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Thread #14174   Message #121467
Posted By: Mark Clark
06-Oct-99 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music and Political Campaigns
Subject: RE: Folk Music and Political Campaigns

In 1963 I was hired to play at a campaign rally for Mayor Richard J. Daly at Medinah Temple in Chicago. As I recall, the songs used traditional (or then-popular "folk") melodies but the words were just cute but empty campaign rhetoric. As it turned out, he won reelection anyway.

- Mark