In 2013, Bob Dorough Told WRTI's Bob Craig His Story about Working with Miles Davis

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Bob Craig

Published April 27, 2018 at 11:53 AM EDT

Bob Dorough, 1980s at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay CA

Bob Dorough, who was famous for all of his beloved Schoolhouse Rock! compositions, was also a seasoned jazz musician for decades. He died on April 23, 2018 at age 94. WRTI's Bob Craig had the chance to chat with him in 2013 when he was in town.

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Bob joined WRTI's on-air staff in 2005. His well-rounded radio career began in 1963 as a studio engineer at WBZ in Boston. Throughout the '70s, he was an announcer and programmer at Hartford's WDRC and Boston's WHDH.

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Bob Dorough, Jazz Musician Best Known For 'Schoolhouse Rock!,' Dead At 94

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Dorough spent two decades as a jazz player, singer, conductor and arranger in New York before being approached, at his advertising day job, to explain math to children via music.