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4 Responses to “ROCKOLLECTIONS: TEACHERS PT.1”

1. Guy | September 25th, 2009 at 5:35 am
   

   Mike,

   I’ve been humming “Welcome Back Kotter” to myself for a couple of days now. What a great theme song. I also have been remembering how much my friends and I loved that show in seventh grade. Each week the morning after Kotter aired, we’d more-or-less reenact the show at the bus stop and on the bus on the way to school.

2. Mike Pell | September 25th, 2009 at 6:30 am
   

   Hey Guy, that humming may be because we are such big fans of woefully underappreciated John Sebastain.
   The man could pull out a hook, couldn’t he?
   What’s wrong with me?
   I can’t remember ever reenacting any show, lol!
   I must be strange.
   Mike

3. rjhog | September 24th, 2010 at 10:39 am
   

   What a great show. But I’m so disappointed in myself. Why did I guess Seinfeld? Only because you said stand-up that inspired a TV show. But if I had half a brain, I would have thought about the subject and certainly remembered a TV show named Welcome Back Kotter. I loved that show. I did not know that Kaplan’s stand-up routine inspired it. The bit with Horshack/Horse shit was hilarious. And the “up your nose” bit for the show was “up your nose with a rubber hose”. Great memories, and you’re correct, John Travolta (Vinnie Barbarino) was the only cast member who every really did anything else.

   I loved the .38 Special and Jethro Tull songs. Those were great picks.

   The big surprise for me was the Big Country song. The only song I remember by that band was actually called “Big Country” or “In A Big Country”, I’m not sure of the exact title. But “The Teacher” is a really good song that is totally new to me. Good call Mike.

4. Mike Pell | September 24th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
   

   Dear RJ,
   Glad you liked it, Pt.2 will be here later.
   Now don’t be too hard on yourself, Seinfeld was a good guess.
   It’s only looking backwards where Welcome Back Kotter seems easy to get- don’t be a Monday Morning Quarterback, lol!
   And I will testify that you do in fact HAVE half a brain…and more, lol!
   Yeah not much happened with that cast, particularly Gabe Kaplan- where the hell IS he?
   I was really proud of the Jethro Tull, as I said on the show I hadn’t heard it in ages.
   And I can vividly remember finding it, I was looking through my vinyl albums, and there it was, the Benefit album.
   But what I played was from the CD.
   In A Big Country was their big hit here in the States, and I am happy to introduce you to The Teacher.
   I make the occasional good call, lol!
   Thanks as always for writing, listeners like you guys make the show worth doing,
   Mike

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