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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Schoolhouse Rock Taught Generations About Bills, Adverbs And Magic Numbers
Description: This week in 1973, the premiere of Schoolhouse Rock! We'll explain how this show got kids singing and learning every Saturday morning. Plus: today in 1893, the birthday of folk great Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, who only started performing in her 60s but wrote her signature song decades before.
Happy Anniversary “Schoolhouse Rock!” (Library of Congress)
Syracuse folk legend Libba Cotten to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Syracuse.com)
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