Schoolhouse Rock! (soundtrack) explained

Schoolhouse Rock!
Type:Soundtrack
Artist:Bob Dorough, et al.
Cover:Schoolhouse_Rock!_Soundtrack.jpg
Released:June 18, 1996
Recorded:1972–1996
Length:146:35
Label:Rhino Records

Schoolhouse Rock! is a television soundtrack based on the animated television series Schoolhouse Rock!, released by Rhino Records on June 18, 1996, and contains 52 tracks. In 2018, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1]

Track listing

Disc one (Multiplication Rock)

Song titlePerformed byTimeComposersYear
1."Schoolhouse Rocky"Bob Dorough and Friends0:13Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2."Elementary, My Dear"Bob Dorough3:01Bob Dorough1973
3."Three is a Magic Number"Bob Dorough3:16Bob Dorough
4."The Four-Legged Zoo"Bob Dorough and Friends3:00Bob Dorough
5."Ready or Not, Here I Come"Bob Dorough3:01Bob Dorough
6."My Hero, Zero"Bob Dorough3:17Bob Dorough
7."I Got Six"Grady Tate3:08Bob Dorough
8."Lucky Seven Sampson"Bob Dorough3:00Bob Dorough
9."Figure Eight"Blossom Dearie3:03Bob Dorough
10."Naughty Number Nine"Grady Tate3:01Bob Dorough
11."The Good Eleven"Bob Dorough3:07Bob Dorough
12."Little Twelvetoes"Bob Dorough3:05Bob Dorough
13."My Hero, Zero" (bonus track)The Lemonheads3:04Bob Dorough1996

Disc two (Grammar Rock / Money Rock)

Song titlePerformed byTimeComposersYear
1."Schoolhouse Rocky"Bob Dorough and Friends0:13Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2."Unpack Your Adjectives"Blossom Dearie3:00George Newall1974
3."Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here"Bob Dorough3:01Bob Dorough
4."Conjunction Junction"Jack Sheldon, Terri Morel, and Mary Sue Berry2:59Bob Dorough1973
5."Interjections!"Essra Mohawk3:01Lynn Ahrens1974
6."Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla"Jack Sheldon2:59Bob Dorough, Kathy Mandary1976
7."Verb: That's What's Happening"Zachary Sanders3:00Bob Dorough1974
8."A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing"Lynn Ahrens2:56Lynn Ahrens1973
9."Busy Prepositions"Jack Sheldon and Bob Dorough3:02Bob Dorough1993
10."The Tale of Mr. Morton"Jack Sheldon2:59Lynn Ahrens
11."Dollars and Sense"Val Hawk and Bob Dorough2:59Dave Frishberg1994
12."Tax Man Max"Patrick Quinn3:00Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens1995
13."$7.50 Once a Week"Dave Frishberg3:02Dave Frishberg
14."Where the Money Goes"Jack Sheldon3:02Rich Mendoza

Disc three (America Rock)

Song titlePerformed byTimeComposersYear
1."Schoolhouse Rocky"Bob Dorough and Friends0:13Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2."No More Kings"Lynn Ahrens & Bob Dorough3:00Lynn Ahrens1975
3."Fireworks"Grady Tate2:57Lynn Ahrens1976
4."The Shot Heard 'Round the World"Bob Dorough3:02Bob Dorough
5."The Preamble"Lynn Ahrens2:59Lynn Ahrens1975
6."Elbow Room"Sue Manchester3:02Lynn Ahrens1976
7."The Great American Melting Pot"Lori Lieberman3:08Lynn Ahrens
8."Mother Necessity"Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Blossom Dearie, & Essra Mohawk3:00Bob Dorough
9."Sufferin' Till Suffrage"Essra Mohawk3:00Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
10."I'm Just a Bill"Jack Sheldon3:00Dave Frishberg1975
11."Three-Ring Government"Lynn Ahrens3:00Lynn Ahrens1979
12."Electricity, Electricity!" (bonus track)Goodness3:20Bob Dorough1996

Disc four (Science Rock / Computer Rock)

Song titlePerformed byTimeComposersYear
1."Schoolhouse Rocky"Bob Dorough and Friends0:13Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2."The Body Machine"Bob Dorough and Jack Sheldon2:58Lynn Ahrens1979
3."Do the Circulation"Joshie Armstead, Mary Sue Berry, & Maeretha Stewart3:00Lynn Ahrens
4."Electricity, Electricity!"Zachary Sanders3:05Bob Dorough
5."The Energy Blues"Jack Sheldon2:59George Newall
6."Interplanet Janet"Lynn Ahrens3:00Lynn Ahrens1978
7."Telegraph Line"Jaime Aff and Christine Langner2:59Lynn Ahrens1979
8."Them Not-So-Dry Bones"Jack Sheldon3:06George Newall
9."A Victim of Gravity"The Tokens3:00Lynn Ahrens1978
10."Introduction"Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban3:01Lynn Ahrens, Tom Yohe and Bob Dorough1982
11."Software"Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban3:12Dave Frishberg
12."Hardware"Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban3:01Lynn Ahrens1983
13."Number Cruncher"Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban2:59Dave Frishberg1984

Notes and References

  1. News: Andrews . Travis M. . March 20, 2019 . Jay-Z, a speech by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 'Schoolhouse Rock!' among recordings deemed classics by Library of Congress . The Washington Post. March 25, 2019.