So what’s with the flap over John Mellencamp denying John McCain use of his songs at campaign events? So the balladeer of middle class sufferance looks askance at the McCain candidacy? So McCain is precluded from using “Our Country” and “Pink Houses”?
McCain had a winner on his last Tampa visit. No, not the Four Tops number that preceded his Tampa Convention Center speech, the one that most folks still think is “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch.” But it’s actually “I Can’t Help Myself.” That would, of course, be fodder for the Democrats as well as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart.
But what’s wrong with “Johnny B. Goode,” which followed his Tampa presentation – along with a volley from confetti guns? Johnny might not be good enough for evangelicals, but Chuck Berry over John Mellencamp is a winner.