I picture an out of control Schoolhouse Rock jam on numerical sequences. Cartoon Manfred Mann are all over the professor from Three is A Magic Number, sending him frantically running through the 2-5 animations, while other known characters run around in Robotron-like randomness, bumping into trees and animals and whatnot. Manfred Mann are causing utter chaos trying to locate the episode for number 1. But there is no episode for the number 1. Why wasn't there one for one?
I think it's because Three Dog Night already had THE song about ONE. How do you top that? It's the loneliest number, how could Schoolhouse Rock possibly come up with anything else?
5-4-3-2-1 is an enthusiastic little can of nuts. That harmonica and Vox Continental organ are in your face the whole way, anchored by a jaunty bass. The organ has a couple of cool little riff chips stuck in there nicely. The lyrics indicate that not only did the Manfreds mess up the Charge of the Light Brigade but were also the ones hiding in the Trojan Horse. So there's some added Schoolhouse Rock history/fable ingredients to spice up the story.
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