My Old School

The feds would deputize local townies in the bars and round up as many students as they could under the pretense of possession.

Fagan sang about never going back there on the song My Old School, though he did come back to receive an honorary degree a decade later.

The pair moved to Brooklyn, where they tried to pedal songs at the historic Brill Building.

This is where most hit songs were written from the big band era through the mid-60s.

By the time Becker and Fagan started there, the era was already mostly a bygone.

The two would start each day at the top floor and cold knock on offices, playing their oddball compositions to anyone who would listen.

Despite this method of breaking into the business being a complete relic, they managed to catch the ear of Kenny Vance, who represented Jay and the Americans, a mostly nostalgia covers act by them.

Vance was able to get them in the door to sell a few songs, most notably the song I Mean to Shine, recorded by none other than Barbra Streisand.