--- title: Martin O'Malley Sings and Plays the Guitar on Wall Street description: Former Maryland governor and presidential candidate Martin O'Malley made $1.74 singing outside of the New York Stock Exchange canonical: https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T20:19:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:51:12.859Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Martin O'Malley Make $1.74 Singing on Wall Street og:description: And no one seemed to recognize the presidential candidate og:url: https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Martin O'Malley Make $1.74 Singing on Wall Street twitter:description: And no one seemed to recognize the presidential candidate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley Make $1.74 Singing on Wall Street by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 10, 2015 8:19 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 10, 2015 8:19 PM UTC To raise awareness about campaign contributions, the [_Independent Journal_](https://home.ijreview.com/) asked former Maryland governor and presidential candidate [Martin O’Malley](http://time.com/4029413/martin-omalley-debates-wasserman-schultz/) to see how much money he could make singing and playing his guitar on Wall Street. Dressed in his “everyman” outfit of a t-shirt and jeans, O’Malley sang “This Land is Your Land” outside of the New York Stock Exchange. After an hour, O’Malley walked away with a $1.74 — and a pack of gummy bears. O’Malley’s only outright campaigning was limited to a few stickers on his guitar case. He may need more facial recognition if he’s going to do well in the Democratic primary, since few passersby appeared to recognize him. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/"},"headline":"Watch Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley Make $1.74 Singing on Wall Street","datePublished":"2015-09-10T20:19:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:51:12.859Z","description":"And no one seemed to recognize him","url":"https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4030136/martin-omalley-video/","name":"Watch Presidential Candidate Martin O'Malley Make $1.74 Singing on Wall Street"}}]}] ```