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Old 06-27-2012, 04:34 AM
Bpelta Bpelta is offline
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"Hunters of Kentucky" first campaign song?

I've read that "Hunters of Kentucky", used by Andrew Jackson, is considered the first campaign song.

But Oscar Brand recorded a collection of campaign songs going back to...well, Washington. They really do seem to promote the historical presidential candidates and I read somewhere that "Jefferson and Liberty," for example, was popular during the election.

So what makes "Hunters of Kentucky" considered the first campaign song?

(For bonus points: If somebody knows of any campaign songs the Wikipedia list and Oscar Brand's album are missing, I'd be much obliged. I just noticed that Brand's doesn't include McGovern's and the Wikipedia list doesn't include Van Buren's, so maybe there are some songs missing from both lists which I haven't caught yet)
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