Artist: John Fogerty
Video: From YouTube.
John Fogerty was sued for releasing this song, because it sounded a lot like "Run Through The Jungle", a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR). You know who the lead singer and founder of CCR was? JOHN FOGERTY.
Ridiculous. It is an original. From whom else would you have to hidey-hidey-hide? The Grim Reaper, of course, cleverly disguised as "The Old Man Down The Road".
Peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, this was the highest charting song from Fogerty's comeback album. The song "Centerfield" is a timeless classic, but oddly it whiffed on both the MTV countdown and the Billboard top 40.
The video is a long sequence shot, beginning in the swampiest of jungle swamps. The camera settles on a friendly kemosabe, who lifts a blanket to reveal a speaker with extension cord attached. As the scene progresses, a variety of colorful characters are found along the path of this unusually lengthy cord.
After passing a couple having a picnic, a cheerleader at a call box, motorcycle riders, a pregnant woman, and a grave digger, the cord finally ends with Fogerty himself in a somewhat residential neighborhood, rocking out on his gee-tar.
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