I looked at the track list on the CD. 43 songs is a lot. Anyone know if they are more or less complete songs or only a verse and chorus of each? In the realm of election songs I would call attention to Oscar Brand's earlier relase on Folkways in 1963 titled "Election Songs of the United States" (FH 5280). I fully expected the CD to be the same with a couple of recent additions. However as best as I can tell only the first and last tracks appear to overlap. They are the same on both the record and the CD. There are 26 songs on the record and given the increased space on a CD, it is quite possible that all 43 are fairly complete.

Also of note is a two record set recorded for Folkways by Peter Janofsky in 1980. They are called "Winners and Losers: Campaign Songs from the Critical Elections in American History. Vol. I 1800-1876" and "...Vol. II 1896-1976" (FSS 37260 and 37261). I only have Vol II but it is quite good with extensive commentary included (13 page booklet).

Finally a fantastic book (from which I pulled several of the Rosin the Bow parodies in another thread. I will try to add more [not rosinbow] as I get time to type them) "Music for Patriots, Politicians, and Presidents. Harmonies and Discords of the First Hundred Years" by Vera Brodsky Lawrence, 1975 Macmillan (isbn 0-02-569390-5). The book goes up to 1876 and is about 480 pages. That is a lot of material.

rich r