Creedence Clearwater Revival landed themselves almost at the top of the charts when John Fogerty created one of rock’s iconic anthems with two simple words: “Proud Mary.”
Some fans may not know that one of Tina Turner‘s classic hits that has been listened to for generations, “Proud Mary,” is actually a cover, as Creedence Clearwater Revival released the track in 1968 and landed the band at No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Billboard even ranked the track at No.1 31 on their list of the “Greatest No. 2 Hits” that were just shy of becoming No. 1.
The track was blocked from reaching the top by Sly & The Family Stone‘s hit “Everyday People” and Tommy Roe‘s “Dizzy.” Believe it or not, Creedence Clearwater Revival would actually never land a No.1 on the charts despite hits like “Bad Moon Rising” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain.”
Fogerty finally revealed the inspiration behind “Proud Mary,” and once explained that writing the track was the “moment when songwriting truly started for me.” Appearing on NPRMusic, Fogerty revealed that the first line of the song came when he found his discharge papers from the military and felt joy.
“I found my honorable discharge on the stairs to my apartment house. I went right into the house and picked up my Rickenbacker guitar, started strumming, and the very first line that came out of me was, ‘left a good job in the city. Working for the man every night and day,'” he said.
“When I finished the song its took well less than an hour. I knew ‘Proud Mary’ was finished, and I realized I had done something I’d never done before. I mean it really felt different and I looked at the page that I’d written this on and said, ‘John you’ve written a classic wow.'”
The singer-songwriter was “dumbfounded” and “shocked” at the track he created. Fogerty first developed the song to be about a maid working for a wealthy family and came up with the title based on the two words he scribbled in his songbook.
According to American Songwriter, the use of a riverboat also came from the notebook, and explained, “I wrote the song about a mythical riverboat, cruising on a mythical river, in a mythical time,” Fogerty concluded in 2018. “Perhaps the setting was ‘back in time’ on the Mississippi River. It was obviously a metaphor about leaving painful, stressful things behind for a more tranquil and meaningful life.”
Before being recorded by Tuner and Ike, the track was covered by Solomon Burke and The Checkmates. In 1971, Turner and Ike weren’t exactly fans of Fogerty’s original track, and it was the Checkmates’ version that caught their interest. After needed rearrangements, they turned it into a funk rock track with a soul edge that landed them at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Despite it being a cover, “Proud Mary” would become one of Turner’s signature tracks that earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Group at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards in 1972. Creedence Clearwater Revival and Turner’s versions would land them in the Grammy Hall of Fame and be listed among Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Songs of All Time.”
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