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To put the two art forms together and have it be effective is kinda cool.вЂќ вЂњIt shows the longevity of the catalog,вЂќ says Clifford, who first noticed the Vietnam/Creedence phenomenon decades ago. And he never will.вЂќ In 2005, Fogerty vented to NPR: вЂњFolks will remember Forrest Gump and that was a great movie, but they donвЂ™t remember all the really poor movies that Fantasy Records stuck Creedence music into: car commercials, tire commercials.вЂќ Just last month, the singer denounced the film Proud Mary for using his song title without consulting him. вЂњHe doesnвЂ™t like it being used in anything,вЂќ says Clifford.

вЂњ position was based on an emotional battle he was having in the business world, and I didnвЂ™t want that to affect the film.вЂќ (Fogerty declined to be interviewed for this piece.) вЂњIn spite of his efforts, we were able to validate the licensing process,вЂќ Sill says. вЂњAnd he really tried to make a case against us being able to use it.вЂќ According to Sill, Fogerty called the president of Paramount Pictures to ask that his music not be used in Gump. вЂњJohn didnвЂ™t want his music used if Saul was going to profit from it,вЂќ Sill recalls. The frontman had long signed away control of his songs, and his relationship with Fantasy Records boss Saul Zaentz, who did own the publishing rights, had turned ugly. вЂњI got lots of notes from people in the music and film business, saying how well it worked,вЂќ Sill recalls.Д«ut Fogerty disapproved. The Creedence cue was perhaps the crown jewel of its bullet-speed musical references. The Gump scene was a success, and the film became a box office monster, grossing $677 million worldwide.

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If youвЂ™re soundtracking a movie set between 19, why not go with the iconic band whose hits were entirely clustered between 19? But the brevity of the bandвЂ™s career seems to have contributed to its longevity as a cultural avatar of one hyperspecific era-a particularly tumultuous period thatвЂ™s constantly depicted onscreen. The band recorded at an absurd pace, releasing three LPs in 1969 alone, and disbanded less than five years after adopting the Creedence name. вЂњCreedence was part of the soundtrack of the time.вЂќД¬reedenceвЂ™s career was a model of speedy efficiency: seven albums in four years. вЂњThat was when the band was popular,вЂќ says bassist Stu Cook.

Most Creedence songs contain no direct reference to the war (though вЂњRun Through the JungleвЂќ is frequently misinterpreted as such), but they do evoke a period when the war dominated American life. (Plenty of non-Vietnam-related films set in that era use Creedence songs for this purpose too, including Rudy, My Girl, and Remember the Titans, to name a few.)

And culturally, the bandвЂ™s roots-rock hooks functioned as a nostalgic shorthand, immediately situating scenes in the late вЂ™60s or early вЂ™70s. In his memoir, Fogerty describes being thanked in the вЂ™90s by a Vietnam veteran who told him that his squad routinely played Creedence to prepare for combat: вЂњвЂEvery night, just before weвЂ™d go out into the jungle, we would turn on all the lights in our encampment, put on вЂBad Moon Rising,вЂ™ and blast it as loud as we could.вЂ™вЂќД«ut during the вЂ™80s and early вЂ™90s, music supervisors increasingly latched onto Creedence for two underlying reasons: Legally, the music was readily obtainable, because Fogerty had signed away distribution and publishing rights to Fantasy Records (a decision heвЂ™d later regret). Most troops had access to radios, Lair writes, and вЂњby 1969, one-third of American soldiers listened to the radio more than five hours per day.вЂќ Presumably, Creedence was getting some airplay. Lair argues that music was widely used to improve troop morale. In her book about consumerism in the Vietnam War, historian Meredith H. Was Creedence actually popular among the troops? Maybe. as Vietnam-era pilots caught in a drug-smuggling ring. A decade later, the trend started to really catch on: 1969, a meditation on the warвЂ™s impact on a small town released in 1988, used вЂњGreen River,вЂќ while Oliver StoneвЂ™s 1989 classic Born on the Fourth of July featured a cover of вЂњBorn on the Bayou.вЂќ The following year, вЂњRun Through the JungleвЂќ was used in the widely panned Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. Then, in 1979, Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford CoppolaвЂ™s Vietnam-set war epic, used Flash CadillacвЂ™s cover of вЂњSuzie QвЂќ (a song popularized, though not written, by Creedence) during its disturbing Playmates sequence.

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