John Fogerty
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, I really, I felt...
what's that, bonded to that, I guess?
Like, I really like this, whatever it is.
Well, they began to notice that I was musical.
So at some point, I know, again, at my fourth birthday, somebody gave me, or I had a little toy harmonica
And my dad, you know, those little plastic kind of things.
My dad picked it up and he played Oh Susanna in the cowboy style.
In other words, it was probably a C harmonica.
He played in C, not like blues players do bending notes.
He played that thing you see in the cowboy movies when they're sitting around the campfire.
I'd never seen my dad do anything like that.
And then on top of that, my mom could play piano, what we now call stride piano.
She would hit the... And then play a chord, like an octave of bass notes, and then a chord above it.
Keep that going as like the drummer in the thing.
And then play melody and high notes up above.
And it was, you know, she would...
One of my favorite ones was Harvest Moon, Shine On Harvest Moon, which is a great song.