Punchline's 'Wonderful World' of Obama; Mellencamp chimes in

Pittsburgh pop-punk band Punchline has recorded a punchy cover of the Louis Armstrong classic set to clips of President-Elect Barack Obama.

This is bonus stuff from Punchline, as the song does not appear on the band's new record, "Just Say Yes."

 

 

Also, John Mellencamp has released a statement about the election:

"This for me is something I never thought I would see in my life. I remember the assassination of Martin Luther King and the marches in Selma, Alabama, and seeing Rosa Parks, demonstrators getting sprayed by fire hoses and attacked by police dogs and all the other horrible things that happened at that time in our country. Then I played at the 2004 Democratic Convention, which was my first introduction to Barack Obama, and after his keynote address I looked at my wife Elaine and said, ‘Man, what a poet! He could be president of the United States!' And that's absolutely verbatim.

"But even I, who have written countless songs about race, could not believe that a man of color could be president of the United States. But today I am so proud of America. I am so happy for all Americans, that we have finally started to fulfill our obligation to the immortal words of our Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. We cannot expect this man to immediately change the last eight years of fear and deception, but I think we can rejoice in the fact that there is someone speaking not just for his own interests, now, but hopefully as a voice for us all."