The band also played the song in a jam session with Booker T and the MGs one day before.
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It also appears on The Concert album recorded that night and In Concert TV show broadcast in summer 1971.
There're two documented Creedence Clearwater gigs with "Down on the Corner" in the set list: the homecoming concert at Oakland Coliseum on Januand the concert in Essen, Germmany on April 12, 1970. Obviously that was close to Willy and the Poor Boys. He twisted the Disney ad into Winnie the Poo and the Poo Boys. John Fogerty got the inspiration for the album title from a Winnie the Poo ad in a paper. Fogerty was looking out the window of his hotel room and saw the other band members hanging around by the swimming pool, waiting to be picked up for the taping (John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, 2015). The band was taping The Andy Williams Show in Universal City, California. Fogerty invented the characters on the week preceding the Woodstock Festival when the song was already evolving. The cover picture of Willy and the Poor Boys features the band playing in front of Duck Kee Market in the intersection of Peralta Street and Hollis Street in Oakland, California. Lyrically, the song describes a street band playing traditional instruments. It is based on a low funky guitar riff, which kicks off the song and is repeated throughout the tune.
"Down on the Corner" combines elements from soul and funk. The song peaked at #3 in the USA, #31 in the UK and #2 in Germany. "Down on the Corner" also opens the Willy and the Poor Boys album. "Down on the Corner", backed with " Fortunate Son" was the fourth 45 rpm Creedence Clearwater Revival released in 1969.
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