john fogerty was the original artist of proud mary.
john fogerty was the original artist of proud mary.
who is the original artist of proud mary?
john fogerty
"bayou country" contains what is arguably john fogerty's most heralded composition, "proud mary", which peaked at #2 on the singles chart. in a 1969 interview, fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the national guard. in the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of "bayou country", joel selvin explained that the riffs for "proud mary", "born on the bayou", and "keep on chooglin'" were conceived by fogerty at a concert in the avalon ballroom, and "proud mary" was arranged from parts of different songs, one of which was about a "washerwoman named mary". the line "left a good job in the city" was written following fogerty's discharge from the national guard, and the line "rollin' on the river" was from a movie by will rogers. in the macintosh program "garage band", fogerty explained that he liked beethoven's fifth symphony, and wanted to open a song with a similar intro, inferring the way "proud mary" opens with the repeated c chord to a chord. in 1998, fogerty admitted to harold steinblatt of "guitar world" that he knew the composition was "my first really good song. i was 23 years old, i believe, and i'd been kind of playing at music for 10 years. but i recognized the importance of 'proud mary' immediately." in the same interview, fogerty stated that the guitar solo was "me trying to be steve cropper," the guitarist from booker t. & the m.g.'s. the song was acclaimed almost immediately, with solomon burke scoring a minor hit with it in 1969 and a radically rearranged version appearing on ike and tina turner's 1971 lp "workin' together". bob dylan told "rolling stone" in a 1969 interview that it was his favorite song of the year. in 2012, fogerty recalled to "uncut"'s david cavanagh that he was extremely focused at the time, honing his songwriting with a single-mindedness that led to a proficient string of hits:
bayou country (album)
section::::ike & tina turner/tina turner versions.:formats and track listings.









































1971 us 7"









































bullet::::1. proud mary – 3:15









































bullet::::2. funkier than a mosquito's tweeter – 2:40









































1993 us 7" and cassette single









































bullet::::1. "proud mary (edit live version) – 4:32









































bullet::::2. "the best" (live) – 5:22









































1993 us cd single









































bullet::::1. "proud mary (edit live version) – 4:32









































bullet::::2. "proud mary (edit) – 4:10









































bullet::::3. "we don't need another hero (thunderdome)" (live) – 4:55









































bullet::::4. "the best" (live) – 5:22









































section::::ike & tina turner/tina turner versions.:chart performance.









































ike & tina turner version









































section::::ike & tina turner/tina turner versions.:chart performance.:year-end charts.
proud mary