Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is your swan song!" cried some Laborites but others jeered: "You're holding your...
...theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by Taft in 1908, his lady admirers sang: Taft for Me, Taft for Me to the tune of Tammany. Woodrow Wilson scorned campaign songs, but in 1916 he was forced to listen often to I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier...
Henry Clay never reached the White House, but in the course of his career there were Henry Clay marches and a song called, Here's to You, Harry Clay, published with his picture on the cover and glowing words inside about "the cheerful Whig who didn't care a fig what Locos block...
...Campaign songs lapsed for a time thereafter. Harding had no outstanding song. Coolidge boosters worked on "It's Coolidge and Dawes for the Nation's Cause. . . ." But the tune never caught on. Seldom were two campaign songs more evenly matched in popularity than the Smith-Hoover clash of Sidewalks and California. This year, Oh! Susanna will be pitted against the old F. D. Roosevelt reliable, Happy Days Are Here Again...
...membership of 20,000 is exceeded only by that of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In unity of spirit, however, NACM has the edge on the Chamber because its members to a man are wrapped up in one subject: the payment of bills. "Pep and Song Periods" opened each general NACM session. Executive Manager Henry Herman Heimann, a tall, slender Michigander, keynoted broadly on "The Next 40 Years." One day the credit men and their ladies went to nearby Williamsburg to view the wonders of Rockefeller restoration. There were special meetings for bankers, for credit women...