Today's Forgotten Oldie...

My Old School is a single drawn from Steely Dan's 1973 album Countdown to Ecstasy. It reached number 63 in the Billboard charts.  In its March 24, 2006 edition, Entertainment Weekly details a return trip to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York by Donald Fagen, in which he describes a raid by sheriff's deputies in May 1969. Fagen, his girlfriend Dorothy White, Steely Dan bandmate Walter Becker, and some 50 other students were arrested. Charges were dropped, but Fagen was reportedly so upset with the school being complicit with the arrests that he refused to attend graduation.  The song features a guitar solo by Jeff Baxter.  Because of the reference to The College of William & Mary in the lyrics, "My Old School" became a favorite of W&M students and alumni, although the song is actually about Bard College. The lyric "never going back to my old school" turned the song into a student anthem and the album was a college party favorite.  A great song with a great story, and one of the most requested songs I remember in my years on radio!