Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Beans and Rice/Conjunction Junction
Let's hear it for '70s/early '80s multicultural educational videos!
Artist: unknown
Year: '70s/'80s?
Rating: Luke Hot
...and a couple days later, this classic ditty came to mind.
Brought to you by: School House Rock
Artist: Terry Morel and Jack Sheldon
Composer: Bob Dorough
Year: 1973
Rating: Luke Hot
Noteworthy: To date, my April, 2009, entry about the song Hanker for a Hunk of Cheese gets the most search hits to my blog. I guess Saturday morning PSAs are in a lot of our heads.
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Strange, I know Conjunction Junction so well I almost sound in tune when I sing it, but I don't recall Beans & Rice at all. No matter because now I have "I'm Just A Bill" floating around in my brain. ~Warm thoughts your way (no singing)~
ReplyDeleteHeh! I guess School House Rock made it to Canada and the other one didn't. It may have been just a local SF Bay Area thing. I can't find much info about it online.
ReplyDeleteA note on singing in tune with songs you haven't heard for a long time: Dan Levitan, in his book This is Your Brain on Music confirms in his research that we all have the capacity to capture the key a song is in, and its tempo, and can often reproduce these aspects of a song when singing it from memory. It's fascinating.
My brother informed me that I had seen "Beans & Rice" and hated it as a child. Selective memory, I guess. (We only watched American TV on Saturdays, the Canadian content was abysmal for children.)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I just ordered that book to add to my ever growing collection of things I'll forget to read.