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Cover Friday: “3 Is A Magic Number”

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School House Rock! Rocks
School House Rock! Rocks

“3 Is A Magic Number”
by Blind Melon (originally by School House Rock!)
from the album School House Rock! Rocks
1996
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I found this track on a CMJ magazine sampler CD  sometime in 1996.  A few years later I totally got into MiniDiscs and transferred the tracks I really liked from those sampler CDs to MDs.  And then recently when I was moving down to Austin, I transferred those MD mix discs into iTunes.  This song has survived three generations of media, and rightfully so.  It’s fun, magical little tune and serves as double nostalgia: for Blind Melon and for School House Rock!

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Cover Friday: “Duck Tales”

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Duck Tales
Duck Tales

“Duck Tales” Theme Song
by Scott Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams
from the album Scott Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams
2013
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It’s entirely a coincidence that Lance and I are both posting cartoon covers today. Sometimes we’re eerily in sync, and I highly doubt there will be a recurrence of this type of cover. I wasn’t even going to save this for #CoverFriday and was going to post it when it first made the rounds a few days ago, but was lazy.

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Cover Friday: “Fat Albert Theme Song”

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Saturday Morning Cartoons
Saturday Morning Cartoons

“Fat Albert” Theme Song
by Dig (originally by Fat Albert)
from the album Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits
1995
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Dig had an alterna hit of some kind in the 90s but hell if I can remember what it was.  And I pretty much only watched Fat Albert when I stumbled across it.  So you wouldn’t think there would be much to draw me towards this cover by a mediocre band of a mediocre cartoon theme song but there’s something about this track that just kind rocks.

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