R.I.P. jazz trumpeter and Schoolhouse Rock! singer Jack Sheldon

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Variety reports that Jack Sheldon, a master trumpeter, music director, and vocalist on some classic Schoolhouse Rock! segments, has died. He was 88.

Sheldon was an early purveyor of the West Coast bebop jazz movement, working with everyone from “Stan Kenton and Art Pepper to The Monkees” as a session and side player. He then became music director and sidekick on Merv Griffin’s talk show from 1966 to 1985. He also starred in the 1960s series Run, Buddy, Run and appeared in many episodes of Dragnet. But Sheldon’s greatest small screen fame undoubtedly came as a singer on the educational Schoolhouse Rock! series, where he voiced the titular piece of paper on “I’m Just A Bill” and the conductor on “Conjunction Junction.” (He also spoofed his “bill” appearance on The Simpsons and Family Guy.)

Read more here:

https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-jazz-trumpeter-and-schoolhouse-rock-singer-jack-1840773880

 

[cookinbrak]

Sad face. School House Rock was a big deal when I was little.

[Anybodyhome]

Schoolhouse was way after my childhood, but I remember him on the Merv Griffin Show.

[Khyber53]

The soundtrack of my childhood. :( The guy had a great voice and delivery!

 

Got the DVDs and had the kids watch them on long car trips. They had a ball and learned so much.