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.
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. 😀🥰
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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...
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!
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.
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! 🤣
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'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!
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.
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. 😂
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.
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!
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!
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.
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).
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.
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.
During the 8’s multiplication video; “(gasp) That’s the third kid that got dunked or hurt!” Congratulations, kiddo-you’ve just been introduced to all of GenX, and we’re unbreakable! 😉
I learned the preamble to the U.S. Constitution thanks to School House Rock. Sing it with me: We the People, In order to form a more perfect union, Establish justice...
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
“I’m just a Bill” the actual law they represented in the clip is real. It was brought to Congress by an Alabama congressman. School Buses Must Stop at Railroad crossings. Of course this law was made after a train creamed a school bus on the tracks in I believe Alabama. Just a heads up on the importance of bills that actually do something good as a law.
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.
Actually, Paul revere said “the regulars are coming! The regulars are coming!” He did not say the British were coming. Keep in mind, at that time, he too was a British citizen. His reference was to be regular British army.
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.
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.
In 12th grade, our teacher gave us an assignment to learn the preamble to the constitution of the United States. I sat in front of our television four straight Saturdays waiting and hoping it came on. I had my tape recorder just waiting. It came on. I taped it. I listened to it day and night. I was the second person asked to recite it in front of the class. I sang it instead. About halfway thru, I asked my classmates to join in with me.
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 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'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 😊
I learned the Preamble of the Constitution with these cartoons and I can still sing it after all these years. In fact the only way I could recite it was to sing the words.
"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.
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!
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).
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.
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.
This was back when TV networks were required by the FCC to play educational shows to balance out their Saturday morning cartoons and to limit commercials directed toward kids, so ABC came up with School House Rock.
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.
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 remember going to college in 85 and the professor saying, Everyone needs to learn the preamble to the Constitution by the next class. But all of Gen Xers didn't have a problem because of Schoolhouse Rock.
I was the target audience for these. When we took the Constitution test in eighth grade we had to write out the Preamble. When that part of the test came out the entire class was humming the Schoolhouse Rock version, everyone got a perfect score on that one.
Yup, Saturday morning cartoons always had Schoolhouse Rock commercials in between. Every kid in America knew these songs. My other favorite you didn't show was the Adverb song; Lolly, lolly, lolly get your adverbs here......
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.
Show these kids The Electric Company next. God, I loved educational TV as a kid! Oh yea, the one kid wanted a rock version of I'm Just a Bill. The album Schoolhouse Rock Rocks has covers of these songs.
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.
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
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.😂😂😂😂
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.
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 TH-cam?
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.
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.
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. 🤗
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 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!
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
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!👊🏾
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.
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! 🤣
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.
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!
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.
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.
As a child of the 70's seeing kids love this is wonderful in 2024.
Could not agree more. 😊
@@mrnosaj71 it is.🤗
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. 😊
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. 😂
I am 61 years old and can STILL sing the preamble to the Constitution LOL
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!
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.
This is 70s vibes. Sweet, innocent, fun with grooviness. School House rock brings back so much nostalgia.
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'm convinced most US leaders need to watch "I'm just a bill".
They should have to before they take office and take a course in the constution.
They should also memorize Three Ring Circus. They've gotten lazy about separation of powers.
Schoolhouse Rock should still be on. I'm 60 and remember everything I learned from Schoolhouse Rock.
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...
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!
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.
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 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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.
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.
The people who developed these, from producers to writers to animators and voice talent ... all absolute geniuses.
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.
Gen X we watched these on Saturday during Saturday Morning Cartoons
During the 8’s multiplication video;
“(gasp) That’s the third kid that got dunked or hurt!” Congratulations, kiddo-you’ve just been introduced to all of GenX, and we’re unbreakable! 😉
Our parents just tossed us out their car windows on the way to work. We came back when the street lights came on covered in bug bites. Too bad. lol
I learned the preamble to the U.S. Constitution thanks to School House Rock. Sing it with me: We the People, In order to form a more perfect union, Establish justice...
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
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.
As a Gen Xer and SAT tutor, I’m equal parts enchanted and horrified.
Same. Also GenX and former schoolteacher.
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.
Conjunction Junction was the inspiration for my labeling any place broken as Dysfunction Junction!
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?
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 always liked the adverb song, Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here....
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
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. 😉💖🐈🐈⬛🌈
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 grew up with Schoolhouse rock. These all hold a special place in my heart
Hearing all these made me suddenly get a hankering for a hunk of cheese.
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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.
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.
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.
I used to teach middle school civics.....and "I'm Just a Bill" was DEFINITELY a part of my curriculum!
“I’m just a Bill” the actual law they represented in the clip is real. It was brought to Congress by an Alabama congressman. School Buses Must Stop at Railroad crossings. Of course this law was made after a train creamed a school bus on the tracks in I believe Alabama. Just a heads up on the importance of bills that actually do something good as a law.
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.
I'm 67 and I have a Bill on Capitol Hill tee shirt. Oh the memories.
Lucky!
@@queenboudicca31 Agreed!! Lucky!
I’m old enough to remember watching these in between cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Actually, Paul revere said “the regulars are coming! The regulars are coming!” He did not say the British were coming. Keep in mind, at that time, he too was a British citizen. His reference was to be regular British army.
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. 😀
Omg My English teacher would SCOLD them! A noun is a “person, place, thing or IDEA” atleast according to my old teacher
Never heard that
shoutout to schoolhouse rock for teaching during commercials at least 3 generations of kids the basics of math, english, science and civics! 🥰
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.
In 12th grade, our teacher gave us an assignment to learn the preamble to the constitution of the United States. I sat in front of our television four straight Saturdays waiting and hoping it came on. I had my tape recorder just waiting. It came on. I taped it. I listened to it day and night. I was the second person asked to recite it in front of the class. I sang it instead. About halfway thru, I asked my classmates to join in with me.
I did the same thing in Freshman Civics. But I already had it memorized since it was one of my favorites. I sang it as well. 😂
We had to speak it not sing it. Sometimes I could actually speak it if I concentrated hard enough.
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 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.
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.
Schoolhouse rock is timeless. Those songs fit every generation.
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 😊
I learned the Preamble of the Constitution with these cartoons and I can still sing it after all these years. In fact the only way I could recite it was to sing the words.
Me too!!!
Adverb lolly lolly is my favorite. 3 is the magic number.
Every American Gen-Xer can accurately recite the Preamble to the Constitution thanks to Schoolhouse Rock.
Not just recite it, but sing it!
"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.
These were life for us Gen X’ers! They absolutely helped us learn!
That “creepy doll voice” is the amazing jazz singer Blossom Dearie. She sang some of the other songs in SHR.
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!
Christ, when Declan started singing Conjunction Junction I almost lost it! 50 years later and we're _still_ singing that tune!
I'm 62 yrs old and the only way I can recite the Preamble to the Constitution is to sing it.
I was just going to comment this same thing!!
Same.
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).
I still show them to my class but via TH-cam now since I don’t have a VCR anymore in my classroom.
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 show these to my students every year. At first you get snide remarks but they end up asking for them when we have free time.
There is a story behind "I'm Just A Bill" where people wanted to make school buses stop at railroad crossings, after a bus was hit by a train.
oh wow, that’s tragic 😞
When this stuff stopped getting played, society got dumber. Prove me wrong
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!!😂😂
This was back when TV networks were required by the FCC to play educational shows to balance out their Saturday morning cartoons and to limit commercials directed toward kids, so ABC came up with School House Rock.
Iy was a far, far, better time.
There was also a message in the evenings: "It is eight o'clock. Do you know what your children are watching?"
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.
What If you had Gen Z play classic computer games like Carmen Sandiego, Zoo Tycoon, Oregon Trail, and Reader Rabbit
I definitely want to see them play Oregon Trail.
I signed that for the Oregon Trail aka the one from 2004 to 2007
I love Carmen Sandiego
There was another classic computer game. Howie Mandel voiced the main character. It was a bear, a learning game.
@@TheBandit025Nova Nope! They should play the Original!! 😂
How could you do this and exclude the banger that is Lolly Lolly Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here?
Probably the biggest earworm of all!
that's my 2nd fav song after the adjective one
I have the whole thing on DVD ! Loved it. I still watch them and I'm 62
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 am 61 and I still can do the preamble to the Constitution.
I remember going to college in 85 and the professor saying, Everyone needs to learn the preamble to the Constitution by the next class. But all of Gen Xers didn't have a problem because of Schoolhouse Rock.
And that's the legendary Blossom Dearie singing the Figure 8 song. A lovely voice indeed.
One of the greatest things ever produced for children
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I was the target audience for these. When we took the Constitution test in eighth grade we had to write out the Preamble. When that part of the test came out the entire class was humming the Schoolhouse Rock version, everyone got a perfect score on that one.
Yup, Saturday morning cartoons always had Schoolhouse Rock commercials in between. Every kid in America knew these songs. My other favorite you didn't show was the Adverb song; Lolly, lolly, lolly get your adverbs here......
Mine was about the nervous system--there's a telegraph line; you've got yours and I've got mine.
As a gen X I grew up with Schoolhouse Rock and have bought the DVD sets for all my grandkids and nieces. 😊
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.
Show these kids The Electric Company next. God, I loved educational TV as a kid! Oh yea, the one kid wanted a rock version of I'm Just a Bill. The album Schoolhouse Rock Rocks has covers of these songs.
HEEEEEEEEEY YOOOOOUUUUU GUUUUUUYYYYSSSS!
(Okay, that got me a little choked up)
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.
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
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.😂😂😂😂