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Bob Dorough

'Schoolhouse Rock the series' original run lasted from 1973 to 1985; it was later revived with both old and new episodes airing from 1993 to 1999
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Born in Arkansas and "raised" in Texas, immediately fell in love with music upon joining the Plainview Texas High School Band. Dorough attended three semesters at Texas Tech University before being drafted into the U.S. Army in February 1943 .

He served three years in a Special Services Army Band Unit, gaining much professional experience as arranger, clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist, and entertainer (1943-45).

After earning a Bachelor Of Music degree at the University of North Texas (1949), he made a bee-line for New York City where he took classes at Columbia University and immersed himself in the volatile jazz scene (The BeBop revolution) taking place there at that time.

The show’s most famous civics lesson, and still the most effective description of legislative process you’ll ever need remains “ I’m Just a Bill”.

WHAT IS BEBOP JAZZ?

Bebop, also called bop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this type of music. When it emerged, bebop was unacceptable not only to the general public but also to many musicians. The resulting breaches—first, between the older and younger schools of musicians and, second, between jazz musicians and their public—were deep, and the second never completely healed.

I of III: The classic Schoolhouse Rock song: I'm just a bill

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II of III:  bebop jazz: The Evolution of Culture Through Music

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III of III: ‘Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar - Conjunction Junction

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