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Saturday Morning ABC Schoolhouse (History) Rock

Posted by: Wordsmith @ 6:00 am in Uncategorized

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My childhood:

I always read this video as more about assimilation than of multiculturalism:


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stix1972
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Brings back memories. I remember watching these after the Buggs Bunny and Road Runnner show.

Good old “Conjunction Function”,”Planet Janet” and “I am a Bill on Capitol Hill”

Then the movie of the wek. “The Hobbit”(Lord of the Rings), “The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe(Narnia)” and many other good cartoon movies.

Multiculturalism is killing the “Melting Pot” ao what we used to be. We all came from all over the place but assimilated into the American Dream. Now we are fractured and have our hyphenated American balkanization.

July 5th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Carl
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For whatever it’s worth, some company released all the original Schoolhouse Rock segments in a DVD box set as well as a CD box set. Also there is a CD of Schoolhouse Rock tribute songs covered by various artists called “Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks.” I was released in 1996 & I own a copy. It’s quite good. Some of the artists include Better Than Ezra, The Lemonheads, and Ween. Good stuff!

July 5th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
stix1972
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Yes my friend has got the CD of Shcollhouse Rocks Rocks. It is prett cool.

July 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Some Guy
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Yeah, it’s Disney that released the DVD set, because of two reasons:
- Disney bought ABC, the network that originally did Schoolhouse Rock
- Disney’s ex-CEO Michael Eisner was the ABC executive that approved the production of Schoolhouse Rock.

Of course “The Great American Melting Pot” was about assimilation over multi-culti. Also, look at how “Elbow Room” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twFs9Vk6F0A) sings unselfconcoiusly about manifest destiny and expanding American territory to the moon.

Can you imagine the drooling drug-addled stars of today even knowing the parts of speech, much less writing catchy and easy to understand songs explaining them to kids?

July 5th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Colocelt
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Don’t forget this one :-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SF_kcYdXLnA

July 7th, 2008 at 7:12 am

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