Lovin’ Spoonful frontman John Sebastian wrote and recorded the Welcome Back, Kotter theme, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1976. Inexplicably, it also reached No. 93 on the ...

Paul began writing for Billboard as a freelancer in 1975, when he was a junior at UCLA. He was initially paid the princely sum of $1 per published inch. He graduated in 1976 with a degree in ...