Not sure if there are any bonus tracks, but one would hope so. I know there was a Dreamworks remaster of this album and Eye Of The Zombie a few years ago with no bonus cuts.



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MT2EPA/?tag=imwan-20

Maybe we'll get "Zanz Kant Danz" restored!

Another anniversary remaster that's a year late.

And Walter, Saul Zaentz is still alive (he's 89), so I wouldn't count on "Zanz Can't Danz" just yet...

There is an album that is very 1980s. Well at least Side B was.

I love the CCR sounding track Searchlight.

From Billboard.com:

Put him in, coach, he's ready to play -- at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Fogerty and his 1985 hit, "Centerfield," an aural fixture at ballparks of all levels around the country, will be honored at this year's National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies to commemorate its 25th anniversary on July 25 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Fogerty will play "Centerfield" at the event, the first time a musician or song has been honored in such a way, and he's donating his custom-made, baseball bat-shaped guitar for display in the museum.

"It feels great," Fogerty tells Billboard.com. "I'm a guy who's grown up loving baseball and loving the whole tradition, and of course I've been to Cooperstown a couple times. It's just fascinating for me to be a participant now. I think it was my wife (and manager, Julie) who first told me this is going to happen. You kind of go, 'They're gonna what? Wow!' It wasn't like I was expecting it at all. It just wasn't within the realm of possibility, as far as I knew. But here we are. It's great."

The Baseball Hall of Fame honor is part of a silver anniversary celebration for "Centerfield" that will also include the June 29 release of "Centerfield -- 25th Anniversary Edition," which includes the album's nine original songs plus the B-side covers of Rockin' Sydney's "My Toot Toot" and the '50s doo wop song "I Confess."

Released in early 1985, "Centerfield" was produced, performed and recorded entirely by Fogerty and was his first album in a decade. It came after a period of disillusionment following legal wrangling with Fantasy Records, Creedence Clearwater Revival's label, and having another album, "Hoodoo," rejected by Atlantic Records in 1976. "Centerfield" -- which was the album's title even before Fogerty wrote the song -- was not without turmoil, either; Fantasy owner Saul Zaentz sued Fogerty, unsuccessfully, for allegedly plagiarizing his own "Run Through the Jungle" with the "Centerfield" single "The Old Man Down the Road."

But Zaentz was able to force Fogerty to change the name of the final track -- "Zanz Kant Danz" to "Vanz Kant Danz" -- by threatening to sue for defamation.

Nevertheless, Fogerty had the last laugh with a double-platinum comeback that reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

"I was surprised," Fogerty says of the album's success. "I remember I happened to be in a supermarket, and as I rounded the corner two young guys were talking...and one of them was saying, 'Yeah, I like the Beat Farmers,' and the other guy, who was facing away from me, says, 'Y'know, that John Fogerty album, 'Centerfield,' is really great.' He doesn't see me but the guy he's talking to was looking straight at me, and we all...It was actual real. It was unsolicited. I'd been away for a long time, so that was like a heavenly moment, you know?"

Fogerty has a light touring schedule this summer, including a Bonnaroo Music Festival stop on June 13 and a an 18-date swing through Europe. He says he's thought about playing "Centerfield" in its entirety, but likely only for "a special occasion." Meanwhile, he's getting to work on a follow-up to 2009's all-star roots album "The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again."

"I'm back to the idea of creating new...rock 'n' roll songs that are kind of more my main identity," Fogerty says. "It's refreshing when you go away and do something else; it's like a little vacation. Then you come back to what you're known for and what really turns your motor, and for me it's always fun to figure out fresh ways to play rock 'n' roll."

[quote="Dr. Chris Evil"]Another anniversary remaster that's a year late.

Centerfield was released Jan. 15, 1985. It is now 2010. My math gets 25 years.

"My Toot Toot" got some play on WNEW back in the day. I bought the 45 to get it.

Here is an album that I still have the original lp vinyl and the later CD.
One of the great surprises of the 80's.
25 years have gone by?

Such a good album and wonderfully out of place with the mid-80's, yet it went to #1 and had 4 videos all over MTV! 1985 was such a cool year for music.
If I recall, did Fogerty play all of the instruments?

For some reason, I thought it came out at the end of 1984. I stand humbly corrected.

As I recall, didn't the video of "The Old Man Down The Road" not feature Fogerty at all....?

he's in a few seconds of it

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSGMRZsN4Q[/youtube]

Great video-quite clever, especially for its time.
Chris, the pre-album single "The Old Man Down The Road" did come out in Dec. 1984-I remember the MTV premiere video as well, that's probably what you were thinking of.

There are two bonus tracks--the non-lp single "I Confess"/"My Toot Toot" which was released just before "Eye of the Zombie" (probably would have fit better there BUT no one would have bought that album).

During 1985, Fogerty also did a Showtime TV special. It circulated on cassette tape back in the 80s...Wikipedia says, "On May 31, 1985 Fogerty filmed a one-hour music and interview special for MTV's "Saturday Night Concert" series called "John Fogerty's All-Stars". The set list consisted of R&B tunes from the 1960s as well as material from the "Centerfield" LP and was recorded in front of an audience of Warners Brothers Music employees. The band included Albert Lee, Booker T. Jones, Duck Dunn, and Prairie Prince amongst others. This program was never aired due to contractual problems with Fantasy Records."

A fan-site lists the track list as, ""Mary Don't You Weep", "My Pretty Baby", "Leave My Woman Alone", "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go", "I Need Your Lovin'", "I Confess", "I'm A Man"/"Masnish Boy", "No Loving You", "Rock And Roll Girls", "My Toot Toot". "My Toot Toot" was played at Atchafalaya Basin Louisiana with Rockin' Sydney..."

There are several released songs on that list that could be used as bonus tracks.

I've never heard this CD, yet I have three other JF albums. Now might be the time to rectify that...

Jim

I don't care how the lawsuit turned out--"The Old Man Down The Road" sounds EXACTLY like "Run Through The Jungle".

EXACTLY.

A correction--I checked my singles and both bonus tracks are songs that were b-sides for "Eye of the Zombie" singles so it wasn't (as my memory insisted) a stand alone single.

Geffen? Wasn't the original release on Warner Bros.?

Picked up my copy yesterday. The SQ is excellent. Love the added tracks. This is an all time classic lp.

Fogerty licensed it out to Geffen along with his other titles that he owns the rights to.

I believe it was. At some point, Geffen/Universal got the rights and reissued Fogerty's solo stuff from the '80s and '90s.