I'm OVER 55 (*sigh) but I grew up on these: they played BETWEEN other Saturday morning cartoons. For us 70s and 80s, GenX-ers, this was COMMON KNOWLEDGE for anyone who had a TV. I still remember the words nearly verbatim. That's how often these were on and how determined the networks were determined to shove info into our brains. The creators came to my college to do a presentation, the audience was FILLED, and EVERYONE knew the songs based off of just the first notes played on the piano. It was a beautiful, shared experience. I got the DVD and played it for my kids as they grew up. Schoolhouse Rock was created by trained, dedicated, LOVING educators, psychologists and artists, so why not continue to utilize all that effort?
These shows should be played at times of day when any child under 10 should be watching TV, maybe the education systems could take a lesson from these.
HS civics class, 1980: our teacher has us open our books to the Pre-amble. He starts to read it….we all burst out singing & bopping in our seats. The stunned looked on his face was AWESOME! 🤣
I'm 55yrs old now...I remember being elementary school age sitting on living room floor watching these (no cable/internet back then meant no options lol) Probably kept watching in middle and highschool ...just because. Conjunction and Bill have randomly popped in my head throughout the decades. Truly classics!
Having been born in 1967 and grew up watching these as a kid I learned more that way than I did in classes. Every Saturday and Sunday morning when the cartoons came on they would show a School House Rock short and then the cartoon and even have them as commercials in between the cartoons.
Born in 1973 here! Every child born in my family, throughout the decades, has been gifted a VHS, DVD or stream of School House Rock! The children’s programs on TV back then were amazing. Sesame Street, Electric Company, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers. The guy who drew pictures to illustrate the story he was narrating… I’m so grateful I was a little kid back then.
The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock taught an entire generation how to read, write , civics, manners and basic values….Kids desperately need that today.
There are similar modern versions for young children now. Or at least there was in the years after 2006 when my daughter was born. Of course my favorite was Yo Gabba Gabba because it reminded me very much of the 70's/80's stuff I saw as a kid, and featured cool Gen X'ers in guest appearances. 😀🥰
When I was a kid in the early 70s, there were four of us kids in the house. Someone had to stay in the house and yell for the rest of us when a schoolhouse rock came on TV so we could all run in and watch it. It was fantastic.
I’m 64. I learned The Preamble from Schoolhouse Rock. My Civics teacher wanted us to learn it over the weekend for an instant A. I asked if I could go ahead and recite it right then, since I was going to be out for the next week for medical reasons. He asked me “You know it?” I nodded. I recited it perfectly while listening to the music in my head. “Wendy, how did you know this already?” “From Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday morning TV. Do I get my A now?” Oh, the look on that teacher’s face! Yes, Wendy, you got your A.
I wish they would have show adverbs. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here... I passed a test in English once because whenever we got stuck someone would hum the Schoolhouse Rocks song for it. I started it by humming Conjunction Junction. We were all tapping our pens trying to remember, I hummed, we all started writing. We started tapping our pens again, and someone else hummed, we all started writing. An entire class passed the English test, thanks to Schoolhouse Rocks. It was 1981, we had grown up watching these commercials during cartoons every Saturday. Those commercials graduated us from school. It was a success. Thank you to everyone who helped make those. I still hum those once in awhile, over 50 years ago is when I learned those songs. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30...
I'm Gen X and grew up with these between the Saturday morning cartoons. I made sure I bought the VHS tapes of these and then bought it again when it came out on DVD so my future kids could see them too. When I did have kids, I made sure they watched them and that is how they learned their multiplication tables. School House Rock is the best!
Grew up on SHR. In the late 80s or early 90s, my friend had a course in college and the professor chose a student to recite the Preamble. The student asked if a/he could sing it. Dang if he didn’t end up with every student singing the preamble and rocking to the song. 😂 I’m sure he was impressed and astonished. 😂
Hey I'm 65 and I still remember that show. "Conjunction junction what's yo function. Hookin up words and phrases and clauses." The 70's were just cool!
Elder GenXer here, I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock; it debuted the year I was in Kindergarten, and I watched them every Saturday morning for at least a dozen years. They're classics!
Mid-70s kid here_ looked forward to Schoolhouse Rock at the end of morning cartoons...on ABC! I bought the VHS tapes for my 90s kids; when they were released on dvd, I bought those too! Still have them; gonna break them out for the grands.
It's 1982 and my 8th grade history teacher announces that we are all going to have a week to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution. Immediately, around ten of us sing the entire Preamble for her. We already knew it from years of Saturday morning Schoolhouse Rock. The look on her face was priceless.
@@LRod1959 I was in 8th grade in the Spring of '82 but I remember we had to memorize the Preamble and stand in front of the class and recite it in 5th grade, and it's still stuck in my mind today. I don't remember the Schoolhouse Rock video of it though.
Thank your Boomer cartoon creators for School House Rock, Sesame Street, the Electric Company and Reading Rainbow-A whole generation knew about the Constitution, US History and Grammar.
OMG I’m in tears. These used to play during Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and I’m old enough to be these kids’ grandmother! I had no idea that these continued long enough for young adults to know the songs.
8th grade history class, we had a test where half the grade depended on being able to write (from memory) the Preamble and you could hear the entire class humming the tune!
We had to recite it from memory for high school civics class. I still laugh at the memory of the expression that was on my teachers face when the whole class sang the song!
The song gets the Preamble slightly wrong. “We the People -of the United States,- in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, ensure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” (Yes, that was from memory.)
I'm 54 and I STILL know these songs!!! Oh the memories. Wonderful to see they still have an impact. They were my favorite teachers when I was younger 😊
Yes... gen X ... because we all watch this.. I remember it.. I'm going be 50 on July 24th.. and yes I'm a gen X... Saturday cartoons and after school I remember other shows and seaseme street.. and Muppets show.. we had great years growing up.. most these kids nowadays won't understand and won't know how great it was.. we got away with alot also.. 😂
For those playing at home, a broad definition of Generation X ... "you don't remember seeing the Vietnam War live on TV, but you did experience the 1990s as an adult" Sidebar: pop culture is finally starting to acknowledge that "Baby Boomer" was always too broad of a term. Those who have no memory of WWII -- but adult memories of Vietnam -- are "true" Boomers. Those who only remember Vietnam on TV as a child are "Generation Jones" (the characters on "That 70s Show" or in "Dazed and Confused"). Gen X is Gen J with more prosperous parents.
I am thrilled that kids still know Schoolhouse Rock. I can't remember the cartoons I watched in the late 70s and early 80s BUT I love the Schoolhouse Rock bits they showed during the commercials.
GREAT JOB everyone!! Schoolhouse Rock was the BEST- I sang EVERY one of them. If these were brought back- I honestly believe it would teach our children would retain more information this way.
Gen X grew up on these, and I'll never forget in my 10th grade history class, the teacher wanted us to memorize the preamble to the constitution, and he was surprised that we all already knew it...we all broke into the entire preamble song in the middle of class!
I learned everything from Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid and they interrupted my Bugs Bunny with these in the commercial breaks! But, I learned them and the information stuck in my brain. Totally wanted to see Lolly get your Adverbs, counting by 5's and the preamble to the constitution. To this day it is the reason that I can state the preamble from start to finish, because I literally sing it.
I was a child of the late 60s and 70s. I watched Schoolhouse Rock, everyday after school and on Saturdays. I knew them all and can still sing most of them. My favorites were I'm Just a Bill, The Preamble, Conjuction, Lolly lolly lolly...I loved them all.
I'm an old guy who was of age when these came out and I loved + still love Schoolhouse Rock but I really loved seeing these kids loving these 60yrs later. I loved even more that these kids seemed like really good kids and that's refreshing.
I can remember when SchoolHouse Rock first aired. I can still recall being just a little kid. Coming downstairs on Saturday morning. Making a bowl of cereal and watching cartoons. Then SH Rock would come on and you'd learn some things. Years later in college...a professor asked us to recite the preamble to the Constitution verbally by the next class. No problem for any of us Gen Xers. Thanks to Bob Dorough, Blossom Dearie, Dave Frisberg, Grady Tate, Essra Mohawk and so many more.
I was born in 66, this was my grade school. And this format worked, to this day I still remember some of these songs! These were designed for little kids and were shown between cartoons, teens didn't watch or were amused by these. By teen kids were outside going away from their house doing something dangerous like jumping bikes off ramps lol.
Scientists, educators, and people in general have known for at least one hundred years and probably longer that people, especially kids, remember music and lyrics very easily and when you create a song that has educational information as the lyrics and the song is catchy, people learn and remember that song and the information more often than straight teaching from a book or a chalkboard. That's why Schoolhouse Rock works and has stuck in the minds of so many generations. Schoolhouse Rock was brand new when I was a kid in the 1970s and it was so cool. I couldn't wait for new episodes to play on TV. They played after school hours and on Saturday mornings, when kids were likely watching TV. Back then we only had about 6 it 7 channels that we could choose from and most of those were not kid friendly channels. So, we really only had a few hours a day on maybe 2 or 3 channels to watch kids shows. A lot different then now
Schoolhouse Rock was great. We were fortunate that they brought them back out as part of an educational computer game package when our kids were young.
the kid who said "we need a new version of this, hard rock" someone has to tell him about school house rock rocks!!! it is an album that was made in the mid-90s where they covered like 12 different school house rock songs with famous alternative and hip hop artists of the time. great album, I recommend!
These songs bring back so many memories! It came in handy during a history class at college, the bonus question was to write down the beginning of the declaration of independence. In the giant auditorium I saw all these students bobbing their heads while reciting the song under their breaths, lol.😂😂😂😂
As one of the first Gen Xers, I grew up with these. I makes my heart happy, that the younger generations not only know some, if not all of them, but think we need them again (cause we do).
When I was in the third grade, we all had to memorize and recite the first paragraph (the preamble) of the Constitution, the bit taht starts with 'We the People.' Because of Schoolhouse Rock, every one of us knew it by heart, and the hardest part was to recite it without singing. Schoolhouse Rock - a time when learning was valued.
I loved growing up with Schoolhouse Rock. I always appreciated the "12 Little Twelvetoes". It didn't have the catchiest tune but it introduced base 12 numbers. It also introduced some speculation on how our physiology (having 10 fingers) affected our development of mathematics. As a kid I was fascinated by how a change in our base physiology could affect our cultural & scientific development.
Born in 1970. Schoolhouse Rock is/was the best thing they could have done. These songs are what propelled me through each of my subjects. Especially memorizing multiplication. I bought the videos in the 90s and made my kids watch them.
I'm 51 & grew up watching these on Sat. morning tv (in between the cartoons)...they were sooo catchy and educational and entertaining, most have stuck with me all these decades later :) Though I'm still not over Pluto's planet status getting revoked LOL
@@cindyknudson2715 LOL yes, I can immediately picture it & hear the character's voice (though still don't care for cheese...nonetheless a catchy ditty indeed).
Grew up with these….. then in college they played these one night each year during Animation festival week. Picture a movie theatre at Midnight full of 18-25 years olds all singing along to these for a couple hours as they played them.
My daughter loved the 3 song,when she was learning her multiplication tables she swore she couldn't get three's. I had her sing the song. When it dawned on her, it was the multiplication. She got a little mad . " I can't believe they taught me something!" Exact quote.
I'm a 60-year-old man now and I was a child when these first aired, And they help me with my homework quite a bit.I will always love and remember them.I even bought the video tapes for my kids who are in their late to 40 years old now
Jack Sheldon was the man who sang on I'm Just a Bill, and some of the others. He was also a famous jazz trumpet player and a regular on the Merv Griffin show. I love his voice.
Whenever Schoolhouse Rock pops up, I get choked up. That is singlehandedly THE greatest animated educational series ever made. That being said, there needs to be a sequel with all of the same teens. There are plenty of other shorts to show; in Grammar Rock, there's Unpack Your Adjectives and Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, Multiplication Rock has Ready or Not Here I Come (multiplying by 5s), America Rock has The Great American Melting Pot and (my personal favorite) Suffering Until Sufferage. That's just scratching the surface.
School House Rock is awesome, I remember when they came out, I'd be sitting in front of the TV every Saturday morning to see what one they would open with each week. They helped me a lot with my multiplication growing up my favorite one is still Lucky Seven Samson but there were so many good ones. When my daughter was born I bought a CD that had them on it so she could enjoy them as I did as a kid.
3 is a magic number was the first school house rock to be produced. It was performed by Bob Dorough and is my all time favorite. I grew up in the 70's and fondly remember these. The gentleman that came up with the idea had a son that struggled with school work but could easily remember the lyrics to his favorite songs. And thus was born school house rock.
The teacher announced we had to write out the preamble to the US Constitution on our final exam. Schoolhouse Rock is the sole reason I passed US History that year!!!
We each had to get up and recite it for the rest of the class. Every single one of us sang it straight from the Schoolhouse Rock version. Government class school year of 1981-1982.
Gen Xer here: Yes, I remember Schoolhouse Rock fondly! 🤩 I'm surprised you didn't include 'The Four-legged Zoo' and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. 😄
You NEED to show them 3 2 1 Contact!! That was my second favorite to Schoolhouse Rock!! What I love about contact was it showed you how the world worked, and then WHY!! And that opening song...come on!!!
I am 55 years, and was of the generation that Schoolhouse Rock was viewed in between Saturday morning animated shows on TV. When I was in 6th grade, 1980, our school Library and film-real viewer, and audio cassette, as part of its media. They had a dozen Sch'R' reel/audio that students could view, sign-up for time in the Library -before most of us had a Video-player in our homes. I bought Sch'R' on VHS - and gifted video's to relatives and friends who had children in the 90's. When the whole series came out on DvVD, I bought it, of course. I earned college degree, and work experience in Art -yet, for steady employ, I switched to teaching. So, with Education Graduate School, and needing experience, and writing essays on teaching, I got into Substitute employ in local schools. I did keep my DVD set of Schoolhouse in by bag, in case, there was not a lesson provided (that did happen!) I was a Teacher of students with Special Needs, for a number of years -and Schoolhouse Rock has helped students to learn, and reason, and get certain concepts. I am glad to watch this video, where several students know elements of the songs, or say "I get it now" - the purpose of Schoolhouse Rock! 🤔🤭😁
As GenX, I watched these as a young kid. As I got a little older, I switched to shows like The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact (those would make a fun reaction video), then on to Nova, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. I wasn't impressed with most of my daughter's options, but I have to give credit to the Animaniacs states and countries songs. Anyways, just to make a quick correction, Venus is terrestrial. It's not a gas giant, but the atmosphere does get all the attention, so the thought makes some sense.
I saw the writer of these songs, Bob Dorough , a swing Jazz guy from the 50s-- who did this stuff in the early 70s, --In the early 00s play at a club called SPACELAND in Los Angeles.. he did these songs and all the 30/40 something grownups were crying. TEARS EVERYWHERE. Gratitude. We all got autographs and thanked him over and over.
Yeah, I heard the first time he and his group got a gig playing at a college somewhere, Bob thought for sure no one would show up to listen to them play these "dumb old songs" and was surprised that the auditorium was PACKED with college students and then flabbergasted when EVERYONE started singing the songs with the band. That's when he realized the impact he had on a generation.
Trains are a good analogy for a sentence because you link all of the parts together to create a sentence the way you link the cars together to make a train
These things actually helped...I remember singing them to myself in class if I got "stumped". I'm Just A Bill, 3 Is A Magic Number, Conjunction Junction...
Schoolhouse Rock was a big part of Saturday morning cartoons. They covered lots of topics in musical form that made it all memorable. Yes, it is distinctly 1970s animation, but the information is still quite useful. :)
Any child who did not grow up with School House Rock has been seriously deprived. I learned more from it than my teachers in elementary and middle school.
These were excellent songs that helped at least a couple of generations learn about things that every citizen should know. Verb! That's what's happening. So good.
"Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!" was an album in the late 90's that took Schoolhouse Rock songs with modern artists like Better Than Ezra, Skee-Lo, and the Lemonheads.
Lol me too. I remember being History Class and question was What Amendment gave women the right to vote and I started humming ....19th ammendment struck down that restricted rule 😂 I still remember my teacher Mr Mercurio busted out laughing
My favorite thing on Saturdays, because in the ancient times of my youth that was the only time you could watch cartoons. There was no cable or viewing on demand, you watched what they showed when they showed it, no choice, but were happy to have what you got. We now have a society of “give me more just because “. I don’t think kids today are dumb by no means, but so much is pushed at them so fast that they never slow down enough to absorb much of it before moving on to the next thing.
My kids know it because I bought the DVD. I went to grammar school with children whose dad was a producer of SHR, so my school got all the 35mm films of each, and once got a live concert with original performers.
I'm OVER 55 (*sigh) but I grew up on these: they played BETWEEN other Saturday morning cartoons. For us 70s and 80s, GenX-ers, this was COMMON KNOWLEDGE for anyone who had a TV. I still remember the words nearly verbatim. That's how often these were on and how determined the networks were determined to shove info into our brains. The creators came to my college to do a presentation, the audience was FILLED, and EVERYONE knew the songs based off of just the first notes played on the piano. It was a beautiful, shared experience. I got the DVD and played it for my kids as they grew up. Schoolhouse Rock was created by trained, dedicated, LOVING educators, psychologists and artists, so why not continue to utilize all that effort?
54. Yes, this was our childhood. I know all of these. I had to buy the DVD.
I'm 59 and this was such a regular part of the ABC Saturday morning cartoon experience.
I'm 37 and they were still playing when I was in elementary in the 1990s.
Every person our age (I'm 57) can still recite the Preamble to the Constitution to this day because of school house rock.
These shows should be played at times of day when any child under 10 should be watching TV, maybe the education systems could take a lesson from these.
HS civics class, 1980: our teacher has us open our books to the Pre-amble. He starts to read it….we all burst out singing & bopping in our seats. The stunned looked on his face was AWESOME! 🤣
I'm 55yrs old now...I remember being elementary school age sitting on living room floor watching these (no cable/internet back then meant no options lol) Probably kept watching in middle and highschool ...just because. Conjunction and Bill have randomly popped in my head throughout the decades. Truly classics!
Having been born in 1967 and grew up watching these as a kid I learned more that way than I did in classes. Every Saturday and Sunday morning when the cartoons came on they would show a School House Rock short and then the cartoon and even have them as commercials in between the cartoons.
Born in 1973 here! Every child born in my family, throughout the decades, has been gifted a VHS, DVD or stream of School House Rock! The children’s programs on TV back then were amazing. Sesame Street, Electric Company, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers. The guy who drew pictures to illustrate the story he was narrating… I’m so grateful I was a little kid back then.
His name was John Robbins. One of his shows was called the Book Bird. I loved his shows. He was an excellent illustrator. 🤗
The Electric Company and Schoolhouse Rock taught an entire generation how to read, write , civics, manners and basic values….Kids desperately need that today.
Morgan "Easy Reader" Freeman
@@evansouza8597 And Levar "Reading Rainbow" Burton! Back when kid's TV was classy. Now I'm not sure there is sufficient attention span... Squirrel!
@@raygunsforronnie847 what do we want to cure...
There are similar modern versions for young children now. Or at least there was in the years after 2006 when my daughter was born. Of course my favorite was Yo Gabba Gabba because it reminded me very much of the 70's/80's stuff I saw as a kid, and featured cool Gen X'ers in guest appearances. 😀🥰
@@audreymuzingo933 is it on UA-cam?
When I was a kid in the early 70s, there were four of us kids in the house. Someone had to stay in the house and yell for the rest of us when a schoolhouse rock came on TV so we could all run in and watch it. It was fantastic.
I’m 64. I learned The Preamble from Schoolhouse Rock.
My Civics teacher wanted us to learn it over the weekend for an instant A.
I asked if I could go ahead and recite it right then, since I was going to be out for the next week for medical reasons.
He asked me “You know it?”
I nodded.
I recited it perfectly while listening to the music in my head.
“Wendy, how did you know this already?”
“From Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday morning TV. Do I get my A now?”
Oh, the look on that teacher’s face! Yes, Wendy, you got your A.
I wish they would have show adverbs. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here...
I passed a test in English once because whenever we got stuck someone would hum the Schoolhouse Rocks song for it. I started it by humming Conjunction Junction. We were all tapping our pens trying to remember, I hummed, we all started writing. We started tapping our pens again, and someone else hummed, we all started writing. An entire class passed the English test, thanks to Schoolhouse Rocks. It was 1981, we had grown up watching these commercials during cartoons every Saturday. Those commercials graduated us from school. It was a success. Thank you to everyone who helped make those. I still hum those once in awhile, over 50 years ago is when I learned those songs.
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30...
I was singing Lolly Lolly Lolly, earlier today. I wonder if You Tube heard me and recommended this video. lol
no, not that one. I had that thing stuck in my head for like 6 months once
I'm Gen X and grew up with these between the Saturday morning cartoons. I made sure I bought the VHS tapes of these and then bought it again when it came out on DVD so my future kids could see them too. When I did have kids, I made sure they watched them and that is how they learned their multiplication tables. School House Rock is the best!
Grew up on SHR. In the late 80s or early 90s, my friend had a course in college and the professor chose a student to recite the Preamble. The student asked if a/he could sing it. Dang if he didn’t end up with every student singing the preamble and rocking to the song. 😂 I’m sure he was impressed and astonished. 😂
As a guy who grew up with Schoolhouse Rock as they were shown on TV, I’m very impressed these young folks knew or recognized these!!
Not very impressive if they have half a brain
@@seanmurphy4077 I really agree I have a 26 Y/O and he has no idea..but they were released on dvd in the 2000s so maybe?
Hey I'm 65 and I still remember that show. "Conjunction junction what's yo function. Hookin up words and phrases and clauses."
The 70's were just cool!
Elder GenXer here, I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock; it debuted the year I was in Kindergarten, and I watched them every Saturday morning for at least a dozen years. They're classics!
I'm probably close in age. This brought back serious memories.
We got “SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK”, actual good cartoons and unlimited day time freedom. Beat our childhood kids.
Same here. This video took me back to watching cartoons on Saturday mornings - the best time to watch cartoons.
@@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 younger boomer here (born @ the end of the boom) ⬆️ what you said!👊🏾
I still remember all the videos and all the songs, but then again I’m Gen X, so I watched these every Saturday as a kid.
Old GenX and I still remember nearly ALL of these by heart. I learned so much from these shorts which tells you how good they were.
I remember these playing during Saturday morning cartoons in the mid 70's.
Gen X (born in '78) and same! I was so sad when they stopped airing them on Saturday mornings.
I played them on DVD every night for my own kids. Maybe I should go quiz them to see if they remember...
This is 70s vibes. Sweet, innocent, fun with grooviness. School House rock brings back so much nostalgia.
Mid-70s kid here_ looked forward to Schoolhouse Rock at the end of morning cartoons...on ABC! I bought the VHS tapes for my 90s kids; when they were released on dvd, I bought those too! Still have them; gonna break them out for the grands.
As a child of the 70's seeing kids love this is wonderful in 2024.
Could not agree more. 😊
@@mrnosaj71 it is.🤗
It's 1982 and my 8th grade history teacher announces that we are all going to have a week to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution. Immediately, around ten of us sing the entire Preamble for her. We already knew it from years of Saturday morning Schoolhouse Rock. The look on her face was priceless.
I still have it memorized to this very day.
@@stevieb635 Just last weekend, I suggested Schoolhouse Rock to my daughter, for her three year old.
My senior class did the same thing. All you heard was humming as we wrote it out on our test.
I still know it. I'm a teacher now and I'm shocked that today's 8th graders don't know it.
@@LRod1959 I was in 8th grade in the Spring of '82 but I remember we had to memorize the Preamble and stand in front of the class and recite it in 5th grade, and it's still stuck in my mind today. I don't remember the Schoolhouse Rock video of it though.
I am 61 years old and can STILL sing the preamble to the Constitution LOL
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!
Thank your Boomer cartoon creators for School House Rock, Sesame Street, the Electric Company and Reading Rainbow-A whole generation knew about the Constitution, US History and Grammar.
OMG I’m in tears. These used to play during Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and I’m old enough to be these kids’ grandmother! I had no idea that these continued long enough for young adults to know the songs.
Most kids of the 70's and early 80's can recite the Preamble of the US Constitution because of School House Rock
8th grade history class, we had a test where half the grade depended on being able to write (from memory) the Preamble and you could hear the entire class humming the tune!
We had to recite it from memory for high school civics class. I still laugh at the memory of the expression that was on my teachers face when the whole class sang the song!
The song gets the Preamble slightly wrong. “We the People -of the United States,- in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, ensure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
(Yes, that was from memory.)
I'm Gen X and I remember when all of these when they were first released on TV on Saturdays. They actually helped us learn all of these topics. 😊
I'm 54 and I STILL know these songs!!! Oh the memories. Wonderful to see they still have an impact. They were my favorite teachers when I was younger 😊
This really is a Gex X thing. We would watch cartoons on Saturday mornings and these would play non-stop. We really need them in schools now.
*Gen X
Yes... gen X ... because we all watch this.. I remember it.. I'm going be 50 on July 24th.. and yes I'm a gen X... Saturday cartoons and after school I remember other shows and seaseme street.. and Muppets show.. we had great years growing up.. most these kids nowadays won't understand and won't know how great it was.. we got away with alot also.. 😂
For those playing at home, a broad definition of Generation X ... "you don't remember seeing the Vietnam War live on TV, but you did experience the 1990s as an adult"
Sidebar: pop culture is finally starting to acknowledge that "Baby Boomer" was always too broad of a term. Those who have no memory of WWII -- but adult memories of Vietnam -- are "true" Boomers. Those who only remember Vietnam on TV as a child are "Generation Jones" (the characters on "That 70s Show" or in "Dazed and Confused").
Gen X is Gen J with more prosperous parents.
That “creepy doll voice” is the amazing jazz singer Blossom Dearie. She sang some of the other songs in SHR.
I am thrilled that kids still know Schoolhouse Rock. I can't remember the cartoons I watched in the late 70s and early 80s BUT I love the Schoolhouse Rock bits they showed during the commercials.
I grew up with Schoolhouse rock. These all hold a special place in my heart
GREAT JOB everyone!! Schoolhouse Rock was the BEST- I sang EVERY one of them. If these were brought back- I honestly believe it would teach our children would retain more information this way.
Gen X grew up on these, and I'll never forget in my 10th grade history class, the teacher wanted us to memorize the preamble to the constitution, and he was surprised that we all already knew it...we all broke into the entire preamble song in the middle of class!
Schoolhouse Rock should still be on. I'm 60 and remember everything I learned from Schoolhouse Rock.
I bought the DVD of ALL the Schoolhouse Rock songs. I loved watching them and I'm 62 now
I have them on DVD.
I bought the DVD also!
I learned everything from Schoolhouse Rock when I was a kid and they interrupted my Bugs Bunny with these in the commercial breaks! But, I learned them and the information stuck in my brain. Totally wanted to see Lolly get your Adverbs, counting by 5's and the preamble to the constitution. To this day it is the reason that I can state the preamble from start to finish, because I literally sing it.
I’m old enough to remember watching these in between cartoons on Saturday mornings.
The people who developed these, from producers to writers to animators and voice talent ... all absolute geniuses.
Schoolhouse rock helped me so much in school as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s. There needs to be more of this content especially today.
I was a child of the late 60s and 70s. I watched Schoolhouse Rock, everyday after school and on Saturdays. I knew them all and can still sing most of them. My favorites were I'm Just a Bill, The Preamble, Conjuction, Lolly lolly lolly...I loved them all.
I'm an old guy who was of age when these came out and I loved + still love Schoolhouse Rock but I really loved seeing these kids loving these 60yrs later. I loved even more that these kids seemed like really good kids and that's refreshing.
I have this series on DVD and had my children watch this when they were younger and I still can sing many of them by memory.
I can remember when SchoolHouse Rock first aired. I can still recall being just a little kid. Coming downstairs on Saturday morning. Making a bowl of cereal and watching cartoons. Then SH Rock would come on and you'd learn some things. Years later in college...a professor asked us to recite the preamble to the Constitution verbally by the next class. No problem for any of us Gen Xers. Thanks to Bob Dorough, Blossom Dearie, Dave Frisberg, Grady Tate, Essra Mohawk and so many more.
I was born in 66, this was my grade school. And this format worked, to this day I still remember some of these songs! These were designed for little kids and were shown between cartoons, teens didn't watch or were amused by these. By teen kids were outside going away from their house doing something dangerous like jumping bikes off ramps lol.
I watched these as a teen, I turned 12 two months after SHR premiered on January 6,1973. 😉💖🐈🐈⬛🌈
Scientists, educators, and people in general have known for at least one hundred years and probably longer that people, especially kids, remember music and lyrics very easily and when you create a song that has educational information as the lyrics and the song is catchy, people learn and remember that song and the information more often than straight teaching from a book or a chalkboard.
That's why Schoolhouse Rock works and has stuck in the minds of so many generations.
Schoolhouse Rock was brand new when I was a kid in the 1970s and it was so cool. I couldn't wait for new episodes to play on TV. They played after school hours and on Saturday mornings, when kids were likely watching TV. Back then we only had about 6 it 7 channels that we could choose from and most of those were not kid friendly channels. So, we really only had a few hours a day on maybe 2 or 3 channels to watch kids shows. A lot different then now
Schoolhouse Rock was great.
We were fortunate that they brought them back out as part of an educational computer game package when our kids were young.
I love these. At 55, I can still sing these (and sometimes refer back to them.) The tunes are so catchy and easy to learn; great learning tool.
I have the whole thing on DVD ! Loved it. I still watch them and I'm 62
the kid who said "we need a new version of this, hard rock" someone has to tell him about school house rock rocks!!! it is an album that was made in the mid-90s where they covered like 12 different school house rock songs with famous alternative and hip hop artists of the time. great album, I recommend!
Conjunction Junction was the inspiration for my labeling any place broken as Dysfunction Junction!
I loved Schoolhouse Rock! I think they should be used in schools. And for 2nd graders, past episodes of the Electric Company should be played.
I still show them to my class but via UA-cam now since I don’t have a VCR anymore in my classroom.
These songs bring back so many memories! It came in handy during a history class at college, the bonus question was to write down the beginning of the declaration of independence. In the giant auditorium I saw all these students bobbing their heads while reciting the song under their breaths, lol.😂😂😂😂
As one of the first Gen Xers, I grew up with these. I makes my heart happy, that the younger generations not only know some, if not all of them, but think we need them again (cause we do).
When I was in the third grade, we all had to memorize and recite the first paragraph (the preamble) of the Constitution, the bit taht starts with 'We the People.' Because of Schoolhouse Rock, every one of us knew it by heart, and the hardest part was to recite it without singing.
Schoolhouse Rock - a time when learning was valued.
Yeah, our teacher wouldn't let us sing it. We were all hard pressed to recite it without singing it.
I loved growing up with Schoolhouse Rock. I always appreciated the "12 Little Twelvetoes". It didn't have the catchiest tune but it introduced base 12 numbers. It also introduced some speculation on how our physiology (having 10 fingers) affected our development of mathematics. As a kid I was fascinated by how a change in our base physiology could affect our cultural & scientific development.
Born in 1970. Schoolhouse Rock is/was the best thing they could have done. These songs are what propelled me through each of my subjects. Especially memorizing multiplication. I bought the videos in the 90s and made my kids watch them.
Same, same, and same!!😂😂
Ah yes My saturday mornings in the 70s. Great memories and it warms my heart to see like half these kids are in on the joy.
The preamble was a bonus for my American history final. The room when it got to the bonus hummed the song. 😊
I'm 51 & grew up watching these on Sat. morning tv (in between the cartoons)...they were sooo catchy and educational and entertaining, most have stuck with me all these decades later :) Though I'm still not over Pluto's planet status getting revoked LOL
AnD - "I hanker for a hunk a .... a slab or dab or chunk a ..... I hanker for a hunk a Cheese!"
@@cindyknudson2715 LOL
yes, I can immediately picture it & hear the character's voice (though still don't care for cheese...nonetheless a catchy ditty indeed).
@@cindyknudson2715 lol. "Or, I'm a yuck mouth. Cause I don't brush. And I like my teeth this way"
Didn’t watch the cartoons, but turned on the TV to watch SHR!
@@cindyknudson2715Time for Timer 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
As a gen X I grew up with Schoolhouse Rock and have bought the DVD sets for all my grandkids and nieces. 😊
Three is the magic number. Is one of the best School House Rock songs!
It was the first song created and “sold” the concept and series to the network.
Grew up with these….. then in college they played these one night each year during Animation festival week. Picture a movie theatre at Midnight full of 18-25 years olds all singing along to these for a couple hours as they played them.
My daughter loved the 3 song,when she was learning her multiplication tables she swore she couldn't get three's. I had her sing the song. When it dawned on her, it was the multiplication. She got a little mad . " I can't believe they taught me something!" Exact quote.
The Schoolhouse Rock videos I remember most are Multiples of 2 and 5, Great American Melting Pot, and No More King.
I'm a 60-year-old man now and I was a child when these first aired, And they help me with my homework quite a bit.I will always love and remember them.I even bought the video tapes for my kids who are in their late to 40 years old now
Jack Sheldon was the man who sang on I'm Just a Bill, and some of the others. He was also a famous jazz trumpet player and a regular on the Merv Griffin show. I love his voice.
Whenever Schoolhouse Rock pops up, I get choked up. That is singlehandedly THE greatest animated educational series ever made. That being said, there needs to be a sequel with all of the same teens. There are plenty of other shorts to show; in Grammar Rock, there's Unpack Your Adjectives and Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, Multiplication Rock has Ready or Not Here I Come (multiplying by 5s), America Rock has The Great American Melting Pot and (my personal favorite) Suffering Until Sufferage. That's just scratching the surface.
It got you ready for American Bandstand at 12:30
@@charlesallan-ks6gq nah. When the cartoons were over, I was done for the morning.
They are on Disney+ (hopefully still)
@@sjdrjh I still got the DVD of the whole shebang. 😀
Adverb lolly lolly is my favorite. 3 is the magic number.
The older I get, the more I see how fortunate we were. GenX for life!
The last anchor before the abyss of stupidity. It will be foreign smart kids and GenX that save the others from the dreaded Dumberer disease.
School House Rock is awesome, I remember when they came out, I'd be sitting in front of the TV every Saturday morning to see what one they would open with each week. They helped me a lot with my multiplication growing up my favorite one is still Lucky Seven Samson but there were so many good ones. When my daughter was born I bought a CD that had them on it so she could enjoy them as I did as a kid.
3 is a magic number was the first school house rock to be produced. It was performed by Bob Dorough and is my all time favorite. I grew up in the 70's and fondly remember these. The gentleman that came up with the idea had a son that struggled with school work but could easily remember the lyrics to his favorite songs. And thus was born school house rock.
Schoolhouse rock is timeless. Those songs fit every generation.
The teacher announced we had to write out the preamble to the US Constitution on our final exam. Schoolhouse Rock is the sole reason I passed US History that year!!!
We each had to get up and recite it for the rest of the class. Every single one of us sang it straight from the Schoolhouse Rock version. Government class school year of 1981-1982.
Gen Xer here: Yes, I remember Schoolhouse Rock fondly! 🤩 I'm surprised you didn't include 'The Four-legged Zoo' and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. 😄
You NEED to show them 3 2 1 Contact!! That was my second favorite to Schoolhouse Rock!! What I love about contact was it showed you how the world worked, and then WHY!! And that opening song...come on!!!
I am 55 years, and was of the generation that Schoolhouse Rock was viewed in between Saturday morning animated shows on TV. When I was in 6th grade, 1980, our school Library and film-real viewer, and audio cassette, as part of its media. They had a dozen Sch'R' reel/audio that students could view, sign-up for time in the Library -before most of us had a Video-player in our homes. I bought Sch'R' on VHS - and gifted video's to relatives and friends who had children in the 90's. When the whole series came out on DvVD, I bought it, of course. I earned college degree, and work experience in Art -yet, for steady employ, I switched to teaching. So, with Education Graduate School, and needing experience, and writing essays on teaching, I got into Substitute employ in local schools. I did keep my DVD set of Schoolhouse in by bag, in case, there was not a lesson provided (that did happen!) I was a Teacher of students with Special Needs, for a number of years -and Schoolhouse Rock has helped students to learn, and reason, and get certain concepts. I am glad to watch this video, where several students know elements of the songs, or say "I get it now" - the purpose of Schoolhouse Rock! 🤔🤭😁
I was waiting for "Verb! Thats What's Happening!"
One of my top favorites!!!
Yeah, kinda strange that they’d show it in the thumbnail without touching it here.
As GenX, I watched these as a young kid. As I got a little older, I switched to shows like The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact (those would make a fun reaction video), then on to Nova, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
I wasn't impressed with most of my daughter's options, but I have to give credit to the Animaniacs states and countries songs.
Anyways, just to make a quick correction, Venus is terrestrial. It's not a gas giant, but the atmosphere does get all the attention, so the thought makes some sense.
shoutout to schoolhouse rock for teaching during commercials at least 3 generations of kids the basics of math, english, science and civics! 🥰
I saw the writer of these songs, Bob Dorough , a swing Jazz guy from the 50s-- who did this stuff in the early 70s, --In the early 00s play at a club called SPACELAND in Los Angeles.. he did these songs and all the 30/40 something grownups were crying. TEARS EVERYWHERE. Gratitude. We all got autographs and thanked him over and over.
Yeah, I heard the first time he and his group got a gig playing at a college somewhere, Bob thought for sure no one would show up to listen to them play these "dumb old songs" and was surprised that the auditorium was PACKED with college students and then flabbergasted when EVERYONE started singing the songs with the band. That's when he realized the impact he had on a generation.
SchoolHouse Rock was how I learned the Preamble for school (in 70's). We were suppose to recite it, but I sang it.
Trains are a good analogy for a sentence because you link all of the parts together to create a sentence the way you link the cars together to make a train
Christ, when Declan started singing Conjunction Junction I almost lost it! 50 years later and we're _still_ singing that tune!
Out of all the SchoolHouse Rock songs “The Preamble” song is the most memorable that I can sing word for word
I had to recite this in 7th grade history in 1980. Literally had to make myself NOT sing it School House Rock style😂 I can still recite it now😊
@@donnamcmanus7360 i make my 8th graders recite the Declaration, Constitution Preamble, Star Spangled Banner, and Gettysburg Address.
These things actually helped...I remember singing them to myself in class if I got "stumped". I'm Just A Bill, 3 Is A Magic Number, Conjunction Junction...
I am 64 and can still sing to all these songs. Loved them because singing helped remembering.
Schoolhouse Rock was a big part of Saturday morning cartoons. They covered lots of topics in musical form that made it all memorable. Yes, it is distinctly 1970s animation, but the information is still quite useful. :)
Gen X we watched these on Saturday during Saturday Morning Cartoons
My favorite one was about adjectives, these got played on Saturday mornings between cartoon shows. Back in the 1970s when I was a kid.
I use to love school house rock, I was a teen in the 70s when they first aired and I think they need to bring them back!
I always liked the adverb song, Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here....
Declan is always smiling, but when he gets praise from the moderators, he does this extra little "I'm a good boy" smile that is so incredibly sweet!
Any child who did not grow up with School House Rock has been seriously deprived. I learned more from it than my teachers in elementary and middle school.
They also did a business series of songs. There were five Schoolhouse Rock categories: grammar, math history, science, and personal finance/business.
These were excellent songs that helped at least a couple of generations learn about things that every citizen should know. Verb! That's what's happening. So good.
"Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!" was an album in the late 90's that took Schoolhouse Rock songs with modern artists like Better Than Ezra, Skee-Lo, and the Lemonheads.
we were so lucky to have had saturday morning cartoons and school house rock, saved my but a few times in school.
Lol me too. I remember being History Class and question was What Amendment gave women the right to vote and I started humming ....19th ammendment struck down that restricted rule 😂 I still remember my teacher Mr Mercurio busted out laughing
As a Gen Xer and SAT tutor, I’m equal parts enchanted and horrified.
Same. Also GenX and former schoolteacher.
My favorite thing on Saturdays, because in the ancient times of my youth that was the only time you could watch cartoons. There was no cable or viewing on demand, you watched what they showed when they showed it, no choice, but were happy to have what you got. We now have a society of “give me more just because “. I don’t think kids today are dumb by no means, but so much is pushed at them so fast that they never slow down enough to absorb much of it before moving on to the next thing.
My kids know it because I bought the DVD.
I went to grammar school with children whose dad was a producer of SHR, so my school got all the 35mm films of each, and once got a live concert with original performers.
I used to teach middle school civics.....and "I'm Just a Bill" was DEFINITELY a part of my curriculum!