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From a Maid to a Riverboat: The Origins of the Creedence Clearwater Revival Song-Turned-Tina Turner Chart-Topper, “Proud Mary”
When John Fogerty first started writing the lyrics to “Proud Mary,” a riverboat didn’t factor into it. “She gets off the bus every morning and goes to work and holds their lives together ...
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John Fogerty on CCR’s "Proud Mary" and the 19th century composer who inspired it
"When I finished with ‘Proud Mary’ and I was holding that piece of paper in my hand, almost 90 percent of it was on the page there, and I had a title and a chorus. And I could just hear it.