'Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks' is a tribute album based on the American animated TV series, Schoolhouse Rock! It was released by Atlantic/Lava Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs from the series performed by popular music artists. There was also a promo-only 7" single distributed to promote this album featuring the Man or Astro-man? track and the Pavement track. This single was pressed on yellow vinyl. "Three Is a Magic Number" was one of the last recordings made by Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug overdose in October 1995. A portion of the sales of the album went to the Children's Defense Fund.

Reception

Reception to ''Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks was generally very positive, with Entertainment Weekly'' rating it a B+ and commenting on the surprising charm and high-quality contributions by the popular young artists.

Track listing

Single tracks

Side A Side B

Chart performance

The album charted at number 70 on the Billboard 200 in 1996.