PROUD MARY AND THE SONGS CONNECTION TO THE NATIONAL GUARD !! Proud Mary is a rock song written by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Fogerty, and recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. The songs for the album on which Proud Mary is featured started when John Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for Proud Mary, Born on the Bayou, and Keep on Chooglin were conceived by Fogerty at a concert in the Avalon Ballroom, and Proud Mary was arranged from parts of different songs, one of which was about a washerwoman named Mary. The line Left a good job in the city was written following Fogertys discharge from the National Guard, and the line rollin on the river was from a movie by Will Rogers. A SALUTE TO NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER JOHN FOGERTY. HERES A TRIBUTE TO PROUD MARY THAT WAS PERFORMED AT PIN-UPS FOR VETS SALUTE & SHIMMY EVENT LAST WEEKEND: https://youtube/watch?v=uWmG1JobysY
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:00:00 +0000
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