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Summary: Wonderful!!!
Review: I *love* schoolhouse rock! I grew up on these songs, and most everyone who grew up in the 70s and 80s did so as well. These songs helped to define our generation, and you could probably pick any random young adult, and he would be able to hum or any sing one of these tunes! I am SO glad that schoolhouse rock is out on DVD. I have the VHS tapes from a decade ago, but it's nice to have all the songs (49 total, just about) together. Some of my favorites were Conjunction Junction, Interplanet Janet, Sufferin' Till Suffrage, Elbow Room, Figure Eight, I'm Just a Bill, The Preamble (I can still recite the US Constitution's preamble thanks to this!), A Noun is a Person/Place/Thing, Shot Heard around the World, and A Victim of Gravity. Everyone will have their own favorites!The DVD is a 2DVD set. The 1st one has 49 songs, which can be listened to individually, by subject matter, and all together. You can even choose up to 10 songs (or repeat a few) to be played. My favorite method is the random jukebox, which plays random songs - you never know what's going to be played next, just like on the old ABC saturday morning cartoon days. The 2nd DVD has a "lost" song, a new song, 3 forgotten computer songs, a few featurettes, commentaries on a bunch of songs. There's also a trivia game - kinda fun, and it unlocks a mini-song. Also a few fun easter eggs around. All in all, it's a fun disc to look over, and the kids will like it, too. There's even a top 20 songs shuffle count-down, too. I'm glad I have this DVD. Five stars all the way and this is one DVD that will get plenty of replay time, especially if you have kids in the house!
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Summary: It's all SchoolHouse Rock's fault!
Review: It's all SchoolHouse Rock's fault! It (that's a pronoun) sucked me in as a kid with its great melodies and clever lyrics as I learned everything I ever needed to know in school. While other kids wondered why I knew so much about the parts of speech or how I knew so much about math OR America, I was setting the curve and ultimately became high school valedictorian. Then I went to college and earned degrees in both mathematics (master's) and music (bachelor's). Bob Dorough, Jack Sheldon...it's all your fault! Now that I've been a college mathematics teacher, a high school & middle school band director, and now a senior software engineer, I listen to SchoolHouse Rock while I work and my little baby girl now has SchoolHouse Rock on DVD. Hopefully, it'll be your fault she has a head start in school also! ;-) Thanks,
CLR PS- HEY ABC/DISNEY...WHY DON'T YOU SET ASIDE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES EVERY SATURDAY MORNING FOR A SOLID BLOCK OF SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK??!! It may not have trading cards to license, but it would be the best thing on TV (again)!
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Summary: I was ROCKED!!
Review: Schoolhouse Rock IS THE BEST!!! I learned my multiplication ANd how to sing (a little) from watching these mini shows back in the 70"s. This IS, and WILL be a VERY BEST buy for you, ESPECIALLY, if you have small children. Better than Barney, folks!!
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Summary: Learning is Fun!
Review: Geez anyone who wants the kids to learn and enjoy it should get this DVD. The shuffle feature will be just like watching ABC on Saturday morning in the 70's. You just didn't know which subject was coming up next. Could be "I'm just a Bill", "Figure Eight" or my personal favorite "Interjections". My two year old sings, "And the preamble goes like this...We the people, in order to form a more perfect union...." in her own darling way. My four year old actually knows what a Noun is and why there are fireworks on the fourth of July. This series is the best way to teach many subjects in a way that is known to stick. Music! (and cute cartoons too)
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I had the very good fortune of seeing a preview of "gonna send your vote to college". In case you need a hint, this song was written in the wake of the 2000 election cycle. I was very impressed with it, as well as all the other songs/cartoons in the collection. A sure to be welcome addition to the DVD is a behind the scenes of how they went about recording this song, who all was involved, Jack Sheldon (I'm Just a Bill) does the singing. All of the original crew from schoolhouse rock was involved, except the original animator, but his son does a wonderful job. These folks helped a lot of kids of my generation learn history, grammar, math, and science. I don't recite the Preamble to the Constitution anymore, I sing it. George Newall & Co. strikes another hit.
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Summary: Godfather and School House Rock are the only must haves!
Review: School House Rock is so cool that a local band in D.C. plays a medley of the songs. Every bar in which they perform goes absolutely ape*&^. It truly is one of the all time greats and great background for that warm-up time at a party. Oh, yeah, it's a great educational tool as well.
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Summary: COOL!
Review: Cool- and for Bible learning the Scripture Rock series is also excellent!
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Summary: It's about time
Review: I am so happy to finally see this on DVD. Yes, I have two of them on VHS, but it will be great with the improved picture and all of it on one, as well as the new, never-been-seen ones on this edition. I am 34 years old and I passed my constitution test with "The Preamble". I also have the CD for the car and my 4 1/2 year old daughter also likes it but she does roll her eyes when I insist on hearing "The Preamble" 4 times in a row! But she will thank me later when she is trying to pass her own constitution test. Why is this not on tv anymore? These are the kinds of things our kids should be watching on tv!
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Summary: Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here...
Review: I love Schoolhouse Rock! I own the videos and cannot wait for the DVD. As you can tell, the "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly..." song is my favorite, although all of them are great. I actually put them to good use in school; they really do work in teaching kids about basic math, grammar and history. I still fall back on some of the songs for info...even now that I'm an adult...
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Summary: Exclamation Point!
Review: WOW! It's been hard not to curse at Disney for how they ruined their reputation in the DVD arena a couple years ago. But for DVD die-hards like myself, this truly is showing us that they are learning their lesson and fired their previous marketing directors. So, I publicly thank Disney for...having the series in ONE unit,
AND for all the rockin' extras Even though Disney had, well, ZERO to do with any of this original production, and keeps buying out classic animation, I am glad they did this DVD release with class and respect to the work. This series is a part of history, and it certainly DID help me and many in school growing up. Yes, there is a cheese factor involved (oh no, I just remembered the "hanker for a hunka cheese" cowboy...which has nothing to do with Schoolhouse Rock, but I am now having Saturday morning flashbacks), but you gotta admit to loving this. I will be buying many copies of these for my fellow thirty-something friends, and all the children we have had since...Knowledge is Power!... oh gawd.
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