Down on the Corner
by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- 108
- BPM
- C major
- Key
- 8B
- Camelot
- 86
- Danceability
- 59
- Acousticness
A newspaper ad gave John Fogerty the idea for "Down on the Corner". Disney's ad said "Winnie the Pooh" in big letters. Something in his head turned it into "Winnie the Pooh and the Pooh Boys", which became Willy and the Poor Boys. The music came in the weird, almost uncontrollable way it comes to songwriters, he said. Winnie the Pooh was his favorite character, one he shared with his daughter Kelsy.
The song follows a fictional band that plays on street corners to cheer people up and ask for nickels. It names a harmonica, a washboard, a kazoo, a Kalamazoo guitar and a gut bass. When the band performed it on The Music Scene in 1969, they dressed as Willy and the Poor Boys, with Stu Cook on gut bass, Doug Clifford on washboard and Tom Fogerty on the Kalamazoo.
It was the B-side of "Fortunate Son" and appeared on Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969. The combined single hit number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969. It went to number two in Germany, but stalled at number 31 in the UK.
Down on the Corner runs at 108 BPM, the tempo of mid-tempo pop, dancehall and indie. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.22 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 556 ms. It is in C major, Camelot 8B, which shares its notes with A minor and mixes cleanly with F major and G major.
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