Sing Along with Millard Fillmore

Various Artists, “Sing Along with Millard Fillmore” (Time/Life Records, 1964)
A retrospective of U. S. Presidential campaign theme songs going back to William Henry Harrison in the 1829s (two of the best!), as performed by studio musicians who sound like they had a good time. Kinda neat to hear it go from a kind of marching band/Appalachian folk hybrid to incorporations of ragtime/jazz motifs. All of it has an aggressive earnestness (and earnest aggression) that would be hard to reproduce in our more self-conscious era, but the flashes of (surprisingly) hit-‘em-below-the-belt humor should be plenty relatable (tho they did it better).
Try 1/ 2, 1/ 5, 2/ 1
10/15/16