CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL : FEATURING JOHN FOGERTY. CHRONICLE : THE GREATEST HITS : Creedence Clearwater Revival. Now that's a name that ring many bells. During the late sixties between 1969 and 1970, they were without doubt the most popular band in America. John Forgety, the main man, his brother, Tom, together with Stu Cook and Doug Clifford has been performing since 1959. Their first hit was a cover 'Suzy Q' but it was John Forgety's own composition that stuck a chord with the public. Who wouldn't love 'Proud Mary', a song that every pub bands have to know how to play in their set during the early 70's, 'Bad Moon Rising', 'Green River' and 'Down On The Corner'. My all times favorites are 'Lodi', 'Who Stop The Rain' and 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain'. The only complain I have about the last two songs are that they are way too short. At less than 3 minutes, that's hardly enough time for it to sink in. Anyway, these are all great songs from a great era. Included here is also an 11 minutes plus opus on Creedence Clearwater Revival's greatest selling album "Cosmo's Factory", 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' . It earned enormous airplay throughout the world and is one of CCR's greatest hits as well as one of mine all time favorites. DOP : An exchange with a friend.
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL. CHRONICLE. VOLUME TWO : Chronicle. Vol. 2 continue where Chronicle. Vol. 1 left off. Of course it's not as good as Vol.1 'cos there's where all the singles are. Nevertheless this CD is still a keeper. Their version of 'Cotton Fields' alone is worth the price of the whole CD. Not to mention 'The Midnight Special'. I've heard a few version of this song and CCR's version won hand down. One song that is always missing from their greatest hits collection but was finally included on their last collection was 'Sail Away', a beautiful song written for once and sung by Stu Cook. It's not here either. It's a pity but John Forgety, after the breakup of CCR wasted most of his time fighting his former record company so he didn't have a very large output of his solo works. He even refused to perform his own songs 'cos of the dispute with his recording company. George Harrison bought him out of the jungle when he remarked that if he don't get out and sing, everybody will think that 'Proud Mary' is a Ike & Tina Turner song. But then much time has been wasted. DOP : 29th March 1992.
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