High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Fortunate Son" is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their album Willy and the Poor Boys in 1968. It was released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner", in September 1968. This song reached #14 on the United States charts. 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".