" Upon the single release, Record World felt that it could be CCR's biggest hit to date. Reception īillboard said it has "the feel and flavor of the recent winner. They weren't being affected like the rest of us. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their parents were doing. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the military. "Fortunate Son" wasn't really inspired by any one event. Eisenhower spent three years in the military, most of it as an officer aboard the USS Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.
Eisenhower, who married Julie Nixon after he escorted her at the International Debutante Ball, the daughter of then-President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, when he wrote "Fortunate Son". Īccording to his 2015 memoir, Fogerty was thinking about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song. Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why. The thoughts behind this song-it was a lot of anger. "It's the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them." In 2015, while on the television show The Voice, he also said: involvement in the Vietnam War, is not explicit in its criticism of that war in particular, rather, it "speaks more to the unfairness of class than war itself," according to its author, John Fogerty. The song, released during the peak period of the U.S. In 2013, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Rolling Stone placed it at number 99 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
Pitchfork Media placed it at number 17 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s". It won the RIAA Gold Disc award in December 1970. The tracks combined to climb to number 9 the next week, on the way to peaking at number 3 three more weeks later, on 20 December 1969. The song reached number 14 on the United States charts on November 22, 1969, the week before Billboard changed its methodology on double-sided hits. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. It soon became an anti-war movement anthem and an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. It was previously released as a single, together with " Down on the Corner", in September 1969. " Fortunate Son" is a song by the American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in November 1969. Creedence Clearwater Revival singles chronology
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