''Schoolhouse Rock!'' is an American
interstitial program
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ming series of
animated
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musical educational
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short films (and later, videos) that aired during the
Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network
ABC
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. The themes covered included
grammar
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,
science
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,
economics
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,
history
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,
mathematics, and
civics
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. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984; it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for
direct-to-video
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release.
History
Development
The series was the idea of David McCall, an advertising executive of McCaffrey and McCall, who noticed his young son was struggling with learning multiplication tables, despite being able to memorize the lyrics of many
Rolling Stones songs. McCall hired musician
Bob Dorough to write a song that would teach multiplication, which became "Three Is a Magic Number."
Tom Yohe, an illustrator at McCaffrey and McCall, heard the song and created visuals to accompany it. Radford Stone, producer and writer at
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
, suggested they pitch it as a television series, which caught the attention of (future chairman and
CEO of
The Walt Disney Company
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)
Michael Eisner
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, then vice president of ABC, and of cartoon director
Chuck Jones.
Original series
The
pilot episode of the series, "Three Is a Magic Number," originally debuted during the debut episode of ''
Curiosity Shop
''Curiosity Shop'' is an American children's educational television program produced by ABC. The show was executive produced by veteran Looney Tunes director/animator Chuck Jones, sponsored by the Kellogg's cereal company and created as a comme ...
'' on September 2, 1971.
The Curiosity Shop version is an extended cut which includes an additional scene/verse that explains the pattern of each set of ten containing three multiples of three, animated in the form of a carnival shooting game. This scene has never been rebroadcast on ABC, nor has it been included in any home media releases.
''Schoolhouse Rock!'' debuted as a series in January 1973 with ''Multiplication Rock'', a collection of animated shorts adapting the
multiplication tables
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The decimal multiplication table was traditionally taught as an essenti ...
to songs written by Bob Dorough. Dorough also performed most of the songs, with
Grady Tate
Grady Tate (January 14, 1932 – October 8, 2017) was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. In addition to his work as sideman, Tate released many albums as leader and lent his voice to songs in the animated ''Schoolhou ...
performing two and
Blossom Dearie
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performing one during this season.
General Foods
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The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate ...
was the series' first sponsor; later sponsors of the ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' segments also included
Nabisco
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Nabisco's ...
,
Kenner Toys
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,
Kellogg's, and
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hambur ...
. During the early 1970s, ''Schoolhouse Rock'' was one of several short-form animated educational shorts that aired on ABC's children's lineup; others included ''
Time for Timer
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'' and ''
The Bod Squad.'' Of the three, ''Schoolhouse Rock'' was the longest-running.
George Newall and
Tom Yohe were the executive producers and creative directors of every episode, along with Bob Dorough as musical director. This first season was followed in short order by a second season, run from 1973 to 1975, entitled ''Grammar Rock'', which included nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other
parts of speech
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(such as
conjunctions, explained in "Conjunction Junction"). For this second season, the show added the services of
Jack Sheldon
Beryl Cyril Sheldon Jr. (November 30, 1931 – December 27, 2019), known professionally as Jack Sheldon, was an American singer, musician, and actor. He performed on '' The Merv Griffin Show'' and participated in episodes of the educational musi ...
, a member of ''
The Merv Griffin Show
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'' house band, as well as
Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle ...
; both of them contributed to the series through the rest of its run. Blossom Dearie returned for a second episode, and
Essra Mohawk
Essra Mohawk (born Sandra Elayne Hurvitz on April 23, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter who has recorded a dozen albums, many receiving critical acclaim.
Her best-known songs include "Sufferin' Til Suffrage" and "Interjections!" (both from ...
joined the cast as a recurring singer.
To coincide with the upcoming
United States bicentennial
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, a third season, ''America Rock'', airing in 1975 and 1976, had episodes covering the structure of the United States government (such as "
I'm Just a Bill") along with important moments in American history (examples include "The Preamble" and "Mother Necessity").
A fourth series, titled "Science Rock," followed in 1978 and 1979, and included a broad range of science-related topics. The premiere episode of this season, "A Victim of Gravity," parodied elements of the hit film ''
Grease'' and featured a rare guest appearance from a pop band, with recently reunited doo-wop group
The Tokens
The Tokens were an American doo-wop band and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York City. The group has had four top 40 hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, all in the 1960s, their biggest being the chart-topping 1961 hit si ...
providing the vocals. In addition to episodes describing the human body's anatomical systems (the nervous, circulatory, skeletal and digestive systems each received an episode), episodes describing physical sciences such as astronomy, meteorology and electricity were also included, as was "The Energy Blues," an environmentalism-themed short.
A fifth follow-up series, titled "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips," featuring the titular characters (the only episodes in the series to feature any recurring characters), premiered in the early 1980s and comprised just four segments about
home computer technology, then just emerging onto the scene. As the references and depictions became quickly outdated, due to the
rapid advance of technology, these segments stopped airing after 1985 and were not released on home video until the 30th anniversary DVD in 2002.
1990s
After leaving the airwaves in 1985, the original team reunited to produce two more Grammar Rock segments ("Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton") for television in 1993 with J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. of
White Plains, New York
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. This was followed in 1995 by a new series, "
Money Rock," which discussed themes related to money management on both the personal and governmental scale. The first cartoon (also a J. J. Sedelmaier Production, Inc. production) was "Dollars & Sense." Episodes from the new series aired in rotation with the original segments from 1993 to 1996.
The Walt Disney Company
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acquired ''Schoolhouse Rock'' in 1996 along with its acquisition of ABC owner
Capital Cities/ABC Inc.; ''Schoolhouse Rock'' was one of only two children's shows (''
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
''The Bugs Bunny Show'' is a long-running American animated anthology television series hosted by Bugs Bunny that was mainly composed of theatrical '' Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons released by Warner Bros. between 1948 and 196 ...
'' being the other) to continue airing (albeit in reruns) after the transition to
One Saturday Morning The series as a whole (after 27 years, shortly before the show's 30th anniversary) ceased airing on television in 2000, with newer episodes being released directly to home video. However, reruns occasionally aired on
Toon Disney's ''Big Movie Show'' block in 2004, but were soon removed from the schedule.
21st century
Starting in 2002, the team once again reunited to produce a new song "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College," written by George Newall and performed by
Bob Dorough and
Jack Sheldon
Beryl Cyril Sheldon Jr. (November 30, 1931 – December 27, 2019), known professionally as Jack Sheldon, was an American singer, musician, and actor. He performed on '' The Merv Griffin Show'' and participated in episodes of the educational musi ...
for the 30th Anniversary VHS and DVD releases. For the new song, Tom Yohe Jr. took over as lead designer for his father, Tom Yohe Sr., who had died in 2000.
Another contemporary song, called "Presidential Minute," also written by George Newall which explained the process of electing the
President of the United States
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in greater detail, was included on the 2008 DVD ''Schoolhouse Rock! Election Collection'', which centered on songs relating to American history and government.
As the theory of
climate change
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was put forth, a new series entitled "Schoolhouse Rock Earth"
was created by the original production team, premiered in 2009, and featured 11 environmentally-themed songs.
On January 6, 2013, George Newall and
Bob Dorough appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of their ongoing series of free concerts on the Millennium Stage. It was deemed the largest attendance to date of the venue. Dorough played five songs, accompanying himself on the piano: "Three Is a Magic Number," "Figure Eight," "Conjunction Junction," "Preamble," and "I'm Just a Bill." (Dorough had only performed lead vocals on the original version of "Three Is a Magic Number.") He also performed "Interjections!" accompanied by DC-area kids' band
Rocknoceros. Rocknoceros also performed "Electricity, Electricity," "Unpack Your Adjectives," "Energy Blues," and "Fireworks."
On March 20, 2019, it was announced that ''Schoolhouse Rock!: The Box Set'' (1996) was added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in its 2018 class.
Episodes
Multiplication Rock
No shows were produced featuring the number
1 explicitly, though several of them, including "Elementary, My Dear," do include this number. "My Hero, Zero" introduced the subject of how to use zero for multiplying by 10, 100, and 1,000. "Little Twelvetoes" introduced the subject of how math arranged on base 12 rather than on base 10 would work, as well as covering multiplication by
12.
In 1973,
Capitol Records released a soundtrack album of ''Multiplication Rock'' (SJA-11174), featuring all 11 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, uncut forms. Also, the album version of "The Four-Legged Zoo" has an ending slightly different from the television version. Released with the album was a single (Capitol 3693) with the two Grady Tate–sung tracks ("Naughty Number Nine" b/w "I Got Six"). This album was re-released on red/blue-colored vinyl on
Record Store Day
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2019.
Grammar Rock
This segment introduces Jack Sheldon and Lynn Ahrens as series regulars. "Conjunction Junction" and "A Noun Is a Person, Place, or Thing" were Sheldon and Ahrens' debuts on ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' respectively.
"Busy Prepositions" (a.k.a. "Busy P's") and "The Tale of Mr. Morton" were produced for ''Schoolhouse Rock!''s return to ABC in 1993 with J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. producing the animation.
America Rock
"I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" and "Presidential Minute" were produced for DVD.
Science Rock
* In the Disney+ version of "Electricity, Electricity," the flashing light visuals for the "electricity" text are toned down to reduce the risk of anyone with photosensitive epilepsy.
* Sometime after its initial airing, "The Greatest Show on Earth," also known as "The Weather Show," was pulled from broadcast rotation because the
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus objected to its use of their
trademark
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slogan (which was in the questioned title) and filed a
lawsuit against the network for copyright infringement.
As a result, the 1995 VHS of the program (and subsequent VHS reissues) deleted the song. However, it was included in the 1987 ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' VHS release, and in 2002 it was included on the bonus disc of the ''Special 30th Anniversary Edition'' DVD (see
below).
Computer Rock
Money Rock
Earth Rock
These songs did not air on ABC. They premiered on a DVD released in 2009.
Tie-ins
Several tie-ins were released in 1995:
* ''
Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
''Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks'' is a tribute album based on the American animated TV series, ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' It was released by Atlantic/Lava Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs f ...
'', a tribute album featuring covers of ''Schoolhouse Rocks'' songs performed by popular music artists (see below)
* ''Schoolhouse Rock! The Official Guide'' (), 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 Weather Show" was shown with all the other Science Rock episodes in 1979.
* ''The Schoolhouse Rock Songbook'' (Cherry Lane Music), containing sheet music for 10 songs.
* ''
Schoolhouse Rock! Soundtrack
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'' The 4-CD release with
bonus track
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s on each CD was released on June 18, 1996, by
Rhino Records
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.
''The Best of Schoolhouse Rock'' () was released in 1998 jointly by
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
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and
Rhino Records
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.
Home video
A 1987 production of the series for
VHS tape released by Golden Book Video featured
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nomina ...
opening the collection and some songs with child dancers and singers. Three songs (namely "Three Ring Government," "The Good Eleven," and "Little Twelve Toes") were not included on the videos.
In 1995, ABC Video and Image Entertainment released two volumes of ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' on
LaserDisc, ''Schoolhouse Rock! Volume 1: Multiplication Rock and Grammar Rock'' (ID3245CC), and ''Schoolhouse Rock! Volume 2: America Rock and Science Rock'' (ID3383CC). For both volumes, the first side was in the CLV Extended Play format and the second was in the frame-accessible CAV format, and both contained CX-encoded analog and digital audio soundtracks. The "Grammar Rock" volume included the 1993 shorts "Busy Prepositions" and "The Tale of Mr. Morton."
In 1994, ABC/King Features sold exclusive licensing rights for apparel to Coastal Concepts, Inc. of Vista California, the first company to produce ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' apparel. Tom Yohe worked with contemporary artist Skya Nelson to create over 50 new designs and update the ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' image for a new market, which sold $1.1 million in its first year and exploded selling over $12 million the next year. A variety of bands working with Rhino Records were furnished with newly minted ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' T-shirts for the music videos youth market. The licensing rights were expanded to include other manufacturers in 1996.
In 1995, ABC teamed with
Paramount Home Video
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The division oversees PPC's home entertainme ...
and re-released four segments of ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' on VHS with alternative covers and opening.
In 1997–1998, for the show's 25th anniversary,
Walt Disney Home Video
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released five segments on VHS, along with "Money Rock" being released in 1998.
On August 27, 2002,
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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released a 2-DVD set to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the show. The set features 52 of the 53 episodes that had been produced up to that point, including three of the lost "Computer Rock" segments, with the exception of "Introduction." "The Weather Show" and "Presidential Minute" are found on the bonus disc, the former in modified form with the problematic lyric removed, and the latter viewable only upon completing the "Earn Your Diploma" Trivia Game. An abbreviated VHS, featuring 25 episodes (ranked on the tape in order of popularity) and "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College," was released at the same time.
In 2008, DVDs of the individual ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' series were released for classroom use.
On September 23, 2008, ''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
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released ''Schoolhouse Rock! Earth'', including 11 newly written and animated songs, as well as "Energy Blues.”
[
On June 5, 2020, a majority of the shorts were made available for streaming on ]Disney+
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, with a disclaimer stating the shorts contain "outdated cultural depictions.”
Tribute albums
In 1996, the album ''Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
''Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks'' is a tribute album based on the American animated TV series, ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' It was released by Atlantic/Lava Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs f ...
'' was released by Rhino Records
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, with fifteen covers of Schoolhouse Rock songs including the theme. Covers by notable artists included "Three is a Magic Number" by Blind Melon
Blind Melon is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles by five musicians: three from Mississippi, one from Pennsylvania and one from Indiana. The band currently consists of guitarists Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn, drummer ...
, "No More Kings" by Pavement, "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" by Ween
Ween is an American rock band from New Hope, Pennsylvania, formed in 1984 by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene and Dean Ween. Generally categorized as an alternative rock band, the band a ...
, "My Hero, Zero" by The Lemonheads
The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member.
After their initial punk-influenced releases and tour ...
and "Verb: That's What's Happening" by Moby.
On August 18, 1998, Rhino also released ''Schoolhouse Rocks the Vote!: A Benefit for Rock the Vote'', a tribute album containing covers and original songs in the style of ''Schoolhouse Rock!'', all with an electoral theme. It was released as a fundraiser for Rock the Vote
Rock the Vote is a non-profit progressive-aligned organization in the United States whose stated mission is "to engage and build the political power of young Americans."
The organization was founded in 1990 by Virgin Records America Co-Chairman ...
, an organization advocating for political awareness and voting among young people. Several well-known artists contributed tracks to the album, including Isaac Hayes, Joan Osborne
Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and interpreter of music, having recorded and performed in various popular American musical genres including rock, pop, soul, R&B, blues, and country. She is best kn ...
, The Sugarhill Gang
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and The Roots, alongside original ''Schoolhouse Rock!'' performers Bob Dorough, Essra Mohawk and Grady Tate.
''Schoolhouse Rock Live!''
A musical theatre adaptation of the show, titled '' Schoolhouse Rock Live!'', premiered in 1993. It featured a collaboration between artists Scott Ferguson, Kyle Hall, George Keating, Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, and Kathy Mandry, utilizing some of the most famous songs of Newall and Yohe.''Schoolhouse Rock Live!''
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A follow-up production entitled ''Schoolhouse Rock Live, Too'', written by the same team as ''Schoolhouse Rock Live!'', premiered in
Chicago
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in 2000.
See also
* ''
Look and Read
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'' (songs)
* ''
The Metric Marvels
''The Metric Marvels'' is a 1978-1979 series of seven animated educational shorts featuring songs about meters, liters, Celsius, and grams, designed to teach American children how to use the metric system. They were produced by Newall & Yohe, th ...
''
References
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