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Yes, the people that owned Fantasy Records also owned all my early songs, and they would do all kinds of stuff I really hated in a commercial way with my songs.

... Then one day somebody from the L. A. Times actually bothered to call me up and ask me how I felt, and I finally had a chance to talk about it.

And I said I'm very much against my song being used to sell pants.

...

So my position got stated very well in the newspaper, and lo and behold, Wrangler to their credit said, " Wow, even though we made our agreement with the publisher, the owner of the song, we can see now that John Fogerty really hates the idea ," so they stopped doing it.