![]() ![]() 447 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1984 and No. It was released on 23 October 1983 album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer There's a black man with a black cat Living in a black neighborhood He's got an interstate running' through his front yard You know, he thinks, he's got it so good And there's a woman in the kitchen cleaning' up evening slop And he looks at her and says: 'Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock' Oh but ain't that. McCain immediately stopped using both “Pink Houses” and “Our Country” at his events. 'Pink Houses' is a song written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp. We just wrote a letter that said, ‘You guys might want to rethink about using this song,’ and they quit using it.” He added, “We didn’t tell him not to use it. Maybe you guys should rethink using the song.’” Bob said, ‘You know, McCain’s using your song.’ I said ‘Well, he can use it if he wants to, but you probably ought to write him a letter and say, ‘You know, not only that you guys are using it, but so is Barack Obama, so is John Edwards, so is Hillary Clinton, and you should understand that Mellencamp is very liberal, and do you really think that it’s pushing your agenda in the right direction? I mean, you’re just really falling in line with all the other liberal candidates. “What happened was that I called up my publicity guy. As he remembered it, in a 2009 interview with NPR, Mellencamp called up his rep Bob Merlis. First, Ronald Reagan used the song in his 1984 reelection stops, and secondly, in 2008, Republican Senator John McCain used it for many of his political rallies and events. The song’s meaning has long been misinterpreted. ![]()
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