Ian is completly addicted to School House Rock. As he was getting his shoes on this morning, he was singing "Three Is a Magic Number".
Then I pulled out my iPad and tried to convince that this version was better.
He wasn't convinced.
11 thoughts on “Three is A Magic Number”
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Apt. 11d 
You don’t mess with the classics. We can all sing the Schoolhouse Rocks songs here in my household. It’s how my girls learned their American history, too!
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I agree with Ian. 3 is a magic number is a work of art.
(Now, I think it’s OK to mess with the classics. But, it’s OK to prefer the original after the messing is done)
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Does the second one even have any math?
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Batman III is filming in Pittsburgh this summer. I hope they send out pamphlets on how to avoid provoking Christian Bale.
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How come a pig can have a heavy steel or wooden beam fall on its head without injury, but it dies if a bird gently rolls against it?
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Sorry Laura, I’m not convinced either. But this is awesome.
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Russell’s link is funny (even though I consider its lesson completely wrong and a false view of how democracy works). And, I love the original Bill.
Well done parody, though.
Are we going to talk about the potential government closure?
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My therapist says I shouldn’t seek closure too soon.
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Of course, my therapist gets paid by Medicare, so he would say that.
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Rest assured, BJ, when I show Schoolhouse Rock in my American Government classes, I show the original Bill. It’s still quite accurate, though idealized. It’s just fun to see the other side, sometimes.
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Bob Dorough the writer and singer of “three is a magic number” is a respected jazz vocalist. This is kind of funny:
I was having a high old time listening to Bob Dorough’s new record, Too Much Coffee Man(Blue Note), which may be his best, when my assistant Elora walked in and exclaimed with a slight interrogatory, “Schoolhouse Rock!?” She had never heard of Dorough, but she recognized the voice. I had never heard of Schoolhouse Rock, so she brought in her four-disc Rhino set and played her favorites, including a masterpiece, “My Hero, Zero,” noting, “You will not find anyone of my generation who does not know the words to ‘Electricity Electricity’ and ‘Conjunction Junction.’ ” She proved the point with a recitation augmented by a description of the animation that accompanied the songs when the short instructive cartoons appeared on television. Dorough was the series’ music director and wrote most of the songs. “I learned the multiplication tables from him,” Elora marveled. “We had great TV then.”
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