Fortunate Son - CCR - John Fogerty
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StrayCat1000 — 9 years ago(May 23, 2016 12:41 AM)
Fortunate Son is a great song that goes down as an American CLASSIC, written and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and still to this day John Fogerty on occasion.
Fortunate Son has a lot of connotation & history & metaphor associated with the 1970s and the Vietnam War, not to mention it's a great tune.
Who the hell let an obscure Wyclef Jean butcher such an excellent song to death, with such an unflattering rendition, and who's the idiot that allowed it to be featured in this movie?!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Son
"Fortunate Son" is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their album Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969. It was released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969.[2] This song reached #14 on the United States charts on 22 November 1969, the week before Billboard changed its methodology on double-sided hits. The tracks combined to climb to #9 the next week, on the way to peaking at #3 three more weeks later, on 20 December 1969.[3] It won the RIAA Gold Disc award in December 1970.[4] Pitchfork Media placed it at number 17 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s".[5] Rolling Stone placed it at #99 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2014, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.""There's a lot of RAGE inside me about it". ~ Austin Matelson