Yep, I remember the Preamble to the Constitution,with that tune,to this day. Thanks a bunch, by the way…now I have an audio seizure going on. (“A noun’s a special kind of word, it’s every name you ever heard, I find it quite interesting, a noun’s a person, place, or thing!”)
And I’m remembering those from the 70’s, folks. I haven’t seen any lately. I might buy a set on video, though, since my kid is in second grade and is just getting into grammar. (Multiplication comes next year.)
As one last pathetic aside–I’m a pharmacist, and I count big capsules on the counting tray by threes, to the tune from Multiplication Rock. I’m almost 40 years old and I still do it. (3 6 9…12 15 18…21 24 27…(boom)30!)
I saw that one too, but it wasn’t nearly as psychotic as the trip inside the Uncle’s (not Grandfather’s) diseased lung “IN LIVING COLOR”! Anyone know if there’s a source for these?
:: pouts :: Don’t care. It’s a great tune. The music is all man!
The music may be all, but we now are faced with an entire nation of people that have learned the Preamble to the Constitution incorrectly.
The “America Rock” episode on the Constitution’s Preamble has everybody singing:
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union”
… whereas the real Preamble to the real U.S. Constitution starts out:
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union”
Furthermore, the real Preamble does not have the word “then” between “Promote the general Welfare and” and “Secure the Blessings of Liberty”, whereas the song does. These two gaffes could be quite embarrassing, if somebody were, say, taking his U.S. Citizenship test.
– tracer, providin’ for the common defense.
But I suspect that any good citizenship examiner who heard someone humming the tune would automatically give the applicant a passing grade. Anyone who learned via Schoolhouse Rock is someone the country needs!
mobo,
There is a “then”, to my recollection.
But Tracer brings up a true problem. To solve it, I hereby propose: A new constitutional ammendment to change the Preamble to read exactly as the Schoolhouse Rock version.
Well, we might have to wait a few years for the Baby Boomers to die off, but I bet when us “Gen X-ers” (I hate that term) come to power we could pull it off.
The difference that tracer and tapswiller may be hearing is when they sing the word ‘and’ they break it into two syllables (‘a-and’) which kind of makes it sounds like ‘and then’ to some people. We ran across this when we did the show live… some of our actors thought it was ‘and then’ until they read the lyrics.
Even if the “and then” that I heard growing up was really an “a-and”, this does not negate the fact that the Schoolhouse Rock Preamble starts with:
[ul]We the people, in order to form…[/ul]…while the real Preable starts with:
[ul]We the people of the United States, in order to form…[/ul]
We had to take the Constitution test in eighth grade, and write out the Preamble. The whole class was humming. AND, I recall that as we walked into he classroom that day, someone at the head of the line sent a message back: “OF THE UNITED STATES. Pass it on.”
“Figure Eight” is, without a doubt, the most heartbreaking thing I ever heard on a Saturday morning program. Blossom Dearie’s tentative, menancholy phrasing is perfect.
AWB, I am flattered beyond words. I took the quiz, missed all but one of the math questions, none of the other questions, and on the score page, there’s a link to this thread. (It is broken, tho.)
I always thought that as music Verb has no peer, especially if you subtract out the stupid baseball sequence (even as a young queerling, I knew that you never let a sports metaphor spoil a perfectly good dance song.
Some of the History Rocks are truly embarrassing now - think of “Elbow Room,” which nicely glosses over the people who were, um, living here when the settlers “thought they had to get themselves some elbow room.” Or Energy, which bought hook, line and sinker to the then-politically-correct view that the world was running out of energy supplies (dumb then, dumber now).
