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Jack Sheldon
Posted by thesiding on Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:10 PM

Now HERES A way to feret out the generations here          Anyone remeber Conjunction Junction From School House Rock?

 

Well the singer Jack Sheldon dies on Dec 27                     SADLY I can not fo this BUT Those with a layouut might want to consider running a train in his honor                                      damm wish I COULD

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Posted by Penny Trains on Thursday, January 2, 2020 6:26 PM

I grew up on it!

And Sesame Street and Mister Rogers and Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo and Barnaby...

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Posted by Firesteel on Thursday, January 2, 2020 7:10 PM

I grew up with it too. I remember wishing they would have shown the locomotive. Of course I also liked Captain Kangaroo, Mister Rogers, and Sesame Street.

Karl

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Posted by phrankenstign on Thursday, January 2, 2020 8:05 PM

I liked many of the songs from the Schoolhouse Rock segments.

A few years ago, a collection of many of the videos was released.

Here's a pic of it:

Schoolhouse Rock DVD set artwork

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Posted by rtraincollector on Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:16 PM

Heres a Norfolk/Southern version of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXVp6JaaX2g

 

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Posted by Penny Trains on Friday, January 3, 2020 6:31 PM

Tongue Tied  Wow  Tongue Tied  speechless

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Friday, January 3, 2020 7:03 PM

Great N/S commercial!  I wonder when they ran it, I don't ever remember seeing it.

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Posted by Penny Trains on Saturday, January 4, 2020 5:17 PM

Probably was only shown at corporate events.  Otherwise they would have had to pay royalties.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, January 5, 2020 12:57 AM

The use to be one of the making of Norfolk Southern whats your Function but it got taken down.

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Posted by LL675 on Monday, January 6, 2020 2:29 PM

great stuff, used to watch those allll the time! Just looked him up, knew him from a lot of old TV, but never knew he did the commercials.

Dave

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Posted by Firesteel on Monday, January 6, 2020 7:55 PM

The School House Rock cartoons were great because they taught us about various topics in a way that was interesting for kids. Actually, they are still interesting for us even though we are now adults.

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 9:46 AM

Jack Sheldon had an interesting career - 1950's West Coast "cool jazz" trumpeter / singer, later a bandleader (with Merv Griffin on Merv's syndicated talk show), actor ("Run Buddy Run") and so on. Always a great talk show guest, one of those guys who knew and/or worked with just about everyone in music or movies.

Stix

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