US Presidents' Campaign Songs (Washington - Biden)

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  • These are the campaign songs of every presidential candidate who was elected president (which does not include John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, and Gerald Ford).
    0:00 Intro
    0:08 George Washington
    0:20 John Adams
    0:33 Thomas Jefferson
    0:49 James Madison
    1:03 James Monroe
    1:17 John Quincy Adams
    1:30 Andrew Jackson
    1:43 Martin Van Buren
    2:06 William Henry Harrison
    2:20 James K. Polk
    2:35 Zachary Taylor
    2:45 Franklin Pierce
    2:59 James Buchanan
    3:14 Abraham Lincoln
    3:31 Ulysses S. Grant
    3:50 Rutherford B. Hayes
    4:01 James A. Garfield
    4:21 Grover Cleveland
    4:35 Benjamin Harrison
    4:52 William McKinley
    5:10 Theodore Roosevelt
    5:30 William Howard Taft
    5:51 Woodrow Wilson
    6:06 Warren G. Harding
    6:24 Calvin Coolidge
    6:42 Herbert Hoover
    7:00 Franklin D. Roosevelt
    7:24 Harry Truman
    7:41 Dwight D. Eisenhower
    7:58 John F. Kennedy
    8:18 Lyndon B. Johnson
    8:44 Richard Nixon
    9:06 Jimmy Carter
    9:28 Ronald Reagan
    9:55 George H. W. Bush
    10:14 Bill Clinton
    10:30 George W. Bush
    10:43 Barack Obama
    11:05 Donald Trump
    11:28 Joe Biden
    11:39 Credits

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  • @HenryA.Wallace
    @HenryA.Wallace  Před 2 lety +371

    Presidential campaign songs from the 2016 election: czcams.com/video/2YKrrQw3Fy0/video.html
    Sorry I didn't include the full songs, but if I did, this video would be an hour long! If you want to listen to the whole songs in the video, all of the song titles and artists are listed at the end. :)

    • @theodriggers549
      @theodriggers549 Před 2 lety +3

      You forgot Fillmore

    • @theodriggers549
      @theodriggers549 Před 2 lety +3

      And Andrew Johnson

    • @carmesancheese007
      @carmesancheese007 Před rokem +23

      ​@@theodriggers549 They didn't campaign in an election and win. Johnson was appointed after Lincolns death and didn't run again because of his unpopularity. The same case happened for Fillmore, although he did run 3rd party without winning the election.

    • @jackthegreenq6
      @jackthegreenq6 Před rokem +5

      Ey bro, you forgot that This Land is Your Land was sung by Woody Guthrie in 1945, Not Oscar Band!

    • @gjgba3166
      @gjgba3166 Před rokem +2

      ooo

  • @dodec8449
    @dodec8449 Před 9 měsíci +2977

    Great how Van Buren reaches out to the baby voter.

    • @MarechalVI
      @MarechalVI Před 7 měsíci +210

      Gotta appeal to the young voters 😂

    • @electricangel4488
      @electricangel4488 Před 7 měsíci +274

      Van buren was the first guy to be born in the united states when it was free. It proably some allusion to that. " i was born in america"

    • @attilathepun7983
      @attilathepun7983 Před 7 měsíci +82

      "That Dutchman is alright with me!" -👶

    • @RuthvenMurgatroyd
      @RuthvenMurgatroyd Před 7 měsíci +7

      ​@@electricangel4488 That is such a massive reach we can be sure it's wrong.

    • @electricangel4488
      @electricangel4488 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@RuthvenMurgatroyd proably not the only one but allusion is meand to be a reach

  • @mhug162
    @mhug162 Před rokem +3898

    Most Presidential songs: "My guy sure do be great!"
    John Quincy Adam's: "FIGHTERS COMING, SWORDS ARE COMING, PISTOLS, GUNS AND KNIVES ARE COMING, FAMINE'S COMING, FAMINE'S COMING, IF JOHN QUINCY NOT BE COMING!"
    like dude...

    • @HistoryNerd808
      @HistoryNerd808 Před 11 měsíci +460

      In case people think hyperbole and fearmongering are new things in politics.

    • @wayfaring_stranger1413
      @wayfaring_stranger1413 Před 10 měsíci +296

      Needs a metal cover tbh

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@HistoryNerd808 Ironicly, JQA was always seemingly so firm about how Politicians needed to be ,,dignified" and ,,above dirty meddling" yet his campaign featured far more constant mudslinging, death threats and fearmongering than his opponent Jackson, who Adams constantly accused of doing all those things.

    • @dustbuster
      @dustbuster Před 7 měsíci +15

      Pause

    • @rithvikmuthyalapati9754
      @rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Před 7 měsíci +134

      Martin Van Buren: Rock a bye baby

  • @robertpfeffer8541
    @robertpfeffer8541 Před 9 měsíci +1919

    The ironic prophetic thing about JFK "High Hopes" was that the movie it was taken from was "A Hole in the Head"

  • @arvinbuenaagua5161
    @arvinbuenaagua5161 Před 7 měsíci +1773

    Salute to the same guy who sang the jingles for the winning Presidents. He must have lived for centuries

    • @Sophia_fendrick
      @Sophia_fendrick Před 7 měsíci +78

      @@isagacha1015That’s cause it is. The person you’re responding to is just being sarcastic by saying he must have lived for a century.

    • @gracchus7782
      @gracchus7782 Před 7 měsíci +40

      @@isagacha1015 Before about 1900 there is no sound recording, so the only way to reproduce music is to play it from historical sheet music

    • @davidshoemaker9817
      @davidshoemaker9817 Před 7 měsíci +4

      That man is a legend

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol Před 7 měsíci

      Lol

    • @LyttonAshcroft
      @LyttonAshcroft Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@gracchus7782 There was sound recording as far back as the 1850s, but it wasn't until the 1880s when a recording industry began. Still, I imagine the quality of the old recordings from the 1880s through about 1910 weren't very good because they used some kind of soapy candle wax to make the records.

  • @hyun-shik7327
    @hyun-shik7327 Před 7 měsíci +2675

    The fact that “We like Ike” is still widely known 70 years later really shows what a good campaign is.

    • @user-it8re8jv2l
      @user-it8re8jv2l Před 7 měsíci +56

      Everybody knows it it's iconic

    • @mechanicalmonk2020
      @mechanicalmonk2020 Před 7 měsíci +23

      Not really. It's memetic memory.

    • @antlerbraum2881
      @antlerbraum2881 Před 7 měsíci +149

      ⁠​⁠@@mechanicalmonk2020 But doesn’t that prove the point? I mean that the campaign was able to tap into the memetic memory.

    • @malekartorian3054
      @malekartorian3054 Před 7 měsíci +5

      I wanna know why we cant do another public works campaign. Too much exporting our industry me thinks

    • @deeznutz-bn9sl
      @deeznutz-bn9sl Před 7 měsíci +1

      Elegant in its simplicity

  • @RianeBane
    @RianeBane Před 7 měsíci +508

    "Get On the Raft With Taft," while catchy, was a gamble that relied on the voter never seeing Taft in person.

    • @Eyebrows842
      @Eyebrows842 Před 7 měsíci +15

      It implies America is a sinking ship so get on the raft. Tafts size does not matter to the analogy.

    • @nobodyburgen4594
      @nobodyburgen4594 Před 6 měsíci +33

      @@Eyebrows842dude chill it’s a joke

    • @Eyebrows842
      @Eyebrows842 Před 6 měsíci +13

      @@nobodyburgen4594 Sorry this has been weighing on me so strongly that I just could not stand having my boy Taft have his weight be bullied for his weight. /s

    • @JackieDaytona1776
      @JackieDaytona1776 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Could we share a rowboat? Could... could a rowboat support her?

    • @zacharyriley4561
      @zacharyriley4561 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@Eyebrows842”weighing on me.”

  • @Thomas_Varnell
    @Thomas_Varnell Před 7 měsíci +1351

    I’d love to bring back campaign songs being written specifically for that campaign as opposed to a candidate taking an already existing song

    • @xythrr
      @xythrr Před 7 měsíci +59

      Another thing we lost after Carter :(

    • @iLikeTheUDK
      @iLikeTheUDK Před 7 měsíci +21

      Some countries still have these. Israel has these every now and then. Plenty of them are pretty cringe :(

    • @scotsmith2391
      @scotsmith2391 Před 7 měsíci +38

      @@xythrr Not completely true. Lee Greenwood wrote Proud to Be an American specifically for Reagan's reelection campaign. But your overall point, yeah.

    • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
      @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Před 7 měsíci +14

      Just for fun, I wrote a campaign song for Gore 2000 to the tune of “Memphis, Tennessee” by Chuck Berry (changed the title to “The Man From Tennessee”) I know it’s not a fully original song, but still. It’s at least more effort than the campaigns simply choosing an existing song with no changes.

    • @gracchus7782
      @gracchus7782 Před 7 měsíci +15

      @@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Most of the historical examples did use existing tunes (it was easier to learn that way)

  • @simrenbajaj6000
    @simrenbajaj6000 Před 11 měsíci +800

    “Get on the raft with Taft” I don’t think there’s enough space and idk about the weight limit

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +104

      Conspiracy Theory : When they said they nuked Hiroshima they actually just dropped Taft's body into the city from a plane and then added the Explosion in photoshop

    • @lucask4377
      @lucask4377 Před 9 měsíci +9

      ​@@liker-qd4fzAbout as plausible as flat earth

    • @wmhfanatic
      @wmhfanatic Před 9 měsíci +54

      @@liker-qd4fz Nah, it would've been Nagasaki. That would explain why they called it "Fat Man"

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +24

      @@lucask4377 BREAKING NEWS :CZcams user finds a ,,joke" for the first time in their life: instantly misses the point

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +40

      @@wmhfanatic ,,I am become Taft, deatroyer of bathtubs"

  • @indecentanalyst
    @indecentanalyst Před 7 měsíci +253

    You know that the mob is backing your candidate when Frank Sinatra is singing for him.

  • @DensetsuVII
    @DensetsuVII Před 7 měsíci +530

    Was not expecting John Quincy Adams to campaign to such a bop, and the pitch is so METAL! "Elect me or AMERICA WILL BURN DIE AND STARVE!" From a guy known for advancing the sciences, this is not a side of him I was aware of.

    • @rachelmcdonough1506
      @rachelmcdonough1506 Před 7 měsíci +7

      It’s my favorite presidential song. I’m kind of obsessed with the album featured in the earlier presidents’ songs.

    • @isaacgutierrez139
      @isaacgutierrez139 Před 6 měsíci +3

      The best of the earlier bunch for sure.

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 Před 5 měsíci +2

      My favorite is James Garfield’s

    • @gwest3644
      @gwest3644 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yeah, let's just say Andrew Jackson's opponents were rather... passionate.

    • @illuminaticake4528
      @illuminaticake4528 Před měsícem

      Nixon's is AMAZING too

  • @radiatedzebra81515
    @radiatedzebra81515 Před 7 měsíci +870

    I think it's interesting how multiple presidents chose Bruce Springsteen's songs as their main campain song.

    • @CortoMalteaser
      @CortoMalteaser Před 7 měsíci +132

      He’s very much representative of the sort of idealized Americana

    • @ianmoore3470
      @ianmoore3470 Před 7 měsíci +48

      Ooh you ever see Jim telling off Reagan tho it’s great

    • @xythrr
      @xythrr Před 7 měsíci +34

      And the one he declined was republican which is incredibly funny

    • @kalebstuckey570
      @kalebstuckey570 Před 7 měsíci +15

      Especially considering how terrible his music is.

    • @kurteisner67
      @kurteisner67 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@xythrrThe funny thing is, Republicans didn't learn their lesson (well, they never do):
      Just as Trump stole Reagan's campaign slogan, he also stole the idea of using "Born in the USA" for his campaign...again.
      Unsurprisingly, Springsteen sent another C&D letter...again.

  • @thegeek0017
    @thegeek0017 Před 7 měsíci +455

    The next President to have an original song about their campaign gets my vote

    • @justacommenter
      @justacommenter Před 7 měsíci +42

      Well it will be too late because they'll be President already

    • @johnjohnfofohniam
      @johnjohnfofohniam Před 7 měsíci +18

      Perhaps you mean candidate

    • @heroponriki5921
      @heroponriki5921 Před 7 měsíci +16

      "My name is Vermin, Vermin Vermin Supreme and you can vote for me for president"

    • @jerrythaplatypus
      @jerrythaplatypus Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@heroponriki5921I want to live long enough to see a timeline where Vermin Supreme wins the presidential seat, and I’m not kidding when I say this

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol Před 7 měsíci

      ;)

  • @MarechalVI
    @MarechalVI Před 7 měsíci +303

    Other Presidents: "I'm pretty great"
    Herbert Hoover: "Well, if he's good enough for Lindy :/"

    • @Brandon_TG_Smith
      @Brandon_TG_Smith Před 7 měsíci +24

      He was a very humble person

    • @cheezeball2517
      @cheezeball2517 Před 7 měsíci +26

      That really shows how much public attention Charles Lindbergh had with the public at that time. He was one of the first modern "pop" celebrities that we know like that

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 7 měsíci

      That was my first thought.@@cheezeball2517

    • @rachelmcdonough1506
      @rachelmcdonough1506 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Well Harrison was just all right!

    • @nobodyburgen4594
      @nobodyburgen4594 Před 6 měsíci

      @@rachelmcdonough1506He died in a month 😂

  • @whitebrown762
    @whitebrown762 Před 7 měsíci +362

    Garfield's song is probably the most outrageous, since it says that if he loses the Confederates will take over despite the fact that he was running against a former Union general who fought at Gettysburg.

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 7 měsíci +62

      For the record, Garfield was also a former Union general (albeit only a brigadier), and he fought at Shiloh, among other places.

    • @jamesAGarfield608
      @jamesAGarfield608 Před 7 měsíci +22

      @@sturmovik1274 yes my song was great

    • @ladymacbethofmtensk896
      @ladymacbethofmtensk896 Před 7 měsíci +4

      Well all wear grey if the Johnnies get into power!
      Methinks that happened in 1912-13.

    • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
      @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Před 7 měsíci +24

      Garfield’s song is the most outrageous because a cat was running for president

    • @marcelagarcia3925
      @marcelagarcia3925 Před 7 měsíci

      @@ladymacbethofmtensk896 who were the Johnnies?

  • @Dzod500
    @Dzod500 Před 11 měsíci +660

    I Just Like That The Herbert Hoover One Is Literally About Being "Good Enough"

  • @amcc666
    @amcc666 Před 7 měsíci +219

    Martin Van Buren casually inventing the parody song

    • @seannolan9857
      @seannolan9857 Před 7 měsíci +26

      Parody, at least in poetry was invented in the fifth century B.C.

    • @titanuranus3095
      @titanuranus3095 Před 7 měsíci +6

      ​@@seannolan9857a lesson to write things down.

    • @ssfc117
      @ssfc117 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@titanuranus3095lol what

    • @AmericanIdolz2011
      @AmericanIdolz2011 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Van Buren walked so Weird Al could run

  • @alpacaofthemountain8760
    @alpacaofthemountain8760 Před 7 měsíci +624

    I’m disappointed that presidents don’t make their own songs anymore

    • @Noid
      @Noid Před 7 měsíci +74

      It would probably be considered too preachy, or propagandistic by the public. I mean, how do you think people would respond to a song about voting for Trump or Biden? Likely not well lol

    • @peterdarker3863
      @peterdarker3863 Před 7 měsíci +44

      If they did I doubt anyone would take it seriously and it would probably be meme’d to all hell

    • @z3iro383
      @z3iro383 Před 7 měsíci +20

      @@Noid iirc I think Trump tried to actually do that, a children's group called the "USA Freedom Singers," and the one song I remember from them was dubious

    • @candicehoneycutt4318
      @candicehoneycutt4318 Před 7 měsíci +8

      @@peterdarker3863 At this point, that would definitely happen lmao. The memes would never end

    • @_-_o-o_-_
      @_-_o-o_-_ Před 7 měsíci +8

      Presidential Phonk. Imagine candidates fighting over the title of Gigachad.

  • @magi.c
    @magi.c Před 2 lety +1154

    Ironically, I think Nixon's song is one of my favorite songs in this video even though I don't like him as a president at all. The campaign songs from the 1950's - 1970's are the best imo because they're actually creative.

    • @HenryA.Wallace
      @HenryA.Wallace  Před 2 lety +160

      Yes, I like that the songs were written specifically for the candidates instead of typical pop songs. The songs can be so catchy, even if you hate the candidates that they're written about!

    • @thiswillbenamedsomethingbetter
      @thiswillbenamedsomethingbetter Před 11 měsíci +16

      george wallace also had great campaign songs

    • @sirruadhri3316
      @sirruadhri3316 Před 9 měsíci +9

      I'd say the same about Lyndon Johnson aswell

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Před 9 měsíci +4

      ​@@thiswillbenamedsomethingbetteractually so true

    • @monetsimmons1845
      @monetsimmons1845 Před 9 měsíci +3

      I think LBJ's is better than Nixon's.

  • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
    @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Před 7 měsíci +279

    “Get on the Raft with Taft”
    1. Reaching for a rhyme
    2. Said rhyme includes a flimsy craft usually used to escape a sinking ship
    3. Which is supposed to be carrying the most overweight president in history, and all his voters.
    The fact that he won with this song is a miracle.

    • @Eyebrows842
      @Eyebrows842 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Yeah well if America is a sinking ship you better get on the raft. Obviously, weight is irrelevant in the analogy

    • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
      @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Před 7 měsíci +8

      @@Eyebrows842 It is relevant because the raft is gonna sink too, and faster than the ship.

    • @Eyebrows842
      @Eyebrows842 Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 while obviously that would be true in real in a literature not everything needs to be taken literally you can take a raft or stay on a sinking ship Id rather take the raft. Taft is captaining the rescue raft not the sinking ship.

  • @kirbyinhalesjotaro4471
    @kirbyinhalesjotaro4471 Před 7 měsíci +197

    I feel like “you can’t always get what you want” is certainly an interesting pick for a campaign song

    • @carolinerussell3782
      @carolinerussell3782 Před 6 měsíci +12

      Yeah, the rest of them were ‘I love this country, let’s join together’ etc., and Trump’s was like ‘haha I won haha you get nothing!’

    • @nickverse3463
      @nickverse3463 Před 6 měsíci

      @@carolinerussell3782you get what you neeeeed

    • @ConnorThermo
      @ConnorThermo Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@@carolinerussell3782He started with the song back in the primaries before he won anything. At least there's the line "you just might find, you get what you need" so it has some positive spin ig? Idk I always just saw the song as a cheeky jab at DC suits & naysayers. Trump's persona just made the whole thing comedic 😂and after 2020 it's even fucking funnier having come full circle. Needless to say, the song's vanished from his rallies🤣🤣🤣

    • @jsmith2479
      @jsmith2479 Před měsícem +2

      I think it was fitting in that time. People hated Trump back then too but he was elected in 2016 because people voted for him to stick it to Hillary. You can’t always get what you want was a jab at everyone who said he was going to lose.

  • @nowayjose1870
    @nowayjose1870 Před 7 měsíci +402

    The change from covers to actual recordings is so cool !
    Also American history is absolutely surreal at times. I can't believe Martin Van Buren was known for being a little baby man riding on Andrew Jackson's back (even though he was FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OLD) and for his campaign song he literally chose rock-a-bye baby. Oh my god. How is this country real??? Fighting over our little mascot men?

    • @qwertyasdf4081
      @qwertyasdf4081 Před 7 měsíci

      Poor Van Buren. Just rides the coat tails of an asshole president and then once Van Buren became president he was blamed for an economic panic caused by his predecessor and was later beat by the Whigs who used Jackson’s “log cabin campaign” strategy against his own protege.

    • @OCTNH
      @OCTNH Před 7 měsíci +2

      It's real because our military fought for its reformations in its government.

    • @nowayjose1870
      @nowayjose1870 Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@OCTNH Mate I do not know what you mean by that.
      Edit: Oh wait I think you meant what I said about American history being "surreal." I didn't mean that literally, I meant it in the sense American history can be funny and outlandish at times

    • @belisarius6949
      @belisarius6949 Před 7 měsíci +3

      The covers were really well made but man were the actual recordings awesome and funky.

    • @ZRICH7
      @ZRICH7 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@nowayjose1870 Grow Up

  • @elpresidenta1945
    @elpresidenta1945 Před 7 měsíci +108

    I love that out of anything they could have used for Taft's campaign song, it had to do something that sinks due to weight.

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 7 měsíci +7

      I just checked to see if he was elected the year Titanic sank... off by four.

    • @Number1Irishlad
      @Number1Irishlad Před 7 měsíci +11

      ​@@sturmovik1274titanic sank cuz it realized if it made it to america there was a chance Taft would want to ride it

    • @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820
      @tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 Před 7 měsíci

      ⁠@@sturmovik1274I checked to see if it was the campaign song for 1912, that would’ve been the perfect metaphor for his campaign that year. So would Titanic.

    • @carlagunderson9236
      @carlagunderson9236 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 I think that it's a metaphor.

  • @NewWaveWill
    @NewWaveWill Před 7 měsíci +482

    Beyond ironic having ‘This Land is Your Land’ as Bush Sr’s anthem considering it was created by Woody Guthrie, a folk singer closely affiliated with Communism, and was originally written criticising the US. “This Machine Kills Fascists” was the famous message displayed on his guitar.

    • @moritz-4742
      @moritz-4742 Před 7 měsíci

      True haha
      Was he alive to see his song being misused for an imperialist cuck like Bush ?

    • @Username-je7of
      @Username-je7of Před 7 měsíci +99

      Not quite as egregious, but Reagan playing an anti-war song (Born in the USA), especially a war he supported, was amazing.

    • @RAAM855
      @RAAM855 Před 7 měsíci +40

      It's like how Rage Against the Machines Music is used by the U.S Gov. (The Machine) to torture prisoners with sleepless nights by blasting it with superloud full volume speakers in Guantanamo bay.

    • @MaxEverywhereSystem
      @MaxEverywhereSystem Před 7 měsíci +12

      if memory serves, gunthrie wasnt even affilated w/communists, its just that this land is your land's critizism of the us could've made him a target for mcarythism which led to him tonning it down.

    • @bronic9679
      @bronic9679 Před 7 měsíci +3

      "This Machine" from Fallout: New Vegas makes so much more sense now.

  • @wrestlingluva
    @wrestlingluva Před 7 měsíci +236

    Crazy that dude sang all the songs from Washington to Hoover

    • @unfunnyusername9719
      @unfunnyusername9719 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Because they’re all fictional I think. He made a album where he made up campaign songs for every president

    • @Jogo-62
      @Jogo-62 Před 7 měsíci +41

      ​​@@unfunnyusername9719John Quincy's was the first actual one. The others before JQA he made himself, I believe.

    • @jasonhatt4295
      @jasonhatt4295 Před 7 měsíci +5

      I always pay attention to which candidate this guy sings about to figure out who is going to win.

    • @rachelmcdonough1506
      @rachelmcdonough1506 Před 7 měsíci +11

      @@unfunnyusername9719they’re not fictional. They’re real campaign songs for the most part. They were often printed as lyric sheets to the tune of an existing popular song so people could easily learn them.

    • @rachelmcdonough1506
      @rachelmcdonough1506 Před 7 měsíci

      His album actually has Washington through Clinton!

  • @gar-feels4438
    @gar-feels4438 Před 7 měsíci +353

    A lot of them seem like very odd choices, like Obama having a country music song despite trying to reach out to progressives and H. W. Bush having a literal Communist song.
    But Carter, you hear that and go, "Yeah, that sounds about right"

    • @newjerseyyouth4853
      @newjerseyyouth4853 Před 7 měsíci +11

      It was patriotic communist tho

    • @tbrochez2318
      @tbrochez2318 Před 7 měsíci +47

      By Bush's time it had already been sanitized, and the version most people are familar with removed lyrics would have been used.

    • @gar-feels4438
      @gar-feels4438 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@tbrochez2318 true, true. Still it's interesting that it was used, regardless of the changes

    • @tbrochez2318
      @tbrochez2318 Před 7 měsíci +22

      @@gar-feels4438 Would recommend watching Pete Seeger and Springsteen's performance of it at Obama's inauguration, they sung it properly of course but you could tell the overwhelming majority of people there didn't know the full lyrics.

    • @mlbp2567
      @mlbp2567 Před 7 měsíci

      @@newjerseyyouth4853Still completely ironic

  • @rileywilsonepicarcher9995
    @rileywilsonepicarcher9995 Před 7 měsíci +114

    It’s appalling how often politicians have to be reminded that “born in the USA” is a song Bruce Springsteen wrote criticizing America.

    • @TheManInBlueFlames
      @TheManInBlueFlames Před 4 měsíci +6

      It criticised it but also celebrated it, because the song's chorus is in a major key.

    • @RaffieFaffie
      @RaffieFaffie Před 2 měsíci +6

      It's appalling how often Americans have to be reminded that "Yankee Doodle" is a British song criticizing Washington and the Continental Army.

    • @ilikecapybaras8559
      @ilikecapybaras8559 Před měsícem

      @@RaffieFaffie still american enough, its our song now

    • @RaffieFaffie
      @RaffieFaffie Před měsícem

      @@ilikecapybaras8559 👍

  • @cademiclips
    @cademiclips Před 7 měsíci +68

    "Get on the raft with taft"
    I'm not sure if that's gonna float

  • @okayultra
    @okayultra Před 7 měsíci +49

    really really funny how bill clinton's inauguration song was "this is the moment", a song played before things famously went wrong in the original musical

    • @pyroparagon8945
      @pyroparagon8945 Před 6 měsíci +6

      JFK's is High Hopes, from the movie "Hole in the Head."

    • @okayultra
      @okayultra Před 18 dny +1

      @@pyroparagon8945 💀

  • @emv005
    @emv005 Před 7 měsíci +65

    I love how Adams and Jefferson's campaign songs are just [insert surname] and Liberty

  • @officialFredDurstfanclub
    @officialFredDurstfanclub Před 7 měsíci +68

    The sheer contrast between Nixon’s massive, grandiose song proclaiming his greatness and Carter’s low-key folk ballad about Georgia farmers is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen recently. That and a homely Bruce Springsteen song crashing into Trump emerging to We Are the Champions.

  • @joebykaeby
    @joebykaeby Před 7 měsíci +54

    I love how candidates have been demeaning each other by calling their opponents by their first names since the very beginning

  • @tpc_red9884
    @tpc_red9884 Před 7 měsíci +44

    "Keep cool and keep Coolage" actual bars 🔥

  • @davidtatu222
    @davidtatu222 Před 7 měsíci +76

    Honourable mention to "Every Man a King."

  • @TyDurr1
    @TyDurr1 Před 7 měsíci +30

    Have I completely lost it? I clicked on this expecting a shitpost. Once I started watching it, I decided it must be real. Now I’ve heard a Rock-a-Bye Baby parody and I just can’t tell anymore.

    • @mutilatedpopsicles
      @mutilatedpopsicles Před 7 měsíci +8

      Ironic considering Martin van Buren was called a baby throughout his campaign and presidency

    • @rachelmcdonough1506
      @rachelmcdonough1506 Před 7 měsíci +1

      It’s real! I’m a history teacher and absolutely adore Oscar Brand’s album of presidential songs!

  • @Antonypancake
    @Antonypancake Před 7 měsíci +376

    I will never forget watching Trump's first speech after his shocking and highly controversial win. Hearing "You can't always get what you want" as he walked off the stage was hillarious and perfectly summed up the situation

    • @sethrussell6393
      @sethrussell6393 Před 7 měsíci +44

      Yeah why would they pick that as his campaign song? Lmao

    • @xythrr
      @xythrr Před 7 měsíci

      Even funnier considering the president he always wanted to be killed the frontman of Queen by proxy.

    • @RianeBane
      @RianeBane Před 7 měsíci +41

      ​@@sethrussell6393Because sometimes - - - - you get what you neeeeed

    • @johnjohnfofohniam
      @johnjohnfofohniam Před 7 měsíci +33

      Say what you want about him, but the man sure has a sense of humor. 😂😂

    • @sethrussell6393
      @sethrussell6393 Před 7 měsíci +14

      @johnjohnfofohniam That is a fact. I don't think I've ever not laughed at a Trump speech before.

  • @imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018
    @imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018 Před 7 měsíci +30

    Nixon's is funkier than I ever would've expected.

  • @teamfortresscheese51916
    @teamfortresscheese51916 Před rokem +193

    Undoubtedly, Thomas Jefferson’s one is amazing

    • @Dzod500
      @Dzod500 Před rokem +16

      when i first saw this i thought it said unfortunately

    • @urb902
      @urb902 Před 10 měsíci +4

      What are you smoking my bro, give me that shit fr

    • @dixienormus2802
      @dixienormus2802 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Jefferson was a music snob back in the day, so it makes sense why his campaign song is so elaborate compared to other presidents

    • @nickroberts1596
      @nickroberts1596 Před 7 měsíci +6

      The tune is actually an old Irish jig called "The Gobby-O."

  • @marshal_anon4522
    @marshal_anon4522 Před 7 měsíci +22

    Getting on a raft with Taft would be disastrous

  • @dangerousidiot1111
    @dangerousidiot1111 Před 7 měsíci +24

    Getting on a raft with Taft seems ill-advised as far as floatation goes

  • @allycat0136
    @allycat0136 Před 6 měsíci +25

    I love how Van Buren and Harrison’s were just about how much the other sucked.
    “When you wake up kid, we’re gonna talk about how my opponent is a little fraud”

  • @cooperbridge7929
    @cooperbridge7929 Před 7 měsíci +33

    Bill Clinton being the guy to start Fleetwood Mac's reunion will always get a pop from me :3

  • @thegeoinnitreator
    @thegeoinnitreator Před rokem +74

    "Adams and Liberty"
    "Jefferson and Liberty"
    "Lincoln and Liberty"
    copyright😂

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +1

      I mean it would actually be suprising if one of them didn't mention it, since, you know, the USA was founded on the principles of LIBERTY EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY, AND ALOS MUH HAMBURGERS AND AR-15'S

    • @Moonl55
      @Moonl55 Před 8 měsíci

      The whigs and later the republicans saw how tippecanoe and Tyler too worked and just copied it for each of their candidates

  • @cald1421
    @cald1421 Před 7 měsíci +35

    Imagine your campaign song being “he’s alright”

  • @JamboreeBlackberry
    @JamboreeBlackberry Před 7 měsíci +61

    1:18 WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE WAR WITH THIS ONE 🔥

  • @thelusogerman3021
    @thelusogerman3021 Před 7 měsíci +20

    Kennedy was balling with that Frank Sinatra song🔥

  • @jobreakstheinternet5100
    @jobreakstheinternet5100 Před 7 měsíci +55

    John Quincy Adams's was a banger. Van Buren's cracked me up (was that...supposed to be complimentary?). Taylor's was probably the first recorded earworm.

  • @ms.megalodon3704
    @ms.megalodon3704 Před 7 měsíci +41

    Shout out to Oscar Brand for singing over half the songs on this list lol.

  • @bag12
    @bag12 Před 7 měsíci +46

    That’s drum fill on Nixon now was sick

  • @greengamer4474
    @greengamer4474 Před 7 měsíci +24

    congrats to this one guy who went back to 1800 and sung every presidents song until he finally reached 2020

  • @McFluff33
    @McFluff33 Před 7 měsíci +30

    10:00 I can say pretty confidently that Woody Guthrie wouldn't have voted for George Bush.

  • @KaiserDriphelm1871
    @KaiserDriphelm1871 Před 9 měsíci +252

    LBJ's isn't getting enough attention. That one is definitely my favorite.

    • @Fox_Cord
      @Fox_Cord Před 7 měsíci +20

      Horrible guy, but great song!

    • @thePVFnews
      @thePVFnews Před 7 měsíci +1

      Selfish for killing JFK, but shockingly good with human rights. But evil for continuing Vietnam to feed politicians pockets.

    • @lucasdavis5929
      @lucasdavis5929 Před 7 měsíci +2

      I'm pretty sure it's a parody, just can't remember the og song

    • @bearmarco1944
      @bearmarco1944 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Hello, Dolly (excellent Streisand film) was released in 1969, although there was a 1965 musical play. Excellent movie, and the song 'Hello, Dolly' in the film featured Louis Armstrong singing with Streisand. Hello, Dolly had loads of good songs. Dancing, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Red Ribbons, It Only takes A Moment, two of which are technically in the library of congress.

    • @theghostofboxes2192
      @theghostofboxes2192 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@bearmarco1944Elgance is probably one of my favorite numbers in the show

  • @ianmoore3470
    @ianmoore3470 Před 7 měsíci +26

    The fact that tippecanoe and Tyler too is still one of the most famous ones is great😂

  • @sirderpymister4883
    @sirderpymister4883 Před rokem +77

    I enjoy Benjamin Harrison's, it uses understatement to great effect

  • @BadgerOfTheSea
    @BadgerOfTheSea Před 7 měsíci +34

    Say what you want about Nixon but that song hits hard

  • @SonicWaving
    @SonicWaving Před 2 měsíci +6

    R.I.P the guy who sang the campaign songs for most the presidents 1765 - 1991

  • @wessexfox5197
    @wessexfox5197 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Happy Days are here again, I like Ike, High Hopes, Nixon Now, Carter, Reagan and Clinton’s songs are all absolute bangers.

  • @tobyjaffe270
    @tobyjaffe270 Před 9 měsíci +34

    Jimmy carters has major late 20th century sitcom vibes

  • @arodriguez6567
    @arodriguez6567 Před 7 měsíci +11

    My history teacher had these on a record and when the Taft one came up he'd say "More like 'get on the BARGE'"

  • @Oliver_the_melanie_fan
    @Oliver_the_melanie_fan Před 7 měsíci +10

    Other campaign songs: Our person is great!
    Truman’s: “HARRY❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵”

    • @carlagunderson9236
      @carlagunderson9236 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Sounds like Harry Truman was going to try and seduce his voters.

  • @claytonpowers9720
    @claytonpowers9720 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Martin Van Buren was hilarious

  • @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880
    @bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880 Před 10 měsíci +42

    I love how the intro plays "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin.

  • @YuiFunami
    @YuiFunami Před 7 měsíci +20

    love how the old ones brings up our old columbia name

  • @lucasqualls5086
    @lucasqualls5086 Před 7 měsíci +74

    George Bush using a song written by a socialist with socialist messaging is hilarious, but still not as ironic as Reagan using ‘born in the USA’.

  • @LyttonAshcroft
    @LyttonAshcroft Před 7 měsíci +14

    I noticed up until about the 1920s or 1930s, each president had a song written about them. From the 1930s onward, it was mostly popular songs adapted, but with a few exceptions

  • @herrflammen6487
    @herrflammen6487 Před 7 měsíci +19

    9:06 there was also
    “Jimmy Carter has a way of messing up the U.S.A.”
    (To the tune of the Oscar Meyer commercials of the time)

  • @dougthedonkey1805
    @dougthedonkey1805 Před 7 měsíci +19

    John Quincy Adams’s goes hard though

  • @mistervacation23
    @mistervacation23 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Lardo couldnt sit at a baseball game very long so that's why the 7th inning stretch was invented

  • @wessexfox5197
    @wessexfox5197 Před 11 měsíci +17

    Get on the raft with Taft, umm no thanks I’d rather not drown

  • @prinzessindianavonbaden787
    @prinzessindianavonbaden787 Před 8 měsíci +67

    Frank Sinatra‘s „High Hopes“ for JFK is my favourite. R.I.P. Mr. President 🥀 Much ♥️ from 🇩🇪

    • @CobbleBompster
      @CobbleBompster Před 7 měsíci +3

      Same here, great song for a great President.

    • @jakej2680
      @jakej2680 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Something something Jelly donut

  • @TheManInBlueFlames
    @TheManInBlueFlames Před 4 měsíci +5

    Trump also used 'YMCA' song in 20202!

  • @Snorlax-
    @Snorlax- Před 7 měsíci +10

    Clinton having a song from Jekyll and Hyde is really funny to me especially considering the song has nothing to do with politics and it’s just Jekyll about to drink his potion and become Hyde like.

  • @alfredfreedomjones5105
    @alfredfreedomjones5105 Před 7 měsíci +38

    Not enough people talking about the fact that Frank Sinatra sang for JFK

  • @ilyas80s65
    @ilyas80s65 Před 3 měsíci +4

    My favorite is Nixon's ngl, clearly a banger

  • @allank8497
    @allank8497 Před 7 měsíci +19

    I can think of a bunch of lincoln ones, because the Hutchinson Family Singers, an abolitionist (and just generally reformist) music group were behind him and were prolific song writers. "Ol Abe Lincoln Came out the WIlderness" is a personal favorite.

  • @user-km4ky6jp1h
    @user-km4ky6jp1h Před 2 měsíci +2

    Correction, no president had a campaign slogan until William Henry Harrison in 1840

  • @angelcastaneda529
    @angelcastaneda529 Před 8 měsíci +23

    W. H. Harrison, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter are my favorites.

  • @pooch7245
    @pooch7245 Před 7 měsíci +13

    I don't know about you guys but I'm on a raft with Taft.

  • @trevorclark7985
    @trevorclark7985 Před 6 měsíci +12

    i can’t believe i’ve never heard of these old ones, it’s literally just like a jingle for the president

  • @Common_Mullein
    @Common_Mullein Před 7 měsíci +22

    Dear God! Why did we never get a Johnny Cash presidential campaigns album?!?!

    • @Kadamien
      @Kadamien Před 7 měsíci +13

      Johnny cash never liked politicians, his whole style is being the voice of the working man, it would be a bit contradictory to have him singing out for Washington.

    • @Common_Mullein
      @Common_Mullein Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@Kadamien fair. But it would sound damn good.

    • @thebohemiancowboy2805
      @thebohemiancowboy2805 Před 6 měsíci +4

      @@Kadamienhe literally sings a song about James Garfield though.

  • @nothing-2-live-4
    @nothing-2-live-4 Před 7 měsíci +9

    I remember my chem teacher in high school saying one his earliest memories of the 70s was “Why not the best” for Carters campaign.

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Před 7 měsíci

      I remember my history teacher in high school playing us "I Like Ike" as part of a video similar to this one.

  • @crabser2253
    @crabser2253 Před 7 měsíci +18

    Everyone knows trumps real campaign song was the YMCA

  • @djmutt2000
    @djmutt2000 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Someone legit dug up the sheet music and lyrics for these songs and recorded them, lol

  • @djmutt2000
    @djmutt2000 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Fr Nixon Now is a legit bop

  • @hhhieronymusbotch
    @hhhieronymusbotch Před 2 měsíci +4

    1:20 Man, John Q's anthem goes surprisingly hard

  • @robertpfeffer8541
    @robertpfeffer8541 Před 9 měsíci +10

    Well if got on a raft with Taft it would probably sink

  • @_TracerBullet
    @_TracerBullet Před 3 měsíci +6

    "What's the matter with Harrison?" doesn't inspire much confidence...

  • @pendremacherald6758
    @pendremacherald6758 Před 10 měsíci +21

    Even Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign song is manlier than you.

  • @candicehoneycutt4318
    @candicehoneycutt4318 Před 7 měsíci +9

    Grant's being based on a Civil War tune is a really interesting little nugget of information here lmao

  • @thebutcherschariot
    @thebutcherschariot Před 2 měsíci +4

    IT IS THE BALL A-ROLLING ON FOR TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO
    AND WITH THEM WE'LL BEAT LITTLE VAN! VAN, VAN IS A USED UP MAN!!!
    TMBG made a cover of it and it's lovely :") definitely my favorite campaign song!!

  • @knightspearhead5718
    @knightspearhead5718 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Ive listened to "happy days are here again" so many times playing war games never realized it was a FDR campaign song lol

  • @archer1949
    @archer1949 Před 7 měsíci +16

    “Good enough for Lindy”. That did not age well.

  • @sarminder4357
    @sarminder4357 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Nixon had the catchiest and most energetic song.
    Nixon Now! More than ever! More than ever we need Nixon Now!

  • @PelsckoPelesko
    @PelsckoPelesko Před 2 měsíci +3

    I can’t get on the raft with Taft, because he’ll just sink it

  • @spaghettiking7312
    @spaghettiking7312 Před 7 měsíci +9

    John Quincy Adams' song was badass.

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Před rokem +63

    7:00 - Authentic recordings (and ads) begin with FDR...
    Come-to-think-of-it... wouldn't there be some authentic recordings of these songs starting in the mid-to-late 1890s with Edison Cylinders and later( pre-FDR) 10" 78s?

    • @liker-qd4fz
      @liker-qd4fz Před 9 měsíci +1

      On one hand, yeah
      On the other, the quality would be dogshite and most of theese wouldn't even have survived to the modern day (and if they did they're probably in the Lower Crotch-Scratch county national Senator Poopenfarty Huey Museum locked behind a glass wall, or in your Grandfather's attic)

    • @magnificent_music_
      @magnificent_music_ Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes there would be

    • @gwest3644
      @gwest3644 Před měsícem

      Campaign songs weren't high on the list of recording priorities in the days of wax cylinders

  • @ModernDayRenaissanceMan
    @ModernDayRenaissanceMan Před 2 měsíci +2

    It's amazing how many of these are set to tunes we now know today as either nursery rhymes or old church hymns

  • @shovel662
    @shovel662 Před 7 měsíci +3

    If you’re getting on the raft, make sure it can actually hold Taft.

  • @niall6016
    @niall6016 Před rokem +16

    Ngl these are really good

  • @paxmusica
    @paxmusica Před 2 měsíci +1

    Really cool of you to compile all this, thanks!