Bob Dorough, one of the driving forces behind "Schoolhouse Rock", has died

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For adults of a certain age they will remember “Schoolhouse Rock”. They likely (even after several decades) can still sing along with a number of songs that taught grammar, math, and history.

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Bob Dorough, Jazzman With a Hit Kid-Music Series, Dies at 94 (Published 2018)

Mr. Dorough worked with Miles Davis and many others, but he’s best known for his songs for the educational cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock!”
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I learned the preamble from Schoolhouse Rock!
And conjunction junction!

Eternal rest grant unto him, Oh Lord…
 
Was just reading about him the other day. He started writing his songs because his kid was struggling with his times tables…

Three is a magic number… yes it is!
 
RIP Bob and thank you for your service in teaching me and everybody else stuff we needed to know.

I remember once having a test question asking us to write out the Preamble. Afterwards, everybody in the class agreed they were singing the song in their head to remember it.

I can still sing a lot of the America Rock bicentennial ones by heart, though I think the Simpsons parody of I’m Just a Bill was as good as the original.

I probably think of Three Ring Government about once a week, because the federal government really is a circus…a clown show most days.
 
Schoolhouse Rock helped me learn a lot of grammar, history, and math, but I also thank the “Animaniacs” for helping me learn the states and their capitals and the presidents of the United States!
 
I remember also learning a song called “Fifty Nifty United States” in elementary school, which taught us to sing the names of all the US states in alphabetical order. I can still sing it today.

We did not learn to sing the state capitals, but I remember most of them from having a US States puzzle as a kid that had each state capital listed on the puzzle piece for the state.
 
Crossing over the pond, I’m also a fan of Horrible Histories’ “Kings and Queens” song for naming off all the rulers of England.
 
Ahhhh! It was mandatory for us to sing Fifty Nifty in third grade choir. I still remember it to this day… and it’s come in use a thousand times since then! 🙂

And now I’m going off to Youtube to watch Kings and Queens, because that one wasn’t on my radar. 😛 The closest I’ve got is a little snippet of verse–
King Henry the Eighth,
Six wives he wedded,
One died, one survived,
Two divorced, two beheaded
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