SchoolHouse Rock-Anyone Remember These?

[Ron]

I was watching You Tube tonight & I came across these videos 7 it brought back memories from early 70's on Saturday Morning.
My daughter said that she didn't learn it like this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2iLAI0gUW0

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo&feature=related

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ&feature=related

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM&feature=related

[DanielR]

you trying to put me back through school, or are you suggesting something of some forum users?

[stmatthew]

Its a word, its a plan, its Letterman!

[Praxeas]

conjunction junction was my favorite

[Praxeas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ

[Ron]

conjunction junction was my favorite

A noun was mine.

[Praxeas]

A noun was mine.
Aren't you from Canada? I didn't know they had nouns there... :ursofunny

[Ron]

Aren't you from Canada? I didn't know they had nouns there... :ursofunny

They even have priests too!:D

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeq5a8bBh8c&feature=related

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8_csLwnc20&feature=related

[Ron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Vwxabb12s&feature=related

[tamor]

I LOVE SchoolHouse Rock!!

[Digging4Truth]

I certainly remember them.

They played them on saturday mornings when I was a kid and we bought the videos for our kids when they were starting out in school...


Conjunction Junction what's your function... :)

I'm just a bill... I'm only a bill...

Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here...

LOL

The list goes on..

[Digging4Truth]

I LOVE SchoolHouse Rock!!

Schoolhouse Rock ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

:)

[Tina]

A friend and I were talking about these when they came out on DVD. He had purchased them, and I mentioned that I was going to pick them up for my kids. A couple of days later, a package showed up in my mailbox addressed to my kids. We watch them all the time.

[The Kid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ

This one was actually my favorite. "..but today I am still, just a Bill." :D

[rapunzelgirl]

Okay, I'll be watching these DVDs tonight after church! I can't see the embedded youtube stuff here at work, so now I've got "I'm just a bill" stuck in my head.

There's a really cool cover of that song in Legally Blonde 2. Pretty funny when she's trying to get her bill passed.

[Cindy]

Now all those little songs will be playing in my head.........

[Monkeyman]

This one was actually my favorite. "..but today I am still, just a Bill." :DYou beat me to the punch again Carp, my favorite too!

[Cindy]

I wonder who all the singers were? Does anyone know if any of the ones that sang were someone famous?

[Ron]

Now all those little songs will be playing in my head.........

I remember them like yesterday!
This was a fun way to teach!

[Ron]

I wonder who all the singers were? Does anyone know if any of the ones that sang were someone famous?

I am not sure, but they are good.

[Digging4Truth]

I wonder who all the singers were? Does anyone know if any of the ones that sang were someone famous?

From this site. (http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2006/10/where_are_they_20.html) Watch out for language if you click there.
Bob Dorough was the principal music director for Schoolhouse Rock. A well established figure in the jazz field, he wrote a large number of the Schoolhouse songs as well as perfoming many. To assist in the performances, he brought on board many of the friends he had made and performed with from the jazz world.

To this day, you can find Mr. Dorough touring hotel bars and jazz clubs near his home in upstate Pennsylvania

Bob Dorough has a website here. (http://www.bobdorough.com/)

Believe it or not, Lynn Ahrens was actually a secretary at the ad agency that created Schoolhouse Rock. Ahrens went on to write and perform the second largest volume of the Schoolhouse episodes behind Dorough. Check this out...Lynn got hired by playing a song she wrote called "You're Just a Phase" (I'm just a Bill?) about a woman who lets her ex-boyfriend know he's just a phase. From hearing that, the agency producers knew that she had the ability to write songs that tell stories. How freaking funny is that?

Today...well, for the past 20 years she's been one half of the team of Ahrens and Flaherty, one of the most prolific composing teams on Broadway. Ragtime, Seussical and My Favorite Year are just a few of their accomplishments. But for my money, putting The Preamble to music will always make her a legend.

Blossom Dearie had been a New York City jazz singer since the 50's, singing with the Woody Herman Orchestra. In the 70's, her good Friend Bob Dorough asked her to lend her voice to a certain Saturday Morning gig, and Mother Necessity, Figure Eight, and Unpack Your Adjectives were born.

Today, Blossom's voice can be heard on soundtracks such as Kissing Jessica Stein and The Squid and the Whale. And she also performs regularly at Danny's Skylight Room in New York City (another interview?) Don't know if she's still singing Figure Eight, but she may take requests if you ask.


Ezra Mohawk stands out as the rebel rocker in the group, having performed with everyone from Frank Zappa to Jerry Garcia. She also represents all the singers who might have worked on just one or two of the Schoolhouse songs. There was Verb, That's What's Happening, by Zach Sanders, Elbow Room by Sue Manchester, and a few others, But Liz is the only person I could find anything on, so she's the spokesperson by default, and a good one, as Interjections is a classic.

Today? Well she lives in Philly, and just released a new album called Love is Still the Answer. Still tours too,

[Cindy]

From this site. (http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2006/10/where_are_they_20.html) Watch out for language if you click there.


Bob Dorough has a website here. (http://www.bobdorough.com/)

Cool, thanks.........:)