Schoolhouse Rock! is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
series of animated
musicalMusical is the adjective form of music. It may also refer to:* MusicAL: Albanian Television channel which broadcasts Albanian folk music.* Musical theatre: musicals produced on the stage.* Musical film: musicals on film produced for the cinema....
educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
. The topics covered included
grammarIn linguistics, grammar is the set of logical and structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology,...
,
scienceScience is in its broadest sense to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome...
,
economicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
,
historyHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
,
mathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
, and
civicsCivics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....
. The series produced original episodes between 1973 and 1986 (with 37 episodes created between 1973 and 1980, and four created as the "Computer Rock" segment between 1983 and 1984), with a return in 1993 and new episodes airing at least once a year between then and 1996, when production of the series for ABC was halted.
Adjectives are often used to help us compare things,To say how thin, how fat, how short, how tall.Girls who are tall can get taller,Boys who are small can get smaller,Till one is the tallestAnd the other's the smallest of all.
He was a hairy bear, He was a scary bear. We made a hasty retreat from his lair, and described him with adjectives.
Conjunction Junction, what's your function?Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.Conjunction Junction, how's that function?I got three favorite carsThat get most of my job done.Conjunction Junction, what's their function?I got "and", "but", and "or",They'll get you pretty far.
When Reginald was home with flu, uh-huh-huh,The doctor knew just what to do-hoo.He cured the infectionWith one small injectionWhile Reginald uttered some interjections..Hey! That smarts!Ouch! That hurts!Yow! That's not fair givin' a guy a shot down there!
Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Yow!) or emotion (Ouch!).They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.
So when you're happy (Hurray!),or sad (Ahhh!),or frightened (EEK!),or mad (Rats!), or excited (Wow!), or glad (HEY!), an interjection stops the sentence right!
So when you're happy (Hurray!),or sad (Ahhh!),or frightened (EEK!),or mad (Rats!), or excited (Wow!), or glad (HEY!), an interjection stops the sentence right!
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, got some adverbs here.Come on down to Lolly's, get the adverbs here!You're going to needIf you write or read,Or even think about it.
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here.Got a lot of lolly, jolly adverbs here.
Schoolhouse Rock! is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
series of animated
musicalMusical is the adjective form of music. It may also refer to:* MusicAL: Albanian Television channel which broadcasts Albanian folk music.* Musical theatre: musicals produced on the stage.* Musical film: musicals on film produced for the cinema....
educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
. The topics covered included
grammarIn linguistics, grammar is the set of logical and structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology,...
,
scienceScience is in its broadest sense to any systematic knowledge-base or prescriptive practice that is capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome...
,
economicsEconomics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
,
historyHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
,
mathematicsMathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions....
, and
civicsCivics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....
. The series produced original episodes between 1973 and 1986 (with 37 episodes created between 1973 and 1980, and four created as the "Computer Rock" segment between 1983 and 1984), with a return in 1993 and new episodes airing at least once a year between then and 1996, when production of the series for ABC was halted. Episodes continued to air for an additional five years after that, finally coming to an end after a 26-year run
cancellationA cancellation is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and prevent its re-use. Cancellations come in a huge variety of designs, shapes, sizes and colors...
in 1999 by
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
. This television program was often rated TV-G in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Origins and history
Schoolhouse Rock! began as a commercial advertising venture by David McCall. The idea came to McCall when he noticed one of his sons, who was having trouble in school remembering the multiplication tables, knew the lyrics to many current rock songs. The first song recorded was "
Three Is a Magic Number"Three Is a Magic Number" is one of the original 46 songs from the Schoolhouse Rock! series. It is featured on the 30th Anniversary DVD and the Multiplication Rock video compilations...
," written by
Bob DoroughBob Dorough is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer.He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers...
. It tested well, so a children's record was compiled and released. Tom Yohe listened to the first song, and began to doodle pictures to go with the lyrics. He told McCall that the songs would make good animation.
When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
(which already was McCall's company's biggest advertising account) based on a demo animation of the original "Three Is A Magic Number" for its Saturday morning lineup. They pitched their idea to
Michael EisnerMichael Dammann Eisner is the former chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney lasted from 1984 to 2005.-Early life:...
, then vice-president of ABC's children's programming division. Eisner brought longtime
Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
cartoonist/director Chuck JonesCharles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
to the meeting to also listen to the presentation.
The network's children's programming division had producers of its regular 30- and 60-minute programs cut three minutes out of each of their shows, and sold General FoodsGeneral Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions...
on the idea of sponsoring the segments. The series stayed on the air for 12 years. Later sponsors of the Schoolhouse Rock! segments included NabiscoNabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks, including brands such as Chips Ahoy!, Fig Newtons, Mallomars, Oreos, Premium Crackers, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Social Tea, Nutter Butter, Peek Freans, Lorna Doone, Famous Chocolate Wafers and Chicken in a Biskit,...
, General FoodsGeneral Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions...
, Kenner Toys, Kellogg's, and McDonald'sMcDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving nearly 47 million customers daily. At one time it was the largest global restaurant chain, but it has since been surpassed by multi-brand operator Yum! and sandwich chain Subway.In addition to its...
.
Thirty-seven episodes were recorded and produced between 1972 and 1980.
The last of the original series were four segments about the then-novel personal computerA personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator...
technology. The shorts featured two characters by the name of Scooter Computer and Mister Chips, and so these were the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters.
A 1987 production of the series for VHSVideo Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, was a video tape recording standard developed during the 1970s. It was released to the public during the latter half of the decade. During the late part of the 1970s and the early 1980s it formed one-half of the VHS vs Betamax war, which it...
tape featured Cloris LeachmanCloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show...
opening the collection and some songs with child dancers and singers but "Three Ring Government," "The Good Eleven" and "Little Twelve Toes" were not included on the videos.
In the 1990s, the team reunited to produce Money Rock and two more Grammar Rock segments ("Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton").
In 2002, the team once again reunited to produce a new song, "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote To College" for the release of the 30th Anniversary DVD. For the new song, Tom Yohe Jr. took over as lead designer for his father Yohe Sr., who had died in 2000. Another contemporary song, called "Presidential Minute", which explained the process of electing the President of the United StatesThe President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition...
in greater detail, was included on the 2008 DVD "Schoolhouse Rock! Election Collection", which centered on songs relating to American history and government.
In 2009, the team produced eleven new environmentally-themed songs for the DVD "Schoolhouse Rock!: Earth ".
Multiplication Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
Animation & design |
First aired |
| My Hero, Zero |
00 is both a number and the numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. It plays a central role in mathematics as the additive identity of the integers, real numbers, and many other algebraic structures. As a digit, zero is used as a placeholder in place value systems...
|
Bob Dorough Bob Dorough is an American bebop and cool jazz pianist, composer and vocalese singer.He worked with Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, and his adventurous style was an influence on Mose Allison, among other singers...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Focus Design / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| Elementary, My Dear |
2class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 2|-| colspan="2" | |-| Ordinal number| 2nd second|-| Numeral system| binary|-| Factorisation| prime|-| Gaussian integer factorisation...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Focus Design / Jack Sidebotham |
1973 |
| Three Is a Magic Number "Three Is a Magic Number" is one of the original 46 songs from the Schoolhouse Rock! series. It is featured on the 30th Anniversary DVD and the Multiplication Rock video compilations...
|
3 class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 3|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 3
three|-| Ordinal| 3rd
third|-| Numeral system| ternary|-| Factorization| prime|-...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Focus Design / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| The Four-Legged Zoo |
4| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 4|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 4 four|-| Ordinal| 4th fourth|-| Numeral system| quaternary|-| Factorization| |-...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough (and chorus of children) |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Bob Eggers |
1973 |
| Ready or Not, Here I Come |
5 {| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 5|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 5
five|-| Ordinal| 5th
fifth|-| Numeral system| quinary|-| Factorization| prime|-| Divisors...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| I Got Six |
6 | class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 6|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 6
six|-| Ordinal| 6th
sixth|-| Numeral system| senary|-| Factorization| |-| Divisors...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Grady Tate Grady Tate, , is a hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer.He has played with Jimmy Smith , Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Cal Tjader, Peggy Lee, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tom Rapp, Rahsaan Roland...
|
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| Lucky Seven Sampson |
7 {| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 7|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 7
seven|-| Ordinal| 7th
seventh|-| Numeral system| septenary|-| Factorization...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Rowland B. Wilson |
1973 |
| Figure Eight |
8| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 8|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 8 eight|-| Ordinal| 8th eighth|-| Numeral system| octal|-| Factorization| |-| Divisors...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice.-Early career:...
|
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| Naughty Number Nine |
9{| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 9|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 9 nine|-| Ordinal| 9th ninth|-| Numeral system| nonary|-| Factorization| |-...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Grady Tate |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Tom Yohe |
1973 |
| The Good Eleven |
11 11 is the natural number following 10 and preceding 12. It is the first number which cannot be represented by a human counting his or her eight fingers and two thumbs additively...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Jack Sidebotham |
1973 |
| Little Twelvetoes |
12 12 is the natural number following 11 and preceding 13.The word "twelve" is a native English word that presumably arises from the Germanic compound twa-lif "two-leave", meaning that two is...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Phil Kimmelman & Associates / Rowland B. Wilson |
1973 |
No shows were produced featuring the numbers 1{| class="infobox" style="width: 20em;"|-! colspan="2" align="center" style="font: 10em times; background:#ccc;" | 1|-| colspan="2" | |-| Cardinal| 1
one|-| Ordinal| 1st
first|-| Numeral system| unary|-| Factorization| |-...
or 1010 is an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11.-In mathematics:Ten is a composite number, its proper divisors being , and...
explicitly
In 1973, Capitol Records released a soundtrack album of Multiplication Rock, featuring all 12 songs. Two tracks, "My Hero, Zero" and "Three Is A Magic Number" had been edited for TV to keep each video within three minutes. This LP features both songs in their full, unedited forms. Also, the album version of "The Four-Legged Zoo" has a slightly different ending than the television version.
Grammar Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| Conjunction Junction |
conjunction In grammar, a conjunction is a part of speech that connects two words, phrases or clauses together. This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a "conjunction" should be defined for each language...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Jack Sheldon Jack Sheldon is an American bebop and West Coast jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor. He is probably best remembered as a trumpet player and comedian on The Merv Griffin Show. His role expanded after Griffin's sidekick, Arthur Treacher, left the show.Sheldon was born in Jacksonville, Florida...
and Terri Morel |
1973 |
| Unpack Your Adjectives |
adjective In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's referent...
|
George R. Newall |
George R. Newall |
Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice.-Early career:...
|
1975 |
| Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here |
adverb An adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any other part of language, except for nouns: verbs, adjectives , clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives....
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
1974 |
| Interjections! |
interjection An interjection or exclamation describes a noun with a grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence and simply expresses emotion on the part of the speaker, although most interjections have clear definitions...
|
Lynn Ahrens Lynn Ahrens is an American musical theatre lyricist who frequently works with Stephen Flaherty. They are best known for the shows Once on This Island, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, and Ragtime, which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score, in addition to the...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Essra Mohawk Essra Mohawk is an American singer-songwriter who has recorded a dozen albums, many receiving critical acclaim, and penned the hits "Change of Heart" for Cyndi Lauper and "Stronger Than the Wind," recorded by Tina Turner.-Biography:Mohawk was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
|
1974 |
| Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla |
pronoun In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes for a noun with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English...
|
Bob Dorough |
Kathy Mandary |
Jack Sheldon |
1977 |
| Verb: That's What's Happening |
verb kalleah hit meIn syntax, a verb is a word that usually denotes an action , an occurrence , or a state of being . Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Zachary Sanders |
1974 |
| A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing |
noun In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition....
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
1973 |
| Busy Prepositions |
preposition |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Jack Sheldon and Bob Dorough |
October 1993 |
| The Tale of Mr. Morton |
subject The subject is one of the two main constituents of a clause, according to a tradition that can be tracked back to Aristotle. The other constituent is the predicate...
and predicateIn traditional grammar, a predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence . For the simple sentence "John [is yellow]," John acts as the subject, and is yellow acts as the predicate, a subsequent description of the subject headed with a verb.In current linguistic semantics, a predicate is an...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Jack Sheldon |
December 1993 |
"Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton" were produced for Schoolhouse Rocks return to ABC in 1993.
Science Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| The Body Machine |
nutritionNutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Bob Dorough and Jack Sheldon |
1979 |
| Do The Circulation |
cardiovascular system |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Joshie Armstead, Mary Sue Berry, & Maeretha Stewart |
1979 |
| Electricity, Electricity |
electricityElectricity is a general term that encompasses a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Zachary Sanders |
1979 |
| The Energy Blues |
energy conservationEnergy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services...
|
George Newall |
George Newall |
Jack Sheldon |
1978 |
| Interplanet Janet |
the solar systemThe Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
1978 |
| Telegraph Line |
nervous systemThe nervous system is a network of specialized cells that communicate information about an organism's surroundings and itself. It processes this information and causes reactions in other parts of the body. It is composed of neurons and other specialized cells called glial cells that aid in the...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Jaime Aff and Christine Langner |
1979 |
| Them Not-So-Dry Bones |
skeletal system |
George Newall |
George Newall |
Jack Sheldon |
1979 |
| A Victim of Gravity |
gravity |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
The Tokens The Tokens are an American male doo-wop vocal group from Brooklyn, New York. They are best-known for their chart-topping 1961 single, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" .-Career:...
|
1978 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth/The Weather Show |
weatherWeather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather phenomena lie in the troposphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Bob Kalban |
1979 |
America Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| Elbow Room |
U.S. territorial expansionManifest Destiny is a term that was used in the 19th century to designate the belief that the United States was destined, even divinely ordained, to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean...
|
Lynn Ahrens Lynn Ahrens is an American musical theatre lyricist who frequently works with Stephen Flaherty. They are best known for the shows Once on This Island, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, and Ragtime, which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score, in addition to the...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Sue Manchester |
1976 |
| Fireworks |
Declaration of IndependenceThe United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Grady Tate Grady Tate, , is a hard bop and soul-jazz drummer and singer.He has played with Jimmy Smith , Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Cal Tjader, Peggy Lee, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tom Rapp, Rahsaan Roland...
|
1976 |
| The Great American Melting Pot |
immigrationImmigration is the arrival of new individuals into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.-As a political term:...
/melting potThe melting pot is an analogy for the way in which heterogeneous societies become more homogeneous, in which the ingredients in the pot are combined so as to develop a multi-ethnic society...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lori Lieberman Lori Lieberman is an American singer. She was born in California and grew up in Switzerland, and signed a deal with Capitol Records in the early 1970s...
|
1977 |
| I'm Just a Bill "I'm Just a Bill" is a Schoolhouse Rock! segment which first aired in 1975. It is sung by Jack Sheldon and his son . It is about how a bill becomes a law, how it must go through Congress, and how it can be vetoed, etc. The Bill is for the law that school buses must stop at train crossings...
|
Legislative Process Legislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. The term may refer to a single law, or the collective body of enacted law, while "statute" is also used to refer to a single law...
|
Dave Frishberg Dave Frishberg is an American jazz pianist, vocalist and composer born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Frishberg resisted learning classical piano as a boy, developing an interest in blues and boogie-woogie by listening to recordings by Pete Johnson and Jay McShann. As a teen-ager he played in the house...
|
Dave Frishberg |
Jack Sheldon |
1975 |
| Mother Necessity |
American invention An invention is a new configuration, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing models or ideas and others are radical breakthroughs...
s |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Blossom Dearie, & Essra Mohawk |
1977 |
| No More Kings |
American independence |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens & Bob Dorough |
1975 |
| The Preamble |
United States ConstitutionThe Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the federal government of the United States...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
1975 |
| The Shot Heard 'Round The World |
American Revolutionary WarThe American Revolutionary War , also sometimes known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war between several European great powers...
|
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
1976 |
| Sufferin' Till Suffrage |
Women's suffrage Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th Century and early 20th Century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provided: "The right of citizens of the United States to...
|
Bob Dorough |
Tom Yohe |
Essra Mohawk |
1976 |
| Three Ring Government |
separation of powersSeparation of powers is the political doctrine under which the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government are kept distinct, to prevent abuse of power. This U.S...
|
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
1979 |
| I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College |
Electoral College |
George R. Newall and Bob Dorough |
George R. Newall and Bob Dorough |
Jack Sheldon and Bob Dorough |
2002 |
| Presidential Minute |
Voting For President Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President. They occur quadrennially on Election Day, the Tuesday between...
|
George R. Newall |
George R. Newall and Tom Yohe |
Jack Sheldon |
2002 |
"I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" and "Presidential Minute" were produced for DVD.
Computer Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| Introduction |
computers |
Lynn Ahrens, Tom Yohe and Bob Dorough |
Lynn Ahrens, Tom Yohe and Bob Dorough |
Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban |
1983 |
| Hardware |
computer hardwareA personal computer is made up of multiple physical components of computer hardware, upon which can be installed an operating system and a multitude of software to perform the operator's desired functions.-Typical PC hardware:...
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Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban |
1983 |
| Software |
computer softwareComputer software, or just software is a general term used todescribe the role that computer programs, procedures anddocumentation play in a computer system.The term includes:...
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Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban |
1983 |
| Number Cruncher |
computerized statistics |
Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban |
1984 |
Money Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| Dollars and Sense |
interestInterest is a fee paid on borrowed assets. It is the price paid for the use of borrowed money, or, money earned by deposited funds. Assets that are sometimes lent with interest include money, shares, consumer goods through hire purchase, major assets such as aircraft, and even entire factories in...
and loans |
Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
Val Hawk and Bob Dorough |
1994 |
| Making $7.50 Once a Week |
budget A budget is generally a list of all planned expenses and revenues. It is a plan for saving and spending. A budget is an important concept in microeconomics, which uses a budget line to illustrate the trade-offs between two or more goods...
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Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
1995 |
| Where The Money Goes |
paying bills |
Rich Mendoza |
Rich Mendoza |
Jack Sheldon |
1995 |
| Tax Man Max |
taxes |
Stephen Flaherty Stephen Flaherty is an American composer of musical theatre who writes mostly in collaboration with the lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens...
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Lynn Ahrens |
Patrick Quinn Patrick Dominic Quinn was an American actor and a former president of the Actors' Equity Association. Quinn's father was a mortician....
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1995 |
| Walkin' On Wall Street |
stock exchangeA stock exchange is a corporation or mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for stock brokers and traders, to trade stocks and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of securities as well as other financial instruments and capital...
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Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
Dave Frishberg |
1996 |
| This For That |
barterBartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange . It can be bilateral or multilateral, and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent...
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George R. Newall |
George R. Newall |
Bob Dorough |
1996 |
| Tyrannosaurus Debt |
budget deficit |
Tom Yohe |
Tom Yohe |
Bob Dorough and Bob Kaliban |
1996 |
| The Check's In The Mail |
using checks |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Luther Rix |
1996 |
Earth Rock
| Episode title |
Subject |
Music by |
Lyrics by |
Performed by |
First aired |
| Report from the North Pole |
Global Warming Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C during the last century...
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Bob Dorough |
George R. Newall |
Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Bob Kaliban and Barry Call |
2009 |
| The Little Things We Do |
Energy conservationEnergy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services...
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Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens, Jack Sheldon, Bob Dorough, Bob Kaliban, Val Hawk, Vicki Doney and Nancy Reed |
2009 |
| The Trash Can Band |
RecyclingRecycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower...
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Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens, Luther Rix, Bob Dorough and Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg is an American banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance.-Biography:Eric Weissberg went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then the Juilliard School of Music. He joined an early version of the Greenbriar Boys , but left before they made any recordings....
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2009 |
| You Oughta Be Savin' Water |
Water conservation Water conservation refers to reducing the usage of water and recycling of waste water for different purposes like cleaning , manufacturing , agriculture etc.- Home :Water-saving technology for the home includes:...
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Sean Altman and Barry Carl |
George R. Newall |
Barry Carl, Sean Altman, Elliott Kerman |
2009 |
| The Rainforest |
RainforestRainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750–2000 mm . The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests.From 40 to 75%...
s |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Tituss Burgess |
2009 |
| Save the Ocean |
Oceans |
Sean Altman |
Sean Altman |
Sean Altman, Inna Dukach, Jon Spurney, Patti Rothberg Patti Rothberg is a New York-based singer, songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and painter/artist.Born in New York City Rothberg grew up in Scarsdale, NY, playing piano from the age of 3 and writing songs by the age of 15, joining a high school Rod Stewart covers band. She later...
, Barry Carl and Eric BookerEric "Badlands" Booker is an American hip hop artist and record-holding competitive eater.Presently ranked 10th...
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2009 |
| FatCat Blue: The Clean Rivers Song |
Marine Debris Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally become afloat in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway...
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Andy Brick The American Andy Brick is most known for being the conductor of the Symphonic Game Music Concert series in Leipzig, Germany ....
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Andy Brick The American Andy Brick is most known for being the conductor of the Symphonic Game Music Concert series in Leipzig, Germany ....
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Jack Sheldon, Bob Kaliban, Val Hawk, Vicki Doney and Nancy Reed |
2009 |
| A Tiny Urban Zoo |
GardenA garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form is known as a residential garden. Western gardens are almost universally...
s |
George Stiles |
Anthony Drewe |
Barrett Foa, Shoshana Bean, and George Stiles |
2009 |
| The Energy Blues |
Energy conservationEnergy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services...
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George R. Newall |
George R. Newall |
Jack Sheldon |
1978 |
| Solar Power to the People |
Solar energy |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens |
Lynn Ahrens, Val Hawk, Vicki Doney and Nancy Reed |
2009 |
| Windy and the Windmills |
Wind power Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2008, worldwide nameplate capacity of wind-powered generators was 121.2 gigawatts . In 2008, wind power produced about 1.5% of worldwide electricity usage; and is...
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Bob Dorough |
George R. Newall |
Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Val Hawk, Vicki Doney and Nancy Reed |
2009 |
| Don't Be a Carbon Sasquatch |
Carbon footprintA giant footprint is "the total set of blue natural gas caused by an organization, event or product" . For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other GHGs, emitted....
s |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
Bob Dorough |
2009 |
Tie-ins
Several tie-ins were released in 1996:
- Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks is a tribute album based on the Emmy Award-winning animated TV series, Schoolhouse Rock!. It was released by Atlantic Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs from the series performed by popular music artists...
, a tribute album featuring covers of Schoolhouse Rocks songs performed by alternative rock acts
- Schoolhouse Rock! The Official Guide (ISBN 0-7868-8170-4), written by Tom Yohe and George Newall, and including synopses, lyrics, and production notes about each of the shorts created to date, except "The Weather Show," which was the subject of pending litigation and so could not be included.
- The Schoolhouse Rock Songbook (Cherry Lane Music), containing sheet music for ten songs.
- Schoolhouse Rock! Soundtrack
The Schoolhouse Rock! soundtrack is a television soundtrack based on the animated television series Schoolhouse Rock!, released by Rhino Records On June 18, 1996, and contains 52 tracks.- Disc one :# Schoolhouse Rocky# Elementary, My Dear...
The 4 CD release with bonus trackIn terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. This is most often done as a promotional device, either as an incentive to customers to purchase albums they might otherwise not, or to repurchase albums they already...
s on each CD was released on June 18, 1996 by Rhino Records
In addition to the above, Rhino Records also released Schoolhouse Rocks the Vote!: A Benefit for Rock the VoteSchoolhouse Rocks the Vote!: A Benefit for Rock the Vote is a tribute album based on the Emmy Award-winning animated TV series, Schoolhouse Rock!. It was released by Rhino Records in 1998 as a fundraiser for Rock the Vote, the youth voting advocacy and political awareness organisation...
, a tribute album containing covers and original songs in the style of Schoolhouse Rock, all with an electoral theme. It was released on August 18, 1998.
DVD releases
On August 26, 2002 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released a 2-disc DVD featuring 51 of the 52 episodes (the only one missing being the presumed-lost Computer Rock segment) as well as many special features. The release coincided with the 30th anniversary of the show. An abbreviated VHS, featuring the "top 25" episodes plus "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College," was released at the same time.
In 2008, DVDs of individual Schoolhouse Rock series were released for classroom use.
On September 23, 2008, the "Schoolhouse Rock-Election Collection" was released, including 14 songs about American history and the government and a "new to DVD" song.
On March 31, 2009, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released "Schoolhouse Rock-Earth", including 11 newly written and animated songs.
| DVD name |
Ep # |
Release date |
Additional information |
| Schoolhouse Rock!- Special 30th Anniversary Edition |
51 |
August 26, 2002 |
- All 46 original episodes
- Audio Commentary
- "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" Making Of
- Long Lost Song "The Weather Show"
- Top Ten Jukebox
- Top 20 Countdown
- "Earn Your Diploma" Trivia Game (plays "Presidential Minute" once you have earned your diploma)
- Arrange-a-Song Puzzle
- 4 Music Videos by Contemporary Artists
- Emmy Awards Featurette
- "Three is a Magic Number" Nike Commercial
- "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" in DTS 5.1 Surround
- Three of the four Computer Rock segments
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| Schoolhouse Rock!-Election Collection |
14 |
September 23, 2008 |
10 America Rock songs, 1 Science Rock song, and 3 Money Rock songs
Bonus song: "Presidential Minute" (includes two endings)
Map of the United States |
| Schoolhouse Rock!-Earth |
13 |
March 31, 2009 |
11 all-new songs about conservation
Bonus Song: "The Energy Blues"
Music video: "The Three Rs" by Mitchel Musso Mitchel Tate Musso is an American actor and musician. Musso is perhaps best known for his role as Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana and Jeremy Johnson in the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb...
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