('Baby close your eyes and listen to the music/ It's a groovy night and I can show you how to use it.') Howard Dean earlier this year traveled state to state blasting a remix of the Elvis tune 'A Little Less Conversation' - basically a three-minute musical booty call. Gore isn't the only Democrat to choose a campaign theme fit for a $20 lap dance. Gore chose the grammatical minefield 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' ('I met a devil woman/ She took my heart away/ She said I had it comin' to me/ But I wanted it that way'), inexplicably bypassing 'Takin' Care of Business' in favor of the least appropriate single in BTO's greatest-hits package. Since then, the Democrats have been rummaging in the campaign song bargain bin, with mostly disastrous results.įorget Ralph Nader's impact on the 2000 election - think how different things would have been in Florida if Al Gore had avoided Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Extinction occurred in 1992, after Bill Clinton adopted 'Don't Stop' by Fleetwood Mac - perhaps the last decent campaign theme song the world will ever know. At some point in the late 1960s, it was no longer commercially viable for most mainstream musicians to be happy, and campaign-worthy songs became an endangered species.

Kennedy in 1960) and be assured that nothing in the impossibly peppy lyrics would inspire impressionable youth to burn down their school or have unprotected sex on a Ferris wheel.īut music is so much more complicated now. Roosevelt in 1932) or 'High Hopes' ( John F. Democrats could adopt catchy little tunes such as 'Happy Days Are Here Again' ( Franklin D.

In previous generations, well-crafted campaign songs were as plentiful as gas-guzzling four-door sedans and helpful service from government employees.

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