第二季的“校舍摇滚!,”themed Grammar Rock, aired between 1973 and 1974. It includes one of the most popular and widely recognized "Schoolhouse Rock" songs of all time, "Conjunction Junction," which was written by Dorough and performed by Merv Griffin's former trumpet player, Jack Sheldon. Newall came up with the visual concept of the rail cars hooking together.
在这个赛季,林恩Ahrens从本部门部长麦&考尔后全职作曲家Newall听到她弹吉他在午餐休息的,问她的贡献。结果是“一个名词是一个人、地方或东西。”Ahrens went on to write 15 more songs for "Schoolhouse Rock," including "A Victim of Gravity," "Interplanet Janet" and "Interjections" [source: Newall and Yohe].
1993年,“校舍摇滚生活!,”a version of the show adapted for the stage, opened in the basement theater of a vegetarian restaurant in Chicago. After playing to sold-out crowds for months, it had an off-Broadway run in New York, then returned to Chicago, where it ran until 1997. Under the group Theatrebam Chicago, it still tours the country, exposing a new generation of children to the anthology, including "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" and "Great American Melting Pot" [source:校舍摇滚生活!]。
作为一个孩子的70年代早期,我长大”校舍岩!”I have probably said or written the phrase "Knowledge is power!" thousands of times between the Saturday mornings of my youth and now. But until I wrote this piece, I didn't realize how lucky I was to be exposed to something that assumed kids were smart instead of dumbing down the content. Besides chatting with 93-year-old Bob Dorough before he flew to London for a few jazz gigs, my favorite part of writing this piece was learning how important it was to the creators that children be treated with respect.