{"id":4622,"date":"1988-09-21T11:00:18","date_gmt":"1988-09-21T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:23:34","slug":"meeting-across-the-river-gary-u-s-bonds-and-bruce-springsteen-school-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/09\/21\/meeting-across-the-river-gary-u-s-bonds-and-bruce-springsteen-school-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"School Is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s for the completists (like me).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;School Is Out&#8221; was Gary U.S. Bonds follow-up to his smash hit (and frequent Springsteen encore) &#8220;Quarter to Three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1961, &#8220;School Is Out&#8221; is certainly cut from the same cloth as its predecessor, opening with the same count-in, the same hand-clap syncopation, and the same use of background hoots and whistles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUVAxBZojWQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It was perhaps too similar to match the chart performance of &#8220;Quarter to Three&#8221; but close enough to get some lift from it, peaking at #5 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce has covered it once only&#8211;with Gary himself, on stage at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, on a River Tour break back in June of 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The sound quality is terrible, but it&#8217;s the only document we have of Bruce performing this early rock hit. Give it a listen below (for as long as you can).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_hSYvYqZ-Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>School Is Out<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong>\u00a0June 15, 1981 (San Francisco, CA)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:\u00a0<\/strong>June 15, 1981 (San Francisco, CA)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 September 29, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce&#8217;s one-and-only performance of &#8220;School Is Out&#8221; was with its original recording artist back in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3612,5],"tags":[80,1714],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","category-great","category-meeting-across-the-river","tag-gary-u-s-bonds","tag-school-is-out"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/gary-us-bonds-school-is-out-1961.jpg?fit=1440%2C1464&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-1cy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4184,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/rotd-matr-cover-me-gary-u-s-bonds-bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band-this-little-girl\/","url_meta":{"origin":4622,"position":0},"title":"ROTD\/MatR\/Cover Me, Gary U.S. Bonds, Bruce Springsteen &#038; 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