An appreciation of Schoolhouse Rock!'s Bob Dorough

The Washington Post

Dorough, who died Monday at age 94, didn't create the hit kid's education TV series, but the composer's songs will live on among people of all ages. "I attempted to write songs that would entertain anyone, from ages 2 to 92," he once said. As Travis M. Andrews explains, "even Schoolhouse Rock! devotees might not know of Bob Dorough, the accomplished musician and composer behind most of those tunes ... His 94 years of life were packed with a Forrest Gump-esque career that brought him in contact with several historical icons and eventually launched him into writing educational earworms for ABC in between experimental jazz records." ALSO: Ranking Bob Dorough's Schoolhouse Rock! songs.