School House Rock! I was not a big fan of cartoons growing up. That was my little brother's thing. However, I was intellectually cognizant when cable came out. Gone were those dang rabbit ears!! I could fully enjoy my adverbs! Lolly!

In 2006 we bought this because we home schooled our kids, they and my Honey (Ricky) are all musically inclined, and it is very educationally fun. You can't be all "noses in the books" all the time when home schooling or it gets old really fast. I am very "Spock" & "Live long & prosper", while Honey is "shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy, wonderful world." So we balanced each other out. This was a definite no brainer, and a unanimous yes. I don't credit this movie with the following success of our children, but it helped, a lot. Kids need music to help them to learn and memorize, unless they have eidetic memories like me. Even then using music to associate education and retention really works.

Fast forward to 2015. Our son is now freshly turned 22, married, and a father of a 4 month old son, and I wish he would pursue pitching professionally. Kid is a lefty and boy can he put some stank on it.. Our oldest daughter started college at 17 last year. She skipped a full grade and earned two scholarships that pay for tuition, dorm, & food. Our middle daughter is 16, two grades ahead, and graduates in June. Her and I are going to the same college in the Fall. Our youngest is going to be 15 in less than a month and is also 2 full grades ahead, and also has the same scholarships as the oldest girl at the same college already.

So guess who this Nana is now teaching, and that includes using this very dvd we bought back then? That's right! My 4 month old chunky monkey grandson absolutely loves it!! This was one heck of an investment! As I recall it didn't take very long to get to us either, and we lived in the dang sticks, too. I mean the mail carrier used her very own vehicle and the route was considered rural. They didn't over or under package it. They didn't over charge either. It was our first ever purchase from Amazon, too. My how things have changed.

I just thought I should come in and make sure I gave this purchase and product some better justice and credit. The dvd is setting on the shelf next to the player 24/7 now, instead of the dvd shelving. My grandson loves it so much that I am not wasting the energy to go back and forth anymore, lol! He even giggles when we do the Nana dance with my jam, the adverbs.

I loved these educational songs as a kid now I watch them with my grandchildren!

Brings back memories!!!

This is a great DVD containing all of the original songs we grew up with during our Saturday morning cartoon days. It's just as entertaining and catchy as it was in the early 70's, and if my daughter's any indication even children as young as 2 will find it enjoyable.
What surprised me when I saw the list of songs was that there were many that I had never seen. In particular, all seven money songs didn't get on the air before I stopped watching cartoons, so there was actually new stuff (from my perspective, anyway ;-D).
You can play the songs in a few ways. First, you can go to the Play List and select songs by their group -- grammar, science, history, money, multiplication. There's also an option called "The Whole Enchilada" which will play all 46 songs. Depending on the style you choose ("mild" or "spicy"), the songs either play back in order by group or in a random shuffle.
There's also an option called "Jukebox", but this was deceptive. Instead of letting you pick any set of songs you want, you can only pick from the top ten songs (as determined by the publisher based on viewer feedback from years ago).
My daughter just turned two in September, and she loves to watch the Grammar Rock set. Within two days of seeing it, she was singing the chorus of "Interjections!" (as well as a two-year old can sing, that is ;D). I don't know if it's mainly due to this or just the rate her language skills are naturally developing, but her use of pronouns has greatly improved in the last couple of months and that song is another of her favorites in the Grammar set.
The other sections are moderately advanced for her age (especially multiplication rock and money rock), so she's not so interested in those yet. Surprisingly, she loves to watch "Suffering Until Suffrage" in the America Rock set -- probably because of the music.
The bonus materials DVD is OK, but apart from the Emmy section it's mainly fluff. The Scooter Computer and Mister Chips set is the one set of songs that's visibly dated, just by virtue of the subject matter. And I'm not sure why they called "The Weather Show" a lost song -- I clearly remember seeing that on Saturday mornings, which means they had to have been playing it pretty regularly. Maybe it was "lost" from the Science Rock VHS tape, but then why not just put it in that set on the DVD?
Overall, a definite 5-star buy!

Come on, it's School House Rock! You can't go wrong.