Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (PR 6632-7) was a promotional 7” EP released in 1996. It was put out by Lava Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic. It was a split single between Man or Astro-Man? and Pavement. The single was never for sale, but was sent out to promote an album’s worth of late-1970s children’s songs re-imagined by artists that grew up with the animated television show.
Schoolhouse Rock ran from 1973-85. The short, music-heavy clips ran between episodes of Saturday morning cartoons. The aim was to use cartoons to teach kids about history, science and language. The Astro-Man track came from an episode written to help children remember facts about the solar system.
The picture sleeve was made from very stiff cardstock that was printed in full-color. It was machine folded and glued together. It is unique as an Astro-Man release in that it only features the three core members of the band—there was no rhythm guitarist credited. This copy, like many others floating around, was autographed by Coco, Starcruch and Birdstuff. For a long time every copy that came up for sale had been autographed. This makes me wonder if there was some sort of signing event in this single’s history.
It was pressed on yellow-orange vinyl. Here is a scan:
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