yo
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 24 December 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
...nearly 30 years later...
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 24 December 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
hand held high [or as high as i can with the onset of arthritis].
― violoncellos, Monday, 24 December 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and "Rufus x.p" for the win.
― violoncellos, Monday, 24 December 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
er, obviously the lager has gotten to the synapses. Make that "Rufus x. s." for the win.
― violoncellos, Monday, 24 December 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
We had to recite the preamble in seventh grade and everyone had it memorized from Saturday mornings. One kid was basically busted for doing so when he couldn't help reciting it in the same meter as the song. Saying "ah-and" was the dead giveaway.
― dad a, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i bought this for my son a couple years back, so fun remembering lyrics to songs i had not heard in 20+ years. amazing how these ditties really burned into memory cells.
― gershy, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
yo, yo
― Morley Timmons, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i am guilty and old as charged
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
god this is hard
― chaki, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
How to even vote?
"My Hero, Zero" is the catchiest "Conjunction Junction" is probably the most educational "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" is a motherfucker of a song
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't vote for it, but "The Tale of Mr. Morton" should be taught in songwriting classes.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Thursday, 27 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Who all here is old enough
I was there.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
De La Soul fans, amirite?
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i was there too, ca. 76-78. used to go across the road saturday mornings to watch cartoons at eric's house. schoolhouse rock bits came on between speed buggy, fat albert, krofft supershow.
― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 27 December 2007 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Missed the poll, but I was squarely in the demographic when these first aired. Would have voted for "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," but I always think of "The Great American Melting Pot" when I'm riding on the F train and can see Lovely Lady Liberty off in the distance.
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Was robbed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM
This song rocks.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Robbed? Hey! It got three votes!
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, but Three Is A Magic Number got 8 votes.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Thx 4 the subtitles had no idea as a youngin that it was:
"They're generally set apart from a sentenceBy an exclamation pointOr by a comma when the feeling's not as strong."
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops! I forgot! That's my favorite song!
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the chorus: "So when you're happy (HURRAY!) or sad (AWWW!) . . ."
Genius, kinda.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't vote for it, but "The Tale of Mr. Morton" should be taught in songwriting classes.― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, December 25, 2007 8:19 PM (5 years ago)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, December 25, 2007 8:19 PM (5 years ago)
Written by Lynn Ahrens, who is also the voice on some of her own compositions. Wrote on her "Preamble":
http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2013/09/schoolhouse-rock-preamble-1975.html
― timellison, Saturday, 21 September 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
DJ Quik sampling "Verb: That's What's Happening" in "We Still Party" is one of the dopest samples ever.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E2pX7ezEKIs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DE2pX7ezEKIs
― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 September 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Bob Dorough does a jazz brunch sometimes or variants thereof, including this weekend at Joe's Pub.
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
"I'm Just A Bill" wuz robbed.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 24 February 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
"I Got Six" kicks so much ass.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 February 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
i don't see how unpack your adjectives got more votes than classics i'm just a bill and interjection!. fix was in.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 24 February 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
― The Reverend, Saturday, September 21, 2013 1:06 PM Bookmark
Me OTM!
― imago draggin' (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link
Alright I have my tickets for this Sunday's noontime performance.
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
Will you call out requests?
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 March 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
Think so.
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 March 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
He front-loaded the straight jazz part of the show, including "September Song" and "I'm Hip," then did Schoolhouse Rock material at the end. Afterwards somebody had him autograph the sleeve of a Sorcerer LP. He promised to do "Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla" next weekend.
― In Walked Sho-Bud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 March 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edHPGj43f5U
― Thank You For Talking Machine Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 May 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
Thx 4 the subtitles had no idea as a youngin that it was:"They're generally set apart from a sentenceBy an exclamation pointOr by a comma when the feeling's not as strong."― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, November 23, 2009 5:27 PM (5 years ago)
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, November 23, 2009 5:27 PM (5 years ago)
This part kind of reminds me of another song, maybe the chorus(?) of The Crystals' "He's A Rebel":
Just because he's doesn't do whatEverybody else does...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 08:15 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ty_8Nw-CY
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
HI DERE,Thread of missing Bob Dorough. Glad I got to see him live the one time and name a rolling jazz thread or two after his work before the recent curvy Colombian crackdown.
― Dub (Webster’s Dictionary) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 April 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Incredible songwriter obviously, and a very distinctive singer who projected exactly the right pitch of warmth, enthusiasm, and uncondescending knowingness to make this material as compelling as it is."Remember Lucky Seven Sampson, that's my natural-born nameIf you should ask me again I'd have to tell you the sameWhen you wake up tomorrow you'll be glad that I came'Cause you'll be singing one of the songs that *I* sang"
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 27 April 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Adore the animation but it was the music that stuck in my head my entire life. I bought the DVD for my kids and the CD box set for me!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
weird bit of trivia only interesting to me: Bob Dorough once guested on a Fantastic Plastic Machine LP. on first listen I remember thinking, "this dude sounds a lot like the Schoolhouse Rock guy"; it was a few years before I realized it actually was
― frogbs, Monday, 30 April 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
Bob Dorough made it to 94 and saw generations of kids love and learn from his music. That's about as good as it gets.
I don't know about you lot but his songs still rattle round my brain at times.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Nice tribute coming up in a few days
― Abbatari Teenage Riot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
RIP Jack Sheldon https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/arts/music/jack-sheldon-dead.html
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
I hope his voice will be echoing round school rooms for centuries...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 2 February 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
Man, I love each and every one of the cats associated with this music.
― He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 February 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Maybe already known to folks here, but news to me, via a friend's Facebook: in the early 70s, Bob Dorough cut gentle, folky vocal tracks for three Scholastic Records 7"s comprising kid-friendly covers of pretty hip contemporary hits. The bubblegummy headline name was The 44th Street Portable Flower Factory (sometimes just printed as The Portable Flower Factory) and there seem to have been twelve tracks in all, of which I can find five on YouTube. A sampling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoRwZUi_KHc
Runaway Child, Running Wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbz7SpyCc8k
Across the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG9csC51qsI
Get Together
Would love to hear "Atlantis," "Country Road," "Who'll Stop the Rain"...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
No, had never heard of that, and would like to hear those too. Also found these:
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
youtube.com/watch?v=ge0zP--KPowThe Letter
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
youtube.com/watch?v=ge0zP--KPow
― Isolde mein Herz zum Junker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Ah, forget it, it's out there, along with Blackbird.
Thanks for posting those, Bob's voice will always be a direct route to my inner child. It's a shame there's no compilation covering Bob's career.
Incidentally: In 2019, the Schoolhouse Rock! soundtrack was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Hell yeah!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
these are great.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPPqlfZocI
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 December 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
RIP, Dave Frishberg.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
So what Bob Dorough albums are worth hearing?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 22 December 2023 21:59 (three months ago) link
Devil May Care!
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 December 2023 00:48 (three months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/arts/music/essra-mohawk-dead.html
"In the 1970s, Ms. Mohawk sang memorable songs like “Sufferin’ Till Suffrage” and “Interjections!,” for “Schoolhouse Rock!,” the series of animated educational shorts that was a Saturday morning television staple for the children of Generation X."
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 December 2023 16:10 (three months ago) link
I doubt the current Congress would even consider that bill.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 23 December 2023 16:14 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3W1BiUjp0
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 December 2023 18:22 (three months ago) link