The candidate doesn't need permission to use a song unless it's for a commercial or a documentary. The Republicans prefer the blatantly patriotic "Proud To Be An American" route, though John McCain has come onstage to such tunes as "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar and ABBA's "Take a Chance On Me." Although 1996 candidate Bob Dole turned Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" into "Dole Man," there usually aren't many R&B songs played at GOP rallies. The poor ol' Republicans are at a disadvantage when it comes to campaign songs because, well, Wayne Newton and Lee Greenwood haven't had hits in years. Roosevelt, 1932) and "High Hopes" (John Kennedy, 1960) to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)," suitably released on Motown, the first African American label to market itself to white America. The most effective and enduring partisan ditties have come from the Democratic side, from "Happy Days Are Here Again" (Franklin D. To carry the Houston vote, some candidate could use a "screwed and chopped" version, though there's the danger of being the first candidate to be ticketed for noise complaints. "Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (Sleep Last Night)" could've been the most realistic campaign song of 2008. Surprisingly, no Texas campaigners have looked into the catalog of the Lone Star Springsteen, Joe Ely.
With today's crucial Texas primary hingeing, in part, on the Hispanic vote, Clinton's campaign has introduced a new Spanish theme song titled "Hillary, Hillary Clinton" written and performed by Houston Latin pop band Walter Suhr and Mango Punch. Clinton has picked up the tempo, using "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by the Police, Springsteen's "The Rising" and "Blue Sky" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters. After Huffington Post called "You and I" the worst campaign song of all time (even worse than "Hello, Lyndon," a 1964 rewording of "Hello, Dolly"?) Sen. In the summer of 2007, Hillary Clinton asked her supporters to democratically choose her lead campaign song and they voted for Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion's "You and I," and Republicans charged outsourcing. The celeb-infested video for "Yes We Can" has been seen online by more than 10 million people, making Obama the YouTube candidate. That track, a tad deeper than "Obama Girl," harks back to the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" (1840 presidential election) when campaign songs were crafted especially for the candidates. Obama is also the beneficiary of an original, unsolicited campaign song, "Yes We Can," from Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am. When the music is uplifting, you don't even notice that the candidate is running late.Ī bad choice can't stall a campaign, as Ronald Reagan proved in 1984 when he won in a landslide after being called out by Springsteen for trying to align himself with "Born In the USA," a song Reagan didn't realize was about a veteran who'd been let down by his country.īut a great, momentum-stoking campaign theme song, such as Barack Obama's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" by Stevie Wonder and Bill Clinton's use of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)" in 1992, can come off like the soundtrack to victory. Campaign tunes, those songs of the stump taken from albums by Bruce Springsteen, U2, John Mellencamp and other fistpumpers, put the "party" in partisan.
AUSTIN - They pump up the crowd and fill the air with inspirational messages of hope and unity.
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