“Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen

"Hot for Teacher" was the fourth and last single pulled from Van Halen's 1984, issued that October, and it turned out to be the final single of the band's first era, the run that ended in 1985. All four members share the writing credit, and Ted Templeman produced with Donn Landee at the board.

Nobody else was starting singles like this. Alex Van Halen opens with half a minute of double-bass-drum thunder, the band tacks on another half minute of instrumental run-up, and only then does David Lee Roth saunter in, leering and wisecracking through the title's classroom fantasy. The tag at the end was salvaged from "Voodoo Queen," an old demo from the band's club days. The video, with the band playing both grown-ups and schoolkids, made the joke even broader.

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