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In a 1969 interview, John Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. [10] In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of the Creedence Clearwater Revival album Bayou Country, Joel Selvin explained that the songs for the album started when Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for "Proud Mary", "Born on the Bayou", and "Keep ...
Rollin' on the River (later shortened to Rollin') is a musical variety television program hosted by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. They were the first pop rock group to host their own prime-time TV series. [1] (this information is incorrect.
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
The discography of American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, who released their first album and singles in July 1968, [1] includes 7 studio albums, 5 live albums, 43 compilation albums, and 29 singles.
Away you rolling river. He winked his eye, and he tipped his flipper. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. He sold the chief that fire-water, Away you rolling river. And 'cross the river he stole his daughter. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. "O, Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away you rolling river. Across that ...
My favorite record of ours is "Born on the Bayou." It's just an ass-kicker and a rolling track and, basically, where that song started was at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The boys got all their new toys. The Kuston amps were supposed to show up that night and, by God, they did.
"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river's federal hydroelectric facilities (primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam).
The film includes two versions of "Ol' Man River": the first sung by Caleb Peterson and an African-American chorus as part of the Show Boat medley, and the second, a "crooner version" by Frank Sinatra, featured as the grand finale. Barbette consulted on the creation of the film's circus sequence. [6]