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John Fogerty originally did Stagger Lee, Fallin', Fallin', Fallin', Proud Mary, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues and other songs. John Fogerty wrote Proud Mary, Change in the Weather and Rockin' All over the World.
- May 28, 1945
Pages in category "Songs written by John Fogerty". The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The setlist consisted of rhythm and blues tunes from the 1960s, as well as material from the Centerfield LP and the song "No Love in You" written by Michael Anderson, which Fogerty found on the Textones' debut album Midnight Mission and he later recorded with Textones' band leader Carla Olson.
- Cillea Houghton
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- “Centerfield” The title track of Fogerty’s 1985 album greets you with an enticing guitar groove, accented with a friendly organ, and invites you to move.
- “The Old Man Down the Road” Among Fogerty’s biggest solo hits, “Old Man” continues to prove his stamina as an imaginative lyricist with a voice to match.
- “Joy of My Life” It took Fogerty nearly 40 years into his career to write his first love song, “Joy of My Life,” released in 1997. Unsurprisingly, his first attempt at a love song is one of his best.
- “Change in the Weather” Fogerty takes us on some dark twists and turns with “Change in the Weather,” painting the scene of people plagued with fear as he issues a storm warning that’s determined to destroy all in its path.
- “Rock and Roll Girls” – Centerfield
- “Wrote A Song For Everyone” – Green River
- “Run Through The Jungle” – Cosmo’s Factory
- “I Saw It on T.V.” – Centerfield
- “Bootleg” – Bayou Country
- “Proud Mary” – Bayou Country
- “Somebody Never Comes” – Mardi Gras
- “Effigy” – Willy and The Poor Boys
- “Who’ll Stop The Rain” – Cosmo’s Factory
- “Fortunate Son” – Willy and The Poor Boys
“Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo / The trick is to ride and make it to the bell But there is a place, sweet as you will ever know / In music and love, and things you never tell” Inside John Fogerty’s career revival album is “Rock and Roll Girls,” a song that gives you a homey feeling to love and music. It doesn’t make sense the more you hear...
“Wrote a song for everyone / Wrote a song for truth Wrote a song for everyone / When I couldn’t even talk to you” This, in many ways, is a song that relates to being understood. Fogerty empathizes with people with no power to voice out opinions, therefore, as a singer, he visualizes himself as one of the voices of the oppressed.
“Whoa, thought it was a nightmare / Lord it was so true They told me don’t go walking slowly/ The devil’s on the loose” A lot of people often relate this song to the Vietnam War, typical of some of the CCR’s songs with anti-war themes. It also indicates some gun violence themes, which Fogerty is so against.
“The Old man rocks among his dreams a prisoner of the porch The light he said at the end of the tunnel Was nothing but a burglars torch” Fogerty’s skillful manipulation of the song that started with a brief nostalgia in the 60s, took a devastating turn at the end. It was nothing but inside the mind of an old man, who became hopeless after his son w...
“Take you a glass of water / Make it against the law See how good the water tastes / When you can’t have any at all” How clever for the singer to create a song that circulates the idea that “you always crave what you can’t have.” This could initially pass as a traditional song with upright messages.
“Big wheel keep on turnin’, Proud Mary keep on burnin’, Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river.” Days just after his discharge from the army, Fogerty wrote “Proud Mary” to capture the beauty of the south and the wonderful feeling of freedom. It was only until he left the bad side of the city did, he realized how wonderful his surroundings are.
“Well, time and tears went by and I collected dust / For there were many things I didn’t know. When daddy went away, he said, try to be a man / And someday you’ll understand” Inspired from the divorced of his parents when he was little and never learning all the things that he needs to know, he faced the same chaos once again when Fogerty’s life wa...
“Last night / I saw the fire spreadin’ to / The countryside. In the mornin’ / Few were left to watch / The ashes die.” “Effigy” is a political song that talked about the dark period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Fogerty was inspired to write the song from the people’s march that happened to end the Vietnam War, which Nixon dismissed.
“Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down / Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion on the ground Good men through the ages tryin’ to find the sun/ And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?” Whether it’s only about rain or a clever allegory to the world’s problems, Fogerty did it all in this song. He did a great job inside this one.
“Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes /Ooh, they send you down to war/ And when you ask them, ‘How much should we give?’ /Ooh, they only answer, ‘More! More! More!’” The anti-war theme inside Fogerty’s well-known classic “Fortunate Son” is intense. For him, it’s best if the world knows how the rich keep getting richer by sending the poor to chaos....
Oct 6, 2015 · As he put it himself, explicitly, John Fogerty wrote songs for everyone. “When I would write a song like ‘Who’ll Stop the Rain,’ I made it general and epochal,” Fogerty has said.
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John Fogerty is an American musician, singer and songwriter, early in his career best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for the band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) and later as a...
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