Video: "Happy Days are Here Again!" (Ben Selvin & Crooners, 1930)

If you and your President-elect of choice need to agree on all the big issues -- the war in Iraq, taxes, economic growth, civil liberties -- do you need to have the same taste in music, too? Presidential candidates have been using music to promote their campaigns practically since the birth of the nation. Though creativity might have been a little lacking in that first attempt -- "God Save Great George Washington" was really just "God Save the King" with Washington's name crammed in there -- it was the beginning of a long-standing tradition of appropriating [...]