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Somewhere in a mysterious area of the San Fernando Valley, I fell asleep resting against the spare tire of my mother’s T-bird, when the school bus honked, wakening me. When I got on the bus, the Swartz brothers of Encino gave me a hard time accusing me of showing off as they had a Corvette at their house, even though I was just resting against my mother’s car. The bus to the military school winded through the San Fernando Valley taking at least an hour. I was the last pick up in the morning, and the last drop off at the end of the day, wearing a military uniform. For two years (third and fourth grade) I attended the military school. Don’t remember much about third grade. In fourth grade the teacher was a nice elderly woman, who played the piano, which was in the room. I heard most of the old songs as she would sing and play the piano “on the Erie canal.”
Alvin Bennett , who was an executive at Liberty Records, and had two boys in the military school, lived nearby the school in a sprawling ranch house. They had recently moved from Tennessee, where they also know about music. I was invited to a birthday party for the younger boy, who was in the fourth grade with me., When mom came to pick me up, they gave her a drink, and visited a while.
Anyway the father Alvin Bennett gave David Seville (Ross Bogdaserian) the idea for the name of Alvin for the Chipmunks , since he liked the way the name sounded. The Bennetts were low on money after moving to LA from Tennessee, but soon Liberty Records was making big money with Alvin and the Chipmunks, and other such stuff!
One day in the fourth grade, I went to the back of the room to sharpen a pencil, while the elderly teacher, who was not feeling good, fell asleep at her desk. At the back of the room one boy was jerking another boy’s protuberance with his hand–“don’t stop, keep going!” I never said anything about it thinking I might get some of that too perhaps sometime later in the future!
For fifth and sixth grade it was back to the mighty public school. I was old enough to be on my own, if mom had to work late, without burning down the house.
I could do a TV dinner on my own –no microwaves back then!
You had to pre-heat the oven and then it took a half hour to cook!
The quality wasn’t good, but I ate it anyway.
Typically, I would watch “Tightrope” followed by “Red Skelletin” on the TV.
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