Ditto on that. My 8-track was always blaring Cooper, Zeppelin, the Guess Who. Cooper was hated. Had a couple songs banned, locally anyway. "Only Women Bleed," was the last one they banned. Dead Babies was not played on local AM stations. You had to hear it on FM. But, then this is the town that forced Elvis to borrow a pair of looser pants from our local DJ, Brad Lacey and strictly told, "No Elvis Pelvis. Elvis even spoke of it on his Hawaii concert that was televised. He didn't name the town, just that it was Florida and he wasn't allowed to move anything but his little finger while on stage. lol
Man, 8 tracks. I remember building me an 8-track holder out of wood....... it was the size of a small suit case! Not to mention all those 8 tracks in the car, all over the place, then cassettes came out..... even smaller and more compact. Then CDs, smaller still. And now we just have playlists from a provider like Sirius. Technology never stands still. Seems like the only thing that never changes are the Rock-n-Roll classic songs..... like this one!
I remember playing this when I was pulling out of the school parking lot our last day of school before graduation. I had the windows rolled down with the 8-track cranked up and blasting through the Kraco speakers.
This is off the Schools Out album, all the songs on this record was about teen hoodlums. The album cover was a old wooden school desk. with the members of the groups name carved into the desk top. My favorite song from that album was called " Blue Turk".
Starting in 8th Grade and all thecway through Senior Year I popped this cassette into my boom box and blasted this song over and over again on the last day of school in the hallways and gym, etc. I got a detention every year because of it. They threatened to jot give me my diploma if I skipped the one Senior Year. 😂
Yeah, Alice put this out ages before you were a glimmer in your papa's eye, lol. This has been all over the place radio, ads, TV...even the Muppet show. Alice is amazing.
I saw Alice Cooper a coup years ago and he rocked the house off! And he was in his 70s at the time! I wouldn't hesitate to see him again. He sounds fantastic!!
@@snakeinthegrass7443 Alice Cooper is in two bands. He has toured as "Alice Cooper" and with the Hollywood Vampires. (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry.
Sung this at the top of my lungs when the school year ended in the spring of 1972!! Song was released April 26, 1972, prior to the album release of the same name. Still have the 45 rpm record.
I've seen Alice Cooper more times in concert than any other musician. Not my choice, but he's my husband's favorite performer. He is truly amazing in concert though if you like blood, guts, and gore.
Friend snuck into the office on the last day of school in 1975 before graduation and played this over the intercom, while the faculty was putting out the fire lit in the parking lot.
Alice Cooper lives in Phoenix... he's actually the evening disc jockey on our main FM classic rock station, KSLX. He's on the air right now LOL This one gives me flashbacks of the movie "Dazed and Confused". It's probably in lots of other shows/movies too.
@@HappyValleyDreamin I didn't know myself until I was at someone's house that always had the radio on in the background. He's entertaining, I think you can listen via their website from anywhere
years ago I worked in Phoenix for awhile and we used to go to his restaurant/bar downtown "Alice Coopers Town". He would section off the parking lot and let local bands play. We would hang out there and get loaded then go watch the Suns or the Coyotes play in the Arena.
I was in kindergarten in 1970, so all thru the 70's, I was in school. Heard this song alot! I finally knew in 1982, school was out forever for me cause that's when I graduated from high school!😁
Despite loving the song and it's message, i not only went to summer school, but as a member of the marching band I went to a session just before school started to prepare for marching at the up coming Riverside & Ontario 500's. We were the only high school band not from Ontario to be invited to the inaugural Ontario 500. I ended up Graduating with the most class credits in the history of the school. The Ontario track is where they had the Calif. Jam in 1974 headlined by Emerson Lake and Palmer. (ELP) There is footage of Emerson on his 'Flying piano' and more. Sadly the Ontario track had a short life and the site is now a mall. - ELP Calif Jam Karn Evil 9 1st impression pt2 and the 3rd impression & The great Gates of Kiev. Also Emerson - Piano improvisations & Lake solo with acoustic guitar doing Still... You Turn Me On & Lucky Man all from the jam.
This came out in April 26, 1972. I would be going into the 7th grade the next school year. Yes this was an anthem for us. I only had a transistor radio back then. I graduated in 1977. Uncle Alice had some unusual songs back in the day. That was our nickname for him back then. By the way Alice Cooper was the name of the Band originally from 1967 to 1975. The band broke up in 1975. Alice Cooper is known as the Grandfather of Shock Rock. He changed his name legally to Alice Cooper in 1975. His birth name is Vincent Furnier. Glen Buxton Lead Guitar, Dennis Dunaway Bass Guitar, Michael Bruce Rhythm Guitar, and Neal Smith Drums. Songs to check out "I'm Eighteen" #21 in Billboard top 100 in 1970. Other song "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Under My Wheels".
Saw Alice Cooper exactly 47 years ago today. Chicago Stadium, April 1, 1975. Great show. We were Juniors in High School and it was definitely impulsive as we had no tickets.. But we paid a scalper and went to the show--And I do mean show, including a real guillotine!🤯 This was the encore song🎼💖
I saw him on that same tour, June 13th, 1975 (Friday the 13th ) at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino , CA. I was stationed at a nearby Air Force base, tickets were 5 or 6 bucks. Great show.
As a 70's school kid, this song was anticipated every year on the radio since it meant summer vacation was close. I appreciated it fully the day I graduated since school was finally out forever.
This song was released in June of 1972, which would have been the end of the school year 4th grade for me and then became a perennial favorite for the end of school for the rest of my school days.
Alice Cooper is 74 and still touring extensively and putting on full theatrical Rock shows that are unmatched! He’s put out 28 studio albums and currently working on 2 more albums. He still runs daily, golfs 6 days a week and runs a Christian non-profit organization called Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock teen center and attends Church every Sunday and has his own radio show….etc. He’s the busiest man in rock & roll and the nicest man you could ever hope to meet, plus he’s been married for nearly 46 years and sober nearly 40 years and has been my favorite rocker/showman since I discovered him back in ‘87 when I was 15. A true masterpiece from Alice Cooper is the song, Halo of Flies. It’s brilliant!
I left school in 77 and boy did we belt out this song at the top of our lungs as we walked out for ever. This song was banned from radio but it only became more popular with school kids.
Graduate High School, 1972 same year song came out. Yes!!! And Forever...We sang this many times. Alice Cooper lives in my hometown Phoenix. Served him drinks on Sunday's...GREAT Tipper. Trivia...Alice Cooper if a fantastic Golfer, could play pro golf, the way he looked and performed all Show.. Cool guy, Rock and Roll, no drugs. Just thought mu 50 year reunion this year🤔🤗
Alice Cooper, School’s Out, 1972 it quickly became are anthem. in 1975 Welcome To My Nightmare, came out. You must listen to the whole album. I graduated in 1976, saw them and concert for the first time in 1977 at the Fabulous Forum, last time I saw them about 10 years ago at the Pantages Johnny Depp played with them.
Several years back Alice Cooper did some PSA’s and Staples commercials and the one with his daughter doing back to school shopping while she quotes this song is hilarious.
This song was released as a single in the spring of 1972, just a few months before I graduated high school. Whenever I hear it now, I’m reminded of those days. Thanks for the music, smiles and memories.
this song was with the fantastic Alice Cooper Band . Members are :Dennis Dunaway (Bass), Michael Bruce (Guitar) , Neil Smith (Drums) and Glen Buxton (Guitar) . And with this Band he made his best records. Easy Action, Pretties for you, Killer, Love it to Death, Schools Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love. I saw the FIlm "Glad o see you again , Alice Cooper" in cinema (late night). I was 16 years old.
Hell Ya!!! I remember being in school when this came out. On the bus ride home, it came on the radio, and everyone went nuts. We tore up a bunch of notebooks shredded them and threw them out the windows. It look like snow behind the bus. What we didn't know is we almost caused 2 cars to crash in all the paper flying. The next day me and 4 other persons were suspended from riding the bus for a week. Oh and the ASS WOOPING I got from 1 to 10 was definitely a 9. My parent bringing me to school for a week took time from their jobs so they were pissed. But hey what a great song every time I here it i'll always have this memory.
You should check out the movie Dazed and Confused. It's a movie about High School, the last day of school in 1976. It's got a great soundtrack of the music of that time and School's Out is one of the anthems they play! It's also got an incredible cast of Future Stars at the time! Other than paddling incoming freshman it's very close to how the time really was including the music, clothing, cars everything!!
I graduated in 1977 and every school year that ended from 77 all the way back through the first year of Junior high School, they played this song on the last day of school. There were no exceptions, every single year they played it.
This was my anthem from Jr. year because I was already enlisted in the Navy and I had a couple of months before boot camp ! Sometimes wish I'd have stayed but I'd already raised my hand and took the oath.
Brilliant song from a marketing standpoint. What better way than to guarantee your song gets massive airplay every year for decades. originally released in '72, has an old geezer what a great feeling seeing "youngsters" rocking out to the same songs you yourself rocked out to when you was a kid 40 - 50 years ago. His concerts were crazy, He was the original "shock rock" artist. check out a few of his bangers; "No More Mister Nice Guy" (my personal fave), "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies" to name a few.
Yep every year this song was one when school was out for summer and I went to school in the 80's early 90's...song has staying power long as there's a school. Alice is amazing especially his 70's music.
I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper is a great bookend to Schools Out. Alice is Rock royalty to so many musicians and fans. Bob Dylan called Alice one of the most underrated song writers.
This was big in the UK back in 1972. Alice Cooper were voted the worlds greatest group that year and this song hit No.1 on 15 July just as the summer holidays started. It struck just the right chord with every schoolkid and was released at the perfect moment ensuring enormous sales. It was followed up by 3 more big hits, Elected, Hello Hurray and No More Mr Nice Guy to give an unbroken run in the charts from July 1972 until the middle of February 1973.
Every June on the last day of school this was blasting, and that was in the 90s. The man is a genius making a song every teen will love to blast at the beginning of summer break. Hey Stoopid is another great song by Alice Cooper 🤘
I went to a boarding school in the mid-70's, and I'll never forget hearing this song blasting out of virtually every room of our dormitory on the last day of school. And it was loud outside as well, because all of the windows would be cranked wide open. You could hear Alice a good mile away lol.
1972 my older brother use to have a lot of record albums and a record player and when he went to work I would sneak into his bedroom and put on the headphones and listen to this song and many more.
Alice was a lot of fun with his shock rock antics. My favorite album of his is a bit more serious, "From the Inside" when he had to dry out from being an alcoholic. Co-written with Bernie Taupin (Elton John's writing partner).
1993. Driving down the lower Skeleton Coast in Namibia on a wide dirt road heading back to Swakopmund. 100mph in a rented Toyota (saw one other car the entire day). German oompah-music on the only clear radio station and then...this comes on. Cranked the volume all the way up and my grin was as wide as the Kunene River. Thanks, Alice.
This song come out just after my senior year in High School. So I did not go back to school until just before I turned 30 to get my AS degree. We Rocked this song all that summer.
You got it Asia! That's what I got from it. Getting out of high school and putting out a band with "new toys" (instruments) and "find words that rhyme" (lyrics).
been many years , but I remember the last day of school , 8th grade , this was playing over the intercom as we got our stuff together and left for the summer ! lol
I was a teenager when this song came out but when l would pick up my kids on their last day of school, l would play this song for them really loud....lol!🤣✌
I was in 4th or 5th grade when this hit. Even us elementary school kids rocked this on our way out. The hall was a mess of confetti. no one was getting names off those scraps.
This song was absolutely,as important,and soul stirring as BJ thinks. This is actually my favorite reaction you've done(bold statement),,because you can see it all on your face. No acting here. Thankyou so much,,for sharing yourselves with the world. I dont have any friends like you. Your the best.
I was in 6th grade in 1972, ready for my next phase, junior high. Our bus driver always played the radio and she made sure she had it on the station that we all liked, well on the last day of my elementary school year, the radio was playing that song. We all yelled "Turn it up!" and she did. Every year there after, that song would get played for all of the kids on their last day of school, it became like a tradition. I had to miss out listening to it, one year because there was this deal going on where at McDonald's restaurant, if you get an A on your report card, then you can have a free big mac, so I walked to McDonalds from the junior high along with a bunch of other kids, boy, does that bring back the memories! Those were the days!
After the last day of school, you had to hear this. The first time I heard it was in middle school. Maybe 1972 or 1973? Then, hearing it the last day of high school. Then when I walked out of my very last class in college, that time it was the Pièce de résistance. Unfortunately, the song doesn’t tell you the trials and tribulations of life. Can I just go back to those “easy” days? Compared to life, school is a breeze.
I remember when this came out. Love this song brings back so many memories with not a care in the world. Hit some other Alice classics they are so good.....
OMG he was the first person I ever seen in concert and I was like just turned 12 and the woman I went with was like 19 or 20 but I just always was at her house and one night she ask if I could spend the night at her house and she took me to Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare there was guillotines and spiders and heads rolling on stage and I was never the same Heavy metal entered my life and I love it music makes you come alive 1975 keep on Rockin 🤘 and I was a girl coming undone 🤘🤘🤘🤘
When I was a senior in high school, this song was in everyone’s 8-track player and blasting when school was actually out forever. ✌🏼😎👨🏼🎓
Ditto on that. My 8-track was always blaring Cooper, Zeppelin, the Guess Who. Cooper was hated. Had a couple songs banned, locally anyway. "Only Women Bleed," was the last one they banned. Dead Babies was not played on local AM stations. You had to hear it on FM.
But, then this is the town that forced Elvis to borrow a pair of looser pants from our local DJ, Brad Lacey and strictly told, "No Elvis Pelvis. Elvis even spoke of it on his Hawaii concert that was televised. He didn't name the town, just that it was Florida and he wasn't allowed to move anything but his little finger while on stage. lol
Man, 8 tracks. I remember building me an 8-track holder out of wood....... it was the size of a small suit case! Not to mention all those 8 tracks in the car, all over the place, then cassettes came out..... even smaller and more compact. Then CDs, smaller still. And now we just have playlists from a provider like Sirius. Technology never stands still. Seems like the only thing that never changes are the Rock-n-Roll classic songs..... like this one!
For my kids I played on the way to graduation Ramones I want to be sedated lol
Me too that was my senior year!
8 track! Yes indeed. COOPER! SCHOOLS OUT!
We used to sing this one on the school bus going home on the last day of school, early -mid 70's.
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" would be another classic Alice Cooper song to check out.
I´m eighteen, under my wheels, ballad of dwight fry - there are so many classics from AC
@@andreas3761 You are so right, "Hello Hooray" and "Elected" also.
Agree 👍
One of my favorites! If you want to know what influence on stage performance, check out "Welcome to My Nightmare."
@@EdwardGregoryNYC That's a great classic.
I was a kid from the 60 70 times and this song was an anthem for us. Anything Alice Cooper is of the charts Fa nominal.
Same here Richard,every year blasting this song.
Me too!! The highest volume we could get!
This was my anthem after eight years of University....😎
Trust me, this song was played at the end of every year for many years after Alice performed it! LOL
I waited to hear that song every June!!!!!
Born in the 70's UK and this song is classic x
Our anthem. They always played this a lot in June ✌️
I remember playing this when I was pulling out of the school parking lot our last day of school before graduation. I had the windows rolled down with the 8-track cranked up and blasting through the Kraco speakers.
This is off the Schools Out album, all the songs on this record was about teen hoodlums. The album cover was a old wooden school desk. with the members of the groups name carved into the desk top. My favorite song from that album was called " Blue Turk".
Starting in 8th Grade and all thecway through Senior Year I popped this cassette into my boom box and blasted this song over and over again on the last day of school in the hallways and gym, etc. I got a detention every year because of it. They threatened to jot give me my diploma if I skipped the one Senior Year. 😂
Yeah, Alice put this out ages before you were a glimmer in your papa's eye, lol. This has been all over the place radio, ads, TV...even the Muppet show. Alice is amazing.
I saw Alice Cooper a coup years ago and he rocked the house off! And he was in his 70s at the time! I wouldn't hesitate to see him again. He sounds fantastic!!
Was it with Alice Cooper or Hollywood Vampires?
I saw him in 1974 then again in 2017! My 30 year old son took me for my birthday the last time. He loved it as much as I did!
@@danacasey8543 Awesome!!
@@theotherwalt I'm confused by ur question. It was Alice and whoever his band is. Female lead guitarist that sounded incredible 🤘🏻
@@snakeinthegrass7443 Alice Cooper is in two bands. He has toured as "Alice Cooper" and with the Hollywood Vampires. (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry.
I love 'The Ballad Of Dwight Fry'
Amazing live
Sung this at the top of my lungs when the school year ended in the spring of 1972!! Song was released April 26, 1972, prior to the album release of the same name. Still have the 45 rpm record.
Graduated High School that yr they played it over the intercom on last day.
My graduation year June 1972
The whole "School's Out" album is fantastic! And - yes, it was an anthem for us in high school when it came out.
I've seen Alice Cooper more times in concert than any other musician. Not my choice, but he's my husband's favorite performer. He is truly amazing in concert though if you like blood, guts, and gore.
Friend snuck into the office on the last day of school in 1975 before graduation and played this over the intercom, while the faculty was putting out the fire lit in the parking lot.
Alice Cooper lives in Phoenix... he's actually the evening disc jockey on our main FM classic rock station, KSLX. He's on the air right now LOL This one gives me flashbacks of the movie "Dazed and Confused". It's probably in lots of other shows/movies too.
Wow! I didn’t know that. I don’t live in AZ anymore. I bet he makes a good DJ!
@@HappyValleyDreamin I didn't know myself until I was at someone's house that always had the radio on in the background. He's entertaining, I think you can listen via their website from anywhere
years ago I worked in Phoenix for awhile and we used to go to his restaurant/bar downtown "Alice Coopers Town". He would section off the parking lot and let local bands play. We would hang out there and get loaded then go watch the Suns or the Coyotes play in the Arena.
You two are hitting some of my favorite bands this week . Yes, Jethro Tull and Alice Cooper?! Wow. Thank you!
Seeing an Alice Cooper show live was a singular experience. Alice's concerts were second to none for music and stage show.
I was in kindergarten in 1970, so all thru the 70's, I was in school. Heard this song alot! I finally knew in 1982, school was out forever for me cause that's when I graduated from high school!😁
Despite loving the song and it's message, i not only went to summer school, but as a member of the marching band I went to a session just before school started to prepare for marching at the up coming Riverside & Ontario 500's. We were the only high school band not from Ontario to be invited to the inaugural Ontario 500. I ended up Graduating with the most class credits in the history of the school. The Ontario track is where they had the Calif. Jam in 1974 headlined by Emerson Lake and Palmer. (ELP) There is footage of Emerson on his 'Flying piano' and more. Sadly the Ontario track had a short life and the site is now a mall. - ELP Calif Jam Karn Evil 9 1st impression pt2 and the 3rd impression & The great Gates of Kiev. Also Emerson - Piano improvisations & Lake solo with acoustic guitar doing Still... You Turn Me On & Lucky Man all from the jam.
Glen Buxton could jam. RIP Glenn. We all miss you.
This came out in April 26, 1972. I would be going into the 7th grade the next school year. Yes this was an anthem for us. I only had a transistor radio back then. I graduated in 1977. Uncle Alice had some unusual songs back in the day. That was our nickname for him back then. By the way Alice Cooper was the name of the Band originally from 1967 to 1975. The band broke up in 1975. Alice Cooper is known as the Grandfather of Shock Rock. He changed his name legally to Alice Cooper in 1975. His birth name is Vincent Furnier. Glen Buxton Lead Guitar, Dennis Dunaway Bass Guitar, Michael Bruce Rhythm Guitar, and Neal Smith Drums. Songs to check out "I'm Eighteen" #21 in Billboard top 100 in 1970. Other song "No More Mr. Nice Guy", "Under My Wheels".
Saw Alice Cooper exactly 47 years ago today. Chicago Stadium, April 1, 1975. Great show. We were Juniors in High School and it was definitely impulsive as we had no tickets.. But we paid a scalper and went to the show--And I do mean show, including a real guillotine!🤯
This was the encore song🎼💖
I saw him on that same tour, June 13th, 1975 (Friday the 13th ) at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino , CA. I was stationed at a nearby Air Force base, tickets were 5 or 6 bucks. Great show.
I remember this playing over the speakers at school on the last day before summer brake!! Everyone went nuts!!
As a 70's school kid, this song was anticipated every year on the radio since it meant summer vacation was close. I appreciated it fully the day I graduated since school was finally out forever.
One of the greatest rockers ever, and some of the greatest lyrics ever written :
"We got no class,
and we got no principles...."
👍👍👍
This song was released in June of 1972, which would have been the end of the school year 4th grade for me and then became a perennial favorite for the end of school for the rest of my school days.
Graduation year this came out for me..
It was an epic tune for me….!!
Alice Cooper is 74 and still touring extensively and putting on full theatrical Rock shows that are unmatched! He’s put out 28 studio albums and currently working on 2 more albums. He still runs daily, golfs 6 days a week and runs a Christian non-profit organization called Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock teen center and attends Church every Sunday and has his own radio show….etc. He’s the busiest man in rock & roll and the nicest man you could ever hope to meet, plus he’s been married for nearly 46 years and sober nearly 40 years and has been my favorite rocker/showman since I discovered him back in ‘87 when I was 15. A true masterpiece from Alice Cooper is the song, Halo of Flies. It’s brilliant!
I left school in 77 and boy did we belt out this song at the top of our lungs as we walked out for ever.
This song was banned from radio but it only became more popular with school kids.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, and, yes, this song was played on the boom boxes every year on the last day of school. It was great!!!
Graduate High School, 1972 same year song came out. Yes!!! And Forever...We sang this many times.
Alice Cooper lives in my hometown Phoenix. Served him drinks on Sunday's...GREAT Tipper.
Trivia...Alice Cooper if a fantastic Golfer, could play pro golf, the way he looked and performed all Show..
Cool guy, Rock and Roll, no drugs.
Just thought mu 50 year reunion this year🤔🤗
Alice Cooper, School’s Out, 1972 it quickly became are anthem. in 1975 Welcome To My Nightmare, came out. You must listen to the whole album. I graduated in 1976, saw them and concert for the first time in 1977 at the Fabulous Forum, last time I saw them about 10 years ago at the Pantages Johnny Depp played with them.
Several years back Alice Cooper did some PSA’s and Staples commercials and the one with his daughter doing back to school shopping while she quotes this song is hilarious.
The greatest anthem song of all time..every year around June the radio is playing this song..
This song was released as a single in the spring of 1972, just a few months before I graduated high school.
Whenever I hear it now, I’m reminded of those days.
Thanks for the music, smiles and memories.
this song was with the fantastic Alice Cooper Band . Members are :Dennis Dunaway (Bass), Michael Bruce (Guitar) , Neil Smith (Drums) and Glen Buxton (Guitar) . And with this Band he made his best records. Easy Action, Pretties for you, Killer, Love it to Death, Schools Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love. I saw the FIlm "Glad o see you again , Alice Cooper" in cinema (late night). I was 16 years old.
i saw him in concert in the 90s, it was so fun! some good songs too. do some more!
Just saw Alice a few weeks ago! Even at 75 that man can still rock! Put on a great show!
Yes, I was in school when this was on the radio! Great times.
Hell Ya!!! I remember being in school when this came out. On the bus ride home, it came on the radio, and everyone went nuts. We tore up a bunch of notebooks shredded them and threw them out the windows. It look like snow behind the bus. What we didn't know is we almost caused 2 cars to crash in all the paper flying. The next day me and 4 other persons were suspended from riding the bus for a week. Oh and the ASS WOOPING I got from 1 to 10 was definitely a 9. My parent bringing me to school for a week took time from their jobs so they were pissed. But hey what a great song every time I here it i'll always have this memory.
You should check out the movie Dazed and Confused. It's a movie about High School, the last day of school in 1976. It's got a great soundtrack of the music of that time and School's Out is one of the anthems they play! It's also got an incredible cast of Future Stars at the time! Other than paddling incoming freshman it's very close to how the time really was including the music, clothing, cars everything!!
L I V I N
Alright alright alright
“Put some ice on it. After that, there’s nothing a few beers won’t take care of.”
As soon as the bells rang in the '70s in high school the local radio stations were playing this song such good memories
I lived across the street from my high school and would run home and blast this song from my bedroom window on the last day of school every year.
Yeah this was a song that they played everywhere I always sedated school was out this song played on the radio
It was our anthem. I was in grade 7 when this came out. We sang it every year.
Came out when I was in 3rd grade.......imagine all the kids....mid-summer..... and this coming on the radio!....Peace!
Our high school back in the 70s played this song on the last day of school. We loved it and went crazy as soon as we heard it! Love your reactions.
I graduated in 1977 and every school year that ended from 77 all the way back through the first year of Junior high School, they played this song on the last day of school. There were no exceptions, every single year they played it.
That's EXACTLY how we felt when we sang this song !!! AND ... Like BJ said, WE needed that !!!
We would play this on our huge car speakers the last week of school in 1975! ❤
This was my anthem from Jr. year because I was already enlisted in the Navy and I had a couple of months before boot camp ! Sometimes wish I'd have stayed but I'd already raised my hand and took the oath.
Brilliant song from a marketing standpoint. What better way than to guarantee your song gets massive airplay every year for decades. originally released in '72, has an old geezer what a great feeling seeing "youngsters" rocking out to the same songs you yourself rocked out to when you was a kid 40 - 50 years ago.
His concerts were crazy, He was the original "shock rock" artist. check out a few of his bangers; "No More Mister Nice Guy" (my personal fave), "I'm Eighteen", "Billion Dollar Babies" to name a few.
Every year on the last day of school WZZQ played this song once every hour.
It came out when I was a junior in high school. Huge hit for Alice 1972.
The song came out when I was Jr. Highschool. It was an anthem at end of the school year until the end of high school. Great memories.
This came out when I was in high school. We loved it!
Let's just say growing up in the 60's and 70s was a compete blast. The two of you are bringing back many wonderful memories...thank you
Yep every year this song was one when school was out for summer and I went to school in the 80's early 90's...song has staying power long as there's a school. Alice is amazing especially his 70's music.
Yes indeed! This was the official student's anthem of the 70's!!
I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper is a great bookend to Schools Out. Alice is Rock royalty to so many musicians and fans. Bob Dylan called Alice one of the most underrated song writers.
This was big in the UK back in 1972. Alice Cooper were voted the worlds greatest group that year and this song hit No.1 on 15 July just as the summer holidays started. It struck just the right chord with every schoolkid and was released at the perfect moment ensuring enormous sales. It was followed up by 3 more big hits, Elected, Hello Hurray and No More Mr Nice Guy to give an unbroken run in the charts from July 1972 until the middle of February 1973.
My favorite Alice Cooper song is Only Women Bleed. Listen to it. It is a great song. Etta James also did a cover of it.
This song was released in Summer 1972, when I had just left High School. It’s just perfect in every way. Rock On Alice!!
Every June on the last day of school this was blasting, and that was in the 90s.
The man is a genius making a song every teen will love to blast at the beginning of summer break.
Hey Stoopid is another great song by Alice Cooper 🤘
I went to a boarding school in the mid-70's, and I'll never forget hearing this song blasting out of virtually every room of our dormitory on the last day of school. And it was loud outside as well, because all of the windows would be cranked wide open. You could hear Alice a good mile away lol.
1972 my older brother use to have a lot of record albums and a record player and when he went to work I would sneak into his bedroom and put on the headphones and listen to this song and many more.
Alice Cooper is a class act all the way.. Truly an American icon.
Alice was a lot of fun with his shock rock antics. My favorite album of his is a bit more serious, "From the Inside" when he had to dry out from being an alcoholic. Co-written with Bernie Taupin (Elton John's writing partner).
Absolutely we sang this.. lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸
Someone always had a boom box on the last day and we would charge out of the school with this blasting!
1993. Driving down the lower Skeleton Coast in Namibia on a wide dirt road heading back to Swakopmund. 100mph in a rented Toyota (saw one other car the entire day). German oompah-music on the only clear radio station and then...this comes on. Cranked the volume all the way up and my grin was as wide as the Kunene River. Thanks, Alice.
This song come out just after my senior year in High School. So I did not go back to school until just before I turned 30 to get my AS degree. We Rocked this song all that summer.
You got it Asia! That's what I got from it. Getting out of high school and putting out a band with "new toys" (instruments) and "find words that rhyme" (lyrics).
If he tours again, get tickets! He puts on one Helluva show.
Just saw Alice Cooper in concert last weekend! It was amazing!
this song was always played at the last assembly of the year by the student council in high school...good times
We blasted this song on Senior Day riding around the school!
been many years , but I remember the last day of school , 8th grade , this was playing over the intercom as we got our stuff together and left for the summer ! lol
So my few of my teachers when I was in high school love this song because they knew it was break for them. And a lot of them liked Alice Cooper too
I was a teenager when this song came out but when l would pick up my kids on their last day of school, l would play this song for them really loud....lol!🤣✌
Absolutely felt that way and I was able to see him in concert twice🤘
I was in 4th or 5th grade when this hit. Even us elementary school kids rocked this on our way out. The hall was a mess of confetti. no one was getting names off those scraps.
This was played on the radio every June from the year it came out until I was out of school. Very popular toward the end of school.
This song was absolutely,as important,and soul stirring as BJ thinks.
This is actually my favorite reaction you've done(bold statement),,because you can see it all on your face.
No acting here.
Thankyou so much,,for sharing yourselves with the world.
I dont have any friends like you.
Your the best.
In addition to his music prowess, Alice Cooper is a scratch golfer and is one of the best amateur celebrity golfers on the planet.
And one of the nicest human
I was in 6th grade in 1972, ready for my next phase, junior high. Our bus driver always played the radio and she made sure she had it on the station that we all liked, well on the last day of my elementary school year, the radio was playing that song. We all yelled "Turn it up!" and she did. Every year there after, that song would get played for all of the kids on their last day of school, it became like a tradition. I had to miss out listening to it, one year because there was this deal going on where at McDonald's restaurant, if you get an A on your report card, then you can have a free big mac, so I walked to McDonalds from the junior high along with a bunch of other kids, boy, does that bring back the memories! Those were the days!
This song came out between 8th grade and freshman year and we loved it
After the last day of school, you had to hear this. The first time I heard it was in middle school. Maybe 1972 or 1973? Then, hearing it the last day of high school. Then when I walked out of my very last class in college, that time it was the Pièce de résistance. Unfortunately, the song doesn’t tell you the trials and tribulations of life. Can I just go back to those “easy” days? Compared to life, school is a breeze.
I remember when this came out. Love this song brings back so many memories with not a care in the world. Hit some other Alice classics they are so good.....
This came out of in ‘72, the year I graduated high school, so this song meant a lot.
Yeah, it was a well-played tune in the parking lot at the end of classes, the last day of my high school in 1978.
I was 7-8 when this song came out and I loved it since the first time I heard it.
I was a good girl at school ALWAYS..until I wasn't!!!😂😂 this song reminds me of THOSE days like it was yesterday.
Loved this album with it opening like a desk top. Was real Alice fan back in the '70's.
The radio stations would play this song on last day of school best day of the year
This was the June school Anthem back in the day!!!!
OMG he was the first person I ever seen in concert and I was like just turned 12 and the woman I went with was like 19 or 20 but I just always was at her house and one night she ask if I could spend the night at her house and she took me to Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare there was guillotines and spiders and heads rolling on stage and I was never the same Heavy metal entered my life and I love it music makes you come alive 1975 keep on Rockin 🤘 and I was a girl coming undone 🤘🤘🤘🤘