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Schoolhouse Rock: Multiplication Rock

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This CD is great. I remembered it from my childhood Saturday mornings and it has helped my 3rd grader immeasurably. My five year old knows his threes multiplication tables. He asked his kindergarted teacher if 5 x 20 = 100 and she was floored. If you have a kid who has trouble with multiplication, this is your CD.

I can't say enough about this CD. I remember picking the record out at the mall as a child. Found that vinyl in my 20s and rediscovered this great music! Now I'm upgrading to CD in my 30s! Most of the tunes are catchy as heck and will have reciting your multiplication tables without realizing it! The songs illustrate tricks and shortcuts for solving math problems, as well as setting the table to music. A must for kids!

But beyond the educational impact of this CD, it's the music that makes it enduring! "Little Twelvetoes" is a cool song with a very far out way of making it's point! The opening guitar riff of that track would make the sample loop of an instant hit song for someone like Beck or Snoop Dogg or Walrus Gumboot (I want songwriting credit :-) Call it Dec El Doe. "If man were born with 6 fingers on each hand...he probably would have invented 2 more digits in his number system...'dek' & 'el' being two entirely new single digits...and his twelve 'do' would have been written one-o...Get It? That'd be Swell, to multiply by Twelve"

Most of the songs are not quite so "deep". "Naughty Number Nine" is a great blues track. "Figure Eight" has a haunting melody. Suffice it to say that this is not one of those CDs that will drive you nuts if your child plays it repeatedly!

All of the CDs in the series are great, but Multiplication Rock is the best in my opinion. The videos are even better although the sound quality is poor. How 'bout releasing the complete series of 4 on one DVD? If you're already a fan, the tribute CD 'Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks' is worth a listen (Check out Mr. Morton). Bob Dorough (who wrote all of the songs on this CD and sings most of them) also has a recent release called 'Too Much Coffee Man'. Can't wait to hear it!

I'm 30 years old, with no kids, and I own all the Schoolhouse Rock CDs. The music is fun, the songs are great, and they just make me happy...that said, Multiplication Rock is the best of all of them. All of the songs are memorable. Maybe it's because they were the original concept of the series. If you get this one and the greatest hits, you've covered the best songs of all the CDs.

I must confess that, as a kid, long after I learned my times tables, I found myself enjoying these songs on Saturday mornings. They are very clever and tuneful ways to introduce each number, from zero to twelve. Your kid will enjoy it (and learn something too)!

i grew up watching schoolhouse rock reruns on abc. i will never forget how much i enjoyed them. i love the songs and they are so catchy that kids don't even realize they're learning. i highly recommend this cd for children in 1st to 5th grade. this cd has my favorite schoolhouse rock song of all times LITTLE TWELVETOES witch is why i purchased it in the first place. i am totaly satisfied with it. i hope you will love it as much as i do[...]

i love this stuff, and my kids do too. genuinely good songs played and sung well. one nitpick: why is 'my hero zero' in the middle, instead of at the top? don't make no sense in the middle.

but who cares? buy this cd.

I LOVE THIS CD. However, this is completely ridiculous that there is such a market for this cd and they won't release it again. FIGHT BACK! Refuse to pay this. I'll tell you how to make your own--I bought the DVD set and there are programs on the internet that enable you to get the music off of DVDs. It was easy. DO IT YOURSELF!

This is a great little CD that is worth about $12 or so. Amazon has it listed at $32 however. Target had it for much less.

I remember when these were first reissued, at least the videos.... My friend (7 or 8 year younger than I am - he hadn't really sen them) and I were in a huge media superstore, and they were playing them on the monitor. I was watching "Figure Eight" and my friend, finished with his shopping, came up to me and said "Why are you crying?"
I hadn't noticed that I was, but there was something very wonderful about seeing it again, always thinking it was a forgotten footnote of my childhood. It's wonderful to know that I'm not alone and that these are still pertinent enough to still be teaching kids something all these years later. I don't know if it's the chords or the little daydreaming girl, but "Figure Eight" still moves me to tears every time I see or hear it now. It's nice to know we don't have to let everything go as we grow older. We're so lucky to have recorded media as part of our culture. So much of it is awful, but there are priceless gems mixed in. Schoolhouse Rock is one of them.

I love Schoolhouse Rocky as much as anyone, but I am feeling a little ambiguous about this CD. I purchased it for my daughter to help her with her multiplication, and wouldn't you know it? She took the CD sleeve to school for a test and got caught cheating. Now I don't know if that was because the songs on this CD aren't as catchy to my daughter as they are to me, or if my daughter was simply being lazy. Either way, Multiplication Rock hits its intended target.