John Fogerty

And the band wouldn't actually hear the whole song until I had gone into the studio after that recording process and added my vocal, sang the background vocal parts.

Oh, wow.

Played the conga drum or the shakers or tambourine or piano, you know, all the other stuff.

Then they heard how the song went.

So they learned their parts as instrumentals.

And this was exactly that way.

I showed them how to play what was the form of the song.

And I don't think I had told them the name of the song yet.

I thought I was writing a song called Favorite Son.

Because starting in 1952 when they sent my second grade class, I think, home to watch...

to watch the inauguration, I believe, of Eisenhower.

I think that's what it was.

We had a tiny little TV.

All I saw was big black limousines.

That was my entire impression of the presidential thing and politics.

So after that, I kind of would watch parts of the conventions in the summer.

There'd be these gigantic...

I didn't know what they were then, but these big rooms full of smoke.

And every once in a while, somebody...

Your Honor, the great state of Texas would like to nominate her favorite son, Billy Saul Estes, or whatever.