Did soldiers in Vietnam actually listen to Fortunate Son?

“Fortunate Son” appeared in an episode of “American Dad!” set at a Vietnam reenactment. It was also used in the soundtrack of the Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam videogame. “It’s gotten really difficult to place music in scenes about Vietnam and come up with something really fresh, you know?” says Sill.

Did they actually play music from helicopters in Vietnam?

Army military helicopters flying in on the North Vietnamese, guns blazing, as Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” plays from loudspeakers. This wasn’t reality – though rumor has it tankers in Desert Storm did the same thing – it was from the film “Apocalypse Now.” But music has been a part of war for a long time.

Was Fortunate Son played in helicopters?

Noteworthy in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, “Fortunate Son” is featured, and is the introduction song in the scene where Forrest and Bubba are shown flying in a U.S. Army UH-1C Huey helicopter, to the combat zone in South Vietnam, c. 1966, in the Vietnam War.

Did any of CCR serve in Vietnam?

“I was on active duty for six months, but I was in the Reserves between 1966 and 1968,” said Fogerty. “It was pretty intense because this was right at the height of the Vietnam War,” said Fogerty. “Every young man’s clock was running pretty fast.”

Is Bad Moon Rising about the Vietnam?

The hits “Bad Moon Rising” (1969) and “Who’ll Stop the Rain” (1970) evoked the Vietnam War and civil discord without explicitly referring to those events; “Fortunate Son” (1969) was a furious blast at wealth and status.

What was the most played song in Vietnam?

We’ve Gotta Get Out of this Place – The Animals It was frequently played by US Forces Vietnam Network disc jockeys, and in 2006 an in-depth survey of Vietnam veterans found that it was the song they most identified with: We had absolute unanimity is this song being the touchstone. This was the Vietnam anthem.

Did CCR do drugs?

“Were there any drugs involved? Yeah, I smoked a little pot. I think my bandmates smoked quite a bit more pot. I had rules: never do that when we’re recording, never do that when we’re playing.