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A political playlist: The fight over campaign songs

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A catchy song can be a campaign's calling card, a free ad that plays indefinitely.

Lee Greenwood sings " God Bless the U.S.A. " at the 1988 Republican National Convention: Greenwood also sang it at the RNC this past summer .

Dozens of artists, fromto the use of "Hold On, I'm Comin'" by the Trump campaign, and last week a judge in Atlanta pushed back when the "Titanic" movie theme was used.