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Robert Lrod Dorough (December 12, 1923 – April 23, 2018) was an American bebop and cool jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer. [2] [3] He became famous as the composer and performer of songs in the TV series Schoolhouse Rock!, as well as for his work with Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, and others.
Dec 27, 2018 · He swung the camera around to face himself: 30 years old and a slim 5-foot-4, alone in a field of crevasses, grimacing and breathing raggedly, with no oxygen tank, as his boots thudded into fresh...
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Apr 24, 2018 · Musician Bob Dorough, who died this week at age 94, wrote and performed some of the most beloved Schoolhouse Rock! songs.
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- Conjunction Junction. Call me a traditionalist, but Conjunction Junction is the best song in the blues/grammar mash-up canon. Listen to it again, and again, and again.
- Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here. Everytime I use an adverb, two different refrains run through my head. One is my high school english teacher telling me to never use adverbs, and the other is the catchy chorus from this classic jam written and performed by Dorough.
- Sufferin’ Till Suffrage. A socially conscious ditty, this song taught kids in the 1970s about the women’s suffrage movement. Not-so-fun fact: the 19th amendment, which extended voting rights to women, was passed in 1920.
- Verb: That’s What’s Happenin’ Another grammar lesson set to music, Dorough wrote this classic in 1973 near the beginning of Schoolhouse Rock. It’s an important song dedicated to perhaps the most important part of speech.
Bob Dorough, the jazz composer, pianist and singer best known for educating a generation of American kids with his entertaining songs died Monday at his home in Mount Bethel, Pa. He was 94.
Sep 10, 2001 · Bob Dorough is best known for Schoolhouse Rock, but I absolutely adore his jazz work. I first discovered him on a Blossom Dearie album (Needlepoint Magic) an...
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Apr 27, 2018 · Bob Dorough, who began his jazz career in the early 1950s as a pianist and arranger, and expanded to singing and composing songs laced with sardonic wit and puns, died on April 23.
