Who was the creator of the tv show called School House Rock?
Most kids growing up in the seventies or eighties have fond memories of this Saturday morning show- I know I do! It was the perfect way to sandwich a bit of learning in between the Saturday morning cartoons. The series of animated cartoon shorts-41 segments in all-used appealingly goofy characters, catchy tunes and repetition (airing as often as seven times each weekend) to teach Fruity Pebbles consumers about multiplication tables, the parts of speech, American history, science and computer mechanics. Schoolhouse Rock’s genesis took place in 1971 when David McCall, chairman of big-time New York ad agency McCaffrey & McCall, noticed that his son could sing every Beatles and Stones lyric ever recorded but couldn’t handle simple multiplication tables. His solution was simple: Link math with contemporary music and the kids will breeze through school on a song. To implement his idea, McCall turned to his agency’s creative staff, who passed the songwriting chores over to a traditional Broad
