Mother Necessity

[@yuppygoat]

"Mother dear, I'll fulfill your fondest wishes." "Elias Howe!?"

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I'm a bit embarassed to admit it took me years to get that joke! 😳

[@KimberlyRedman-f1r]

Everyone needs a mother that will always be there for us.

[@joelynch6098]

My favorite song from America Rock when I was a kid. The actress who plays Orville and Wilbut Wright's mom sure can act!

[@b.l.urainbowscout1081]

"TAKE THAT FUNNY LOOKING THING" My favorite part! XD

[@henrygerecke5376]

Uheheheheheh-you said ‘thing’

[@pennyfitzgeraldfangumball2024]

its a propeller

[@Playerblu11]

the wright bothers is one of my favorite people in history

[@catsend]

And you know the wright brothers’ first passenger on one of their early flights was their father?

[@HeyItsGCA]

@@catsend that is true Milton Wright was one of their pilots

[@sibetherak557]

"Ring me on the Alexander Graham Bell", is my favorite part even though it sets it off to the melody of a sad tone.

[@tommarsee6319]

This brings back such great childhood memories!

[@mattsodano6264]

"Things were rotten in the land of cotton." That's definitely one way of putting it.

[@dinahkyle3196]

Eeyup

[@0106johnny]

Not wrong, just a gross oversimplification

[@WhiteKnitter]

Well god damn, all these years of listening to this and I missed that!

[@heathharriss]

Two things wrong about this song, Henry Ford wasn’t the creator of the automobile, it was actually Karl Benz, in Germany. Ford invented the assembly line that helped build his cars though. Second Robert Fulton wasn’t American, He was actually British and invented the steam boat while still living there, but brought it to New York for use on the canals.

[@AmberHanson-tx9mz]

Ever since I've heard this episode of schoolhouse rock, it's been one of my newest favorites

[@geraldfer]

R. I. P Sir....I shall not forget your songs to help us see so much more than just history books

[@tnaoro]

2:27 my favorite part of the song

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I always loved this one for the different types of music involved in it. It must've been hard work to record, but it seems like fun also!

[@moneydavis8612]

“In fact, we’ll keep the whole nation in stitches ahhhaah” I love that part

[@braxtonroomconcerts]

Me too

[@fleetadmiralperry5739]

IM 25,WHEN I WAS 8 MY GRANDMOTHER BOUGHT ME THE TOP 30 SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK SONGS ON VIDEO AND I REMEMBER SEEING THIS AND THINKING “MOTHER NECESSITY?,WOW I HAD NO IDEA THE INVENTORS WERE SIBLINGS” LMAO (😆KIDS I KNOW RIGHT) IT WAS ONLY LATER IN MY LATTER TEENS THAT I DISCOVERED THE TITLE OF THIS SONG IS BASED ON THE PROVERB “NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION” WHICH AS I (AT 16) TOLD MY (57 YEAR OLD) AUNT WHEN THE NEED ARISES PEOPLE WILL DISCOVER NEW MEANS AND METHODS TO GET THE JOB DONE. BUT MY HATS OFF TO WHOMEVER CAME UP WITH THE VERY CUTE AND CLEVER CONCEPT OF THE SONG ITSELF I STILL 18 YEARS LATER REMEMBER IT WORD FOR WORD!! 💜

[@davidkonen7159]

Here's an ANALYSIS of what I'd heard from this tape. In CHRONOLOGICAL order: 1793 - Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin 1807 - Robert Fulton - Steamboat 1832 - Samuel F. B. Morse - Telegraph 1845 - Elias Howe - Sewing Machine 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone [phone] - Thomas Edison - Light Bulb 1895/1896 - Guglielmo Marconi - Radio 1903 - Orville & Wilbur Wright - Airplane 1908 - Henry Ford - Automobiles (in 1769, factories were invented so that MASS PRODUCTION was doable)

[@stevenpavelish6017]

Mario's Time Machine in a nutshell!

[@brianjude6789]

*(NUMBER 20):* ♪♪ "Mother Necessity," where would you be? Oh, about Number 20. ♪♪

[@modularhalfpipe]

Tesla invented all the parts to make wireless radio. Marconi was just first to get a patent on it. He ripped if Tesla's inventions, but the U.S. govt gave the patent back to Tesla in 1943.

[@agt7532]

2:28 My favorite one.

[@yuppygoat]

@dragonboyjgh Nobody creates in a vacuum. All of these people had major contributions to the fields, often defining contributions. Tesla makes more sense for radio though. If only because he was an American citizen, and the song is about American inventors. Marconi was Italian, and never became an American citizen.

[@Broblem12]

However inaccurate or broady the facts are in this song, I still enjoy it. Especially the horse being kissed.

[@legaleagle46]

And thus began the Industrial/Technological/Communications Revolution. Any guess where we'll be in 2117?

[@ilikecheese77889]

Take a message to miss peobe on the far side of the pikes spread the word about the quilting be next Saturday night!!! best part

[@dinahkyle3196]

What about the pinball cabinet, the slot machine, the coffee maker, the movie projector and THE TV?!

[@graperonto]

Correct. Alexander Graham Bell was born in the UK, but lived in both Canada and the US. But yes... in essesnce the telephone is considered (by Canadians!) to be a Canadian invention.

[@philipc7599]

RIP Blossom Dearie RIP Bob Dorough RIP Jack Sheldon

[@henrygerecke5376]

RIP Essra Mohawk

[@philipc7599]

@@henrygerecke5376 Oh, yeah. She died last December. I just read it on Wikipedia. RIP all SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! singers.

[@henrygerecke5376]

@@philipc7599which leaves us the ones that aren’t in this song, (Lynn Ahrens, Jamie Affoumado, Val Hawk, Luther Rix, Darrell Stern, Lori Lieberman, Sue Manchester, the Circulation trio, George Stiles and Rockapella) minus the black ones (Zachary Sanders and Grady Tate) Tom Yohe’s son, Bill Peckmann, Phil Kimmelman, Arnold Roth, (possibly even Bob Eggers and Paul Kim) are still alive, but are the co-cartoonists and animators.

[@philipc7599]

@@henrygerecke5376 That's right.

[@BananaChocolate12]

This makes so much more sense now that I've took history.

[@fredrick5152]

I love jack Sheldon’s voice

[@joemjackson]

Well obviously that's why they got the idea to build the airplane ;]

[@redracecar2009]

2:19

[@marcustrice3246]

Where's Garret Morgan?

[@michaelglickman1300]

Not only that, but Guglielmo Marconi wasn't even American. He was Italian.

[@arrowpictures2844]

And Karl Benz invented the first automobile, not Henry Ford.

[@Tornado1994]

c1976 American Broadcast Company.

[@RonanMacQuarrie]

TESLA MADE THE RADIO!

[@SalaComMander]

No, Marconi did invent the first long range radio communicator. Tesla did barely beat him out on a device that can transmit and receive electromagnetic waves, but Tesla was convinced that radio waves, even if they existed, could never be reliably used for communication. Tesla's device was meant to wirelessly send electricity, not information.

[@jadentejada5202]

@@SalaComMander HOW DID THIS GET NO LIKES!?

[@pancakesareevil]

How could she shoo the wright brothers but live in an apartment on a really high floor of the tower

[@henrygerecke5376]

They were probably outside the building

[@joemjackson]

@dragonboyjgh Nor does the song claim Ford invented the car.

[@kenlien]

They said portable radio. I don't think tesla made it portable, you guys.

[@nightowl8936]

Wan't the phone invented in Canada?

[@Sinistrad627]

It was invented in Scotland.

[@CharlesJackson1]

🎵Mother Necessity, without slavery, where would this country be?🎵

[@marcustrice3246]

What about the invention of the traffic light 🚥 or the intention of the clock ⏰or the invention of the gas mask and lawnmower and baby buggy or the hot comb

[@thetravelingsteampunkkitty534]

I don’t know why Edison is up there instead of Tesla, knowing Edison stole a lot of inventions and claimed them for himself

[@QuinnF97]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@brennanshane146]

That wasn't common knowledge in the early 70s

[@003-michael9]

1.) Edison is a criminal did not invent anything (using Tesla AC to kill pets and elephants....) this is a shame 2,) Marconi used 12 of Tesla patents to make radio... FUCKING VIDEO EATS MY BRAINS

[@christianlink7287]

They should have named it Father Necessity!😉

[@MikeWalkerSBC]

Nostalgia aside, this did not age well.

[@greeneyeballs]

its fun for the nostalgia but it really is propaganda lol

[@coopertaylor9317]

This is the worst bullcrap ever made

[@toku_moriya]

As fun as this song was to listen to when I was a kid, it's equally entertaining to see it now with all it's historical inaccuracies and somewhat problematic implications ^^

[@braxtonroomconcerts]

2:45

[@brianjude6789]

2:28