On the music blog I co-host, Songshine Sounds, we challenged people to name a song that reminds them of their schooldays.
Okay,this one was a novelty #1 in the UK in the early Eighties. At the height of its success, I was merrily singing the chorus in class (which is why I’m embarrassed) and the dumbass teacher thought I was telling him to shut up!
A detention later…
Incidentally, first day ever at school, not a song but a smell. They were relaying the playground, had not finished in time, and so my nostrils were filled with the wonderful smell of tarmac. Man, I love that smell to this day.
That’s the earliest memory I can basically attach a firm date to. It would have been the first week of September, 1972.
Mister Bump 
Otis only the last few years that I have not had that nostalgic smell of a classroom, books, pencils etc, which I loved
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I was very put off the smell of books when I spent a few hours in a secondhand book shop. The musty smell just did for me.
Hitherto, I thought I could happily spend all day in one.
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Two very different pieces came instantly to mind from infant school. In the playground a sweet boy called Miles, who looked like Noddy, used to sing My Old Man’s a Dustman by Lonnie Donegan. In contrast when we filed into the hall for morning assembly we would be played classical pieces such as Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze.
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Oh man, I can see what type of student you were. Total trickster, jokester. You probably put your hand in that fresh tarmac to leave your print.
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Fake Italian 🙂
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Did you have the jumpsuit and headband to prove it?
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Would it surprise you to learn that he was never heard of again?
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This is a cool song, even now I still sing the chorus and love it!
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