@barrypos55 except Trump never started any wars and is very much anti war not to mention not a career politician. Vietnam was started over two designed false flags in the Gulf of Tonkin, hell everything in the middle east because of 911 sounds nearly identical to what Operation Northwoods was going to be. This is decades and decades of Ideological Subversion
During the Vietnam War, if the teenagers were from wealthy, influential families then they didn't get drafted, go to war in a foreign country, and very likely never come home again. I'm simplifying but this song reminds me of them. This was the music for them...for their time. That said I love CCR's music.
They ended up in the coast guard or on a base in the USA all the way thru the Vietnam war. In the American civil war you could buy yourself out of the draft for 300 bucks, poor people had no chance of doing that, so off they went.
My father back in the late 60s or early 70s was in college in Dublin, he was friendly with this American guy studying the same course, after a few months when they got to know each other, the American kid told him he only came to Ireland to dodge the Vietnam draft. He said he knew several guys his own age in Vietnam at that time. Imagine being a teenager in high school doing your final exams, then sent to fight in a jungle and probably get yourself killed. Because your government says so.......
Hoping the nightmares stop soon and you can " make sure of all things, hold fast to what is fine")(1Thess.5 :21) and learn why it is people end up in wars.... (see Proverbs chapter 2, the Bible).....
Trump was ‘A Fortunate Son’ dodged the draft five times.Con man extraordinary,bone spurs every time.And he has the cheek to portray himself as the saviour for the working class.
CCR was arguably the biggest band in the world right after the Beatles broke up. Their catalog is nothing but hit after hit after hit…but the sacrilege of it all is they never charted a #1 song - blows my f’ing mind!!
ccr wrote this song about the draft. Our men had no choice but to sign. Some defected to Canada. It was personal to me as my fiance, at the time, was drafted and never came home. When our brave soldiers came home they were booed. Very sad time. We would play this song over and over.
I grew up with Vietnam vets all of my life. Many don't want to talk about it to this day. In my high school, there are 6 plaques of kids who were not "fortunate sons" and were killed over there. The average age of soldiers fighting there was 19 years old. 19...
Just saw Tom Fogarty this week in Rochester. He finally recovered all his songs from the demon record company and he played the Hell out of them. He sounds and plays great in his 70's!
I Put A Spell On You is right up your alley. Heavy guitars and he pushes his voice to its gritty limit! YOU WILL LOVE IT. GUARANTEED. remastered version is best to get the full impact of CCR
"Run Through The Jungle" is also a Vietnam War-era song. It gives the listener an eerie feeling like they are in the jungle surrounded by booby traps and hiding enemies. "Green River," "Bad Moon Rising" and "Sweet Hitchhiker" are also tracks you will love from CCR.
Love this rabbit hole, I hope you go down it a bit!!! "Born on the Bayou" "Who'll Stop the Rain" "Bad Moon Rising" "Run Through The Jungle" "Have you Ever Seen the Rain"...so many more... really enjoyed you Lynyrd Skynyrd reacts so these are great along those lines!!!
@@mattblatchley2061 nobody ever covered a song and made it their own as good as they did with that song. Well except Joe cocker lol. He did it with everything
So true. This band has a diverse catalogue. Mollyboy has become my favourite reaction youtuber. One day he will try King Crimson. But they are the most blocked band out there 🤘🏻🤘🏻
CCR: a band known for swampy, bluesy southern rock with a band almost entirely from California. If you want straight up bluesy rock from almost the same time, try The Allman Brothers.
A lot of CCR songs have appeared in films, though "Fortunate Son" is probably the one used the most (especially in Vietnam War-based movies). Drummer Kenny Aronoff said when he was a kid reading a Hulk comic Credence came on the radio & he thought if The Hulk sang that's what he'd sound like! Years later Kenny got to record on Forgerty's "Blue Moon Swamp" album and toured with John between gigs with John Mellencamp and Bob Seger in the mid 90's. Forgerty's "The Old Man Down The Road" is an awesome song from his solo career.
It may be a long band name but most people just referred to them as CCR, or sometimes, Creedence. CCR had so many hits, and they are one of those bands where I literally like every song that they've ever done. And they always had that signature Creedence sound, but yet there's such a huge variety in not only their catalog, but in all the hits that they had as well. Run Through the Jungle has been used in lots of movies and it was a huge hit. I bet you would absolutely love it, and it's longer, so you have time to really get into the groove and the texture and the mood of it. It's a pretty intense song. For something longer still, another of their big hits, Born on the Bayou really has this relentless swampy groove to it.
Ooooo, love me some CCR. Living as a young hippie teen in 1975, 76. I was obcessed, but most of us were. They have that perfect blusey southern rock sound for a bunch of guys from California. As soon as I was old enough we protested the Vietnam War at age 13 and 14, this was big during that time. We protested mainly about the treatment our soldiers as they came home. It was appalling how they were treated after being drafted so young (from ages 15 to 20), forced into war. Most were poor kids forced to fight in something most didnt believe in, then came home to the worst abuse, calling them baby k!llers, shunning them, etc. I salute the Vets. Thanx so much, Peace
The sad thing is that a lot of soldiers did abhorrent things - war crimes. However the anger should be directed to the fat cats in washington who had their hands figuratively dripping in blood and literally making money off these wars.
Was late to the live chat. First song I ever remember was CCR Lookin out my Backdoor. As a US Southerner, blew my mind when I found out they were from California.
This song is in every American Vietnam War movie. Also in Forrest Gump, among many, many other movies/tv shows. It's about the 'fortunate sons' of US politicians or rich people who were able to avoid being sent to Vietnam to fight. Most of the young men sent there were from poorer families. CCR have other very, very famous songs like "Run Through the Jungle' that are also featured in many war movies & action movies etc.
Many think this song was about Americans being proud of the USA. Not true!! It was a protest song about rich and famous kids being able to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. If you were poor or an average person and your draft number was called, you went to Vietnam. "Some folks are born made to wave the flag, hoo, they're red, white and blue, and when the band plays "Hail to the Chief "Ooh, they point the cannon at you." Also, "some folks inherit star-spangled eyes, hoo, they send you down to war, and when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?" Hoo, they only answer, "More, more, more, more."
@@mapexzildjian6361the list is quite long but we can start with our favorite son himself Donald Trump who used this recording while campaigning in 2020.
Interesting fact: The singer ,John Fogerty, was sued by his former label, Fantasy Records, when he left the band for sounding too much like John Fogerty . The song was called Centerfield. He won the lawsuit....... He has a bunch of good songs
Good for you MollyBoy TV wanting to help the homeless and animals. I hope your dreams come true for sure. You have a pure genuine heart. We need more people like you! Peace!!
CCR were all California boys , but they fully embraced and almost became the symbol of Southern rock . Fogarty's pronunciation of many words when he sings is pure New Orleans
I‘m 58 now, and I Like how your Generation develope the Songs from mine and before. Those Songs never die, and they mean a lot to me. I also like your open Mindset, keep on going!
Next try "The Midnight Special" - "Bad Moon Rising" - "I Heard it Through the Grapevine(Hoid)" - "Lodi" - "Run Through the Jungle" - "Long as I Can See the Light" any one of these would do you justice, the list is just so long and will take you a long time to go down this rabbit hole! Deb
Grand Funk Railroad “Inside looking out” The live version. I know you like the Studio Version first, but I promise you this is the version you want to hear.
When I was 17, my young man came to Canada to escape the draft. He was successful but it was all for nought, he was killed for no reason in car accident. Love of my life. He did, however, give me Abby Road and this song. ❤
I was a teenager when CCR were current. Loved it then. Reintroduced myself to the sound a few years ago. Everything they’ve done is pure. Just listen to the drums. Truely awesome.
Creedence was the soundtrack of the Vietnam War. They broke out in 68' with their first hit, "Suzi Q", which was an unheard-of length of 20 minutes. John Fogerty, wrote the music, sang lead vocals, played lead guitar, did all the mixing, and was later betrayed by his own band which ended Creedence.
@@brianjohnston5221He was 🥰 I’ll be 44 on Saturday, and there’s still no sound that puts a smile on my face quite like hearing Marc Bolan first thing in the morning
Basically any film that involves war or specifically the Vietnam war will almost definitely play this song. CCR are one of the best, underrated bands - all their songs sound so good, no flops. I’d like to recommend Proud Mary (made more famous by Tina Turner) and Have you ever Seen the Rain: Up Around the Bend; Down on the Corner; Born on the Bayou; Run Through the Jungle; their 11min jam cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye classic)
Fortunate Son is up there with Floyd's Us & Them as a war and greed diatribe, stunning song, voice, vibe and groove. Fogerty's a sodding genius and shockingly underrated guitar player.
CCR had a long string of hit records including "Run Through the Jungle", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Have you Even seen the rain" & renditions of "Heard it through the grapevine" & "Travelin' Band". "Fortunate Son" was one of the most played anti-Vietnam war songs and it's been used in a lot of war movies.
My younger brother was in the last year for the draft, but no one was called. A friend’s draft number was 1, from the high school graduating class of 1970. He enlisted to avoid the Vietnam war. Another friend’s brother came home from Vietnam and committed suicide. It was a hard time to be a young man. Listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s song: Ohio. It’s about a demonstration against the Vietnam War at Kent State University. Four students killed when the National Guard opened fire on the protesters.
Greetings again from San Francisco! “Fortunate Son” is one of, if not THE greatest anti-Viet Nam war protest songs, EVER!!! It’s usually found accompanying film taken from UH-1D helicopters, often from a door gunner’s point of view. This song also accompanies film of napalm being dropped on jungles and hillsides. The point of the song is that if you came from money, it was easy to avoid being drafted and sent to Viet Nam. College deferments were easily obtained, and since poor or average middle class kids were likely not attending college or university, they were the first to go. Donald Trump got out of being drafted because he allegedly had bone spurs. Presumably from playing too much tennis. How many poor kids play tennis? “Fortunate Son,” along with all of CCR’s albums, was recorded at the Fantasy Records studio in Berkeley, California. This was also the recording location for Jouney’s “Escape” album and Green Day’s “Dookie” album. According to Wikipedia, Fantasy Studios permanently closed in 2018. Sad. Such music history should live forever. Thanks for checking out the music that I grew up with.
Also, getting into the National Guard through connections. Like President George W. Bush, a senator's grandson (and future president's son) who went in to the N.G. in 1968 and avoided 'Nam. Weasels.
The members of Creedence Clearwater Revival were from El Cerrito, California, across the bay from San Francisco. Their sound is called "swamp rock," though none of them was from the south. John Fogerty, the lead guitarist and vocalist, affected a Louisiana accent. The song is about the Vietnam War and the draft. Military service was supposed to be universal, but the sons of the wealthy and well-connected were protected from having to serve. It was mainly the poor and middle class who fought and died in that war. CCR were a hit machine from 1968 through 1972, when they broke up because they weren't getting along with each other. Somehow during that time they never had a #1 hit, though they had several #2 hits. Some of their best: Proud Mary Bad Moon Rising Green River Down on the Corner Travelin' Band Who'll Stop the Rain Up Around the Bend Run Through the Jungle Lookin' Out My Back Door Long As I Can See the Light Have You Ever Seen the Rain Lodi I Heard It Through the Grapevine The Midnight Special I Put a Spell on You Cotton Fields
There are a couple of songs I'd love to see you react to. The first is Janis Joplin singing Ball and Chain live at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the second is The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniel's Band. Both very different but I think you'd enjoy them. Obviously, also Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma, but that's a given.
Mollyboy, imagine being a kid in the 60's and 70's. Am radio, 3 or 4 tv channels, great music like this that you could only hear if you were lucky enough to be near a radio or in the car when it came on. No stereo, just mono. Those were the best times. Today with instant everything, nothing is really appreciated like it was back then.
So proud to see you getting off the rap and hip hop and enjoying REAL MUSIC!!! Keep it up young Man! As Neil Young said, "Keep on rockin' in the Free World!"
Ages ago in my first band, we covered this and Rooster by Alice In Chains on Veterans Day at a Harley-Davidson event for a bunch of Vets. They greatly appreciated it
One of the greatest protests songs of my generation.
Dude this song is in every movie about Vietnam
Literally every Vietnam war movie ever.
Along with Run Through the Jungle.
@@stevedahlberg8680 My fave CCR song!
Truth
You’d have to be in a purple haze to miss it!
Molly song is basically about the people that were protected from having to serve in Vietnam such as the children of the wealthy and connected
The sort that would hide behind say, a BUSH?
Wow David today i got the cleared backdrop of the song tq
@@DawnSuttonfabfour Exactly
@@DawnSuttonfabfour Yep....or hold a Trump card?
@barrypos55 except Trump never started any wars and is very much anti war not to mention not a career politician.
Vietnam was started over two designed false flags in the Gulf of Tonkin, hell everything in the middle east because of 911 sounds nearly identical to what Operation Northwoods was going to be.
This is decades and decades of Ideological Subversion
Oh lurd! I am a bleeding heart hippie married to an actual senator's son. He hates when I play this song! Enjoy! I cannot wait
🤣🤣🤣 He must REALLY love you!!!
😂 That's a crack up!
That must have been a trip!! Did the Senator lose his mind over the marriage? Good for you, girl!!🤘🤘🎵🎼🎶
Hahahaha that’s fantastic! I always say, it’s not what you like, it’s what you’re like. ❤❤❤
🤣🤣🤣🤣 GOTTA LOVE IT!!
During the Vietnam War, if the teenagers were from wealthy, influential families then they didn't get drafted, go to war in a foreign country, and very likely never come home again. I'm simplifying but this song reminds me of them. This was the music for them...for their time. That said I love CCR's music.
They ended up in the coast guard or on a base in the USA all the way thru the Vietnam war. In the American civil war you could buy yourself out of the draft for 300 bucks, poor people had no chance of doing that, so off they went.
Yep. I was born in the 50s, so I grew up with all of it. Luckily, I missed getting drafted by 6 months.
@@TheTaffiaWas going to point this out 🫵🏻
My father back in the late 60s or early 70s was in college in Dublin, he was friendly with this American guy studying the same course, after a few months when they got to know each other, the American kid told him he only came to Ireland to dodge the Vietnam draft. He said he knew several guys his own age in Vietnam at that time.
Imagine being a teenager in high school doing your final exams, then sent to fight in a jungle and probably get yourself killed. Because your government says so.......
Or have bone spurs...
Southern Fried Rock n Roll
At its finest
🎸 🎸 🎸 🎸
From El Cerrito, in the San Francisco Bay area! 😂😂
How lucky you are getting to hear some of the greatest songs for the first time .
I was one of the unfortunate 78 i am niightmares never stop. Count your blessings young ones. PRAY FOR PEACE
Thanks digger, my dad was a Vietnam vet too, an absolute legend of a man. I appreciate you.
Hoping the nightmares stop soon and you can " make sure of all things, hold fast to what is fine")(1Thess.5 :21) and learn why it is people end up in wars.... (see Proverbs chapter 2, the Bible).....
Amen.
Right there with you, brother. We survived and keep on surviving each and every day. Peace.
Thanks for your service.
Lost a couple of friends there and my brother still has a hard time talking about things. Stay strong, wish you the best.
Great song. You can feel the sadness & anger.
58,220 young American men gave their lives there…for nothing. Just loss. 💧
Not just Americans gave their lives in this conflict. So needless.
@@phuangphakajeabwheldon7746 Omg, yes! IDK if there’s any definitive figure but the Vietnamese death toll was from 2-3 million.
I'd like it if he got into more antiwar music of that era. Lots of good stuff there.
Don't forget all of the ones that were physically crippled for life or had long term psychological trauma.
Trump was ‘A Fortunate Son’ dodged the draft five times.Con man extraordinary,bone spurs every time.And he has the cheek to portray himself as the saviour for the working class.
CCR was arguably the biggest band in the world right after the Beatles broke up. Their catalog is nothing but hit after hit after hit…but the sacrilege of it all is they never charted a #1 song - blows my f’ing mind!!
CCR is one of those rare bands that are universally respected by all genres. Just like ZZ Top.
ZZ Top is a fantastic concert, saw them last summer and had a great time.
WHO IN THE HELL IS CCR???
You guys need to have some respect if you’re lazy and you wanna cut it short call them Creedence !
ccr wrote this song about the draft. Our men had no choice but to sign. Some defected to Canada. It was personal to me as my fiance, at the time, was drafted and never came home. When our brave soldiers came home they were booed. Very sad time. We would play this song over and over.
I’m so sorry about your fiancé.
@@slinman100 ❤️
People can't control who their family is or who they're born to but they can control how they treat people and what they do with the riches they have.
"Proper Southern Rock" absolutely perfect.
Which is funny since they are from California
I grew up with Vietnam vets all of my life. Many don't want to talk about it to this day. In my high school, there are 6 plaques of kids who were not "fortunate sons" and were killed over there. The average age of soldiers fighting there was 19 years old. 19...
n n n n n n nineteen
N n n n n nineteen saigon
Ugh - just BABIES....that became MEN, too soon....if they got to come home...and, the reception...a DISGRACE...
My then fiancee came home with a purple heart 💜
that the average age for ALL our wars...
CCR - Have you ever seen the rain, is another great one.
Definitely one of the greatest rocknroll bands ever.
Just saw Tom Fogarty this week in Rochester. He finally recovered all his songs from the demon record company and he played the Hell out of them. He sounds and plays great in his 70's!
John Fogerty--Tom Fogerty died from cancer I think, in the early '90s.
I Put A Spell On You is right up your alley. Heavy guitars and he pushes his voice to its gritty limit! YOU WILL LOVE IT. GUARANTEED. remastered version is best to get the full impact of CCR
My favourite CCR cover!
CCR has been used in a lot of Vietnam movies. They were bigly popular with the military! They sound southern but they’re from California 💙👵🏼✌🏼🌟
"Run Through The Jungle" is also a Vietnam War-era song. It gives the listener an eerie feeling like they are in the jungle surrounded by booby traps and hiding enemies. "Green River," "Bad Moon Rising" and "Sweet Hitchhiker" are also tracks you will love from CCR.
@@lewistasso8866 he really should react to Run Through The Jungle. He says he watches Forrest Gump. He should get it.
Love this rabbit hole, I hope you go down it a bit!!! "Born on the Bayou" "Who'll Stop the Rain" "Bad Moon Rising" "Run Through The Jungle" "Have you Ever Seen the Rain"...so many more... really enjoyed you Lynyrd Skynyrd reacts so these are great along those lines!!!
Don't forget Suzy Q
@@jerrykrause.8326 good call! that makes me think of Apocalypse Now!
@@mattblatchley2061 nobody ever covered a song and made it their own as good as they did with that song. Well except Joe cocker lol. He did it with everything
CCR- Green River album is one of my favorite albums ever. Never gets old.
"Bad Moon Rising" or "Looking Out My Back Door" for the next CCR song you do
"Hey, there's a bathroom on the right!" - CCR. Great song.
Both of those.
Woooohoo!! CCR BABY!.. as a metalhead, I'm glad your finding there is more types of rock. Their all layers to metal and beyond.
So true. This band has a diverse catalogue. Mollyboy has become my favourite reaction youtuber. One day he will try King Crimson. But they are the most blocked band out there 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Fantastic reaction!! Another great one by them is "Born on the Bayou."
You should do Proud Mary...in honor of MetalMary !!!!
CCR: a band known for swampy, bluesy southern rock with a band almost entirely from California. If you want straight up bluesy rock from almost the same time, try The Allman Brothers.
Speaking of, he needs to do Stuck Mojo - Not Promised Tomorrow. Duane's gravestone makes a cameo.
Live at the filmour east
Allman brothers are amazing. My 72 yr old dad's all time favorite band. So of course I grew up on them
A lot of CCR songs have appeared in films, though "Fortunate Son" is probably the one used the most (especially in Vietnam War-based movies). Drummer Kenny Aronoff said when he was a kid reading a Hulk comic Credence came on the radio & he thought if The Hulk sang that's what he'd sound like! Years later Kenny got to record on Forgerty's "Blue Moon Swamp" album and toured with John between gigs with John Mellencamp and Bob Seger in the mid 90's. Forgerty's "The Old Man Down The Road" is an awesome song from his solo career.
It may be a long band name but most people just referred to them as CCR, or sometimes, Creedence.
CCR had so many hits, and they are one of those bands where I literally like every song that they've ever done. And they always had that signature Creedence sound, but yet there's such a huge variety in not only their catalog, but in all the hits that they had as well.
Run Through the Jungle has been used in lots of movies and it was a huge hit. I bet you would absolutely love it, and it's longer, so you have time to really get into the groove and the texture and the mood of it. It's a pretty intense song.
For something longer still, another of their big hits, Born on the Bayou really has this relentless swampy groove to it.
Songs back then had to be around the 3 minute length for radio play on AM stations.
CCR = GREATNESS!!!
Straight facts right there.
Ooooo, love me some CCR. Living as a young hippie teen in 1975, 76. I was obcessed, but most of us were. They have that perfect blusey southern rock sound for a bunch of guys from California. As soon as I was old enough we protested the Vietnam War at age 13 and 14, this was big during that time. We protested mainly about the treatment our soldiers as they came home. It was appalling how they were treated after being drafted so young (from ages 15 to 20), forced into war. Most were poor kids forced to fight in something most didnt believe in, then came home to the worst abuse, calling them baby k!llers, shunning them, etc. I salute the Vets. Thanx so much, Peace
The sad thing is that a lot of soldiers did abhorrent things - war crimes. However the anger should be directed to the fat cats in washington who had their hands figuratively dripping in blood and literally making money off these wars.
@@IAT1964 Absolutely
The way our soldiers were treated when they came home from the Vietnam war is why Sylvester Stalone made and starred in the movie, Rambo.
Was late to the live chat. First song I ever remember was CCR Lookin out my Backdoor. As a US Southerner, blew my mind when I found out they were from California.
This song is in every American Vietnam War movie. Also in Forrest Gump, among many, many other movies/tv shows. It's about the 'fortunate sons' of US politicians or rich people who were able to avoid being sent to Vietnam to fight. Most of the young men sent there were from poorer families. CCR have other very, very famous songs like "Run Through the Jungle' that are also featured in many war movies & action movies etc.
Like Donald Trump
@@henjuhasa9311 100%
Many think this song was about Americans being proud of the USA. Not true!! It was a protest song about rich and famous kids being able to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. If you were poor or an average person and your draft number was called, you went to Vietnam. "Some folks are born made to wave the flag, hoo, they're red, white and blue, and when the band plays "Hail to the Chief "Ooh, they point the cannon at you." Also, "some folks inherit star-spangled eyes, hoo, they send you down to war, and when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?" Hoo, they only answer, "More, more, more, more."
I never knew of, or heard of anyone, ever thinking this was a pro USA song.
Only people who don’t listen to lyrics would think it was about being a proud American
@@mapexzildjian6361 I have. It was even used in a blue jeans commercial!
@@therealxunil2 you'd be surprised. We have a lot of stupid people in this country.
@@mapexzildjian6361the list is quite long but we can start with our favorite son himself Donald Trump who used this recording while campaigning in 2020.
Went to a John Fogerty concert in Manchester last summer. Timeless genius.
I'm 54 years old and a lifelong metalhead , CCR was an amazing band . Lots of excellent music from the 60's and 70's ... Enjoy 😎
Interesting fact: The singer ,John Fogerty, was sued by his former label, Fantasy Records, when he left the band for sounding too much like
John Fogerty . The song was called Centerfield. He won the lawsuit....... He has a bunch of good songs
Good for you MollyBoy TV wanting to help the homeless and animals. I hope your dreams come true for sure. You have a pure genuine heart. We need more people like you! Peace!!
Grew up listening to Clear Water Revival ❤️ Listen to Linda Ronstadt, she was an AMAZING SINGER…. She stopped singing due to illness…
CCR were all California boys , but they fully embraced and almost became the symbol of Southern rock . Fogarty's pronunciation of many words when he sings is pure New Orleans
Saw him on his last tour, he was around 67, still rockin,same voice,90 minutes, non stop energy , this guy is a born rocker
This is a rabbit hole worth high diving into, enjoy bro
I‘m 58 now, and I Like how your Generation develope the Songs from mine and before. Those Songs never die, and they mean a lot to me. I also like your open Mindset, keep on going!
Next try "The Midnight Special" - "Bad Moon Rising" - "I Heard it Through the Grapevine(Hoid)" - "Lodi" - "Run Through the Jungle" - "Long as I Can See the Light" any one of these would do you justice, the list is just so long and will take you a long time to go down this rabbit hole!
Deb
When I'm in my local pub this is one of the songs I stick on the jukebox. It's a stonewall classic as most of CCR songs are.
Drummer is killing it !!!
Its been used in so many great movies! Mostly anti war!
Grand Funk Railroad
“Inside looking out”
The live version. I know you like the Studio Version first, but I promise you this is the version you want to hear.
Everything C C. R did was. Great , I. Love. Them , 1. Of the Best Bands ever !!! 👍🎸😁❤️🖐️🇺🇸
OH THE RED WHITE AND BLUE, this band is one of my favorite bands of all time!. You gotta react to more CCR!!
CCR are going to make you take off in this genre. Best of the best
When I was 17, my young man came to Canada to escape
the draft. He was successful but it was all for nought, he
was killed for no reason in car accident. Love of my life.
He did, however, give me Abby Road and this song. ❤
I was a teenager when CCR were current. Loved it then. Reintroduced myself to the sound a few years ago. Everything they’ve done is pure. Just listen to the drums. Truely awesome.
CCR is one of my all-time favorite Rock band! Another great song, "BornOnThe Bayou!" Banger!
Creedence was the soundtrack of the Vietnam War. They broke out in 68' with their first hit, "Suzi Q", which was an unheard-of length of 20 minutes. John Fogerty, wrote the music, sang lead vocals, played lead guitar, did all the mixing, and was later betrayed by his own band which ended Creedence.
Almost 50k!!!! Lets goo you should definitely listen to carry on wayward son it's soooo good it's a classic
That's by the band Kansas! Definitely a must hear song! Do the official video version please!
Sing it Molly Boy you've got a singing voice!❤
Yessssss!!!! One of the very first bands my dad played to me when I was a tiny baby. CCR and T. Rex were my literal introduction to music
Very cool Dad🤘
@@brianjohnston5221He was 🥰
I’ll be 44 on Saturday, and there’s still no sound that puts a smile on my face quite like hearing Marc Bolan first thing in the morning
@@mariannetuite7411 Light of Love, Telegram Sam, 20Th Century Boy, Cosmic Dancer, he was a great one.Happy Birthday on Saturday 🤘
Basically any film that involves war or specifically the Vietnam war will almost definitely play this song. CCR are one of the best, underrated bands - all their songs sound so good, no flops. I’d like to recommend Proud Mary (made more famous by Tina Turner) and Have you ever Seen the Rain: Up Around the Bend; Down on the Corner; Born on the Bayou; Run Through the Jungle; their 11min jam cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye classic)
Fortunate Son is up there with Floyd's Us & Them as a war and greed diatribe, stunning song, voice, vibe and groove. Fogerty's a sodding genius and shockingly underrated guitar player.
Also "we gotta get out of this place" the Animals
I always liked John Fogerty-Ramble Tamble (Live) from CCR. Love the reactions.
There are three things in life you cannot avoid. Death, taxes and the fact that CCR will be in the soundtrack of any Viet Nam war movie.
CCR had a long string of hit records including "Run Through the Jungle", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Have you Even seen the rain" & renditions of "Heard it through the grapevine" & "Travelin' Band". "Fortunate Son" was one of the most played anti-Vietnam war songs and it's been used in a lot of war movies.
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My younger brother was in the last year for the draft, but no one was called. A friend’s draft number was 1, from the high school graduating class of 1970. He enlisted to avoid the Vietnam war. Another friend’s brother came home from Vietnam and committed suicide. It was a hard time to be a young man.
Listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s song: Ohio. It’s about a demonstration against the Vietnam War at Kent State University. Four students killed when the National Guard opened fire on the protesters.
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“Fortunate Son” is one of, if not THE greatest anti-Viet Nam war protest songs, EVER!!! It’s usually found accompanying film taken from UH-1D helicopters, often from a door gunner’s point of view. This song also accompanies film of napalm being dropped on jungles and hillsides.
The point of the song is that if you came from money, it was easy to avoid being drafted and sent to Viet Nam. College deferments were easily obtained, and since poor or average middle class kids were likely not attending college or university, they were the first to go. Donald Trump got out of being drafted because he allegedly had bone spurs. Presumably from playing too much tennis. How many poor kids play tennis?
“Fortunate Son,” along with all of CCR’s albums, was recorded at the Fantasy Records studio in Berkeley, California. This was also the recording location for Jouney’s “Escape” album and Green Day’s “Dookie” album. According to Wikipedia, Fantasy Studios permanently closed in 2018. Sad. Such music history should live forever.
Thanks for checking out the music that I grew up with.
Biden pulled the asthma stunt to get out. Even though he played football, and it got miraculously cured after 1973.
Also, getting into the National Guard through connections. Like President George W. Bush, a senator's grandson (and future president's son) who went in to the N.G. in 1968 and avoided 'Nam. Weasels.
Folk music of the time.
Despite all our problems here in USA it really is the best place to live still.
You spent much time in other developed countries? Not a challenge. Just asking.
CCR sure is a rabbit hole worth digging into... 👍🏻
Welcome to Protest Music ✌️
Molly, you're going to love going down this rabbit hole....... just ask yourself, how did they not ever have a #1 hit!!!
Now listen to CLUTCH's version of this. CLUTCH will be band you will eventually listen to. It's the band Bands listen to.
Northern California band, from El Cerrito, near San Francisco. Still worth a listen.
A lot of people say CCR are Southern Rock. They actually hail from California.
That doesn't change the fact that the genre they played was Southern Rock.
I've always known CCR as swamp rock
It's still Southern rock, regardless of where they're from. Duane Allman said calling something Southern rock was like calling it "rock rock."
Songs from this era had to be around 3 minutes in order to get played on AM radio. FM was just getting started...
I Heard it Through the Grapevine --an absolute MUST 👍
Another great Creedence Clearwater song, "Born on the Bayou".
CCR is my all time favorite band!!! Grew up listening to their music, still today John Fogarty ❤
The members of Creedence Clearwater Revival were from El Cerrito, California, across the bay from San Francisco. Their sound is called "swamp rock," though none of them was from the south. John Fogerty, the lead guitarist and vocalist, affected a Louisiana accent.
The song is about the Vietnam War and the draft. Military service was supposed to be universal, but the sons of the wealthy and well-connected were protected from having to serve. It was mainly the poor and middle class who fought and died in that war.
CCR were a hit machine from 1968 through 1972, when they broke up because they weren't getting along with each other. Somehow during that time they never had a #1 hit, though they had several #2 hits. Some of their best:
Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Green River
Down on the Corner
Travelin' Band
Who'll Stop the Rain
Up Around the Bend
Run Through the Jungle
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Long As I Can See the Light
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Lodi
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Midnight Special
I Put a Spell on You
Cotton Fields
CCR they are affectionately called. John Fogerty has an iconic voice
This song has been in so many movies. Especially if it's about the Vietnam War.
One of the best bands, EVER!☮
There are a couple of songs I'd love to see you react to. The first is Janis Joplin singing Ball and Chain live at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the second is The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniel's Band. Both very different but I think you'd enjoy them.
Obviously, also Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma, but that's a given.
Listen to their song It Came Out Of The Sky,, this song and Fortunate Son are my favorite CCR songs. Both have the same Southern rock feeling.
Mollyboy, imagine being a kid in the 60's and 70's.
Am radio, 3 or 4 tv channels, great music like this that you could only hear if you were lucky enough to be near a radio or in the car when it came on. No stereo, just mono. Those were the best times. Today with instant everything, nothing is really appreciated like it was back then.
CCR had a TON of hits. Keep 'em coming.
Creedence are one of mine and my 18 year old daughters favourite bands! 😂 we dance around the kitchen singing to these 😊
Speaking of southern rock, may I suggest Remedy by The Black Crowes. I think you’d enjoy it.
The 70's was continuing the protest songs that the 60's started. This is one of those songs.
Perhaps the best rock band ever!
Classic American Rock....Lots of Bluesy Soul in the Vocals....
So proud to see you getting off the rap and hip hop and
enjoying REAL MUSIC!!!
Keep it up young Man!
As Neil Young said, "Keep on rockin' in the Free World!"
Love CCR ❤️ Midnight Special live is incredible my friend. Peace out ✌️ ☮️
My ALL-TIME fave group❤ You made this 69 year old great grandma happy😊
A boatload of great songs from these guys!
Brings me right back to my 15 year old self …….. still love CCR!
The song is short because in that time period radio stations wouldn't play songs that were longer than three minutes. Love your channel btw.
Ages ago in my first band, we covered this and Rooster by Alice In Chains on Veterans Day at a Harley-Davidson event for a bunch of Vets. They greatly appreciated it
CCR!!! Brings back so many memories