I think, perhaps, what my mom may have done, accidentally, was set me off in a direction we would now, loosely, call ‘Americana.’ ” “ ‘Oh! Susanna,’ I loved it then,” Fogerty told me. This moment, one of Fogerty’s earliest memories, is also the starting point of his new memoir, “Fortunate Son,” which goes on to detail his life as a songwriter and leader of the great American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival. But it’s remarkable to me that she explained that the songs were written by Foster. I didn’t know about the calendar, history, and all of that. Now, for a while, I think I actually believed Stephen Foster was in there somewhere, singing on the record. The other side was ‘Camptown Races.’ After she played the two songs, she told me those songs were written by Stephen Foster. One side was ‘Oh! Susanna,’ which I really loved. My mom sat me down and presented me with a little children’s record. “I was very young,” John Fogerty said, late last month, on the phone from his home in California.
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