Returning to the unreliable all-American narrators of "Political Science" and "Short People," Newman plays a voter longing for the good old days. "I'm dreaming of a white president," he croons, "just like the ones we've always had." A tear is shed for William McKinley; President Taft is imagined ass-out in Africa. Then, the punch line: "He won't be the brightest, perhaps/But he'll be the whitest/And I'll vote for that." It's satire that will be misconstrued, denounced and used by no one as a campaign theme. Brilliant.

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“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."