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Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 6:26am |
Flashback Q&A with 'Schoolhouse Rock's' Bob Dorough: 'I wrote songs to entertain anyone, from ages 2 to 92' Lyndsey Parker 10 hours ago You may not have known Bob Dorough by name, but if you grew up watching kiddy TV in the ’70s and ’80s, you (and your elementary school report cards) owe him a great debt. He was the Schoolhouse Rock! songsmith that turned the number eight into a heart-breaking ballad, zero into a hero, the number seven into a plucky trickster rabbit, the number nine into a pool-hustling tabby cat, and a conjunction into a railroad boxcar traversing a land where train-hopping vagabonds and curious ducks uttered compound sentences. He was the sweet singing voice behind the tour guide of the four-legged zoo and all three generations of the Lolly family. Dorough, whose genius for making mundane topics fascinating and kid-friendly was uncanny and unmatched, died Monday at age 94. |
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