Proud Mary

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Written by: John Fogerty
Produced by: Fogerty
Released: Jan. '69 on Fantasy
Charts: 14 weeks
Top spot: No. 2

"It was, like, the first really good song I ever wrote," Fogerty said of "Proud Mary." He wrote it after his Army discharge: "I was fooling with the chord changes and started singing about the river. I realized, 'Well, maybe if I make it about the boat.' "

Appears on: Bayou Country (Fantasy)

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