Does Fortunate Son have a music video?
“Beyond its anti-war sentiment, Fortunate Son is an anthem for the 99%ers, condensing a critique of elitism and class privilege into three simple, but powerfully defiant words: It Ain’t Me,” Craft Recordings explained. Directed by Ben Fee, the music video celebrates working-class people in America.
Did CCR sing Heard It Through the Grapevine?
Among the countless other versions of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” that have emphasised the song’s towering durability, the epic 11-minute version by Creedence Clearwater Revival, on their 1970 album Cosmo’s Factory, belatedly became their final Billboard Hot 100 chart entry in 1976.
Was Fortunate Son actually played in Vietnam?
“Fortunate Son” appeared in an episode of “American Dad!” set at a Vietnam reenactment. It was also used in the soundtrack of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam videogame. “It’s gotten really difficult to place music in scenes about Vietnam and come up with something really fresh, you know?” says Sill.
Who had the biggest hit with Heard It Through the Grapevine?
Gladys Knight & the Pips
It went to number one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and number two on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and shortly became the biggest selling Motown single to date….I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
| “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” | |
|---|---|
| Single by Gladys Knight & the Pips | |
| Released | September 28, 1967 |
| Recorded | June 17, 1967 |
Did CCR play Woodstock?
As John Fogerty would later put it, Creedence truly was the “hottest shot on Earth” as the band took the stage at Woodstock. Creedence Clearwater Revival released two albums in early 1969. The audience was familiar with Bayou Country and Green River as they took the Woodstock stage.
Did Aretha Franklin record Heard It Through the Grapevine?
Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded “Grapevine” on June 17, 1967, in Motown’s Studio A, also with Norman Whitfield as producer. After hearing Aretha Franklin’s version of “Respect”, Whitfield rearranged “Grapevine” to include some of the funk elements of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Was CCR a hippie band?
Not that Creedence Clearwater Revival didn’t look like hippies – they did – and they were embraced by the West Coast hippie culture almost as passionately as the group’s musical antithesis, the Grateful Dead.