Every President's Favorite Music
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Mr. Beat goes through the favorite music of every American president in history, as well as look at which ones were musicians!
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Which President had/has the best musical tastes?
Bill Clinton!🎷🎷
Your song about Bill Clinton is my favorite presidential song mainly because of the saxophone rhythm.
clearly Zachary Taylor
Can't believe I actually searched up " zackery Taylor's favorite song"
@@Snowboi1963 Great pick!
Later in life, Richard Nixon wanted to be a rapper.
In a 1990 interview Nixon said, "I have often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics."
You're joking, right?
Wait wat
He died in 89 😂
@@hawkevick9184 he died in 1994. What?
@Hawkevick He died in 94 😂
I actually played for Jimmy Carter's 85th Birthday in Georgia with the St. Genevieve High School Choir. Apparently his favorite tune, which we played, was John Lennon's "Imagine", but other stuff we also played some Earth Wind & Fire, Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind" (of course) and "Beneath My Wings" for Rose, his wife. Didn't get to play any Allman Brothers though - would have liked to rock a Duane Allman slide solo for him.
That is so freaking cool. Thanks for sharing that.
John Lennon's imagine is such a magical song. It's beautiful, and it makes me feel even better knowing that Carter himself enjoys it. Carter really was too good for his time.
Hey JT love your content!
Carter can enjoy whatever he wants but its just ironic an ex presidents favorite song includes the lyrics "imagine there's no countries"
Wow
I can sympathize with the presidents in the 1800s. Music was much harder to come by than it is today. No radio, no records, no CDs, no MP3, no TV, etc... No freakin' way to record sound. If you wanted music you either had to learn to play an instrument or find someone to play for you. We have it too easy today.
If only they were the president or something...
@@hallamhal 😂😂😂😂
And no phonographs for the early 1800s since it wasn’t made till 1877 first though there were music contraptions that played like a music box of sorts but that doesn’t have voices
While I understand your point and we should appreciate the difficulties in the past that don't plague us today, we shouldn't be so quick to derive our current generations from the basis of our comfort today due to the discomfort of yesterday. People naturally said this back in Washington's time, all the ways in which people had it easy in so many ways compared to their ancestors. And then I can guarantee that this mindset will be used to uphold us in the next century when people have things easier. And mine you, with things like music, this isn't us getting more and more undisciplined or even lazy, it's purely about music's availability today compared to centuries ago due to technological advancements, and those were definitely worth it!
Again, I can guarantee you that while I can't say what people will point to to illustrate that we had it much harder back in the day (I'm not a fortune-teller), there will be something. But I don't want that mindset. Again, every generation will inevitably be told that they have it way too easy "these days", only to then be praised by the next generation who complain about things being too easy for us "these days". As long as we maintain a respectful and respectable moral character, it shouldn't really matter. I'm definitely not saying this to degrade your point, because it's a noteworthy one. But from either direction of derision and admiration regarding the "we have it too easy these days", I feel condescended to. Because my strengths shouldn't be defined purely by life's challenges. If anything, it should be to overcome them.
No. Music being more accessible is nothing but good.
“I only know two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle,’ and one of them isn’t.” - Ulysses S. Grant.
Welp, that’s now at the top of my favorite presidential quotes.
Its so inspiring
Gigachad Grant
I can't blame the guy for only knowing two tunes. He was tone deaf.
I wonder what the other one was.
@@flickcentergaming680 I’m guessing Marine Band music since he had them have concerts on the White House grounds
Fun fact about JFK:
He also helped getting uniforms for the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle corps while he was a senator. He became an honorary member in 1963 and his photo still hangs in the BAC theatre where the corps is based.
Thanks for sharing that!
@@braedenkersey3570 sadly I'm from EU and for us it's really hard to watch anything other than finals so I have not had the chance yet, but I'm really looking forward to it
Dang, I misread as "He still hangs in the BAC theatre"
I am a Republican and I love JFK and Jimmy Carter !
Drum corps thread lessgo
We need a band of politicians with different political views.
Agreed
They all Finna fight
@@amarevanhook7453 the experience of being in a band together should help. You probably have some friends that have very different political views than you.
There was a group called The Singing Senators, but they were all Republicans. Although in the UK there's a band called MP4 composed of MPs from different parties.
@@saulcontrerasOfficial No, I do not
Fun fact: Music saved Tyler's life. He once was on a boat during his presidency and was listening to the music when 2 people asked him if he wants to see a cannon fire on the boat. He said that he would rather listen to the music. Then when he went down he saw a fire! The cannon had hit the boat somehow! And he saw lots of people (including the 2 that wanted him to go down) dead. The only thing keep him from being the 2nd president to die in office was music
I made a video about this!
Music changes life mannnn
Why am I a 1960s hippie
The Ulysses S. Grant quote about Yankee Doodle had me dead 😂
I didn't get it. explain like im five?
@@aridabaginindabag9970 he only knew 2 songs. one being Yankee Doodle, and another one that he liked, but not enough to care what the name was
Tone-dead?
It's so fitting for Grant
Right, he was a doodle.
The knowledge that sometime in the future we might have a president who's favourite music is the Metal Gear Rising Revengance OST gives me hope for the nation
I couldn't agree more
Standing here, I realize…
You are just like me
Sounds like the good, alternate universe version of Idiocracy
Or even doom
As a fellow vinyl collector I have to give props to Truman, would love to see that collection.
I collect some vinyl myself. Oh, and here is at least some of Truman's collection: archive.org/details/trumanhomemusic?tab=collection
@@iammrbeat thank you Mr.Beat I’m studying to be a history teacher like you one day btw! Thank you for what you do :) I’ve been a fan for years
@@iammrbeat that’s interesting I was going through my great great great uncles stuff never met him my parents met his wife but that was it he died very young but he served in WW2 he’s a Italian immigrant and spoke fluent Italian he invaded Italy with his friends but that’s for the backstory none of my family really currently has vinyl records my mom and dad had them but not a player so I got to check them out and I looked at what was a 45 from ww2 but I readed it and it said Wilcox gay records it was made From paper or cardboard due to war time rationing it was in dang near perfect condition with it saying the voice of his name to her His music were all 78s but I play the first one and this is what it said hey everybody this is Johnny I just got back from tour I’m in California at USO it’s playing now joe 1 2 3 hey sweetheart how’s the folks back at home and then sings Say good bye sweetheart one more tomorrow and it gets a little hard to hear the rest but it ends I have 3 of them currently which still have the original sleeves and ww2 stamps if you are interested I’ll gladly play them for you
I'm not 100% sure who's it was but there's a fairly large collection of vinyls at my grandma's house, most are Victor records from the 1910s
It's a trip to think I have more records than Harry Truman!
The reason why most Presidents owned a piano
was because when they hosted parties they would hire
musicians or had friends that were musicians
and seeing that a piano is one of those instruments you
just can't transport that easily they thought it would be ideal
just to have one on hand.
Fun fact:
During the dreaded Jim Crow era, many black families owned pianos and children took lessons.
One person who can read music and play the piano was a full blown party of the hot 100 at an otherwise quiet evening in 1800. Travellers would bring song books as a gift because the same old songs get boring.
@@stephj9378 That makes a lot of sense considering there were a lot of black people during that time who were amazing musicians, especially in the Jazz ranks.
McKinley had some friends who loved to play the piano--his Press Secretary Cortelyou played some in his boss' home in Ohio, and Charlie Dawes, who was Comptroller during that time, also made music there. And McKinley's niece Mabel, daughter of his brother Abner, was a talented musician. McKinley's wife Ida played the piano in her youth but not as First Lady.
i thought i was having a stroke for a second
I remember that when I was a very young child I often said I didn't like music because, being Puerto Rican, I got salsa merengue and bachata shoved down my throat constantly, but one day I discovered rock, and I have been a lover of music ever since.
Rock is the best
@@iammrbeat couldn't agree more
Same. My mother always listened to Arabic pop. Always said I didn't like music and then I found punk rock and later grunge. My life would be incomplete without them!
There are very very few people who dislike all music, most just haven't heard their thing yet.
Idk I do like bachata though, it depends on who makes it.
I can't wait until we have our first metalhead president.
We are already overdue for it!
i'm honestly shocked that Obama wasn't a Metalhead
Hate to say it but thus far Trump was probably the closest
At the very least he probably listens to Metallica or the classic British wave bands
@@RIPdixiecarter Not surprising for a baby boomer. Trump is quoted as saying that he adores Neil Young, which I find quite ironic if you're familiar with his lyrical content.
@Tom Edwards Yeah I would would think more of your proto-metal ~1970ish bands for Obama: Zeppelin, Deep Purple, maaybe Judas Priest. I have a hard time imagining him rocking out to Slayer or Megadeth but maybe I'm wrong.
Sick beats with that beatboxing Mr. Beat!
Hey thanks 😊
@@iammrbeat hi
Agreed.
@@iammrbeat Yeah nice beatboxing!
Love how Auld Lang Syne and Pomp and Circumstances were just songs at one point and not tied to a specific type of event
Auld Lang Syne has pretty much always been used to commemorate the end of something just based on its content. So like, New Year, funerals, farewells, or even just at the end of a party. The original "Closing Time" ig
Pomp and Circumstance is a whole march
And there are five of them to boot. All by English composer Sir Edward Elgar. All of which have a patriotic context, at least in the UK and Commonwealth nations.
Pomp and circumstance is tied to macho man Randy savage
Pomp and Circumstance was the theme at our annual elementary performances.
Loved it all my life.
my grandfather was in an irish band and performed for JFK in the white house so it’s definitely true that he loved our music!
It's also true that he was full Irish from all 4 of his grandparents! So it wouldn't be a surprise to most that he really enjoyed Irish music as he was proud of his Irish decent :)
All of his family were Irish immigrants so it was probably quite common for him to grow up hearing it, no wonder he loved it
Andrew Jackson being a banjo guy 🪕 just makes so much sense 👍
I would love to be a fly on the wall of the room of him playing
@@iammrbeat Same.
I definitely agree with LBJ's taste in music. From Broadway to Country.
If he could dance to it, I think he liked it.
Never thought of LeBron as a country guy
@@amarevanhook7453 :|
@@iammrbeat Imagine LBJ as Curley on Broadway. I would pay to see that.
@@amarevanhook7453💀💀
I just love that John Quincy decided that he didn't need to play the flute well because he was American. I just find that hilariously relatable, as I also play flute.
I'm not American but I definitely wanted to play the flute cause I find it kind of relaxing.
Calvin Coolidge’s wife was a pretty famous singer during the time so you could say he was REALLY INTO music 😂
McKinley's niece Mabel, the daughter of his younger brother Abner, was an accomplished singer herself. She was in her 2Os when she performed at some musical events during her uncle's administration.
Im surprised you didn't mention Trump liking the YMCA. I saw an interview with him once where he said he really liked the YMCA. It's also known that Trump is a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.
Yeah there are videos of him dancing to the YMCA.
he liked tom petty as well
Him and Melania danced to Frank Sinatra's "My Way" at his Inauguration party.
I thought he was gonna say patriotic music cause that’s all you hear at his rallies
@@rebeccazamolosmom2595 Same here, I thought Lee Greenwood would get a mention in his section
I find it funny how the most famous and impactful presidents had good taste in music (For example the four faces of Mount Rushmore) Just shows you - DONT trust someone who dislikes music.
Except Polk. (he was impactful, at least) Also, we may just know more about the music of the famous ones. :)
We all see Washington as this stoic figure, but learning he would sing just humanizes him so much.
And I want to see an dance off between him and LBJ.
Andrew Yang would have been the best president music-wise: his taste includes The Smiths The Cure, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., U2, Siouxsie, Joy Division, New Order, The Sugarcubes, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, and Soundgarden among others. He has my vote on that!
Daaang I dig all of that list
goddamn. get that man the seat. hate his politics but having someone who listens to gothic rock on the seat is an insane win for the US
@@iammrbeat daaamn Mr. Beat you kinky grunge fan
Mine too
@@unhingedegoist his politics are better than 99% of the people in office so you can’t hate too much lol
Mr Beat wasn’t lying when he said that Zachary Taylor’s favourite song was a great one.
lol and some other Presidents like their own songs, too, apparently
I remember from Ken Burns Civil War documentary he mentions that when Lincoln heard the news that Lee had surrendered, he ordered the White House band to play Dixie saying "I always thought it one of the greatest tunes I ever heard"
I forgot about that!
Wonder what they would have thought of The Band’s ‘The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down’ hmm
I always loved Dixie as a child.
Imagine my surprise and disappointment years later when I learned black people weren't supposed to like it .
Funny how now so many northerners have gone 'away, away, away down south in Dixie'.
Hmmm...
@@stephj9378 I prefer Union Dixie.
One thing you forgot to mention about Truman is that he once wrote a letter to someone who reviewed his daughter Margert's singing, stating that if he ever ran into the guy, the guy would need a beef steak for his eyes.
I dont know wether the reviewer liked or disliked her singing a bit too much 😂
5:52 I think it’s really sweet that Tyler liked to play duets with his wife.
First of all, I have heard of the Chieftains. Second, how could you, Beat, overlook Barack Obama's endearing and ongoing bromance with the most unlikely of persons, Bruce Springsteen? They did a podcast/book together. If I recall, you once covered the state of New Jersey without even mentioning that the Boss was sprung from a cage on highway 9, in New Jersey. Beat, I think you've got a Beef with the Boss (BBB).
I know I know. I forgot to mention The Boss! I realized it when I was editing but I was too tired to add it in there. Also, I love me some Bruce. My vinyl copy of Born in the U.S.A. is literally on my wall!
@@iammrbeat I can see the disappointment in your weary eyes when you realized what you had done. You're off the hook, Mr. Beat. Born in the USA was the first piece of music I ever purchased with my own money, IN, the summer of 1984 when it came out. I still have that cassette. You're the Boss, Beat.
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Washington was really into Primus. So much so that the song "American Life" from the album Sailing the Seas of Cheese had a big impact on his career.
I forgot to mention this
Dude, if Washington was a Primus fan, I would kind of geek out a bit. Primus Sux.
0:05 Agreed. Especially as a stressed out college student. Helps make life bareable.
It got me through a bad breakup in college, actually
@@iammrbeat Hoping I won't have to deal with that one. Things are going well between me and my sweetheart right now.
We need a commander-in-chief who loves Electric Needle Room and sings “Compromise of 1850!”
😊
Maybe someone should show Bill Clinton his song and he have himself video tape playing the saxophone to it.
Great video! I was most surprised by Nixon! Who would have thought 🤔. Thanks Matt for another entertaining and educational video! The Beat does go on!
I know right? Nixon was quite good at the piano. Thanks for the kindness, as always!
Nixon wanted to be a rapper lmao
I gotta say Mr. Beat, even though I'm turning 30, I love how detailed and informative these videos are. It's like I'm back in school again and you're the cool teacher everyone wanted to have. I loved your other Presidential videos and this one strikes close to me because music is my life. I'm a radio DJ and a club DJ so music is always prevalent in my life and this is by far my favorite of your videos (one of many I must add.)
Thanks again Mr. Beat for being rad! and educating us. I'm truly honored and grateful.
DJT's favourite song being "Is That All There Is?" is striking.
For those who aren't familiar, the lyrics are almost all spoken, and the narrator recounts three different events that happen to her: her house burning down when she was a little girl, her dad taking her to the circus when she was a bit older, and finally falling in love with "the most wonderful boy in the world". After each event is over, she reflects on how disappointing it ultimately was, concluding that life has no meaning. She then discusses the prospect of ending her life, but reasons that this, too, would be a disappointing experience. So the narrator resolves to spend her life having carefree fun, since nothing means anything.
I would normally not read too much into the psychological meaning of someone's favourite music, but for that song to be someone's *favourite* really is something.
I love music. I listen to it all the time. I met a guy in college a few years ago who said he didn’t like it, that he never listened to it. Can’t believe people like that even exist!
Oh they do exist! :)
He was probably tone deaf.
Watching you beatbox has single-handedly restored my faith in humanity
Mr Beat tends to have that effect.
I used to beatbox in class all the time lol
@Mr Beat woah
I found Richard Nixon's violin on display at the hall of presidents at Walt Disney World recently. I also found out he debuted a piano composition on the Tonight Show once, that was really interesting and cool to learn!
My friend and I are building playlists about every US President, and this video is very helpful. I'm more into the US History side of it, not because I don't like music, just because I'm more interested in US History than her.
Love your content, this is probably my 8th or 9th time watching this video all the way through. Keep up the good work!
Can you send me those playlists
I'd love to watch a video by you Mr. Beat about each president and as much about their life as possible. One president per video. That'd be amazing.
Thanks for the video on president's musical taste.
Well I've already started the series. I have videos about George Washington, James Polk, and Franklin Pierce. Herbert Hoover is next!
You should make a video of what's every president reaction to the new Kendrick album Mr Morale and the big steppers. I need to know what George Washington's thoughts are.
Same here
Well obviously
he's been real quiet since it dropped.
or like mbdtf if it gets enough likes
Hey thanks for the shout out, dude.
Who are you?
I feel so bad for Grant, imagine every time you hear music just hearing discernable noise your whole life 😥
I think we can avoid being judgemental for the tone deafs like President Grant for not liking music.
FDR was also one of the first candidates with a campaign theme song. You've probably all heard of it. It's "Happy Days are Here Again" by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, after he hated how they composed "Anchor Aweigh".
You remind me a lot of my 9th grade world history teacher. Same silly personality that makes learning fun. Love your videos man. History is the best subject.
Mr Beat, I just want you to know how much I love your videos, they're incredibly well made and always teaches me something new.
I actually sat my final history exam in school today and quoted one of your views on Lincoln's presidency
It's so very interesting to learn how their taste in music differs
And "classical" music reigns supreme
I loved making this video so much.
Thank you, your educational and influential videos have gotten me through rough times. You are a true bipartisan and your videos should be shown to students . The entertaining and comedic levels of your videos are truly amazing. Thank you
What an amazing and kind comment. This means more than you can ever probably realize. Thank you.
As a Renaissance Faire performer and folk music historian- I am so stoked that I know a few of the earliest presidents' favorite songs by heart!
I really liked John Quincy's quote a lot, it's a real time capsule one cause at the time there wasn't a single internationally famous American musician, let alone composer, now we have tons of them. I just thought it was a cute and humbling joke he made
First thing I thought of was Bill Clinton playing the saxophone
That makes sense
Same
Can I just say Thank You, Mr. Beat - for pronouncing the names of these classical composers correctly 🤣
I'm so happy that you said 'Sho-Pan' instead of 'Shop-in' for Frederic Chopin's name!
ha! Well I do know many of the great classical composers well due to playing many of them growing up. I took 8 years of piano lessons, after all.
I am about to play a chopin piece tomorrow with 9 fingers, Rough
Do people not know that's how Chopin's name is pronounced? o.O
@@RapidsLurker15 Yeah, I've heard people say things from 'Chopping' to 'Shaw-pen'
"La Boym" made me giggle, but everything else was great.
If Andrew Jackson were here today, he'd probably be into R&B music.
Hard R&B.
During Ulysses Grant's post-presidential tour of the world, his visit to Spain included going to an opera performance, to which he exclaimed to the American ambassador "Haven't we heard enough of this?!" in response to the high-pitched music, which irritated him greatly.
John adams loved to listen to Eminem while in office it it known his son John Quincy adams was a famed rapper known for the song “twinkle twinkle little star”
REAL American facts
Fact: every now and then a piano needs tuning. My dad owns a piano he got from his parents (my grandparents) and before we had that one we had one more we sold off during one of our moves. I know a few basic songs on the piano taught by my dad before I switch to trumbone when I join school band in middle school
My piano needs tuned right now!
In terms of vice presidents, Charles Dawes wrote a "Melody in A Major" which later became the 1958 hit "It's All In The Game"
I am a radio presenter! I am a huge music lover. I like pretty much every type of music from classic to swing to pop to r&b to edm. You should do one on the Presidents favourite movies.
As a Beach Boys uber-fan (especially 1965-77), learning one of my least favorite Presidents liked them was very funny and sad at the same time.
heh heh well I like the Beach Boys, too, so maybe that balances it out?
Reagan's interest in the beach boys has more to do with Mike Love schmoozing and being willing to reduce his version of the band to a political token rather than any genuine love Reagan had for their music. he wasn't listening to 'until I die' late nights in the white house.
Yes it does, my opinion of Mr. Beat is higher than most US Presidents! What’s your favorite song and album btw? Mine are God Only Knows tied with Heroes and Villains (songs) and Pet Sounds (album)
Tbf Mike isn’t this monster like everyone makes him out to be, sure he’s a jerk but a lot of the stuff that’s been said about him is conjecture, like the not real “Don’t **** with the formula” quote. Mike liked ‘Til I Die (most sane people would it’s one of their most underrated songs.) I will not extend the same generosity I give Mike to Reagan however lol.
@@easterntrees Could the same be said about Mike Love's more recent schmoozing of the Trump family?
Violin: Jefferson, Tyler, Lincoln, Wilson
Piano: Nixon, Truman, FDR
Sax: Clinton
Banjo: Arthur, Jackson‽
Flute: Q Adams
Brass: Harding
Weird fact: in the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, once was performed the James Bond Theme, with Connery assidting there. And as we all know, JFK was a huge James Bond fan, and watched From Russia With Love right before he was assassinated. He had once quoted, "I wish I had James Bond in my staff"
Lincoln loved the theater too, it blows his mind
Shots fired
Thank you for the in depth research it took to present all of this to us!
Well thanks for watching! :)
Ah yes. Food and music are two of my favorite parts of culture.
Agreed!
14:35 Matt I understand your assumption in correcting, but "Concerto" is the right spelling and a very prominent type of piece in classical music.
As a musician (vocalist, keyboardist, reasonably competent navigator of all manner of instruments, including synthesizers and short wave radios, of all things...), composer, sound artist, history buff, and collector of fascinating vintage curios, antiques and artifacts, I find this *enormously* gratifying. Thank you *so* much for making this video. I just adore this. In every single way...
Humble
More videos like these please! They’re so cool!
I hate how much I laughed at the “George Washington” joke
I love how much you laughed at it, although I couldn't hear you laughing.
Lincoln was widely known for blasting NWA in his log cabin.
I can't believe he failed to mention that Thomas Jefferson not only loved to sing but could also rap with some proficiency.
Source: The Second Act of Hamilton
Also James madison
Mr Beat was what Taylor Swift was referring to as "this sick beat" in Shake It Off
I never knew that 😳
The video topic I didn't know I needed. I only found your channel last night but I've enjoyed every moment of catching up.
Woah, well welcome! Yeah you could say I have a lot of President vids. lol
I agree with Andy Jackson. Auld Lange Syne is one of my favorites. No New Years is complete without it. (4:53) Sadly, few people understand it or appreciate today because of the old Scottish dialect that Robert Burns used. My English lit professor told us to replace "Auld Lange Syne" with the phrase "Days of Long Ago." The words then make sense...
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And days of long ago?
For days of long ago, my dear
For days of long ago
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For days of long ago....
Two of three of Jefferson’s sons were known to have played violin, with records missing on the elder. The youngest, Eston Hemings, played professionally.
17:10 Richard Nixon was President at the same time that Edward Heath was PM over in the UK. I heard he was also very musically talented and even brought a piano set into Downing Street.
I actually thought of this idea too! I predicted it! I’m not sure how you’d get the first 20 president’s favorite tunes, but I’ll take a look.
Yeah, little information is out there about their favorite tunes, so the 1700s and 1800s go by quickly
I wish there was a president that liked modern stuff like Blinded by the light or levitating. Maybe sometime in the future….
@@triplej755 That’s pretty much Obama
Cool video, alot of presidential wives I know were super musical. Tafts for instance had studied piano at basically conservatory level and was in charge of getting chamber music together for gatherings and social events when they were in Cincinnati, I believe she had founded an arts institute there in which Taft was a benefactor. Doris Kearns Goodwin writes about it a lot in the Bully Pulpit.
Also JFK was friends with Leonard Bernstein, so that's pretty cool!
Also with regard to HW, he was a fan of Big Band Jazz as well, having had Lionel Hampton's Big Band to come and play at one of the functions he hosted, and they kept correspondence afterwards.
Listening to "Auld Lang Syne" is a way to ring in the New Year; listening to "Pomp and Circumstances" is a way to wrap up the enrollment with graduation.
Dang, Jefferson could play the violin, cello AND clavichord/piano? That man was a piano trio by himself!
He didn't mess around.
The favorite music of XÆ-13, the 56th president of the United States includes Can You Feel My Heart by Bring Me to the Horizon, Gucci Gang by Lil Pump, Bangarang by Skrillex, WAP by Cardi B, and 10 hours of the "what the dog doin" sound effect.
Speaking of Regan and The Beach Boys, he’s also the one who intervened to allow drummer Dennis Wilson to be buried at sea when he passed away in 1983.
History and Music (yes that is a degree I promise) student here! It’s interesting/important to note that in the pre-television/radio days one of the main ways families would entertain themselves for an evening was to gather round and have a sing. Once they were invented around 1700 and it became cheap enough pianos became a similar investment to us with televisions today!
Not everyone could play but, similarly to how in households there would often be the one person reading and the rest would listen to the story, most people would join in and have a nice sing-along!
That’s why just about every President owned a piano even if they couldn’t play, it’s probably be a relatively cheap one when they first bought it and would be for the family entertainment
Great video! Also, you should make a video on each president’s favorite/least favorite president.
Let's go been waiting on this 🔥🔥
I love to hear it
Truman actually took piano lessons from a very famous teacher in Kansas City before his family ran out of money. Had it not been for that financial downturn, there is speculation that Truman would have been a professional musician. His piano teacher's piano teacher's piano teacher was one of the great composers, I think. There is something impressive in there, I don't remember exactly what it is.
Also, when W was president, he lost his i-pod on a jog or something and his i-tunes list was published. I was amazed at the music on that thing, as I did not know that someone I disagree with so much politically could have musical taste so close to my own. I was even more shocked when I saw his paintings and loved them. Maybe you could do a video on hobbies of presidents sometime, I wonder who else painted.
Love your videos and keep them going.
Truman's piano teacher studied piano under Polish composer Theodore Leschetitzky who at age 11 accompanied one of Mozart's sons; and also studied piano under Carl Czerny who was a famous Austrian pianist and composer.
Hey Mr. Beat, could you do one of these very informative long form videos going in depth on how each of the 50s states elect or decide their electors for the electoral college.
Theodore Rosevelt playing harmonica is so on brand
And so is the banjo for Jackson!
Teddy loved the Hohner Marine Band version. I played it a few times long ago but did not care for it.
I remember asking about this! Cool to see this be a video
Thanks for suggesting it!
Mr beat keep these vids up always love watching
I’m planning on making videos like this you oversimplified and simple history really inspired me
Ironic: The president who did absolutely nothing to prevent the secession of the racist South, invited the very first African American to play piano at the White House
It shocked me as well!
If you take a darker look at it, it might make sense. Rich powerful white guy getting a black guy to amuse him.
Another fire video Mr Beat!! I do have a suggestion, how every president met their wife/significant other
I love this idea!
It'll be interesting to see how he covers the Presidents who've been married more than once (such as the last two)
9:07 i actually visited Harrison’s house in Indianapolis once and his sitting room had a “Reginaphone” which is basically a huge music box that uses a disc instead of a cylinder. the same room also had a piano.
Why have I never heard about the Music Modernization Act? That's actually sounds legit.
Has it actually helped anyone?
But it still didn't cure their TDS
Most likely. Not me though. I'm a musician and I upload to Spotify, iTunes and Amazon regularly but they haven't even notified me that I will be receiving any money. Spotify is an evil company though. In order to make just a measly $1 you have to acquire 200 or more streams on one song, so in order to make a full time career out of it with enough pay to afford rent and gear you have to get an average of 800,000 streams per track and you would have to upload at least 1 track per month which equates to $4,000 per month. In order to make $1,000,000 off of a song, you would need to acquire over 200,000,000 plays on one song which is ridiculous and the only musicians who can actually attain those numbers are the top 100 artists on Spotify. Trust me, popular musicians aren't rich because people listen to their music, they're rich because record companies use them for their popularity and pay them to do ads and dress a certain way or make specific songs.
Hope we someday get a president whose favourite song is the international.
Oh snap
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I read somewhere LBJ would drive around his ranch blasting Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head. Not sure if it's true, but it makes for a good story.
And that is such a wonderful song as well
With all the presidents that jad a piano but didn't play it, i wouldn't be surprised if owning a piano was like a sign of wealth and success back then.
Fun fact about Abraham Lincoln, he also really liked the song Dixie and asked for it to be played at the White House the night Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.