Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival Songfacts. In the beginning, Proud Mary had nothing to do with a riverboat. Instead, John Fogerty envisioned it as the story of a woman who works as a maid for rich people. She gets off the bus every morning and goes to work and holds their lives together, he explains. Then she has to go home. It was Stu Cook who first introduced the riverboat aspect of the song. The idea came to him as the group watched the television show Maverick and Stu made the statement, Hey riverboat, blow your bell. John agreed that the boat seemed to have something to do with the song thatd been brewing in his mind for quite some time, waiting to take conscious shape. When he wrote the music, he made the first few chords evoke a riverboat paddlewheel going around. Thus, Proud Mary went from being a clean up lady to a boat. Fogerty wrote the lyrics based on three song title ideas Proud Mary, Riverboat, and Rolling On A River. He carried around a notebook with titles that he thought would make good songs, and Proud Mary was at the top of the list. The song came together on the day that John Fogerty got his discharge papers from the US Army. Fogerty had been drafted in 1. Green Snake Beautiful Lily Pdf. Reserve unit, serving at Fort Bragg, Fort Knox, and Fort Lee. Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position. Lecture 1 Introduction Overview. Professor Wright introduces the course by suggesting that listening to music is not simply a passive activity one can use to. The Quartet in A minor, Op. Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and. WUlwabtw4/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' title='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' />Ludwig van Beethoven17701827 Fnfte Sinfonie Beethovens Fifth Symphony piano sheet download for free. 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One day, I saw the envelope and bent down to look at it, noticing it said John Fogerty. I went into the house, opened the thing up, and saw that it was my honorable discharge from the Army. I was finally out This was 1. I was so happy, I ran out into my little patch of lawn and turned cartwheels. I/51jaJpUlp9L._SY463_.jpg' alt='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' title='Beethoven`S Fifth Symphony Mp3' />Then I went into my house, picked up my guitar and started strumming. Left a good job in the city and then several good lines came out of me immediately. I had the chord changes, the minor chord where it says, Big wheel keep on turninProud Mary keep on burnin or boinin, using my funky pronunciation I got from Howling Wolf. By the time I hit Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river, I knew I had written my best song. It vibrated inside me. When we rehearsed it, I felt like Cole Porter. So it was that an all American classic was born from the pressure cooker atmosphere of the late 1. Fogerty suspected right away that his Tin Pan Alley song was a radio friendly hit, and he was right. The song hit 2 in the US, reached 8 in the UK, and 1 in Austria. This was the first of five singles by Creedence that went to 2 on the US chart. They had the most 2 songs without ever having a 1. Despite popular belief, John Fogerty was not writing from experience when he wrote this. Thanks to his military commitment, he hadnt ventured further east than Montana. This was a 4 hit in the US for Ike and Tina Turner in 1. Tina Turner recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1. Workin Together album When we cut the album, we were lacking a few tunes, so we said Well, lets just put in a few things that were doing on stage. And thats how Proud Mary came about. I had loved it when it first came out. We auditioned a girl and she had sung Proud Mary. This is like 8 months later, and Ike said, You know, I forgot all about that tune. And I said lets do it, but lets change it. So in the car Ike plays the guitar, we just sort of jam. And we just sort of broke into the black version of it. It was never planned to say, Well, lets go to the record shop, and Id like to record this tune by Aretha Franklin. Proud Mary attracted 3. Over 1. 00 have been made since. These are the US charting versions Creedence Clearwater Revival 2, 1. Solomon Burke 4. Checkmates, Ltd. Sonny Charles 6. Ike Tina Turner 4, 1. Glee Cast 1. 15, 2. The line, Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans is actually Pumped a lot of Pane, as in propane. He was pumping gas. Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek, recorded an infamous cover of this song. Near the end, he sings the chorus Elmer Fudd style Big wheel keep on toynin, Pwoud Mawy keep on boinin. It is included on a CD called Golden Throats. John Fogerty about how the guitar riff came about I dont know where the germ started. I can kind of remember writing the chords at the beginning of the song. Believe it or not, I was playing around with the famous riff from Beethovens Fifth Symphony. I used to tell people that the song sounds like what its about. I thought, by the way, that the opening riff sounded just like the wheel at the back of a boat. Proud Mary is not a side wheeler, its a stern wheeler. Even though Creedence Clearwater Revival was from El Cerrito, California, many people thought they were from New Orleans or some other part of the South because of their swamp rock sound. They helped feed the rumor by naming their second album Bayou Country. Ike and Tina Turners version charted for the first time in the UK on the chart dated October 2, 2. X Factor by auditioneees Diva Fever. This version was credited to Tina Turner only. Ike and Tina performed their version on the Season 2 premiere of Soul Train in 1. The show became very popular its first season because of the dancers, but they were able to book many famous guests in subsequent seasons. The first time that Fogerty heard Ike and Tinas version he was in the car. He recalled to When it ended, if they had a camera and came back to me itd be like, when Shrek and the donkey go to Far, Far Away and they push the button for that little arcade machine and it tells the whole story of their townAnd the Donkeys like Eddie Murphy impression Lets do that again Thats how I felt when that ended. I loved it, and I was so honored. I was like, Wow, Ike and Tina I had actually been following their career for quite some time. Way back in the day, when Janis and Grace Slick started to get known by the kids who were my age, Id be like, Man, Tina Turner, cmon She finally got her due, but for a while there, she wasnt noticed. It was a really good version, and it was different. I mean, thats the key. Instead of the same thing, it was really exciting. On February 1. John Fogerty went to the Palomino Club in North Hollywood to see Taj Mahal, an artist Fogerty calls an American treasure. As told in Fogertys memoir, while trying to remain incognito and listen to Taj, he noticed that Bob Dylan was doing the exact same thing in the corner of the venue. Fogerty went to Dylan and learned that George Harrison had gone there, too. Someone let Taj know who was in the house, and Taj promptly called them all onstage. Dylan played one of his songs. Harrison played Honey, Dont and then they all did Twist and Shout. At that point, Dylan called out that Fogerty had to do Proud Mary. At that point in his life, Fogerty had sworn off all of his old CCR material, out of bitterness and spite against both his old band and his old label. So Fogerty said he didnt want to play the song, but Dylan responded, If you dont do Proud Mary, everybodys gonna think its a Tina Turner song. With that, Fogerty ripped into the song and had a great time playing it. Welcome to The Unheard Beethoven This website endeavors to make all of Beethovens unrecorded music readily accessible to the public. Ludwig van Beethoven 1. Most people are familiar with a few of his works, if nothing more than the beginning of the Fifth Symphony, the Finale of the Ninth Symphony and the Moonlight. Sonata. Beethoven of course wrote a great deal more than those well known works one catalog of his compositions runs to 8. While several hundred of these works have been recorded on one medium or another, there still remain literally hundreds of other works which have never been recorded at all, or which have never been published in widely available editions or in some cases, never published at allThere are thus hundreds of Beethoven works which, until now, have been available only to scholars and specialists. Now YOU may judge for yourself as to whether these pieces deserve a wider hearing and the ability to join the repertoire. These never before heard works are now available to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection, in the form of MIDI files and mp. 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