“The basic tracks for ‘Down on the Corner’ and ‘Fortunate Son’ were both recorded, and one afternoon I went over to Wally Heider’s studio to finish the songs. For ‘Down on the Corner,’ I did the maracas and the middle solo part, then sang all the background vocals, then sang the lead,” Fogerty said during an interview with The Los Angeles Times published on July 3. “So I’d been singing at the top of my lungs for probably an hour and a half, then I had to go back and finish ‘Fortunate Son.’ I was screaming my heart out, doing the best I could, but later I felt that some of the notes were a little flat — that I hadn’t quite hit the mark. I always sort of cringed about that.”
Fogerty continued, “I know that in the case of the Beatles, John [Lennon] would just sit in the studio screaming and screaming until his voice got raw enough, then he’d record some takes. Perhaps the fact that it was a little out of tune made it — what’s the word? — more pop-worthy. I don’t know.”
“I thought it was strange — thought it would be something that someone would be wary of,” Fogerty admitted, referring to the fact that the song is about a privileged person avoiding serving in the military. “I thought to myself: Do you think somebody did it on purpose? Are they doing it as some weird kind of performance art? I might be giving too much credit to the thought that went into it.”
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