School

(school room noises)
It's night time in the Big City
a writer stares at a blank sheet of paper
a pet poodle scratches at a window Your school for dreams, schemes and themes. Your university of perversity.
School's now in session.

The Singers and Songs

  • Harry Reser and his 6 Jumping Jacks
    I Love the College Girls
    THIS SONG IS IN THE WRONG PLACE IN THE EPISODE AND NEEDS TO BE MOVED - no worries, as long as it is assigned to the right theme, we'll make it work :)
  • Nat 'King' Cole Trio
    You Don't Learn That In School
  • Graham Parker
    Back to School Days
  • Tommy Facenda
    High School USA (Minneapolis/St Paul version)
    "He did like 40 versions of it, recorded them all in like 2 days. Imagine what the last version must have sounded like! I get tired just doin' this radio show!"
  • James Brown
    Don't Be a Dropout
  • Ricky Nelson
    Lincoln and 46
  • Otis Rush
    Homework
  • The Marquees
    Hey, Little School Girl
  • Brenda Holloway with The Supremes
    Play it Cool, Stay in School
  • Babs Gonzales
    Professor Bop
  • Sam Cooke
    Wonderful World
  • Gene Summers
    School of Rock n' Roll
    "Listen to the piano playing on this record, it just pushes the thing along. Without the piano the guitar player might as well drop out."
  • NRBQ
    Still In School
  • Lulu
    To Sir with Love
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
    High School Confidential
    "The Killer"
  • Vincent Fornier (Alice Cooper)
    School's Out
    "Guillotine and golf aficionado"
  • Sonny Boy Williamson
    Good Morning Schoolgirl

The Other People and Players

  • Bob Wills
    and the (Light Crust Doughboys) Texas Playboys
  • Carl Perkins
  • Don Robey
  • The Clicquot Club
  • The Park Lane Orchestra
  • The Rounders
  • The Campus Boys
  • The Jazz Pilots
  • Ozzie and Harriet Nelson
  • Gene Vincent and His Bluecaps
  • Bisbee Schwartz
  • Myra Gayle
  • JW Brown
  • Mamie Van Doren
  • Bill Clinton
    "Definitely a man who could take you from crayons to perfume."
  • Natalie Merchant
  • Michael Stipe
  • Sidney Poitier
  • Terry Adams
  • Herb Albert
  • Lou Adler
  • Roy Haynes
  • Whitten Kelly
  • JJ Johnson
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Blood, Sweat and Tears
  • The Everly Brothers
  • Marvin Gaye
  • Bo Diddley
  • James Burton
  • Martin Belmont
  • Bill Ridges and His Orchestra
  • The Beatles
  • Mark "no ding dong"Twain
    "I never let my schooling interfere with my education"
  • Elvis Presley
    "Cleaned up that naughty 'One Night' and hit big with it" “the swivel hipped rockabilly cat”

The Other Songs and Albums

  • All Hopped Up
  • You Make Me So Very Happy
  • All Your Love
  • Three Times a Fool
  • My Love Will Never Die
  • I Can't Quit You, Baby

The Guests

The Books and Poems

The Movies and TV Shows

The Places

  • Ann Arbor, MI
  • Glasgow, Scotland
  • Atwater Village
  • Welsey, MA
  • Barnwell, SC
  • Dallas, TX
  • Los Angeles

Record Labels

Cheerleaders

  • Ann-Margret
  • Paula Abdul
  • Halle Berry
  • Katie Couric
  • George W Bush
  • Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Steve Martin
  • Trent Lott
  • Samuel L Jackson
  • Madonna
  • FDR (also 32nd president)
    'The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.'

Women's Colleges

Colleges

  • University of Michigan - Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Princeton - Experimental Psychology
  • Harvard - Historical Sociology

Schools

School Mascots

Kinds of Teachers

  • Shop
  • Latin
  • Profs of Law
  • Profs of Medicine

Valedictorians

Commercials and Public Service Announcements

Subjects Covered

  • Math
    Slide Rule
  • Science
    Potential and Kinetic Energy
    "Let me hip ya"
  • Biology
    The Cerebrum
  • History
    The Battle of Hastings

I went to a tough high school, even the debating team was on steroids.