* P R E S I D E N T ' S * D A Y *









* P R E S I D E N T ' S * D A Y *


FEBRUARY 2008

OCTOBER 2008












  • White House Blues – Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - (1926)


  • Hello Sundown – Johnnie Taylor - (1967)


  • Hello Little Boy – Ruth Brown with The Rhythmakers - (1954)


  • James K. Polk – They Might Be Giants - (1996)


  • Polk Salad Annie – Tony Joe White - (1969)


  • Charles Guiteau – Kelley Harrell & the Virginia String Band - (1927)


  • I Don’t Want To Be President – Percy Mayfield - (1974)


  • I Feel That Old Age Coming On – Wynonie Harris - (1949)


  • Lincoln And Liberty Too – Pete Seeger - (1960)


  • Living In The White House – J.B. Lenoir - (1953)


  • Don’t Smoke In Bed – Nina Simone - (1958)


  • Roosevelt’s In Trinidad – Attila - (1933)


  • Why I like Roosevelt – The Soul Stirrers - (1947)


  • It’s All In The Game – Tommy Edwards - (1958)


  • Walkin’ – Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - (1946)


  • When You Walk In The Room – Jackie DeShannon - (1964)


  • High Hopes – Frank Sinatra - (1960)


  • Mr. Moon – Clover - (1971)


  • Superbird – Country Joe & The Fish - (1967)


  • Funky President (People It’s Bad) – James Brown - (1974)


  • Gloomy Sunday – Billie Holiday - (1941)


  • That Was The President – Phil Ochs - (1965)


  • (Gotta Go) Upside Your Head – Buddy & Ella Johnson - (1954)


  • Dead Presidents – Little Walter - (1964)


  • Impeach The President – Roy C. & The Honeydrippers - (1973)


  • Politics – Hank Penny - (1948)


  • Richard Nixon – Rod Rogers & The MSR Singers - (197 ?)


  • Jimmy Carter Says Yes – Gene Marshall - (2003)


  • Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman - (1974)


  • If I Can Dream – Elvis Presley - (1968)












The 68th episode of Bob Dylan's

"Theme Time Radio Hour"

was his two hour long 'President's Day' sale.



This show was repeated in October 2008

between the 78th and the 79th episode,

a few days before more than 64 million wise Americans elected

Barack Obama as the 44th president of the USA on November 4th,

and Bob Dylan said during the band introduction in Minneapolis:

„Tony Garnier, wearing the Obama button....all right...

Tony likes to think it’s a brand new time right now … an age of light …

Me, I was born in 1941, that's the year they bombed Pearl Harbor.

Probably been in a world of darkness ever since.

But it looks like things are gonna change now!”