure genius to put music to the Preamble to the Constitution. I'm Just a Bill also helped me through high school civics. Not if they just could have done a 90 second song on Calculus, I might have avoided that C- in college. |
11-07-2005, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | | I would LOVE to know who the musicians were that played on the original Schoolhouse Rock songs, that stuff SMOKED!! I do know that jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon was the voice of The Multiplication Bunny.
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11-07-2005, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by dangnewt ----- Now if they just could have done a 90 second song on Calculus, I might have avoided that C- in college. | ROTFLMAO!!! A 90-second song about Calculus? That would've been more like a 20-minute Prog Rock epic.
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11-07-2005, 07:52 PM
| | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Owl I would LOVE to know who the musicians were that played on the original Schoolhouse Rock songs, that stuff SMOKED!! I do know that jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon was the voice of The Multiplication Bunny. | Bob Dorough did a few of them- '3 is a magic number' & 'Little 12 toes', among others- the one that sounds like a 6-yr-old girl(on 'Figure 8' & 'Unpack your adjectives')is Blossom Dearie. A google search should give you some more info.
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11-07-2005, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Minneapolis (Chicago Native) | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Joshua I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capital Hill... | + 1
But don't forget about ... "Verb, verb, that's what's hap-pen-ing!!! |
11-07-2005, 09:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Owl ROTFLMAO!!! A 90-second song about Calculus? That would've been more like a 20-minute Prog Rock epic. |
Pretty much every 20 minute prog rock epic is about Calculus...
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01-05-2012, 07:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wadhams! NY (Adirondacks) | | | update please!
Did anyone ever find out who all those great musicians are? |
01-05-2012, 07:08 PM
| | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I know of Bob Dorough(3 is a Magic #)& Blossom Dearie(Figure 8). Worthwhile zombie thread!
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01-05-2012, 07:10 PM
| | I want to be HER bicycle | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Schoolhouse Rock! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!
The cool thing? Type in *schoolhouse* on google, and see what it recommends...
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01-11-2013, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Nashville, GA | | Man I am sorry to (re)resurrect a dead thread, but my kids were just checking out "math rock" - I had never heard this stuff before, and I had to STOP WORK, back it up and listen to that bassline  At this writing, five and six are highly recommended listening
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