Before the commercial runs, the movie's end credits tell you that it's a Twentieth Century Fox production, which is the same studio that produced Room 222.
When Jason (Heshimu Cumbuka) asks Richie (Howard Rice) about his band about fund raising, there is a ring of truth. Rice had recorded under his own name, also as Little Howard Rice and as part of the Rice Brothers. There was also a 1971 single credited to "Richie's Room 222 Gang".