Awesome song!! … a classic. Didn’t know the history behind it … Love it!!
‘Written by CCR’s John Fogerty, the song was conceived the day he got his discharge papers from the US Army.’
I had a different song picked out for tonight. My mind, apparently, had other ideas, for as I was folding laundry, writing my ‘Good People’ post and cleaning my messy kitchen, “Big wheel keep on turnin’, Proud Mary keep on burnin'” just kept playing over and over in my head. When I sat down to find the song I intended to post tonight, Proud Mary somehow ended up on my screen. Sigh. No point arguing with a mind as stubborn as mine.
Written by CCR’s John Fogerty, the song was conceived the day he got his discharge papers from the US Army. According to Fogerty …
“The Army and Creedence overlapped, so I was ‘that hippie with a record on the radio.’ I’d been trying to get out of the Army, and on the steps of my apartment house sat a diploma-sized letter from the government. It sat there for a…
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Horty! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! Creedence Clearwater Revival & “Proud Mary” was THE SONG when I was in Vietnam in 1970!!!!!!!!!!!!!! “Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ cross the river!” My Military Police unit, battalion headquarters company, had its own “club”…..booze!…..& Filipino bands used to come in to entertain. And they all sang “Proud Mary” & we all went nuts screaming/singing our hearts out!!!!!!!! Thanks for this! Phil
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