Schoolhouse Rock

There was a brief blurb in my local paper today about School House Rock! -- the series of 3-minute educational, musical cartoons that aired on Saturday morning TV from 1973-1985 . You can now buy the complete set of these on DVD. What amazed me was that there were 46 of these shorts! Since I grew up during the era that these played, like millions of other American kids these were a part of my childhood education. But when I tried to remember them, I could only think of a handful -- no where near 46 of them:

• I'm a Bill
• Electricity, Electricity
• The Preamble
• Elbow Room (about manifest destiny)
• The Great American Melting Pot
• Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your Adverbs here
• Conjunction Junction

I didn't remember any of the math ones! See the Wikipedia entry for a complete list and lots of good background info and trivia. See also this website which provides some info and has .wav files for many of them.