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G.D.

G.D.

Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.
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  • What?!? ‘I’m just a bill’ wasn’t good enough for these people? How dare they ruin one of the best School House Rock songs (only surpassed by ‘Where The Money Goes’).

    Disgusting.

  • quadmoniker

    Lol. You have a category “WTF?”

  • I… I…

    I got nothing.

  • shani: isn’t SHR before your time? i remember them being phased out during *my* childhood?

    And, you’re mistaken. The best “Schoolhouse Rock” song was The Shot Heard Around The World. Now get it right or pay the price! (c) Ug.

  • G.D., as we’ve established, you’re aged.

    By the time my childhood came around, SHR was retro cool. And ‘The Shot Heard ‘Round The World’ is up there, but not quite as good as ‘Conjunction Junction,’ or my sentimental fave, ‘Figure 8.’

  • geo

    they sound sooo unenthusiastic.

  • Shani: I’m gonna agree with you on “Conjunction Junction”. My next fave is probably “Three Is A Magic Number”. When did they start getting rid on SHR on actual tv? We only had one local channel when I was little in Bermuda so I only remember watching them on VHS – my dad would dub them from the ones at the rental place. I still have a few of them, along with a full collection of the Sesame Street Treasury books.

  • “Conjunction Junction” is the best SHR. Period.

    (Also, who did this one? Because it totally sucks.)

  • rakia

    Y’all can debate the best SHR is you want to. But for me, the most memorable Sesame Street jam is “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZeCvC4YNs8

    And I’m not embarrassed to admit that I still sing this on occasion.

  • rakia

    If you didn’t enough the first time around, here goes another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-YcBVEnLT8

    It’s just so funky!