President Bush’s Apple iPod features eclectic list of downloaded tunes
Monday, April 11, 2005 - 08:14 AM EST"In between his return on Friday from Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome and his meeting Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President Bush spent an hour and a half on Saturday on an 18-mile mountain bike ride at his Texas ranch. With him, as usual, was his indispensable exercise toy: an iPod music player loaded with country and popular rock tunes aimed at getting the presidential heart rate up to a chest-pounding 170 beats per minute," Elisabeth Bumiller reports for The New York Times. "Which brings up the inevitable question. What, exactly, is on the First iPod?"
Bumiller reports, "Bush has had his Apple iPod since July, when he received it from his twin daughters as a birthday gift. He has some 250 songs on it, a paltry number compared with the 10,000 selections it holds. Bush, as leader of the free world, does not take the time to download the music himself; that task falls to his personal aide, Blake Gottesman, who buys individual songs and albums... from [Apple's] iTunes music store."
"Bush's iPod is heavy on traditional country singers like George Jones, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney. He has selections by Van Morrison, whose 'Brown Eyed Girl' is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably 'Centerfield,' which was played at Texas Rangers games when Bush was an owner and is still played at ballparks all over America," Bumiller reports. "The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist during the 2004 campaign. Among them are 'Circle Back' by John Hiatt, '(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care' by Joni Mitchell, and 'My Sharona,' the 1979 song by the Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor at Rolling Stone in charge of music coverage, cheerfully branded 'suggestive if not outright filthy' in an interview last week."
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I can just picture him singing softly to himself and bobbing his head.... "duna duna du....my Shirona....."