Posted on 05/07/2023 10:38:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Fogerty is now embarking on his first tour since getting his song rights back
John Fogerty said this week he feels like the songs he wrote for Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) more than 50 years ago at the start of his career are finally "home where they belong."
"To get to play my songs now, feeling like they truly are home where they belong – and I get to sing ‘Proud Mary’ just like I sang it when I was 22 years old," the founding member of CCR told NBC News in an interview this week.
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He was also sued by the Fantasy head Saul Zaentz in 1985 for plagiarizing the songs he wrote. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually sided with Fogerty. "I’m the dad [of these songs]. I created them," he told Billboard earlier this year. "They never should have been taken away in the first place. And that hijacking left such a massive hole in me."
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This is great news. I saw John Fogerty on the Centerfield tour in 1986 or 1988 and it was awesome. Me and my friend were two of the youngest people there and it was a blast. I know he’s been fighting this battle forever and I’m glad to see him win it.
w00t! Waiting for the tour announcement!
I was supposed to see him with a friend last August, but it got cancelled because he had eye surgery.
Most. Over-Rated. Evah.
“I ain’t no Senator’s son …” 🎶
Lewis Puller - read the book.
I am happy for John and I am happy for us that he can now recreate Credence Clearwater Revival.
Jr. LBP Sr. was a genuine American hero. Son too but his tale is sad.
There’s a bathroom on the right
“Most. Over-Rated. Evah.”
“Beatles? Suck!” “Stones? Suck!” “Johnny Cash? Sucks!” “Pink Floyd? Sucks!” “Beethoven? Sucks!” Every music thread...
And while you're at it, when you write and perform a song and post it on Tik Tok or Youtube, do you still own it or have you sold the song to them for the service of distributing it? Are you sure? Did you read and understand every word in that service agreement you clicked "OK" on?
Not CCR, but I never need to hear Centerfield ever again.
Yeah, if only I could be in an “overrated” band like CCR.
Good on you, John.
Back in the 60s nobody understood what they were signing. 18, 19, 20 year old kids with no comprehension what “ownership” means, how the entertainment industry works, or what all these words in the contracts mean. There have been a whole lot of lawsuits along the way. Hopefully newer generations have learned, or at least get better managers and have actual lawyers look at the contracts.
I once met a guy from Lodi, California, and I asked him what he thought of CCR’s ode to the town (”Oh Lord I’m stuck up in Lodi again”). He laughed and said the song was on the playlist of every high school dance there as pretty every teen in town dreams about getting the hell out
“Yeah, if only I could be in an “overrated” band like CCR.”
No kidding. I’m a lifelong musician from SW Louisiana and was recently back there for my mom’s funeral. While visiting w/fellow musicians who never left, Fogerty’s name came up and there was general consensus that his “swamp music” sounds as authentic as any of that made by people who were actually “born on the bayou” - remarkable for a guy who’d never been there when he wrote those tunes.
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