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Thread #14174   Message #121545
Posted By: Susan A-R
06-Oct-99 - 11:14 PM
Thread Name: Folk Music and Political Campaigns
Subject: RE: Folk Music and Political Campaigns
Didn't Oscar Brand just put out a remarkable recording of campaign songs for US presidents (Including a long song that gives a verse to each president from Washington right on up to Bill) I heard the Jefferson and Liberty cut, and the Lincoln and Liberty one (although I'm pretty familiar with that one) I believe that Grandfather's Clock also got parodied, and when I saw Jay Unger and Moly Mason, they did a couple of dance tunes written for presidents (pretty nice ones)

I think that Pete Seeger also used to sing Prescious Friend as a kind of cynical comment on Nixon?