Multiplication songs wanted

[barondave]

Hmmm.... at ambertatge's request, I'm making a CD (actually, several). She teaches third grade, and they wanted songs about multiplication. As it turns out, I don't really have a lot of songs that teach math. Most of them are from Schoolhouse Rock. Song of those songs spill into the next CD. I've added some science songs, and some upbeat songs, but I'm still not amazingly satisfied with the first one (which may be all I get to before she goes. Here is the preliminary track listing for Amber: Mercury. (Amber: Venus will have the rest o the Schoolhouse Rock songs and any others I can find and Amber: Earth will have more Earth science and moon songs. I have a fair amount of Mars songs, even for 8-year-olds, and the Jupiter et al will be instrumentals.

But I turn to LJ Assembled: Any suggestions? Other songs? Deletions? General Discussion?

Interplanet Janet Schoolhouse Rock 2:59
Three Is A Magic Number Schoolhouse Rock 3:13
Here Comes The Santa Fe Riders In The Sky 3:12
Figure Eight Blossom Dearie 3:04
Conjunction Junction Jack Sheldon/Terry Morel 3:00
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron Royal Guardsmen, The 2:46
High Hopes Crosby, Bing 2:40
1 To 10 Blues Catfish Hodge 2:47
Gorilla Walk Michael Mish 3:52
My Hero, Zero Bob Dorough 3:17
Googolplex Jack Pearson 4:49
Wakko's America Animaniacs 1:55
Wiggle In My Toe Joe Scruggs 3:00
Humpty Dumpty Joe Scruggs 2:29
Tyrannosaurus rex... rex... rex... DinoRock 2:41
Little Twelvetoes Bob Dorough 3:06
Elementary, My Dear Bob Dorough 3:02
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Beatles, The 3:09
Impressionists 2-Step Wagner, Pop 3:04
Small Things Isabelle Delage 6:29

Comments

[qrssama.livejournal.com]

Tom Leher, specifically The Elements and New Math.

Otherwise, there are Schoolhouse Rock songs for mult. tables from 2-12. You are missing all but the one about Three. Specifically, they are:
0. My Hero, Zero
2. Elementary, My Dear
3. Three Is A Magic Number
4. The Four-Legged Zoo
5. Ready Or Not, Here I Come
6. I Got Six
7. Lucky Seven Sampson
8. Figure Eight
9. Naughty Number Nine
11. The Good Eleven
12. Little Twelvetoes

[qrssama.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my bad. You had 0 and 12 on your list.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

And I have the 2 and 8 (and Conjunction Junction & Interplant Janet from different Schoolhouse Rock sets). I'll eventually use all of them. The Elements is a good choice, but New Math is probably a bit advanced for 3rd grade (since it's making fun of it, and they don't use New Math anymore...). I should go through Dr. Jane to check, though she's mostly college level.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Actually, you'll be asking Dr. James, or Jim, as he asked me to call him when I saw him at Loscon a few weeks ago. She is a he and has a beard now, but the silly grin, and more importantly the silly sense of humor, are just as they always have been.

[ambertatge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for going to all the trouble! I guess I should just look for the School House Rock CD. I didn't know that they had multiplication songs!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

No prob. Schoolhouse Rock is four CDs, only one of which is Multiplication. You might want the DVD.

I'll have at least one CD for you by the New Year's Party.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

You left out "Inchworm" from Frank Loesser's score for "Hans Christian Anderson," probably best-known for the movie of it starring Danny Kaye. A chorus of schoolchildren recite "Two and two are four, Four and four are eight, Eight and eight are sixteen, Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two..." as accompaniment to Hans singing the main tune!

It was a natural that somebody would mention the obvious Tom Lehrer songs, but there's another (http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/thatmath.htm) that is more recent, less known, and therefore somewhat less obvious. No specific mention of multiplication, however.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I wonder if I have a copy of Inchworm around here...

Two CDs are done (Mercury and Venus) before she goes back to CA. The rest will have to wait.