Three years ago this month, Rock Turtleneck took a bold leap into the blogosphere, with an appreciation of Urge Overkill's overlooked 1993 classic Saturation.
The third anniversary is significant because, as anyone who grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock will tell you, 3 is a Magic Number.
"3 is a Magic Number" was the first song written for the Schoolhouse Rock project, which began to fulfill a government requirement to add educational content to children's Saturday morning programming.
Ad exec David McCall complained that his son had a hard time memorizing multiplication tables, he could memorize rock lyrics with stunning ease. And thus, with a song and lyrics by Bob Donough, "somewhere in the ancient mystic trinity" the decades-long legend Schoolhouse Rock was born:
In the Daisy Age days before freewheelin' samplin' became illegal, De La Soul sampled "3 is a Magic Number" on their 1989 landmark Hip-Hop masterpiece 3 Feet High and Rising. It's probably the only hip-hop album I ever loved from start to finish. And it should be noted that De La Soul was a trio and their album title contained 3 - that's a magic number.
I think it's Bob Dorough (not Donough)
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