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++ I think you knew him
++ I think you knew him Bob Dorough, the jazzman who created the clever and enduring Schoolhouse Rock toons that taught grammar, math, science, and citizenship to a generation of TV-watching , has died. He was 94. Born on December 12, 1923, in Cherry Hill, AR, Dorough was a jazz musician in the early 1970s when a New York ad man complained that his young sons couldn’t do multiplication and wanted to have the times tables set to music because the could recite every rock lyric of the era. That led to Dorough’s classic first Schoolhouse Rock song, “Three Is a Magic Number,” which is remembered for its brilliant simplicity and sticky chorus that counted to 36 by threes, accompanied by animation. That led to Schoolhouse Rock, a 1973-85 series of Saturday-morning shortform content on ABC that used music and rhyme to help learn basic facts, with such memorable<b> songs </font></b>as “Elementary, My Dear” (Multiplication Rock, 1973), “Conjunction Junction” (Grammar Rock, 1973), “I’m Just a Bill” (America Rock, 1975), “Electricity, Electricity” (Science Rock, 197 and countless others. Dorough wrote and/or performed many of them, not including “I’m Just a Bill,” Even today, his<b> songs </font></b>are being used to help learn. It seems that music unlocks things for many . Do you remember his work? If you do, did it make learning easier for you or you ? Is there other music that has helped in learning? |
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I do love what he did. Made it so much easier to teach the kids
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I do remember him. He was amazing hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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I remember watching that on Saturday mornings, and such a sad thing that he passed away may he RIP..
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4/26/2018 1:41 pm |
He was amazing and a brilliant man. He'll be missed. "Sweet, steamy, sensuous kisses light the bright fires of passionate lust within us." scott6250
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He was an amazing artist
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I do love what he did. Made it so much easier to teach the kids
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I do remember him. He was amazing hugs V
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I remember watching that on Saturday mornings, and such a sad thing that he passed away may he RIP..
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He was amazing and a brilliant man. He'll be missed.
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