" My Old School " is a song by American rock band Steely Dan . It was released in October 1973, as the second single from their album Countdown to Ecstasy , and reached number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
6-640: My Old School can refer to: "My Old School" (song) , a 1973 single from the Steely Dan album Countdown to Ecstasy My Old School (2013 film) , about an abandoned school in the U.S. state of Rhode Island My Old School (2022 film) , about the Brandon Lee affair in Scotland See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing My Old School Old school (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
12-512: A reference to the Wolverine rail service, which stopped at Rhinecliff, New York , near to Bard College, the alma mater of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker . The incident happened while both Fagen and Becker were students there, and the song recounts how a female acquaintance betrayed them to "Daddy Gee" ( G. Gordon Liddy ), then a local assistant district attorney . Contemporary news reports noted that 44 people were arrested, approximately 10% of
18-413: A track that’s going to have programmers and listeners buzzing." The song was written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and is in the key of G major . The original studio track features a guitar solo by Jeff Baxter . Fagen reneged on his promise of never going back, when he returned to Bard College to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree in 1985. This 1970s rock song –related article
24-466: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages My Old School (song) The song's lyrics tell the story of a May 1969 drug bust at Bard College in Dutchess County, New York , referred to in the lyrics by its location, Annandale . The singer vows he will never go back to the college until "California tumbles into the sea". The song also makes
30-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title My Old School . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My_Old_School&oldid=1163540805 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-473: The school's enrollment. According to a 2014 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, among those arrested was Fagen, whose long hair was cut off at the Poughkeepsie jail. A contemporary newspaper article mentioned the arrest of Donald Fagan [ sic ] for "the sale of a dangerous drug" with bail set at $ 5,000. Cash Box described the song as a "departure from the group’s usual fare, but definitely
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