US Presidents' Campaign Songs (Washington - Biden)

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

[@HenryA.Wallace]

Presidential campaign songs from the 2016 election: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIquo6WHrJh5r5I 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]

You forgot Fillmore

[@theodriggers549]

And Andrew Johnson

[@carmesancheese007]

​@@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]

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

[@gjgba3166]

ooo

[@dodec8449]

Great how Van Buren reaches out to the baby voter.

[@MarechalVI]

Gotta appeal to the young voters 😂

[@electricangel4488]

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]

"That Dutchman is alright with me!" -👶

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

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

[@electricangel4488]

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

[@mhug162]

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]

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

[@wayfaring_stranger1413]

Needs a metal cover tbh

[@liker-qd4fz]

@@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]

Pause

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

Martin Van Buren: Rock a bye baby

[@arvinbuenaagua5161]

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

[@Sophia_fendrick]

@@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]

@@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]

That man is a legend

[@AdamBechtol]

Lol

[@LyttonAshcroft2001]

@@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.

[@RianeBane]

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

[@Eyebrows842]

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

[@nobodyburgen4594]

@@Eyebrows842dude chill it’s a joke

[@Eyebrows842]

@@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]

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

[@zacharyriley4561]

@@Eyebrows842”weighing on me.”

[@hyun-shik7327]

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

[@user-it8re8jv2l]

Everybody knows it it's iconic

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

Not really. It's memetic memory.

[@antlerbraum2881]

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

[@malekartorian3054]

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

[@deeznutz-bn9sl]

Elegant in its simplicity

[@robertpfeffer8541]

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

[@TopHatJack4970discord]

wow that is just wow

[@daltonjohnson38]

Oh my gosh

[@rayvega3163]

I hate that I'm laughing at this

[@rizzler1986]

Mind blowing my guy

[@RandoStaRR]

Its a self fulfilling prophecy basically

[@Thomas_Varnell]

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]

Another thing we lost after Carter :(

[@iLikeTheUDK]

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

[@scotsmith2391]

@@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]

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]

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

[@simrenbajaj6000]

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

[@liker-qd4fz]

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]

​@@liker-qd4fzAbout as plausible as flat earth

[@wmhfanatic]

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

[@liker-qd4fz]

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

[@liker-qd4fz]

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

[@radiatedzebra81515]

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

[@CortoMalteaser]

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

[@ianmoore3470]

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

[@xythrr]

And the one he declined was republican which is incredibly funny

[@kalebstuckey570]

Especially considering how terrible his music is.

[@kurteisner67]

​@@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.

[@DensetsuVII]

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]

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

[@isaacgutierrez139]

The best of the earlier bunch for sure.

[@connormclernon26]

My favorite is James Garfield’s

[@gwest3644]

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

[@illuminaticake4528]

Nixon's is AMAZING too

[@Dzod500]

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

[@phandavidzimmermann1095]

And Harrison being "just alright"

[@Astro_Guy_1]

He is Kenough

[@danielwoods3896]

And he wasn't even good enough lol

[@rileywilsonepicarcher9995]

A bar that he still couldn’t clear lmao

[@jimboramba]

Ikr I voted for Al Smith

[@indecentanalyst]

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

[@frippster]

lmao true

[@whitebrown762]

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]

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

[@jamesAGarfield608]

@@sturmovik1274 yes my song was great

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

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

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

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

[@marcelagarcia3925]

@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 who were the Johnnies?

[@kirbyinhalesjotaro4471]

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

[@carolinerussell3782]

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]

@@carolinerussell3782you get what you neeeeed

[@ConnorThermo]

​@@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]

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.

[@MarechalVI]

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

[@BrandonBDN]

He was a very humble person

[@cheezeball2517]

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]

That was my first thought.@@cheezeball2517

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

Well Harrison was just all right!

[@nobodyburgen4594]

@@rachelmcdonough1506He died in a month 😂

[@joebykaeby]

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

[@thegeek0017]

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

[@justacommenter]

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

[@johnjohnfofohniam]

Perhaps you mean candidate

[@heroponriki5921]

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

[@TheBoulderFromSodor]

@@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]

;)

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

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

[@Noid]

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]

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

[@z3iro383]

@@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]

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

[@_-_o-o_-_]

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

[@nowayjose1870]

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]

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]

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

[@nowayjose1870]

@@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]

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

[@ZRICH7]

@@nowayjose1870 Grow Up

[@amcc666]

Martin Van Buren casually inventing the parody song

[@seannolan9857]

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

[@titanuranus3095]

​@@seannolan9857a lesson to write things down.

[@ssfc117]

@@titanuranus3095lol what

[@AmericanIdolz2011]

Van Buren walked so Weird Al could run

[@okayultra]

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]

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

[@okayultra]

@@pyroparagon8945 💀

[@officialFredDurstfanclub]

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.

[@elpresidenta1945]

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]

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

[@Number1Irishlad]

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

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

⁠@@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]

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

[@emv005]

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

[@_Unoffical_Norahhh_]

true

[@magi.c]

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]

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]

george wallace also had great campaign songs

[@sirruadhri3316]

I'd say the same about Lyndon Johnson aswell

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@thiswillbenamedsomethingbetteractually so true

[@monetsimmons1845]

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

[@TyDurr1]

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]

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

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

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

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

“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]

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

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

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

[@Eyebrows842]

@@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.

[@tpc_red9884]

"Keep cool and keep Coolage" actual bars 🔥

[@rileywilsonepicarcher9995]

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

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

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

[@RaffieFaffie]

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

[@ilikecapybaras8559]

@@RaffieFaffie still american enough, its our song now

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@ilikecapybaras8559 👍

[@wrestlingluva]

Crazy that dude sang all the songs from Washington to Hoover

[@unfunnyusername9719]

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

[@Jogo-62]

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

[@jasonhatt4295]

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

[@rachelmcdonough1506]

@@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]

His album actually has Washington through Clinton!

[@davidtatu222]

Honourable mention to "Every Man a King."

[@magicstuff505]

What could have been…

[@gar-feels4438]

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]

It was patriotic communist tho

[@tbrochez2318]

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]

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

[@tbrochez2318]

@@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]

@@newjerseyyouth4853Still completely ironic

[@cademiclips]

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

[@allycat0136]

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”

[@NewWaveWill]

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]

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

[@Username-je7of]

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

[@RAAM855]

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]

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]

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

[@greengamer4474]

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

[@imnotgoodwithnamesbruh6018]

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

[@thegeoinnitreator]

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

[@liker-qd4fz]

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]

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

[@cooperbridge7929]

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

[@johnjohnfofohniam]

If nothing else, he sure has good music taste!

[@dangerousidiot1111]

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

[@Antonypancake]

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]

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

[@xythrr]

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

[@RianeBane]

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

[@johnjohnfofohniam]

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

[@sethrussell6393]

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

[@jobreakstheinternet5100]

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.

[@cald1421]

Imagine your campaign song being “he’s alright”

[@LyttonAshcroft2001]

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

[@ianmoore3470]

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

[@ms.megalodon3704]

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

[@bibianaguadalupeislasherre9880]

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

[@bag12]

That’s drum fill on Nixon now was sick

[@thelusogerman3021]

Kennedy was balling with that Frank Sinatra song🔥

[@satanicpicklegod9931]

FR

[@charles-pn5uf]

it’s such a banger

[@wessexfox5197]

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

[@teamfortresscheese51916]

Undoubtedly, Thomas Jefferson’s one is amazing

[@Dzod500]

when i first saw this i thought it said unfortunately

[@dixienormus2802]

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]

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

[@YuiFunami]

love how the old ones brings up our old columbia name

[@FSORto10K]

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

[@trevorclark7985]

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

[@pooch7245]

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

[@goofyahhslimjackson1942]

You’d have better luck on the titanic

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

Say what you want about Nixon but that song hits hard

[@CSDM15]

10:23 Michael Jackson: OMG I just shook hands with the president! Bill Clinton: OMG I just shook hands with Michael Jackson!

[@tobyjaffe270]

Jimmy carters has major late 20th century sitcom vibes

[@Snorlax-]

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.

[@allank8497]

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.

[@nothing-2-live-4]

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]

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

[@herrflammen6487]

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]

John Quincy Adams’s goes hard though

[@JamboreeBlackberry]

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

[@ravenshade266]

ONLY IF JOHN QUINCY BE COMING, OTHERWISE WE ARE STUCK THERE STILL

[@officialFredDurstfanclub]

VOTE OR DIE MOTHERFUCKER MOTHERFUCKER VOTE OR DIE

[@carlagunderson9236]

I hear his voice!

[@carlagunderson9236]

​@@ravenshade266 I see his face!

[@angelcastaneda529]

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

[@satanicpicklegod9931]

Kennedy one is unironically good

[@hhhieronymusbotch]

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

[@lucasqualls5086]

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’.

[@marc7248]

Guthrie's a Stalinist

[@315lucienthesky]

Guthrie's a gooner

[@McFluff33]

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

[@AFT_05G]

He was a Stalinist tankie

[@Oliver_the_lilbodbigearthling]

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

[@carlagunderson9236]

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

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

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

[@Common_Mullein]

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

[@Kadamien]

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]

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

[@thebohemiancowboy2805]

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

[@wessexfox5197]

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

[@danieldaniels7571]

Must have been a hell of a raft

[@KaiserDriphelm1871]

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

[@Fox_Cord]

Horrible guy, but great song!

[@thePVFnews]

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

[@lucasdavis5929]

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

[@bearmarco1944]

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]

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

[@thebutcherschariot]

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!!

[@dwightdeisenhower53]

I'd argue that mine was the best.

[@NotKinetic]

I agree, mr Eisenhower

[@carlagunderson9236]

Mr. President?

[@marshal_anon4522]

Getting on a raft with Taft would be disastrous

[@spaghettiking7312]

John Quincy Adams' song was badass.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

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

[@byteme83]

Getting on any variety of floating vessel with William Howard Taft looks like an extraordinarily dangerous thing to do

[@l.salisbury1253]

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]

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_]

Yes there would be

[@gwest3644]

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

[@prinzessindianavonbaden787]

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

[@CobbleBompster]

Same here, great song for a great President.

[@jakej2680]

Something something Jelly donut

[@wyatt9144]

It is interesting to see what candidates get requested to stop using a particular song.

[@lourdeheru9603]

I swear in the next 10-20yrs the songs of Today, will very likely become Campaign Songs.

[@pendremacherald6758]

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

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

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

[@pyroparagon8945]

And a Bobby Darin song from Lyndon Johnson, another famous mafia singer.

[@satanicpicklegod9931]

Fr

[@roiroije6326]

Okay but “Nixon Now” genuinely slaps.

[@crabser2253]

Everyone knows trumps real campaign song was the YMCA

[@knightspearhead5718]

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

[@robertpfeffer8541]

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

[@harrisongrant8558]

Taft alone would probably cause it to sink.

[@Poolverine580]

Michael Jackson in the song Don't Stop killed me

[@paxmusica]

Really cool of you to compile all this, thanks!

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

How have I NOT HEARD THESE BEFORE??!!?!

[@djmutt2000]

Fr Nixon Now is a legit bop

[@niall6016]

Ngl these are really good

[@tejaswoman]

Fascinating to see that for a century, each president had a campaign song that was specifically about him, even if it was new words to an existing tune.

[@archer1949]

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

[@3546546547]

Very interesting to see the transition from folk to more pop, modern tracks.

[@themorfia3988]

Coolidge is my favourite.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Martin Van Buren using Rock a Bye baby is such a gangster move. Tippecanoe and Tyler too is one of the ones I remember. I think that's the first one I've ever heard that just shows you the testament of a good branding