John Fogerty

Finally, we're recording.

And at that time, I think we made a record with only three of us, me and Tom and Doug, the drummer.

And I overdubbed a bass part.

And this is early, or this was in 1964.

When they finally pressed the single, one side was called Little Girl.

It's kind of a four-chord doo-wop song.

The other side was sort of a English or a British invasion song.

answer kind of thing, mod music.

It was called Don't Tell Me No Lies.

Anyway, we excitedly go over to San Francisco to their warehouse and open up the package and it says The Gollywogs.

And we look at each other and go, what the hell?

No, no, no.

I think we had chosen our name to be The Visions.

It was just something at the last minute because...

We weren't really the Blue Belvets anymore, but that was it.

We thought it was going to say Visions.

But the record company had decided they wanted to get in on the British invasion mod, whatever, and named us the Gollywogs.

It sounds like Pollywog.

Yeah.

He said, well, a Gollywog, you see, is this doll that when the British soldiers were in India, the kids would have this little doll called a Gollywog.