I've been sitting on this list idea for several weeks so I'm posting the Friday List early today. Since it's President's Day weekend, today's topic is presidents. It might be a toughie, so we'll open it up to lyrical mentions as well as titles (feel free to quote the relevant lyrics). Also, both specific and general mentions are OK. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos! (that should give Chris a smile.)

Abraham, Martin, and John--Dion
James K. Polk--They Might Be Giants
Warren Harding--Al Stewart
Glad I'm Not a Kennedy--Shona Laing
Dear Mr. President--Pink
Meet El Presidente--Duran Duran
Young Americans--David Bowie ("Do you remember your President Nixon...")

ARTISTS
Presidents of the United States of America
Dead Kennedys

Not To Touch the Earth - The doors "Dead President's corpse in the driver's car"

Mrs Washington ~ The Gigolo Aunts

In a similar vein:

Give The People What They Want ~ The Kinks ("Look, there goes a piece of the President's brain!")

Snoopy for President - Royal Guardsmen
Ohio - Neil Young "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming"
Campaigner - Neil Young "Where even Richard Nixon has got soul"
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan "But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked"
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) - Randy Newman

Funky President - James Brown

And a piece of trivia: Marilyn Monroe once sang "Happy birthday, Mr. President" for JFK, but I don't know if that counts.

"Jefferson I Think We're Lost" - R.E.M. - Little America
Harry Truman - Chicago (Jimbo, how'd you miss this one?)
Mr Garfield - Johnny Cash
Old Mother Reagan - Violent Femmes
Impeach My Bush - Peaches
Jimmy Carter - Blue Mountain

Abie Baby - Original Cast Recording of "Hair"

also from Hair ("Initials")...LBJ took the IRT down to 4th Street USA (when he got there what did he see, the youth of America on LSD)

Album: President Yo La Tengo

Band: Bush

Snoopy for President - The Royal Guardsmen

a song for richard and his friends - chicago

kit carson - bruce cockburn

'kit carson said to the president...."

One More Saturday Night - Grateful Dead "I turn on Channel Six, the President comes on the news"

Hot Rod Lincoln? hahaha Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

Mojo Nixon

"What Did Washington Say When He Crossed the Delaware?"-Lou Monte

Dickie's Such An A**Hole - Frank Zappa

Ronnie Talk to Russia--Prince
We Didn't Start the Fire--Billy Joel (mentions a bunch of presidents)
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg--Ramones
Sympathy for the Devil--Rolling Stones ("who killed the Kennedys...")
We're All Water--John & Yoko ("There may not be much difference/ between Chairman Mao and Richard Nixon if we strip them naked" )

Slow Children-President Am I
Pink Floyd-Get Your Filthy Hands Of My Desert (Breshnev took Afghnastan, Reagan took Beruit...)
Marilyn Manson-President Dead
Randy Newman-Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man)
Olsen Twins-No One Tells The President What To Do-I wish I was making this up, but I bought this CD as a gag gift a few years ago for a friend-and this song was on there!
Carter Country-awful 70s sitcom with wonderfully bad theme song (also, anyone remember the line, "Handle it, Handle it" from the show? Speaking of which-who was the guy with the cheesy stache-was that Victor French? And now that I think of it, is the show on DVD?).

wow.....I actually know all about Carter Country.......somehow. Yes it was Victor French. Plus if you remember an annoying blonde female reporter who was always snooping around and getting in the way, well that was Melanie Griffith. And no, it's not on dvd


sadly, I can say I saw every episode in its original run, plus I'm sure I saw them all at least twice more in syndication. I need a shower now.

Abraham, Martin, and John - Harry Belafonte

Holy crap! I can't believe that was Melanie Griffith. The only episode I remember involved a UFO abducting someone. I think the show was on ABC but I can't remember. Guess that's one show that will never hit DVD!
How was that shower?

The shower wasn't enough to cleanse me of the memory of that show. I can still hear the theme song in my head.

I remember the mayor from that show doing a guest spot on WKRP in Cincinnati. Playing a sort of Jerry Fallwell type who was fighting against the evils of song lyrics, if I remember correctly.