A “pre-election” show, featuring “guest” appearance from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and others.  The show was meant to serve as a reminder of the importance of the office and the role we play as a community.

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ARTIST “Tune / Song”
ALBUM Label – Website
2PM
Theme: HARVEY REID “Dirty Dish Rag”
Solo Guitar Sketchbook Woodpecker Records – www.woodpecker.com
DWIGHT EISENHOWER “The Duties of the Presidency”
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT “The President The People”
SPOOK HANDY “Vote”
Keep the Flame Alive self – www.spookhandy.com

ADLAI STEVENSON “You Are Americans”
PHIL OCHS “Power and the Glory”
Live at Newport
WOODY GUTHRIE “This Land is Your Land (Alternate Version)”
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection Smithsonian Folkways – www.folkways.si.edu

DAVID ROTH “Flag of Hope”
Pearl Driver self – www.davidrothmusic.com
MARK ERELLI “Hope Dies Last”
Delivered Signature Sounds – www.signaturesounds.com , www.markerelli.com
LYNDON JOHNSON “Great Society”
MICHE FAMBRO “Hope”
Café Vignettes self – www.michefambro.com

THE LEVINS “World of Peace”
Trust self – www.thelevinsmusic.com
ELIZA GILKYSON “World Without End”
Nocturnal Diaries Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com
LORI LIEBERMAN “Alive in the World”
Ready for the Storm self – www.lorilieberman.com
PIERCE PETTIS “Great Big World”
Great Big World Compass Records – www.compassrecords.com , www.piercepettis.com

4PM
ARROGANT WORMS “When Canada Rules The World”
Space self – www.arrogantworms.com

CHUCK BRODSKY “He Came to Our Town”
Two Sets Waterbug – www.chuckbrodsky.com
RED ROCK RONDO “When President Came To Zion”
Zion Canyon Song Cycle self – www.redrockrondo.com
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT “Humor”

GROVER CLEVELAND “National Sovereignty”
1892 campaign
OSCAR BRAND “President’s Song”
Presidential Campaign Songs, 1789-1996 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – www.folkways.si.edu/folkways

PHIL OCHS “Here’s to the State of Richard Nixon”
Live in Lansing Rockbeat Records – www.rockbeatrecords.com
RICHARD NIXON “I Am Not a Crook”

ARLO GUTHRIE “Presidential Rag”
Prescious Friend Warner Brothers – www.warnerbrothersrecords.com , www.risingonrecords.com
TEDDY ROOSEVELT “Crooked Politics Crooked Business”

LYNDON JOHNSON “Plenty of Dissenters”
DAVID ROVICS “When I’m Elected President”
When I’m Elected President & Wayfaring Stranger self – www.davidrovics.com
ROY ZIMMERMAN “The Clown Has Taken Over the Party”
MP3 self – www.royzimmerman.com
JAMES KEELAGHAN “House of Cards”
House of Cards Borealis – www.borealisrecords.com , www.jameskeelaghan.com
TOM PAXTON “We All Sound the Same”
Live at McCabes (February 23, 1991) Shout Factory Records – www.shoutfactory.com , www.tompaxton.com

ARROGANT WORMS “Local Politician”
Space self – www.arrogantworms.com
ELLEN BUKSTEL “They Lost My Vote”
Daddy’s Little Girl self – www.ellenbukstel.com
EMMA’S REVOLUTION “Vote”
Roots, Rock & Revolution self – www.emmasrevolution.com
LYNDON JOHNSON “Voting Rights Bill Signing”

5PM
NOEL PAUL STOOKEY “In These Times”
At Home: The Maine Tour NewWorld – www.noelpaulstookey.com

STEVE DEASY “People Were Once Welcome Here”
People Were Once Welcome Here self – www.stevedeasy.com
JESSE PALIDOFSKY “I Am an Immigrant”
single self – www.jessepal.com
ARLO GUTHIRIE “Deportee”
single – live in Homer NY self – www.risingsonrecord.com

DAVID FRANCEY “American Blues”
So Say We All Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com
THE WAILIN’ JENNYS “One Voice”
Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House Red House Records – www.redhouserecords.com , www.thewailinjennys.com
ARLON BENNETT “Be the Change”
Summer’s Voice self – www.arlonbennett.com

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS “People Get Ready”
The Chambers Brothers Live Acrobat – www.acrobatmusic.net
HARRY TRUMAN “Powers Come From People”

PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT with TOM MORRELO “A More Perfect Union”
A More Perfect Union Appleseed Recordings – www.appleseedrec.com
SCHOONER FARE “We the People”
We the People Outer Green – www.outergreen.com

SIMON & GARFUNKEL “An American Tune”
Old Friends: Live on Stage Warner Brothers – www.warnerbrothersrecords.com , www.paulsimon.com
JFK “UN speech on terrorism”

PETE SEEGER “America the Beautiful”
American Favorite Ballads Volume 5 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – www.folkways.si.edu/folkways
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Ron Olesko
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