John Fogerty pursued a solo career, although he refused to perform any CCR hits until 1987 when both Dylan and George Harrison told him everyone would think, “Proud Mary’ is Tina Turner’s song” unless he did them. The latter, which contained the Top Ten single “Sweet Hitch-Hiker,” was the last album they recorded before the band officially disbanded in October 1972. The remaining members went on to record Mardi Gras, and a double album, Live in Europe. An agreement for more democratic decision-making was reached but came too late for Tom Fogerty, who left the band in 1971 to pursue a solo career. Tensions arose among the other group members as they vied for a greater say in band decisions, which had, till then, been made exclusively by John. The same genius responsible for Creedence’s tremendous popularity, however, also contributed to their eventual demise. Put him into almost any great rock band of the 60s and 70s and he would have at least held his own as their lead singer and more often as not improved upon what they did. In addition to writing the band’s material and producing their records, there was his soulful voice – he’s the archetypical ‘rock vocalist’. The man responsible for their exalted position was John Fogerty. As they walked on stage just after midnight on the Saturday their current record, ‘Green River’ was at No.15, its third week on the American chart it would be their third single to stall at No.2.īy 1970, CCR had undeniably become the number one American rock and roll attraction. Their hour-long set was like a greatest hits album, with ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Proud Mary’ both having reached No.2 on the Billboard charts.
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Their astounding string of successes continued with “Born on the Bayou,” “Bad Moon Rising,” and “Lodi.”ĬCR were one of the few bands at Woodstock to have had significant success on the Billboard charts, yet many people today probably don’t even know that they actually appeared on the bill, because they did not feature in the movie or on the album. With the release of their second album, Bayou Country, it became evident that Creedence had an uncanny knack for writing hits.
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With ‘Suzie Q’ on the Billboard chart they played the Fillmore West three more times on bills with Fleetwood Mac and Jethro Tull. In May 1968 they made their Avalon Ballroom debut on a bill with Taj Mahal two months later they played the Fillmore West with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Both cover versions were on the band’s first album, which reached No.52 on the Billboard chart. A cover of Dale Hawkins’s ‘Suzie Q’ was their first single in 1968 a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s ‘I Put a Spell On You’ followed it. There are competing stories as to how it happened it may have been the name of one of Tom Fogerty’s friends or it could have come from a beer commercial.
In 1967 John finished his stint in the army and the band picked up where they had left off, beginning by renaming themselves as Creedence Clearwater Revival. It looked likely that they would stay that way because both John Fogerty and Doug Clifford were drafted into the Army. They were just another Bay area bar band until ‘Brown-Eyed Girl’ sold 10,000 copies in California and adjoining states. Fantasy released ‘Don’t Tell Me No Lies’, sung by Tom, in late 1964, but neither it nor the 1965 follow-up singles, ‘Where You Been and You Can’t Be True’, were played on the radio outside of their local area. They first recorded in 1964 as the Golliwogs Tom Fogerty worked as a packing clerk in San Francisco at Fantasy Records, a jazz label. Back in 1960, while in junior high school, the boys formed a band called Tommy Fogerty & the Blue Velvets and spent much of their time practising in the Fogertys’ garage. Although their music evoked the raw, gospel-tinged sound of the rural South, Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and Tom and John Fogerty actually hailed from El Cerrito, California, a small town near Berkeley.
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