September 14, 2005
Memories Of School House Rock
Thanks to Chris Lynch for stirring some memories with this Top Five list:
Top 5 - Schoolhouse Rock Songs
1. I'm Just a Bill
2. Conjunction Junction
3. My Hero, Zero
4. No More Kings
5. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
Perhaps it's a testament to just how good these animated shorts were, but while I might see all of these in a top 10 in terms of memory, I've got a few other that I love. Here are my Top 5 in reverse order.
5. Lucky Seven -- Rabbit in the construction site gets chased across town by a group of reprobates. "I sure do thank you for the Huckleberry pie!"
4. Little Twelve Toes -- Considering this series was aimed at elementary school kids, "Little Twelve Toes" was surprisingly intricate, introducing the concept of base 12 to American children who would later crash out of math when it hit Venn diagrams. "Hey little twelve toes, I hope you're thriving. Some of us ten toed folks are still surviving... If you help me with my twelves, then I'll help you with your tens, and we can all be friends, little twelve toes... Please come home."
3. Naughty Number Nine -- First time I remember ever seeing a pool hall anywhere. Also notable because of the depiction of cigar smoke, not something you'd see in a kids cartoon these days.
2. The Shot Heard Round The World -- Not as famous as "No More Kings" but it still stoked the patriotic fires in my young soul. "Get your gun, report to General Washington!"
1. Verb, That's What Happening! -- Easily the rockingest short in the series, and maybe the one song that stands on its own better than any other. Sounds like Quincy Jones produced it.
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