Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Schoolhouse Rocky - Bob Dorough and Friends
2. Elementary, My Dear - Bob Dorough
3. Three Is a Magic Number - Bob Dorough
4. Four-Legged Zoo - Bob Dorough and Friends
5. Ready or Not, Here I Come - Bob Dorough
6. My Hero, Zero - Bob Dorough
7. I Got Six - Grady Tate
8. Lucky Seven Sampson - Bob Dorough
9. Figure Eight - Blossom Dearie
10. Naughty Number Nine - Grady Tate
11. Good Eleven - Bob Dorough
12. Little Twelvetoes - Bob Dorough
13. My Hero, Zero [*] - The Lemonheads

Disc 2:

1. Schoolhouse Rocky - Bob Dorough and Friends
2. Unpack Your Adjectives - Blossom Dearie
3. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here - Bob Dorough
4. Conjunction Junction - Terry Morel, Jack Sheldon
5. Interjections! - Essra Mohawk
6. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla - Jack Sheldon
7. Verb: That's What's Happening - Zachary Sanders
8. Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing - Lynn Abrams, Lynn Ahrens
9. Busy Prepositions - Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon
10. Tale of Mr. Morton - Jack Sheldon
11. Dollars and Sense - Bob Dorough, Val Hawk
12. Tax Man Max - Patrick Quinn
13. $7.50 Once a Week - Dave Frishberg
14. Where the Money Goes - Jack Sheldon

Disc 3:

1. Schoolhouse Rocky - Bob Dorough and Friends
2. No More Kings - Lynn Abrams, Lynn Ahrens
3. Fireworks - Grady Tate
4. Shot Heard 'Round the World - Bob Dorough
5. Preamble - Lynn Abrams, Lynn Ahrens
6. Elbow Room - Susan Manchester
7. Great American Melting Pot - Lori Lieberman
8. Mother Necessity - Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough, Essra Mohawk, Jack Sheldon
9. Sufferin' Till Suffrage - Essra Mohawk
10. I'm Just a Bill - Jack Sheldon
11. Three-Ring Government - Lynn Abrams, Lynn Ahrens
12. Electricity, Electricity [*] - Goodness

Disc 4:

1. Schoolhouse Rocky - Bob Dorough and Friends
2. Body Machine - Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon
3. Do the Circulation - Joshie Armstead, Mary Sue Barry, Maretha Stewart
4. Electricity, Electricity - Zachary Sanders
5. Energy Blues - Jack Sheldon
6. Interplanet Janet - Lynn Abrams, Lynn Ahrens
7. Telegraph Line - Jaime Aff, Christine Langner
8. Them Not-So-Dry Bones - Jack Sheldon
9. Victim of Gravity - The Tokens
10. Introduction - Robert Kaliban, Darrell Stern
11. Software - Robert Kaliban, Darrell Stern
12. Hardware - Robert Kaliban, Darrell Stern
13. Number Cruncher - Robert Kaliban, Darrell Stern

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38550 in Music
• Released on: 1996-06-18
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Soundtrack

Amazon.com
It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ("Unpack Your Adjectives") and adverbs ("Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here"), how to multiply ("Three Is a Magic Number"), basic principles of science ("Do the Circulation," "Interplanet Janet"), and American civics ("I'm Just a Bill," "The Preamble"). All of the original songs are here, plus four Money Rock songs--"Dollars and Sense" and "Where the Money Goes" are as classic as any of the original standouts--and four tracks from the short-lived Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips series (which, unlike the rest of the Schoolhouse Rock songs, can be dated by the proto-new-wave-influenced instrumentation). A classic collection of (mostly) timeless songs that shaped the minds of a generation or two: how many box sets can you say that about? --Randy Silver

Customer Reviews

A great box set albeit a bit pricey
If you grew up in the 70s you remember Schoolhouse Rock. Those little three minute cartoons really grew on you. My daughter is 9 and she loves this set... we listen to it in the car all the time. I have two small gripes, though: as other reviewers have noted this is not the entire collection. There are four Money Rock songs that are only available on the Best Of Schoolhouse Rock disc. Also, this four disc set would fit on two discs with room to spare (even with the additional four Money Rock songs). Spreading it over four compact discs smacks of gouging and that kept me from giving it five stars. But it is a great set and there's nothing quite like it. Recommended if you have kids (they'll dig it) or were a child of the 70s.

I'll unpack an adjective...Wonderful
Though SHR was before my time, I still heard the songs when we watched an America Rock tape in my eigth grade history class. I absolutly loved them. When I saw that there was a complete box set, i asked for it for x-mas. I now own it and love it. The songs are great. While America Rock is, in my opinion, the best overall, science rack has the best music and Grammer rock is the most helpful in terms of actually teaching something. Though this set isn't cheap, it is well worth it considering you get four classic CDs, and intersting liner notes that tell the story of SHR. This is a must have collection for anyone who remebers SHR, or wants their children to remember it.

So close to five stars...
I love school house rock. All of the songs are great, even the songs I didn't think were all that wonderful when I first got the CDs. But one flaw remains. This is NOT the complete school house rock songs. If you want the other half of money rock, you'll have to dish out another 12$. I just went to the library and checked out the Best of School House Rock and just kept on renewing it.