Original 1967 John Burroughs High School yearbook from Burbank, California — a genuine slice of 1960s San Fernando Valley life, with a documented connection to a two-time Grammy winner.
The Jay Graydon connection
This annual lists Jay Graydon in the California Scholastic Federation honors section. Born in Burbank in 1949, Graydon went on to win two Grammy Awards as a songwriter and producer — “After the Love Has Gone” for Earth, Wind & Fire and “Turn Your Love Around” for George Benson — and played the famous guitar solo on Steely Dan’s “Peg.”
His published biographies credit his high-school big-band arranging teacher as Robert Rose, who appears in this very yearbook as director of the Burroughs Dance Band (page 41). A rare documented look at the world that produced one of the defining musicians of the West Coast sound.
What’s inside
• Full class portrait sections and faculty pages • California Scholastic Federation honors roster naming hundreds of students • Activities coverage: Burbank-Burroughs Day, the Hollywood Lane Parade, the Powder Puff Derby (December 9, 1966), the Sweetheart Ball and Backwards Dance • The choir concert and operetta “No, No, A Million Times, No!” • Complete sports sections — varsity and JV baseball with full season scores, and the ’67 “B” basketball squad that took the Junior Circuit championship, with team and individual records • Multiple handwritten classmate inscriptions in the margins, exactly as it was signed in 1967
Also included: the Class of 1967 20-Year Reunion booklet from 1987 — a companion piece that rarely turns up alongside the original annual.
Collector note: This edition features the school’s retired Indians mascot and Redskin Marching Band throughout, including the mascot artwork on the reunion booklet cover. Burroughs now competes as the Bears, making pre-change annuals of interest to mascot and Burbank-history collectors.
