I grew up on the great music of the 60's-70's. CCR has always been one of my favorites. Had a lot of their records. John Fogerty has one of the most unique & recognizable voices around. They don't have a bad song! Huge list of hits! "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", "Down On The Corner", "I Put A Spell On You", "Proud Mary", "Green River", "Born On The Bayou", "Fortunate Son", "Travelin' Band", "Who'll Stop The Rain", "Run Through The Jungle", "Lookin' Out My Back Door", "Long As I Can See the Light", "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" etc.
You got that right. All their songs were over the top. For a few years you would hear at least one of their songs every hour on the radio. Lol How fortunate we were.
I think most people refer to them as CCR or just Creedence. It's too much of a tongue twister to always say the whole thing. I'm so glad you listened to them again. Not a bad song in the whole bunch. I love Looking Out My Back Door or I Put A Spell On You.
Love Creedence! I'm so happy that you have moved to the 60's and 70's Era. There are so many artists that you will discover. You won't go wrong listening to any of them!! Enjoy! I love watching your reactions!!😊😊😊
A great song. I remember we had that single, first the A side and then playing the B side. Awesome. I grew up in the sixties. Those were the days with fantastic music. 🎶🎶🎶👍
This is definitely a song you need and want stereo headphones for! The way things bounce from ear to ear is awesome and fascinating at the same time! CCR forever!
Never forgotten when my cousin did this piece and he looked me straight in my eyes. My name is Susanne…I was maybe 13 and he 16. Everytime i remember, when i‘m listening to this song 🙂 Love it till today.
This one is a fantastic cover. I seriously recommend diving deeper into the swamp with a song such as Run Through the Jungle, or Born on the Bayou...either that or their rock & roll defining song Green River.
The medium of 45 r.p.m. vinyl records on which "singles" were released those days had limits. A 7-inch 45 RPM record could fit a maximum of approximately 5 minutes per side for a total of 10 minutes on both sides. Generally, any longer, the sound quality would start to deteriorate. So an 8 minute song either could not be released as a single, had to be edited down to a shorter length or had to be split in half between both sides of the disk. Album version is absolutely preferrable.
Almost every song they do is different, but ALL are unmistakably CCR. Yes... Swamp Rock at its Best. They were unlike anything else we had heard up till then / Them. 🎹🎹🎹 🎸🎸
♥ CCR! Suggest these CCR songs: Green River, I Heard It Thru The Grapevine, Fortunate Son, Travelin Band, Born On The Bayou & Have You Ever Seen The Rain
You can say CCR, or "CREEDANCE" in place of the whole name. Howlin Wolf did this in the 50s. I saw John Fogerty ((F-ohhh-gerty----like Go gerty) in concert in 1998. Still had the same exact show. (without the band that he split with in the 70s)
As you can see, the voice compression effect goes all the way back into the 60s. Once the stereo / FM format was developed, there was a new spatial element to play with for sound, plus there was room to play more with sound in high fidelity or compression. FWIW, bands like CCR, Led Zep, and Chicago were all formed around the same time. Quite a bit of difference between them, but all of them contemporaries, a couple years after the Doors.
CCR is a great great band...the first thing to keep in mind is they were in the era where radio songs were all around a three minute mark, so like everyone else around then, lots of CCR songs are short...fortunately not all are short though..John Fogerty's voice is amazing
Songs which start with Drums are rare and usually are hits...Feel free to fact check it! (or ask your listeners for examples.. love the reactions, keep having fun!
It is accepted to refer to them as CCR, similar to ELO. FYI this was played at our wedding reception over 30 years ago, yes my wife's name is Susan but many in her family call her Suzie. These boys from LA played like they were from the Bayou...
This was a big hit, one that I've kind of overlooked. I really like so many of their songs, and even their more unknown songs, actually. CCR is consistent in quality. The best way is to hear all their main albums. At least through Cosmos Factory or Pendulum. But being a reactor makes it difficult. Some I like: 'Tombstone Shadow', 'Feeling Blue', 'Cross-tie Walker', 'Keep on Chooglin', 'Ramble Tamble', 'Effigy'.
Great group, John forerty's voice is different but so good. Lot of their songs are short, but pack a lot in. Do Travelin Band, fast pace and getcha going
CCR is a fascinating band and i listened to them for a very long time before i knew their story, the band was made up primarily of two brothers for the purpose of this story, an older brother, tom, and a younger brother john. During the time they went by other group names and up until the point they became "Creedence Clearwater Revival" john did not play a major part in the writing of full songs for the band or full creative control. When they realized john was writing such good songs, they decided to make john the frontman for the band, and john assumed full creative control over how his songs were written, played and performed, during this time john was allegedly overbearing about decisions for the good of the band and would go so far as to record over backup vocals he thought inadequate when people left the room. It should be noted that all of the CCR songs you know and love are from this time, and they had major success. Eventually the band decided they wanted john to give up full control and it was decided everything would be done by a vote, very shortly after this point johns older brother tom would leave the band to persue a solo career after a lot of turberlence between the bandmembers and john. The only album the band would produce under democratic control would be very disappointing and john became depressed and had a very tough time writing for years after the disollution of CCR. The other bandmates would use their votes to sell their rights to CCRs music and allow the Record Executive with which john had a long standing fued gain control over all of johns beloved music. In the end john would put out one of the most classic solo albums of all time, Centerfield, with a song by the same title that i GUARANTEE you have heard a lot even if you dont know it by name. They were skyrocketed to fame and defined an entire Decade in just 4 years, most of their hits being written in just 14 months span, and you will never again watch a movie about Vietnam and not hear the mind of John Foggerty.
In those days music companies controlled the artists and signed them to contracts for a certain number of albums in a period of time. Also to be played on radio stations and get “exposure “, songs had to be limited to around 4 minutes. That is a huge reason that artists toured so they could extend the length of the songs and jam!!! People loved it and concerts were everywhere and every weekend at colleges and civic arenas. I saw 3 headliner bands at a Midwestern college for the ticket price of $3.50 !!!! Also saw a nationally known band at a SKATING RINK with only standing room…no seats! Lots of great music and fun substances, quite unlike the poison sold today….guess you had to be there….
Back in the day, if you wanted to get your song on the radio, it had to be under a time limit, I am not sure what that limit was, but you can probably sense it by looking at hit songs of the era. As a band, you had to get under their skin, and into their soul, in about two minutes.
That debut album was fantastic but then again I love everything that they ever did. But check out the song Penthouse Pauper from this same first album. It is amazing. And it even has a punchline at the end, laugh.
If you really want some psychedelic swamp rock, try their tracks "Gloomy" and "Walk on the Water" from the same album. There is also a longer (10+ minute) version of "Suzie Q" from a live show, which they included on the 40th anniversary edition of their debut album, and it is also awesome.
Great ? .. awesome u thought to ask. They're known as CCR as well. Of course there are some bands that no one referred to with abbreviations regularly. I've heard a couple of reactors do that b4 with bands that never abbreviated their names & its just weird. CCR is always great listening❣️👍🏼
Start paying attention to this Salvo and see if you can notice what I am about to say. The right side of your brain loves the sound of bass, and the left side of your brain likes the highs and mid tones. When you know this, you can see how good the producer actually is. You can tell who produced this album knows that. All the bass is on the left channel and all the highs and mids are on the right channel. The left ear goes to the right side of the brain and the right ear goes to the left side of the brain. Now, when you listen to music see if you can tell if that is the truth? The majority of music will have the bass tones on the left channel and the highs on the right channel, and the vocals close to the middle, but a tad usually to the right channel. Though, the vocals on this seems to be more on the right then the middle, which makes sense, because the left brain is where creativity and stories come from, and the right side of the brain is more with logic and math. Bass is more logical. Guitar is more emotional. And, another thing to look at, see if you can hear 3 vocal tracks for the main vocal track, not sure if its done on this song, without listening again. I am not sure when they started doing that in recording.
Kudos to the sound engineer's mixing. That's all we ever refered to them by was CCR. Pick a song they're all good. If you do Heard it Through the Grapevine listen to the long version it's 11 minutes. I Put a Spell on you .. N I ain't lying ... ✌️ 🤠🏞️🐂
So tickled you are hitting CCR, yes, you may refer to them as CCR! You are listening to the sound track of my youth! If you want more swamp.. Born on the Bayou, but you can't go wrong with CCR! Also check out Heard it Through the Grapevine, long version.
