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Schoolhouse Rock

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of 46 educational shorts featuring rock songs about schoolroom topics, including grammar, science, economics and American history and politics. Originally conceived by Thomas G. Yohe in 1972, the shorts were broadcast on ABC television affiliates until 1986.

Often viewed with nostalgia by members of Generation X, Schoolhouse Rock! has become part of American popular culture. It has been parodied in The Simpsons ("An Amendment to Be"), and in 1996 Atlantic Records released the album Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks, a collection of popular artists covering Schoolhouse Rock! tunes. Some of the more notable artists included Better Than Ezra (Conjunction Junction), Goodness (Electricity, Electricity), Blind Melon (Three Is A Magic Number), the Lemonheads (My Hero, Zero), Ween (The Shot Heard 'Round the World) and Moby (Verb: That's What's Happening).

An additional short, I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College, was created for the 30th anniversary video release.

Titles

Grammar Rock titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• Unpack Your Adjectives (adjective) -
• Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here (adverb) -
• Conjunction Junction (conjunction) -
• Interjections! (interjection) -
• Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (pronoun) -
• Verb: That's What's Happening (verb) -
• A Noun Is A Person, Place Or Thing (noun) -
• Busy Prepositions (preposition) -
• The Tale of Mr. Morton (predicate) -

Science Rock titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• The Body Machine (nutrition) -
• Do The Circulation (cardiovascular system) -
• Electricity, Electricity (electricity) -
• The Energy Blues (energy conservation) -
• Interplanet Janet (solar system) -
• Telegraph Line (nervous system) -
• Them Not-So-Dry Bones (skeletal system) -
• A Victim Of Gravity (gravity) -

Money Rock titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• Dollars and Sense (interest) -
• Making $7.50 Once a Week (budget) -
• Where The Money Goes (paying bills) -
• Tax Man Max (taxes) -
• Walkin' On Wall Street (stock exchange) -
• This For That (barter) -
• Tyrannosaurus Debt (budget deficit) -
• The Check's In The Mail (checks) -

Multiplication Rock titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• My Hero, Zero (Zero as a numeral) -
• Elementary, My Dear (2) -
• Three Is a Magic Number (3) -
• The Four-Legged Zoo (4) -
• Ready or Not, Here I Come (5) -
• I Got Six (6) -
• Lucky Seven Sampson (7) -
• Figure Eight (8) -
• Naughty Number Nine (9) -
• The Good Eleven (11) -
• Little Twelvetoes (12) -

America Rock titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• No More Kings (independence) -
• Fireworks (Declaration of Independence) -
• The Shot Heard 'Round The World (American Revolutionary War) -
• The Preamble (United States Constitution) -
• Elbow Room (U.S. territorial expansion, see Manifest Destiny) -
• The Great American Melting Pot (immigration/Melting pot) -
• Mother Necessity (American inventions) -
• Sufferin' Till Suffrage (Women's suffrage) -
• I'm Just A Bill (legislation) -
• Three Ring Government (Separation of powers) -

Computer Rock (Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips) titles (and topic) - (link to external page with lyrics):

• Introduction -
• Hardware -
• Software -
• Number Cruncher -