<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Down on the Corner" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Fortunate Son" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Travelin' Band" (1970) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Down on the Corner" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Fortunate Son" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Travelin' Band" (1970) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Fortunate Son" is a song by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival released on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys in 1969 . It was released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1969 . It soon became an anti-war movement anthem; an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it . </P> <P> The song reached #14 on the United States charts on November 22, 1969, the week before Billboard changed its methodology on double - sided hits . The tracks combined to climb to #9 the next week, on the way to peaking at #3 three more weeks later, on 20 December 1969 . It won the RIAA Gold Disc award in December 1970 . Pitchfork Media placed it at number 17 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s". Rolling Stone placed it at #99 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list . In 2014, the song was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ." </P>

Who sang i ain't no fortunate one