| "Three Is a Magic Number" | ||||
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| Single by Blind Melon | ||||
| from the album Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks | ||||
| Released | September 22, 1996 | |||
| Format | CD, cassette, vinyl | |||
| Recorded | March 7, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dorough | |||
| Producer | Blind Melon | |||
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"Three Is a Magic Number" is the pilot episode of the Schoolhouse Rock! series and the first episode of the program's first season, "Multiplication Rock."[1]
Though the song is not as iconic to the Schoolhouse Rock series as later episodes such as "I'm Just a Bill" and "Conjunction Junction", ("Three is a Magic Number" only ranks as the show's seventh most popular episode according to the 30th Anniversary VHS) the song, thanks to its more passive approach to teaching about the multiples of three than later episodes, has proven to be more popular as a standalone album. The music video for this version features clips from the original show.
This song originally appeared on the final episode of Curiosity Shop. [2]
Perhaps the most well known cover was done by the band Blind Melon, which also features one of the last vocal recordings of the band's vocalist Shannon Hoon. This version also appeared in films such as Never Been Kissed, Slackers, and You, Me and Dupree.
Jeff Buckley did a cover.
The song is well known to Irish people for being the startup music to the television station TV3, ever since its inception in 1998.
The song is also parodied by Jack Black in the movie School of Rock, when Black accidentally refers to the number 9 as "a magic number".
De La Soul interpolate both the original melody and snippets of lyric from this song into their track "The Magic Number", as featured on their debut album "Three Feet High and Rising"
A version by Jon Carter, modelled after the De La Soul version, was used in channel idents for BBC Three from its launch in February 2003 until January 2008.
The Three Mobile Company in Australia has used the song as its theme song during advertisements since the brand broke in to the Australian market. The song has also been covered by Greek singer Elena Paparizou for the a Swedish Three Mobile advertising campaign in 2007. Three Mobile in Denmark use the Jack Johnson version of the song as waiting tone when calling Three customers.
Jack Johnson also adapted the song to talk about the three R's (reduce, re-use, and recycle) for his soundtrack to the animated film Curious George.
It is also featured in commercials for espn3.com[3]
It was recently used for the Sony Disney DVD player.
The song is parodied on the MADtv sketch "Public Schoolhouse Rock!" with a song about substitute teachers.
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