Welcome:
This web project is based on the research I conducted in pursuit of a master’s degree in history. I have been teaching history classes at the middle school level for the last 20 years. Early on in my teaching career I realized that using music as part of the history curriculum offered many benefits. Seven years ago I recorded a standards based album to go along with the 8th grade history courses I teach. This album entitled “Professor Presley History Rocks” featured 9 songs of original music and lyrics. As part of my master’s thesis project I decided to go back into Earthling Music Studios again and work with Mike Kamoo to record new versions of some of the original historical political songs that were written during the early years of the United States. On this website you can hear five of the songs that will be featured in a new album that will include eight remakes of campaign songs from the First and Second
Party System.
Bio: Bill Reynolds began making noise with the San Diego punk rock band “Yang” in the early 1980s opening for bands like “The Vandals”, “Corrosion of Conformity”, “The Front”, and “Battalion of Saints”. After
earning a Political Science degree from SDSU in 1990, Bill worked as a teacher in the Gulfo Dulce region of Costa Rica with his weekends spent surfing at Pavones and playing music with the ex-patriot band “No Shoes, No Shirts, No Service!” Returning to the States broke and homeless he lived in a friend’s laundry room while waiting tables and substitute teaching until he earned his Secondary Credential in Social Studies from National University in 1992. Bill eventually was hired for his dream job as a middle school history teacher and formed a band with John Finkbiner of “The Stereotypes”. Bill was named Oak Crest Middle School teacher of the year in 2006 and received the Crystal Apple teacher of the Year award in 2010. Bill and his wife have two daughters and live in Leucadia, Ca.
This web project is based on the research I conducted in pursuit of a master’s degree in history. I have been teaching history classes at the middle school level for the last 20 years. Early on in my teaching career I realized that using music as part of the history curriculum offered many benefits. Seven years ago I recorded a standards based album to go along with the 8th grade history courses I teach. This album entitled “Professor Presley History Rocks” featured 9 songs of original music and lyrics. As part of my master’s thesis project I decided to go back into Earthling Music Studios again and work with Mike Kamoo to record new versions of some of the original historical political songs that were written during the early years of the United States. On this website you can hear five of the songs that will be featured in a new album that will include eight remakes of campaign songs from the First and Second
Party System.
Bio: Bill Reynolds began making noise with the San Diego punk rock band “Yang” in the early 1980s opening for bands like “The Vandals”, “Corrosion of Conformity”, “The Front”, and “Battalion of Saints”. After
earning a Political Science degree from SDSU in 1990, Bill worked as a teacher in the Gulfo Dulce region of Costa Rica with his weekends spent surfing at Pavones and playing music with the ex-patriot band “No Shoes, No Shirts, No Service!” Returning to the States broke and homeless he lived in a friend’s laundry room while waiting tables and substitute teaching until he earned his Secondary Credential in Social Studies from National University in 1992. Bill eventually was hired for his dream job as a middle school history teacher and formed a band with John Finkbiner of “The Stereotypes”. Bill was named Oak Crest Middle School teacher of the year in 2006 and received the Crystal Apple teacher of the Year award in 2010. Bill and his wife have two daughters and live in Leucadia, Ca.