Schoolhouse Rock!: The Updated Official Guide

(Hardback, Media tie-in)

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'Conjunction Junction, what's your function' If you don't recognise those five little words, then you weren't camped out in front of the television set every Saturday morning from 1973 to 1985. Those catchy, jazzy tunes from Schoolhouse Rock! taught millions of us the fundamentals of maths, grammar, science, and history. We learned how a bill becomes a law in 'I'm Just a Bill,' the planets of our solar system in 'Interplanet Janet,' how to turn an adjective into a perfectly good adverb in 'Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here.' Plus we unknowingly memorised the Preamble to the Constitution! A blast from the past, Schoolhouse Rock! The Updated Official Guide includes the unforgettable lyrics and memorable moments from the original segments and the later inclusions, such as: My Hero, Zero; Three Is a Magic Number; Figure Eight; Conjunction Junction; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here; Interjections!; Telegraph Line; A Victim of Gravity; Interplanet Janet; Sufferin' Till S

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George Newall was an executive at the McCaffrey & McCall advertising agency when he was asked to put the multiplication tables to music. Fellow advertising man Tom Yohe created the visuals, and the rest is history.