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Schoolhouse Rock! (soundtrack)

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Schoolhouse Rock!
Soundtrack album by
Bob Dorough, et al.
ReleasedJune 18, 1996
Recorded1972–1996
Length146:35
LabelRhino Records
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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".[2]

Track listing

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Disc one (Multiplication Rock)

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# Song title Performed by Time Composers Year
1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" Bob Dorough and Friends 0:13 Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2. "Elementary, My Dear" Bob Dorough 3:01 Bob Dorough 1973
3. "Three is a Magic Number" Bob Dorough 3:16 Bob Dorough
4. "The Four-Legged Zoo" Bob Dorough and Friends 3:00 Bob Dorough
5. "Ready or Not, Here I Come" Bob Dorough 3:01 Bob Dorough
6. "My Hero, Zero" Bob Dorough 3:17 Bob Dorough
7. "I Got Six" Grady Tate 3:08 Bob Dorough
8. "Lucky Seven Sampson" Bob Dorough 3:00 Bob Dorough
9. "Figure Eight" Blossom Dearie 3:03 Bob Dorough
10. "Naughty Number Nine" Grady Tate 3:01 Bob Dorough
11. "The Good Eleven" Bob Dorough 3:07 Bob Dorough
12. "Little Twelvetoes" Bob Dorough 3:05 Bob Dorough
13. "My Hero, Zero" (bonus track) The Lemonheads 3:04 Bob Dorough 1996

Disc two (Grammar Rock / Money Rock)

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# Song title Performed by Time Composers Year
1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" Bob Dorough and Friends 0:13 Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2. "Unpack Your Adjectives" Blossom Dearie 3:00 George Newall 1974
3. "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" Bob Dorough 3:01 Bob Dorough
4. "Conjunction Junction" Jack Sheldon, Terri Morel, and Mary Sue Berry 2:59 Bob Dorough 1973
5. "Interjections!" Essra Mohawk 3:01 Lynn Ahrens 1974
6. "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" Jack Sheldon 2:59 Bob Dorough, Kathy Mandary 1976
7. "Verb: That's What's Happening" Zachary Sanders 3:00 Bob Dorough 1974
8. "A Noun is a Person, Place or Thing" Lynn Ahrens 2:56 Lynn Ahrens 1973
9. "Busy Prepositions" Jack Sheldon and Bob Dorough 3:02 Bob Dorough 1993
10. "The Tale of Mr. Morton" Jack Sheldon 2:59 Lynn Ahrens
11. "Dollars and Sense" Val Hawk and Bob Dorough 2:59 Dave Frishberg 1994
12. "Tax Man Max" Patrick Quinn 3:00 Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens 1995
13. "$7.50 Once a Week" Dave Frishberg 3:02 Dave Frishberg
14. "Where the Money Goes" Jack Sheldon 3:02 Rich Mendoza

Disc three (America Rock)

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# Song title Performed by Time Composers Year
1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" Bob Dorough and Friends 0:13 Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2. "No More Kings" Lynn Ahrens & Bob Dorough 3:00 Lynn Ahrens 1975
3. "Fireworks" Grady Tate 2:57 Lynn Ahrens 1976
4. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" Bob Dorough 3:02 Bob Dorough
5. "The Preamble" Lynn Ahrens 2:59 Lynn Ahrens 1975
6. "Elbow Room" Sue Manchester 3:02 Lynn Ahrens 1976
7. "The Great American Melting Pot" Lori Lieberman 3:08 Lynn Ahrens
8. "Mother Necessity" Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon, Blossom Dearie, & Essra Mohawk 3:00 Bob Dorough
9. "Sufferin' Till Suffrage" Essra Mohawk 3:00 Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
10. "I'm Just a Bill" Jack Sheldon 3:00 Dave Frishberg 1975
11. "Three-Ring Government" Lynn Ahrens 3:00 Lynn Ahrens 1979
12. "Electricity, Electricity!" (bonus track) Goodness 3:20 Bob Dorough 1996

Disc four (Science Rock / Computer Rock)

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# Song title Performed by Time Composers Year
1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" Bob Dorough and Friends 0:13 Bob Dorough, Tom Yohe
2. "The Body Machine" Bob Dorough and Jack Sheldon 2:58 Lynn Ahrens 1979
3. "Do the Circulation" Joshie Armstead, Mary Sue Berry, & Maeretha Stewart 3:00 Lynn Ahrens
4. "Electricity, Electricity!" Zachary Sanders 3:05 Bob Dorough
5. "The Energy Blues" Jack Sheldon 2:59 George Newall
6. "Interplanet Janet" Lynn Ahrens 3:00 Lynn Ahrens 1978
7. "Telegraph Line" Jaime Aff and Christine Langner 2:59 Lynn Ahrens 1979
8. "Them Not-So-Dry Bones" Jack Sheldon 3:06 George Newall
9. "A Victim of Gravity" The Tokens 3:00 Lynn Ahrens 1978
10. "Introduction" Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban 3:01 Lynn Ahrens, Tom Yohe and Bob Dorough 1982
11. "Software" Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban 3:12 Dave Frishberg
12. "Hardware" Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban 3:01 Lynn Ahrens 1983
13. "Number Cruncher" Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban 2:59 Dave Frishberg 1984

Notes

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  1. ^ Schoolhouse Rock! at AllMusic
  2. ^ 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. Retrieved March 25, 2019.