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Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
Buy Used: $149.99
Used (4) from $149.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 141415
Format: Box Set, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 12 x 6.1 x 1.1
UPC: 081227245528
EAN: 0081227245528
ASIN: B0000033TA
Release Date: June 18, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Elementary, My Dear - Dorough, Bob | | • | Three Is a Magic Number - Dorough, Bob | | • | The Four-Legged Zoo - Dorough, Bob | | • | Ready or Not, Here I Come - Dorough, Bob | | • | My Hero, Zero - Dorough, Bob | | • | I Got Six - Dorough, Bob | | • | Lucky Seven Sampson - Dorough, Bob | | • | Figure Eight - Dorough, Bob | | • | Naughty Number Nine - Dorough, Bob | | • | The Good Eleven - Dorough, Bob | | • | Little Twelvetoes - Dorough, Bob | | • | My Hero, Zero - Dorough, Bob |
Disc 2
| • | Unpack Your Adjectives - Newall, George | | • | Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here - Dorough, Bob | | • | Conjunction Junction - Dorough, Bob | | • | Interjections! - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla - Mandry, Kathy | | • | Verb: That's What's Happening - Dorough, Bob | | • | A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Busy Prepositions - Dorough, Bob | | • | The Tale of Mr. Morton - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Dollars and Sense - Frishberg, Dave | | • | Tax Man Max - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | $7.50 Once a Week - Frishberg, Dave | | • | Where the Money Goes - Mendoza, Rich |
Disc 3
| • | No More Kings - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Fireworks - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | The Shot Heard 'Round the World - Dorough, Bob | | • | The Preamble - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Elbow Room - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | The Great American Melting Pot - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Mother Necessity - Dorough, Bob | | • | Sufferin' Till Suffrage - Yohe, Tom | | • | I'm Just a Bill - Frishberg, Dave | | • | Three-Ring Government - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Electricity, Electricity - Dorough, Bob |
Disc 4
| • | The Body Machine - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Do the Circulation - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Electricity, Electricity - Dorough, Bob | | • | The Energy Blues - Newall, George | | • | Interplanet Janet - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Telegraph Line - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Them Not-So-Dry Bones - Newall, George | | • | A Victim of Gravity - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Introduction - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Software - Ahrens, Lynn | | • | Hardware - Frishberg, Dave | | • | Number Cruncher - Frishberg, Dave |
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Amazon.com
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
Great Packaging December 3, 2008
I really like the packaging. The discs are held in a narrow 3-ring binder with the faux blue fabric texture and the School House Rock logo.
I've done some Google searches and don't see any news of a re-release of this or any similar collection. So this may be your best shot. Too bad this set is so expensive though since it's out of print.
Brings back memories! February 17, 2007
I always enjoyed the Schoolhouse Rock spots on television as a kid. Now my kids are loving them, too. My daughter actually learned her multiplication tables by remembering the songs on these CDs.
I love it, my son loves it January 18, 2007
Talk about old-school, this is the very definition!! I never get tired of hearing the old songs. The DVDs are great, too.
 What's your function? November 9, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This collection includes all the songs that were written for Schoolhouse Rock. There is a lot of nostalgia here for those of us who grew up in the '70s. I enjoy almost all of the songs, but the ones that were added after i grew up have less appeal to me. The Multiplication Rock songs sound the best, since they were taken from the master tapes. Most of the other songs were recorded directly from the cartoons, so they aren't in stereo and they include the sound effects from the cartoons. This generally isn't too bad, but I find the abundance of sound effects on "No More Kings" to be somewhat annoying. One other minor complaint: the "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips" songs are too dated. Computer technology advanced so fast that they were almost immediately obsolete. But fans of Schoolhouse Rock should still get this collection. To quote Lisa Simpson, "this is one of those campy '70s throwbacks that appeals to Generation Xers."
Timeless September 8, 2003
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
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