With the recent release of these little thingies on DVD, I thought it was a good time to comment once again on them.
One useless thing–Disney had a poll on their website on the top 25 songs. People voted, and these choices appear on a seperate VHS release (both VHS and DVD releases are commemerating the “series’” 30th anniversary). Here’s the list. Disney listed it in a press release 1-25, but I’ll do it like Casey Casem would, counting down to number 1.
- Elbow Room
- Verb: That’s What’s Happening
- Them Not-So-Dry Bones
- Telegraph Line
- Naughty Number Nine
- Mother Necessity
- The Great American Melting Pot
- Dollars and Sense
- Elementary My Dear
- Ready or Not, Here I Come
- Rufus Xavier Sasparilla
- Unpack Your Adjectives
- No More Kings
- Figure Eight
- My Hero, Zero
- The Shot Heard 'Round The World
- A Noun Is A Person, Place, or Thing
- Interplanet Janet
- Three Is A Magic Number
- The Preamble
- Interjections
- Electricity, Electricity
- Lolly, Lolly, Lolly (Get Your Adverbs Here)
And of course, the top two are easy to figure out. Number two is I’m Just A Bill, and you can probably guess that number one is none other than Conjunction Junction.
I’d like to congratulate the American Brodcasting Companies and their parent company, Disney, for 30 years. Michael Eisner, thanks for approving it in the first place, George Newall, thanks for helping to bring it to life, and if you can hear me up there in heaven, thanks to Tom Yohe for helping George, and to Dave McCall for coming up with it in the first place.
Who knew how easy it was to learn things by putting them in song? Who knew ABC could work it by putting it randomly between their Saturday morning programming? And who knew it would be popular after all these years?
I’m rambling now. I turn it over to you.