It’s been over six years since IBM’s Watson bested a pair of Jeopardy! champions, and now another venerable game show is getting the man-vs.-computer treatment. Starting this month contestants will battle a music-recognition app on #BeatShazam, a digital-age update of Name That Tune—a show I found myself on back in 1978.

I didn’t ask to be on Name That Tune. I was happily away at summer music camp when a counselor told me I was wanted at the front office. My school in Phoenix was fielding a three-person team for a special “School Showdown” on the popular TV show, and I had been chosen to go.