correctionAn earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the McCaffrey & McCall creative director. It is George Newall, not George Newell. This version has been corrected. “Schoolhouse Rock ...

A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage in "Schoolhouse Rock Live!" The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, ...

The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, tuneful songs. Schoolhouse Rock Live! follows Tom, a nerve-wracked school ...

The educational snippets are the ultimate font of Gen X nostalgia. But what is it we’re nostalgic for? By James Poniewozik When I was in second grade, my teacher held a contest: The first students to ...

Bob Dorough, a singer, pianist and composer who was well known for his jazz but even better known for “Schoolhouse Rock!”, an infectious series of song-filled cartoons that conveyed math and grammar ...

A young generation befuddled by math began to learn the multiplication tables by singing “Three is a Magic Number.” That song, by Bob Dorough, first ran on children’s shows as a three-minute animation ...

The animated educational ABC series ran from 1973 to 2002, teaching kids about science, math and grammar George Newall, co-creator of Schoolhouse Rock!, has died. He was 88. News of Newall's death was ...

People often think of the '70s as a time of supreme cynicism. The airwaves were dominated by the Watergate hearings, movie theaters were awash with a never-ending string of films about an America ...

It's the 50th anniversary of "Schoolhouse Rock!," the children's television show that made learning a blast. The popular show, which premiered on Jan. 6, 1973 and ran every Saturday morning until the ...

The College of Lake County theater department's production of "Schoolhouse Rock Live" will take place during Schoolhouse Rock's 50th anniversary. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, ...

George Newall, the co-creator of the educational musical cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock,” has died. He was 88. Newall’s wife, Lisa Maxwell, told the New York Times he died of cardiopulmonary arrest ...

George Newall, the last surviving original creator of ABC-TV’s “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon, died Nov. 30 in a hospital near his Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., home. He was 88. According to The New York ...