The original creators of the Schoolhouse Rock television series worked at the McCaffrey & McCall advertising agency in New York City in the late 1960s. It all started when David McCall, the president of the company, took his 11-year-old son on a camping trip, and found the boy had songs to popular rock songs memorized, even though he was having trouble in school with his times tables. McCall came back to the ad agency with the idea of putting the multiplication tables to music. He enlisted the help of people from the agency as well as songwriters on Broadway, but without the desired results. Someone from the agency instead recommended the services of Bob Dorough, a jazz pianist whose credentials were sizable (he had performed alongside Miles Davis on one of his albums). Dorough set all the