John Fogarty (C.C.R.), responding to questions: To me, those 1950’s records were right - some of the Sun Records... At the time I didn’t know any better. It didn’t even occur to me that you could sound any other way. To me the right way was rock and roll, and rock the right way was 1955. Rock was always something to protect, like an endangered species. JF: Oh, yeah. My singing’s obnoxious. [My playing] is just a little wrong all the way through. [But] there are some records that are super because of that. “Midnight Special” is on purpose out of tune and it’s really neat that way. It wouldn’t be right any other way - it would sound much too clean and pure.