Here’s ‘Three is a Magic Number’ from the Charlie Bookout Studio Works album “The Longsuffering of K.”  -  You can purchase this song, as well as my other music, on my Bandcamp page here  =  https://charliebookoutstudioworks.bandcamp.com/

My one-and-only cover song . . . 
I loved Schoolhouse Rock when I was growing up; you’d be hard-pressed to find a Gen-Xer who didn’t. And I know this makes me sound like a nostalgic old fool, but it’s true: modern kids find it impossible to comprehend a time when nothing was ‘on-demand’ – a world where you could watch cartoons on Saturday mornings, and Saturday mornings only. Amazing cartoons like ‘Thundercats’ and ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ broadcast in real time and on just three channels. If you missed them, you missed them; you’d have to wait a week to get your cartoon fix. The commercial interruptions were all breakfast cereal and toys, sure, but sometimes there was something else. Sometimes, between the shows on ABC, there was Schoolhouse Rock! (The exclamation point is part of its title.) They were awesome little animated music videos that taught us the function of ‘Conjunction Junction’ and that ‘Interplanet Janet’ was a galaxy girl. They’re the reason there are millions of fifty-somethings in the US today who can still recite the preamble to the Constitution. 
Anyway, “Three is a Magic Number” was the series’ inaugural video, and the favorite of many fans. I had always wanted to do a cover recording of one of those songs, and when this album started to take shape, I knew it was time. 
My deepest thanks to the late Bob Dorough for creating this and so many other Schoolhouse Rock! masterpieces.
~  Produced on a vintage Ensoniq SQ-80 with additional sounds from old Roland and Alesis gear

Written by Bob Dorough - AMERICAN BROADCASTING MUSIC INC

This cover version arranged, performed, recorded, and engineered by Charlie Bookout at Mortuary Studios (with vocal assistance from Jimmy Hamilton and Dennis Plummer)

The Longsuffering of K

Three is a Magic Number

Multi-instrumentalist writer and composer Charlie Bookout first played in Arkansas-based funk/pop bands like The Regent and The Gender Max. Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, Charlie and other band members used their small town’s abandoned funeral chapel as a rehearsal hall and recording studio. They further developed the building into a creative project space, and for many years now Mortuary Studios has been producing its unique brand of independent film, music, and art—including the yearly presentation of a haunted attraction that has become one of the most popular in the state (Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House).

Charlie Bookout Studio Works is the project name for Charlie’s original Mortuary Studios recordings. While his quirky Pop/Rock/R&B sound often draws inspiration from a range of influences—from 80s mainstream to 70s prog-rock—each song in Charlie’s prolific catalog retains a unique and identifiable sound. Other than his cover recording of “Three is a Magic Number” written by the late Bob Dorough, Charlie writes, composes, arranges, and performs all his music.