Oscar Brand

About the artist

Oscar Brand (February 7, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music runs the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spans a number of genres. He also wrote a number of short stories. Brand was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Isidore Brand, a Romanian-born flooring contractor, and his wife Beatrice.

Top songs

  1. California, Here We Come (Ronald Reagan)
  2. The Marines Hymn
  3. Hearse Song
  4. The Battle Of The Kegs
  5. The United States Marines
  6. Follow Washington (George Washington)
  7. Paratrooper Song
  8. The Mormon Engineer
  9. Save A Fighter Pilot's Ass
  10. A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore
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  1. Squid Jiggin' Ground
  2. I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago
  3. Good Ship Venus
  4. Wake Island
  5. Gee, But I Wanna Go Home
  6. Hello, Lyndon (Lyndon Johnson)
  7. I Wanted Wings
  8. I Like Ike (Dwight Eisenhower)
  9. A Clean Song
  10. Red Wing
  11. Tippacanoe and Tyler, Too (John Tyler)
  12. The Old Sea Chest
  13. Talking Atom
  14. Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow (William Clinton)
  15. Bell Bottom Trousers
  16. You're A Liar
  17. The Flying Fortress
  18. Why Not the Best? (Jimmy Carter)
  19. Barnacle Bill
  20. Honey Baby
  21. Buckle Down with Nixon (Richard Nixon)
  22. We Set Sail
  23. I Was Born 10,000 Years Ago
  24. Destroyer Life
  25. Blow The Man Down
  26. Call Out The Corps
  27. Adams and Liberty (John Adams)
  28. Cotton-Eyed Joe
  29. Ring Dang Doo
  30. Grant, Grant, Grant (Ulysses S. Grant)
  31. Lincoln and Liberty (Abraham Lincoln)
  32. This Land is Your Land (George Bush)
  33. For Jefferson and Liberty (Thomas Jefferson)
  34. Little Know Ye Who's Coming (John Quincy Adams)
  35. Song of the Presidents
  36. Keyhole In The Door
  37. Marching Down to Washington (John Kennedy)
  38. Get on a Raft with Taft (William H. Taft)
  39. Marching With McKinley (William Mckinley)
  40. Old Number Nine
  41. The devils nine questions
  42. Dinky Die
  43. Huzzah for Madison, Huzzah (James Madison)
  44. Jackson and Kentucky (Andrew Jackson)
  45. Rockabye, Baby (Martin Van Buren)
  46. Give Me Operations
  47. I Used To Work In Chicago
  48. Turalai
  49. I'm Feeling Good About America (Gerald Ford)
  50. Bless 'Em All
  51. Seven Old Ladies Locked In A Lavatory
  52. Monroe is the Man (James Monroe)
  53. Jimmy Polk of Tennessee (James Polk)
  54. Roll Your Leg Over
  55. Fair and Free Elections (1800)
  56. The Poor Co-Pilot
  57. Backside Rules The Navy
  58. I'm Just Wild About Harry (Harry S. Truman)
  59. Tyler and Tippecanoe (1840)
  60. Rumadum Dum (Zachary Taylor)
  61. Roosevelt the Cry (Theodore Roosevelt)
  62. Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge (Calvin Coolidge)
  63. Pie In The Sky
  64. He's All Right (Benjamin Harrison)
  65. The Harrison Yankee Doodle (William Henry Harrison)
  66. If He's Good Enough for Lindy (Herbert Hoover)
  67. If the Johnnies Get Into Power Again (James A. Garfield)
  68. No Hips At All
  69. Ninety Cents Butter
  70. Harding, You're the Man for Us (Warren Harding)
  71. Democrats, Good Democrats (Grover Cleveland)
  72. A Hole In the Bucket
  73. Come And Join The Air Force
  74. Limericks
  75. Itazuke Tower
  76. Wilson, That's All (Woodrow Wilson)
  77. Jefferson and Liberty (1800)
  78. Pierce and King (Franklin Pierce)
  79. Wreck Of The Old Ninety-Seven
  80. Lulu
  81. I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago
  82. The Union Wagon (Millard Fillmore)
  83. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again (Franklin Delano Roosevel t)
  84. Just Before Election, Andy (Andrew Johnson)
  85. Buchanan and John Breckenridge (James Buchanan)
  86. Cripple Creek
  87. Rum A Dum Dum
  88. For Hayes and Wheeler, Too (Rutherford B. Hayes)
  89. Johnny Come Down The Hilo
  90. Steam Torpedo

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