HOW BOB DYLAN CHANGED JOHN FOGARTY'S MIND
"Creedence Clearwater Revival" is probably the closest thing America ever had
of equal artistic strength to "The Beatle's".So it should come of no surprise that John
Lennon once stated that they were his favorite American Band.After CCR broke
up in 1971;John Fogarty,the groups lead singer and songwriter released several solo
Projects,One an album of covers with John playing all the instruments and going
by the name of "The Blue Ridge Rangers" and the other a proper solo album.Then
Fogarty,for a number of reasons,went on hiatus for nine years.In 1984 he released
"Centerfield" as John Fogarty and had a great success as he seemed to return
at full strength to the music world and fans and the press welcomed him with open
arms and a multitude of well deserved praise and recognition of being one of America's
finest songwriter's and performer's.His next album release didn't fare quite as well
and Fogarty went on hiatus again-this time for 11 years.
All this time Fogarty was living with the results of a terrible contract that CCR had
Signed with Fantasy Records.The bulk of the profits from John Fogarty's many hit songs
went to Fantasy-and he didn't have control of his own music.It was a bad situation.
Eventually Fogarty would get his music back but it was along,long time in coming.
In the mean time Fogarty refrained from playing any of the CCR material at his concerts.
Bob Dylan noticed this as he watched one of John's Show's.He made a decision to talk
to John Fogarty.He said to John that he must start playing "Proud Mary" or people
would "start thinking that Ike and Tina Turner wrote it".Fogarty knew Dylan was
right.He stopped boycotting his own music and began to play the CCR songs again
including "Proud Mary" and his fans went wild.John Fogarty of CCR and John Fogarty
The solo artist were rejoined and when Fantasy Records was sold to new owners-
Fogarty ended up back onthe label,only this time with a fair and decent contract.
It took along time-but finally things were righted,with just a little help from Bob Dylan.
Written by Pete Holly-2009-Copyright-All Rights Reserved
of equal artistic strength to "The Beatle's".So it should come of no surprise that John
Lennon once stated that they were his favorite American Band.After CCR broke
up in 1971;John Fogarty,the groups lead singer and songwriter released several solo
Projects,One an album of covers with John playing all the instruments and going
by the name of "The Blue Ridge Rangers" and the other a proper solo album.Then
Fogarty,for a number of reasons,went on hiatus for nine years.In 1984 he released
"Centerfield" as John Fogarty and had a great success as he seemed to return
at full strength to the music world and fans and the press welcomed him with open
arms and a multitude of well deserved praise and recognition of being one of America's
finest songwriter's and performer's.His next album release didn't fare quite as well
and Fogarty went on hiatus again-this time for 11 years.
All this time Fogarty was living with the results of a terrible contract that CCR had
Signed with Fantasy Records.The bulk of the profits from John Fogarty's many hit songs
went to Fantasy-and he didn't have control of his own music.It was a bad situation.
Eventually Fogarty would get his music back but it was along,long time in coming.
In the mean time Fogarty refrained from playing any of the CCR material at his concerts.
Bob Dylan noticed this as he watched one of John's Show's.He made a decision to talk
to John Fogarty.He said to John that he must start playing "Proud Mary" or people
would "start thinking that Ike and Tina Turner wrote it".Fogarty knew Dylan was
right.He stopped boycotting his own music and began to play the CCR songs again
including "Proud Mary" and his fans went wild.John Fogarty of CCR and John Fogarty
The solo artist were rejoined and when Fantasy Records was sold to new owners-
Fogarty ended up back onthe label,only this time with a fair and decent contract.
It took along time-but finally things were righted,with just a little help from Bob Dylan.
Written by Pete Holly-2009-Copyright-All Rights Reserved
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