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"Centerfield" is the title track from John Fogerty's album Centerfield, his first solo album after a nine-year hiatus. Originally the B-side of the album's second single, "Rock and Roll Girls" (#20 US, Spring 1985), the song is now commonly played at baseball games across the United States. [1]
Cash Box called "Rock and Roll Girls" a "pure rock celebration" and said that "Fogerty’s lead vocal is classic." [8] Rolling Stone Magazine critic Kurt Loder praised "Rock and Roll Girls" as "a rather spectacular demonstration of what can still be done with three shitty chords and a blazing sax.” [9] The Age critic Mike Daily described it as having "the breezy appeal of a Buddy Holly song."
Centerfield is the third solo studio album by musician John Fogerty. Released on January 14, 1985, it spawned the hit singles " The Old Man Down the Road " (Fogerty's only top 10 hit as a solo artist), " Rock and Roll Girls " and the title track " Centerfield ".
"The Old Man Down the Road" is a song by American rock artist John Fogerty. It was released in December 1984 as the lead single from Fogerty's comeback album, Centerfield . It became Fogerty's only top 10 hit single as a solo artist, peaking at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 , and spending three weeks at the number-one spot on the ...
John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty, he founded the swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter.
John Fogerty is an American rock musician who has recorded both solo and as a member of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty has released ten studio albums between his debut album The Blue Ridge Rangers in 1973, to his most recent release, Fogerty's Factory , in 2020.
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The song is referenced in John Fogerty’s song "Centerfield" with the line, “A-roundin' third, and headed for home, It's a brown-eyed handsome man.” References