[lbo-talk] the music of politics

[Dennis Perrin]

>Except didn't Reagan prove the opposite, that all that matters is the
>chorus and the title?  I mean, what could possibly more inappropriate than
>his use of "Born in the USA" in the 1984 campaign?  He played that song
>into the ground -- it's probably one of the few campaign theme song still
>remembered 25 years on -- and won by a landslide.
>
>Michael

Actually, I don't think that Springsteen allowed the Reagan campaign to use 
the song. Reagan did mention Springsteen at a campaign stop, but I believe 
that was it. The same with "Pink Houses" by John Mellencamp, who also didn't 
allow Reagan to use his song.

Dennis