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Monday, January 31, 2011
White House Music! "And with them, we'll beat up Van, Van/Van is a used up man"
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
On Friday, we saw that (unlike Martin Van Buren) William Henry Harrison had a great campaign song. Today, we look at his second great campaign song, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." Here's a They Might Be Giants cover of that song:
According to campaign song expert Irwin Silber (via Wikipedia, of course), this is the song that really cemented the idea of the American campaign song. And you're not going to find any contrarian balloon-bursting from me: It's a great song. It portrays Harrison and Tyler as the tools of a great change sweeping the nation, it belittles their opponents at every opportunity, and it features a lot of wordplay and other high-quality lyrical tricks. Good show, Harrison!
Lyrics: 10
Enthusiasm: 10
Infectiousness: 10
Total Score: 10
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