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Bush Campaign Drops Song After Writer Complains
reuters ^ | 10-28-04 | Reuters

Posted on 10/29/2004 2:12:44 PM PDT by Rakkasan1

MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - The Bush campaign agreed on Friday to stop playing the 1976 hit "Still The One" -- by the band Orleans -- at Bush's rallies, after the song's writer, John Hall, protested its use by the president and backed the challenger, Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: band; bush; gwb2004; orleans; stilltheone; stupid; writer
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WTF, I would think a one hit wonder band would be glad to get played.
1 posted on 10/29/2004 2:12:46 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
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It was the wrong song at the wrong place at the wrong time.


2 posted on 10/29/2004 2:14:18 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for the Kerry campaign?)
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How small this writer is! Damn these CRATS are desperate.


3 posted on 10/29/2004 2:15:39 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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I guess They'll have to double-up on the Pat Green tunes then. Fine with me!


4 posted on 10/29/2004 2:17:20 PM PDT by Trust but Verify (Their candidate uses rock stars to attract crowds. Ours IS a rock star!)
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But the Kerry campaign has been cleared by Beck to use the song "Loser."


5 posted on 10/29/2004 2:17:27 PM PDT by RWRbestbyfar
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Bush should use "Monster Mash", it has a nice Halloween flavor and no one could miss the references to Lurch...


6 posted on 10/29/2004 2:17:59 PM PDT by wvobiwan (Kerry/Edwards Foreign Policy Slogan: Accept our surrender or we'll sue!)
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To: RWRbestbyfar

Please John, sing us a medley of your "hit".


7 posted on 10/29/2004 2:18:53 PM PDT by artifax
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Gawd, why now?!! The bastard music ans have been after his butt for months now...I would have flipped them off and continued to play the song!! DANG IT!! When will they grow a backbone?!!
8 posted on 10/29/2004 2:19:26 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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LOL who cares what he thinks. It's the price of distribution. LOL


9 posted on 10/29/2004 2:19:44 PM PDT by WHBates
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John Hall played on Bonnie Raitt's "Give It Up" LP (the one "lovingly dedicated to the people of North Vietnam").


10 posted on 10/29/2004 2:20:08 PM PDT by niteowl77 (John Kerry: over 30 years of proudly inciting hatred against American soldiers.)
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Why don't we just use Team America's theme: "America, F**K YEAH!"


11 posted on 10/29/2004 2:20:18 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Laura Bush is like everyone's sweetheart. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is like everyone's mother-in-law.)
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John Kerry has the MOST LAME supporters.


12 posted on 10/29/2004 2:20:18 PM PDT by elizabetty
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Its a sappy song anyway...good riddance.
13 posted on 10/29/2004 2:21:30 PM PDT by muleskinner
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They should have given him the Cheney treatment and kept playing the song. They paid the company and have legal access to use the song despite what some old has been musician has to say about it. If he doesn't want his song used in the manner in which the BC04 campaign is using it he should not have licensed it the way he did.


14 posted on 10/29/2004 2:21:35 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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Dang, my list of "artists" that I will allowed to play on my radio is getting smaller and smaller. Good thing he only had one song worth a flip.


15 posted on 10/29/2004 2:22:12 PM PDT by southernerwithanattitude (new and improved redneck)
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To: Prime Choice

after seeing Team America . I'd had that stupid song
stuck in my head.
"I'm so ronery, oh so ronery...."


16 posted on 10/29/2004 2:22:27 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the Piece:Charity is conservative;doing it with someone else's money is liberal.)
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Must be some song by Queen? What about Conick?


17 posted on 10/29/2004 2:22:32 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th (As one Vet said--When John Kerry loses, it will be the parade the Vets never had)
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Stupid song anyway.


18 posted on 10/29/2004 2:23:05 PM PDT by plain talk
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Bush should use "It ain't no Rag" by Charlie Daniels


19 posted on 10/29/2004 2:23:41 PM PDT by queenkathy
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I know they can do better than 30 year old crap. Try The Right Brothers.
20 posted on 10/29/2004 2:24:02 PM PDT by Lost Highway (The things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.)
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