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Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Children's Music, Broadway & Vocalists

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All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series)
Members Wishing: 10
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino / Wea
Original Release Date: 6/18/1996
Release Date: 6/18/1996
Album Type: Box set, Soundtrack
Genres: Alternative Rock, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Children's Music, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Comedy & Spoken Word, Vocal Pop, By Decade, 1970s, Educational, Musicals
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
UPCs: 081227245528, 081227245528

Synopsis

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It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ("Unpack Your Adjectives") and adverbs ("Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here"), how to multiply ("Three Is a Magic Number"), basic principles of science ("Do the Circulation," "Interplanet Janet"), and American civics ("I'm Just a Bill," "The Preamble"). All of the original songs are here, plus four Money Rock songs--"Dollars and Sense" and "Where the Money Goes" are as classic as any of the original standouts--and four tracks from the short-lived Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips series (which, unlike the rest of the Schoolhouse Rock songs, can be dated by the proto-new-wave-influenced instrumentation). A classic collection of (mostly) timeless songs that shaped the minds of a generation or two: how many box sets can you say that about? --Randy Silver

CD Reviews

Timeless

Shaz | Naples, FL USA | 09/08/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Anyone born before 1980 remembers the time when cartoons were only played during the day on Saturday mornings (before Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Toon Disney came along). Your Mom couldn't blast you out of bed before 7 a.m. on a weekday, but your internal 'toon clock got you up at 6:30 a.m. to watch Saturday morning cartoons. And inbetween shows, there was a brilliant little series of short musical toons called "Schoolhouse Rocks". Back in the days before Hooked On Phonics or Baby Einstein, these shorts taught multiplying, english grammar, history, and science, all set to fun music and cool blues tunes. In this clever boxed set, you get all four series on CD, averaging about 12 to 14 songs per CD. It's a reasonable price for a boxed set (around 45-50 bucks)and totally worth it! Even kids today know "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill", but haven't heard "Naughty Number Nine", "No More Kings", "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get You Adverbs", or "Tax Man Max". It's fun to listen to these songs and remember the words. I bought these for my kids to listen to in the car, and now a new generation is adopting them as their own. We love them, and so will you."