“Run Through the Jungle” is a solid tune, but it didn’t really grab headlines until 1985 when Fogerty released a solo track called “The Old Man Down the Road.” That April, CCR released the Fogerty-penned “Run Through the Jungle” as a single that would eventually be certified gold by the RIAA. The seeds for Fogerty’s day in court traced back 23 years to 1970. Instead, Fogerty was in the middle of an important, somewhat obscure corner of copyright law. The country’s highest court wasn’t debating whether Bayou Country or Green River was the superior CCR album. In 1993, former Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty found himself at the center of a case being argued before the United States Supreme Court.
