teeport-1 — 14 years ago(January 17, 2012 01:09 AM)

Evening, all:
Funny that people should write about SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK in summertime, but evidently June 2011 was the last posting here. Anyhow, just wished to pay tribute to one of my belovedest TV series ever, those immortal Saturday morning miniatures, as evocative of the mid-70s as John Denver, Elton John, The Captain & Tennille or your favorite 8-track breaking or tightening up.
Hardly original choices, but here's a few favorites:
INTERJECTIONS
(Hurray! I'm fer the udder team!)
A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING
ELBOW ROOM
(if memory surfs, all 3 were sung by the gentle-yet-spunky-voiced Lynn Ahrens,
who later became a Broadway lyricist.)
I'M JUST A BILL
CONJUNCTION JUNCTION
And the haunting FIGURE 8, ethereally (sp?) sung by Blossom Dearie.
Not all the SR songs were memorable (you could easily cream-skim a Greatest Hits), but the DVD set's still a must-have. I'm gifted several to friends who were teenagers at the time. Yes, SR wasn't watched only by small children, some of us tuned into the last 5 minutes of a Saturday morning half hour to see it, the way we'd sometime tune into the last 5 minutes of 60 MINUTES to see Andy Rooney.
"Well every person you can knowthebeatlesandthemonkeeschubbychecker"