![]() Dorough also performed most of the songs, with Grady Tate performing two and Blossom Dearie performing one during this season. Schoolhouse Rock! debuted as a series in January 1973 with Multiplication Rock, a collection of animated music videos adapting the multiplication tables to songs written by Bob Dorough. This scene has never been rebroadcast on ABC, nor has it been included in any home media releases. The Curiosity Shop version is an extended cut which includes an additional scene/verse that explains the pattern of each set of ten containing three multiples of three, animated in the form of a carnival shooting game. The first video of the series, "Three Is a Magic Number," originally debuted during the debut episode of Curiosity Shop on September 2, 1971. ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Radford Stone, producer and writer at ABC, suggested they pitch it as a television series, which caught the attention of Michael Eisner, senior vice president in charge of programming and development at ABC, and cartoon director Chuck Jones. McCall hired musician Bob Dorough to write a song that would teach multiplication, which became "Three Is a Magic Number." Tom Yohe, an illustrator at McCaffrey and McCall, heard the song and created visuals to accompany it. The series was the idea of David McCall, an advertising executive of McCaffrey and McCall, who noticed his young son was struggling with learning multiplication tables, despite being able to memorize the lyrics of many Rolling Stones songs. Additional episodes were produced in 2009 for direct-to-video release. The series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1984 it was later revived from 1993 to 1996. ![]() The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, music videos) that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. American TV series or program Schoolhouse Rock! ![]()
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