Thursday, January 30, 2020

"A Lot Of Bread In Those Days" - The John Fogerty Interview

"We always loved that name," John Fogerty says. "The Golliwogs! It had class, and it had that kind of British feeling that was current at the time. My girlfriend, Susi, she came up with it. She had this cute soft toy collection, Raggedy Andy, that was another one, but she just knew that Golliwogs was right - spiritually. She was intuitive that way, star signs, like that. Anyway, I loved it, but the band thought it ... well, they didn't go for it a whole bunch, but what you gonna do? We had the cover slick printed up and everything, for the album, which looked great, way before that whole Sergeant Pepper thing. We could only afford to rent two costumes, though. Just the jackets, the hats. Eight bucks! That was a lot of bread in those days. Never got that back."

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12 comments:

  1. YoeshkaJanuary 30, 2020 at 7:41 PM

    I'd sure like to hear me some Golliwogs, Mr III

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJanuary 30, 2020 at 7:53 PM

      Here's yer
      linkery. NOT FOR ANYONE ELSE. Show some respec', yous bums. Types we gots hangin' round here, waitin' fer honest workin' stiffs like Yoeshka to do all da woik.

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  2. pmacJanuary 30, 2020 at 9:34 PM

    Golliwogs?!? Golligee. Wonder if the Fogarty brothers were sparring as far back as then?!?

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  3. RobJanuary 31, 2020 at 4:08 AM

    They don't look like the guy on my jam jar...

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  4. Crab DevilJanuary 31, 2020 at 9:52 AM

    Thanks! Of course, I'm glad they went out on a limb and opted for CCR (when
    the convenient thing would have been to settle for The New Golliwogs).

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIJanuary 31, 2020 at 1:49 PM

      This is a swell notion. Thank you. Then, in the late sixties, they could drop the definite article to reflect their new heaviosity and insist on being known as Golliwogs.

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    2. MrDaveFebruary 1, 2020 at 4:35 AM

      My vote would have been The Raggedy Andies and they could have all dressed in matching overalls, striped shirts, and red yarn wigs!!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2020 at 4:36 PM

    I lived through their whole CCR catalogue years thinking they were down home southern New Orleans bred swamp dwellers!

    kids!

    obey-gravity

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  6. sambgodotFebruary 2, 2020 at 1:00 AM

    Of course before the Golliwogs they were Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets (though the 3rd and final 45 was credited to Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Violets, which is so rare that not even Fantasy could find a copy when making the CCR box set. The chap whoa actually owns a copy has put minute {i.e. very very short} snippets on youtube, but is obviously holding out for payment before letting the whole world hear the full versions.) Whether or not the 2 songs are worth hearing is a totally different matter. Who knows? Does anyone actually care? Does John Fogerty? Probably not. I'd like to hear them, though. I could bore for England on CCR, but I won't. Any thanks gratefully received.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2020 at 11:23 PM

    The Golliwogs' 1975's- Pre-Credence and 2017's- Fight Fire (The Complete Recordings 1964-1967)

    Also Robertson's Marmalade Golliwog 1966

    https://we.tl/t-FrKIK4CYV1

    The Scottish Connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%27s

    Yours aye
    JJWombat

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  8. sambgodotFebruary 18, 2021 at 12:12 AM

    Further to my comment of 12 months (and a few days) ago. The chap who owns the 3rd single has now upped both sides onto youtube
    Now You're Not Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL4WGqxOljU
    Yes You Did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXS0NtBHOY
    So now the world can decide whether or not they're worth hearing......

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