Multi-talented musician Charlie Kogen, ’23, has revealed in an interview with The Stanford Daily how he sold a song to Nickelodeon's hit comedy series, School of Rock!:
[TSD]: Talk more about the process of how you got a song sold to School of Rock on Nickelodeon.
[CK]: Well, my dad is a television writer and producer. At the time, he was working on School of Rock, a TV series based on the movie. The show always featured music, and at one point, I had written a song called “I Will Never Be Your Guy,” which my dad showed to some people on the show. They really wanted to use it. I was only 13 at the time, and I loved the song so much I didn’t want to give it up. I decided I would write another song that they could use that kind of sounded like the one they liked. In the end, I wrote a song called “You Make Me Smile.” In the episode, it was sung by the character Lawrence at a school talent show, and he was trying to woo a girl in his Spanish class. However throughout the performance, there are all these stage antics and things that go awry and undercut the sweetness of the song. It was still pretty cool to see something I wrote on TV.
You can read The Stanford Daily's super interview with Charlie in full on stanforddaily.com.
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